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Mar 26, 2013 19:12:36 GMT -5
Post by Bill on Mar 26, 2013 19:12:36 GMT -5
I haven't had much luck with morels over the years. I look in the places they're supposed to be and I've found a few but not enough to ever amount to anything. Hoping to have better luck this year as I'm planning to try some new areas.
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Mar 26, 2013 19:16:27 GMT -5
Post by ridgecommander on Mar 26, 2013 19:16:27 GMT -5
Use to have a honey hole that would produce 3-4 grocery bags on many outings. The area was logged several years ago and I haven't found one there since. How is this for a morel? Found it there before it was logged.
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Morels
Mar 26, 2013 19:39:16 GMT -5
Post by Dutch on Mar 26, 2013 19:39:16 GMT -5
HOLY CRAP!
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Mar 26, 2013 19:49:49 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Mar 26, 2013 19:49:49 GMT -5
That doesn't look anything like jerky!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 26, 2013 20:03:10 GMT -5
Wow! I really want to get into mushrooms but I just don't have the know-how.
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Mar 26, 2013 20:07:14 GMT -5
Post by bushmaster on Mar 26, 2013 20:07:14 GMT -5
Morels are easy to identify, and with a little work just as easy to find. I normally target dead elm trees with at least half of thier bark still hanging on the trunk.
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Mar 27, 2013 6:52:14 GMT -5
Post by ridgecommander on Mar 27, 2013 6:52:14 GMT -5
Morels are easy to identify, and with a little work just as easy to find. I normally target dead elm trees with at least half of thier bark still hanging on the trunk. Yep. Once you look at one, you are a expert. Blacks, yellows and browns. False morels don't look anything like a morel. I find most of morels around dead or dying elm trees. There are half free morels that are also easy to indentify. Some claim to get sick if there are eaten in large quantities along with alcohol. This is a half free. Long stem, short cap withe ridges on the cap running in relatively straight lines. True Morel. False Morel.
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Mar 27, 2013 7:02:17 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Mar 27, 2013 7:02:17 GMT -5
False morel
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Mar 27, 2013 20:43:35 GMT -5
Post by Dutch on Mar 27, 2013 20:43:35 GMT -5
Few years ago, Gal and I were looking in the woods for morels. Came up and looked in the yard of her friends house. Lots in the yard. THEN, we looked in the flowerbeds. They had a ton of hostas, and a ton of morels around the hostas. IIRC, hostas put nitrogen into the soil. The soil in the flower beds was almost like potting soil, very rich.
Then, we were walking a rail trail in Tioga County. A fairly long section of the trail has limestone as the ballast rock. Makes the soil "sweet". Along the trail were autumn olive, nitrogen fixing plants. Under those AO's were morels. Go 3 feet into the woods and the native soil, nothing. Go to where the trail was washed out and filled in with native rock, nothing.
Just funny how they grow one spot and not another. They must need a very particular set of soil conditions.
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Mar 27, 2013 20:51:15 GMT -5
Post by Dutch on Mar 27, 2013 20:51:15 GMT -5
Habitats favorable to fruition Morchella species appear to have either symbiotic mycorrhizal relationships or act as saprotrophs.[14][20] Yellow morels (Morchella esculenta) are more commonly found under deciduous trees rather than conifers, and black morels (Morchella elata) can be found in deciduous forests, oak and poplar.[21] Deciduous trees commonly associated with morels in the northern hemisphere include ash, sycamore, tulip tree, dead and dying elms, cottonwoods and old apple trees (remnants of orchards). The fruiting of yellow morels in Missouri, USA, was found to correlate with warm weather, precipitation, and tree species, and most usually in the springtime. Morels are rarely found in the vicinity of most common poisonous mushrooms such as the sulphur tuft and fly agaric (April–May time frame),[22] but can occur alongside "false morels" (Gyromitra sp.) and "elfin saddles" (Verpa sp.). Morels in western North America are often found in coniferous forests, including trees in the genera Pinus, Abies, Larix, and Pseudotsuga, as well as in cottonwood riparian forests.[23] [edit] Association with wildfire
All types of morels may grow abundantly in forests which have been burned by a forest fire,[24] with black morels at the start of the season, followed by the yellows, greys and greens. The mechanism for this behavior is not well known,[14] but appears to be related to both the death of trees and the removal of organic material on the forest floor.[25] Moderate-intensity fires are reported to produce higher abundances of morels than low or high intensities.[16] Where fire suppression is practiced morels often grow in small amounts in the same spot year after year. If these areas are overrun by wildfire they often produce a bumper crop of black morels the following spring. Commercial pickers and buyers in North America target recently burned areas for this reason. The Finnish name, huhtasieni, refers to huhta, area cleared for agriculture by the slash and burn method. These spots may be jealously guarded by mushroom pickers, as the mushrooms are a delicacy and sometimes a cash crop.[23] Efforts to grow morels are rarely successful and the commercial morel industry is based on harvest of wild mushrooms
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Mar 27, 2013 20:54:47 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Mar 27, 2013 20:54:47 GMT -5
there you go dutch find a way to grow them and you will never have to work again.
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May 11, 2013 13:09:27 GMT -5
Post by bushmaster on May 11, 2013 13:09:27 GMT -5
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May 12, 2013 14:26:18 GMT -5
Post by bushmaster on May 12, 2013 14:26:18 GMT -5
Found 100 more this morning. All nice size and in good shape! Best day yet this season.
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May 12, 2013 19:08:54 GMT -5
Post by Dutch on May 12, 2013 19:08:54 GMT -5
Ok, I'll trade you any kind of Lancaster County delicacy yer heart desires fer a few of dem 'shrooms. LOL
Congrats.
We had no luck this morning in eastern Washington County.
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May 12, 2013 19:17:38 GMT -5
Post by bushmaster on May 12, 2013 19:17:38 GMT -5
I looked long and hard today. I basically lucked into them. Western Washington County.
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May 12, 2013 20:15:56 GMT -5
Post by galthatfishes on May 12, 2013 20:15:56 GMT -5
We neither looked long, nor hard. We "browsed" lol.
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May 14, 2013 5:47:53 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on May 14, 2013 5:47:53 GMT -5
I looked around yesterday when I was helping my brother with a generator we were back in the woods 3 miles and thought maybe I could stumble on them. I could have looked harder then I did though.
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May 14, 2013 18:23:26 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on May 14, 2013 18:23:26 GMT -5
I haven't actively sought out morels this year but we have been working outside every day in typical places --- dead elm and ash, old apple orchards, north facing slopes, flats with loamy-damp soil etc. etc. I have scouted those areas as we scrounged for a few hundred rocks to build a stone wall. I think I determine to my satisfaction some time ago that "deer" love morels as much as I do. In years when deer were few, I found lots of morels, but in good deer years --- almost no morels found............?
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Post by fleroo on Feb 12, 2014 8:25:42 GMT -5
Gettin bout time to resurrect this thread. Favorite type of hunting of the year for sure.
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Feb 12, 2014 12:20:54 GMT -5
Post by ridgecommander on Feb 12, 2014 12:20:54 GMT -5
Yes sir. While I am turkey hunting an eye is always on the ground.
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Feb 12, 2014 12:38:15 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2014 12:38:15 GMT -5
It might be hard to find them under all this snow right now!
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Feb 12, 2014 15:05:33 GMT -5
Post by bushmaster on Feb 12, 2014 15:05:33 GMT -5
Now ya done it! Got me all fired up to go Morel hunting! Can't wait!!!!!!!!
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Feb 19, 2014 15:18:52 GMT -5
Post by galthatfishes on Feb 19, 2014 15:18:52 GMT -5
Anyone have a guess for a date?
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Feb 19, 2014 15:25:15 GMT -5
Post by ridgecommander on Feb 19, 2014 15:25:15 GMT -5
Anyone have a guess for a date? Not yet but I will be looking for ramps in about another 5 weeks!
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Feb 19, 2014 15:26:50 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2014 15:26:50 GMT -5
I'm married, so I guess I have to take Ms Doris. Where are we going?
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