spring morels

[Chass]

Here’s a stupid question.....someone posted on here earlier about growing your own morels. I saved the link and basically you build a small raised garden and add spores that you buy online. If that works and you do in fact get morels from a garden, will the spores travel via wind and perhaps spread morels throughout the area? I’d like to walk the 7 acres behind my house to look for them every year.

Across the pond they grow them in greenhouses commercially. Kinda wild to see pictures of it. Just walk in and it's just dirt and morels everywhere.

 

[Lucky]

Dam Chass....helluva day brother. Wont beat that one anytime soon!! Dam good day.... Sgt. Fury... The spores do travel in wind.. but the main part of morels, the mycelium grows under ground and the shroom is like the fruit that grows off of the mycelium. supoosedly the mycelium has symbiotic relationship with tree roots that why a lot of times youll find a buch around one tree

 

[Sgt Fury]

Dam Chass....helluva day brother. Wont beat that one anytime soon!! Dam good day.... Sgt. Fury... The spores do travel in wind.. but the main part of morels, the mycelium grows under ground and the shroom is like the fruit that grows off of the mycelium. supoosedly the mycelium has symbiotic relationship with tree roots that why a lot of times youll find a buch around one tree

I know some people use mesh bags to carry their harvest so the spores are dispersed as they travel through the woods. If I decide to build a morel garden, I’ll put them in a bag and walk around the woods behind my house and shake it occasionally to help spread some spores. Can’t hurt!

 

[Jackalope]

After getting home and cleaned up I called reinforcements in to go back out for more shrooms. Close to 30 pounds. If there is anyone in the wellston/Jackson area that needs some I'd be happy to give some away. Especially any veterans and folks that cannot get out for em anymore.
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Man that's a haul! Congrats. Reminds me of 2012 or 13 around here. Almost everywhere you looked there were mushrooms.

 

[GoetsTalon]

just starting! Like oak swamper said it should be killer up this way by next weekend!

 

[Chass]

Dam Chass....helluva day brother. Wont beat that one anytime soon!! Dam good day.... Sgt. Fury... The spores do travel in wind.. but the main part of morels, the mycelium grows under ground and the shroom is like the fruit that grows off of the mycelium. supoosedly the mycelium has symbiotic relationship with tree roots that why a lot of times youll find a buch around one tree

Yep I've never seen so many mushrooms in one season let alone on one single hillside. Who knows when we will have another year like this one. Sure am feeling the burn in the legs today. When I was younger we would have been ecstatic if we could fill a skillet with em. My grandmother would have lost it if she could see em all.

 

[Redhunter1012]

I checked one small spot today. No shrooms but a crapload of ramps. Pulled one handful. Gonna go back later this week with a shovel and get more

 

[Buckmaster]

Run those extra mushrooms thru your dehydrator then simply place in canning jars.

 

[bowhunter1023]

We have 260 acres at work, so I walked it to and checked some prime spots ranging from lower elevations, to higher. Sycamores, dead ash, dying elm, dead oaks, etc. and not a mushroom one. I thought for sure there would be some judging by the wood I see daily, but was sadly mistaken. Good news is the deer sign is unreal. If I can figure out the city limit regs, I have a for sure doe spot.

 

[oakswamper]

View attachment 77828View attachment 77829just starting! Like oak swamper said it should be killer up this way by next weekend!

We're gonna need scuba equipment to find them if we get what they're calling for Wednesday lol

 

[GoetsTalon]

Lol I hear ya! The spot where I found those is on a nice strip of higher ground and with the sandy ground it drains nice.

 

[giles]

Yeah...the area I’ve been working in is bad. All kinds of road closures and almost impossible to do anything. I haven’t been south of celina, but from there north to Van wert is terrible.

 

[Buckmaster]

My morel box is 6 months old. They say it takes 2-3 years.

 

[MoonLab]

Dad found some out at oxford, ohio

 

[Smawgunner]

Decent haul for 30 minutes.

 

[Lucky]

Got out after work TOO a little woods in Delaware, hunted for about half hour and nothing, then came across a patch of golds about 12 or so all in a10 ft area. Then me and my buddy hit a patch of dog peckers that had probly 150 or so. Cant believe dog peckers are still around..Must be all the moisture and cooler temps weve had. Gota good meals worth.

 

[Bowkills]

Flooded out. A friend and I walked a few hrs. 3 Different new spots. 3 fresh peckers. Then he stumbles on 20 fresh yellows around a dead elm 15yrds from the truck on an egde as we were getting ready to leave. We need some heat around here. Shrooming for yellows in winter hats isnt right.......

 

[GoetsTalon]

Found a few after work yesterday. Seems like it's still a little to cold for them to really start popping yet.

 

[Redhunter1012]

Greyson and I just got back from a 3 hour trek. One edible pheasant back and one grey to show for it. We did dig up a bunch of ramps and onions. He brought home an old brick he found and cartied more than a mile. I brought home an old bottle. We also got close to a big old coon that he wznted to photobomb

 

[oakswamper]

Need a little heat too get them going a little better. Also don't need anymore rain