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 Re: Kansas morel season in full swing (20 pictures) [Re: CureCat]
#8330308 - 04/26/08 11:55 AM |
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Awesome pictures and excellent finds!
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Re: Kansas morel season in full swing (20 pictures) [Re: scyrusurcys]
#8330820 - 04/26/08 02:33 PM |
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Thanks Scyrusurcys
Here are more photos from this morning in my front yard... as opposed to the previous photos... which were taken in my back yard. The area in these photos seemed devoid of mushrooms in years past, in 2004 morel wash water was distributed throughout the area, last year I found a few, this year there seems to be way more.
Of course I can't be certain pouring the wash water had anything to do with these springing up. However I do know the water was full of spores because samples were checked with a microscope.
  
  
  
  
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Re: Kansas morel season in full swing (20 pictures) [Re: georgeM]
#8330924 - 04/26/08 02:57 PM |
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Wow,awesome hunting grounds.
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Re: Kansas morel season in full swing (20 pictures) [Re: DannyGlick]
#8331117 - 04/26/08 03:59 PM |
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whoa pour the wash water , more frecuently , it is working , nice donne . there is a recomendention that you shoul pour the water in log and trunk of tree.
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Re: Kansas morel season in full swing (20 pictures) [Re: georgeM]
#8331929 - 04/26/08 07:49 PM |
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Oh, I'm pretty convinced that pouring spore water is an effective method for staring morel patches, since it has been done so many times with good success. 
AWESOME!!!
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Re: Kansas morel season in full swing (20 pictures) [Re: CureCat]
#8338039 - 04/28/08 03:46 PM |
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very nice pics, i love the last one
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Re: Kansas morel season in full swing (20 pictures) [Re: casgoodie]
#8338348 - 04/28/08 05:02 PM |
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I don't know about turtles eating mushrooms, but I have a snapping turtle that comes around year after year that has a taste for my hot peppers( habaneros, cayenne, scotch bonnets). The big f**ker (it's about 3 feet across)just shoves under the electric fence like it's not even there and goes to town on my pepper patch. It doesn't go after much else, not my squash, zucchini, sweet peppers, beans, corn, just my hot peppers and my watermelons and cantaloupe. It's gotten to the point that I now grow my hot peppers in 5 gal. buckets on top of a garden table. (I tried to put the buckets directly on the ground but he has such a long neck that he just stretches up to the edge of the bucket and tips it over.) And I've put a strong fence around my watermelon/cantaloupe patch (it's 2 1/2 feet high and buried about 2 1/2 feet in the ground with a thick layer of stones on the outside). It's funny as hell to watch it eat on my habaneros, it will take a big ass bite and then shake it's head back and forth like it's thinking "what the hell?" and then take another big ass bite and shake it's head again. (I toss a handful on the ground just to watch it eat them.) But back to the topic, first off, very, very, very great find. I've never heard of using the wash water that way, I'll have to try that on my lawn/yard. I have 12 apple trees on my land that I would love it if I could get some morels to grow there. The nearest morel patch that I know of is 1 hour 45 minutes away so it would be great if I could get them to grow like you did, especially with the gas prices constantly going up. How many times did you pour the wash water over any particular spot? Just once or was it a lot? And how much of the wash water did you use in any one particular spot? A couple of cups or was it like a half gallon or more? Either way that's one hell of a way to get morels to grow closer to home. Once again , congrats on the harvest!!!
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Re: Kansas morel season in full swing (20 pictures) [Re: gandalf579]
#8339391 - 04/28/08 08:55 PM |
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A few people came out for a morel foray today, the evening was ended with an impromptu Morchella barbecue (basted with olive oil and grilled... dash of salt... rather tasty... the dog tried her best to steal all of them).
The morels in the baskets were collected in about 15 minutes believe it or not -- I'm sure that sounds like bull shit but I swear it's only a very minor exaggeration.
We passed over a LARGE number as a few more people will be coming out to collect in the near future.
 
 
 
Gandalf.. i don't exactly remember what the quantity was... I could say with some certainty that the quantity poured in the patch featured above would have been somewhere between one and two gallons in 2004 and maybe once or twice more in following years.
Who knows if it was even a factor, but it could have been.... Try it out and let us know in half a decade!!!!!! Good Luck
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Re: Kansas morel season in full swing (20 pictures) [Re: georgeM]
#8339541 - 04/28/08 09:25 PM |
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"Gandalf.. i don't exactly remember what the quantity was... I could say with some certainty that the quantity poured in the patch featured above would have been somewhere between one and two gallons in 2004 and maybe once or twice more in following years.
Who knows if it was even a factor, but it could have been.... Try it out and let us know in half a decade!!!!!! Good Luck"
So your saying it would take a few years or more? I'm not sure if I'll still be here by then. I only moved back to West Virginia (from Alaska) to help my mother take care of my grandmother and the doctors say that she (my granny) doesn't have much more time left.(She has had a number of strokes and a couple heart attacks. That was 4 years ago and now she is in almost perfect health.) I hope that she'll live forever, I love my granny very much, but when she passes away, I'll be going back home to Alaska. The land here in West Virginia will stay in the family so I will try the waste water trick and if nothing comes up before she passes away, I'll be able to come back and see if there is any morels over the years when I come to visit family.
Edited by gandalf579 (04/28/08 09:27 PM)
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Re: Kansas morel season in full swing (20 pictures) [Re: gandalf579]
#8339773 - 04/28/08 10:14 PM |
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Sorry to hear about your grandmother. It's that darn time thing, it always seems to prevail in the end.
I didn't see morels in the wash water areas until three years later though it0 might happen sooner. You couldn't reasonably expect them to fruit the same year, I can't imagine a scenario that would lead to success that quickly... even if you were to take the first morel of the year, culture it and produce spawn, and add it to a perfectly prepared environment.
With wash water I guess under optimal conditions they might fruit the following year.... then of course.... under optimal conditions they may never fruit at all. 
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Re: Kansas morel season in full swing (20 pictures) [Re: georgeM]
#8339865 - 04/28/08 10:34 PM |
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Thanks for your condolence about my granny. We have 12 apple trees that I'll pour the wash water around and we have a ton of tulip poplar trees and some elms and walnut and hickory trees too that I will treat also, so hopefully something will come up in the next few years or so. We own 29 acres here in West Virginia and most of it is wooded, there's 2 mountain streams and several underground springs that pop up all over the place so there will be plenty of moister for the morels. There used to be an old apple orchard(250 trees) on top of the mountain that had morels but the logging company logged the mountain 25 years ago and took out all of the apple trees and now nothing grows up there except for oak and poplars with a few pines mixed in.
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Re: Kansas morel season in full swing (20 pictures) [Re: CureCat]
#8340015 - 04/28/08 11:03 PM |
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Aww poor fellow. Probably a car or a dog. Glad he survived, hopefully he is immune to the chemicals that make morels toxic when eaten raw. I forget what the chemical was, but it might have been gyromitrin. I know that's in Gyromitra, obviously, but i can't recall if that was the same chemical in morels....
The chemicals are; true morels and elfin saddles=hemolysins (that destroy red blood corpuscles but is rendered harmless with cooking) False morels=gyromitrin (a carcinogenic toxin that breaks down to monomethydrazine, a potentially lethal compound that is similar in structure to solid rocket fuel.) That comes from the book "Mushrooms of West Virginia and the Central Appalachians" written by William C. Roody page 477. Sorry it took so long, I had to remember where I read it.
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Re: Kansas morel season in full swing (20 pictures) [Re: georgeM]
#8340697 - 04/29/08 01:58 AM |
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I threw some wash water around in a spot last year and this year.Nothing yet.
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Re: Kansas morel season in full swing (20 pictures) [Re: DannyGlick]
#8349026 - 05/01/08 10:23 AM |
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Good luck with the experiment DannyGlick!
Here are a few pictures from recent hunts at the farm, sorry about the poor quality of some images...  . The first basket is from the wash water patch. The next two baskets are from an area that consistently produces -- even in relatively unproductive years. The final picture features mushrooms collected from several locations on the property.
In there somewhere are the two largest morels I've found this year pictured with their caretakers and later on the mushroom table.... I'll admit it... the situ photo had to be staged as I didn't have my camera at the time of discovery... a few of the local gnomes wanted to pose with it.
I found Galerina marginata yesterday, a first for the farm. And a peculiar smelling mushroom that looks like a smaller thinner fleshed stipitate Pleurotus.
  
 
Oh yeah... I tried to come up with a morel latte. Here is the first attempt, it needs work.
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Re: Kansas morel season in full swing (20 pictures) [Re: georgeM]
#8349048 - 05/01/08 10:30 AM |
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Wow...beautiful pictures you have there comrade!
A buddy and I went kicking around in the woods in similar latitudes as you, but didn't get lucky. We're amateurs though...
My stomach's growling. 
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Re: Kansas morel season in full swing (20 pictures) [Re: abica]
#8349063 - 05/01/08 10:39 AM |
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Well... I'm an amateur too! Your luck will improve -- don't invest much effort on the advice in many field guides regarding tree species. As a friend of mine likes to point out, morels seem to be very promiscuous.
Hmmm, similar latitude aye, I'm at 38.47... I wonder which river city you are referring to?
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Re: Kansas morel season in full swing (20 pictures) [Re: georgeM]
#8349370 - 05/01/08 12:05 PM |
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The one with the arch
A host on our awesome community radio station KDHX calls it "The River City" and it kinda stuck in my mind!
I've been examining lots of pictures of morels in the wild, identifying the conditions they like. Of course your morels are growing in an extra special place...I haven't seen any gnomes around either, so far.
My buddy's brother is in Southern IL, and has been having great luck for the last 3 weeks.
I think my hunting is done for this season, though...I have a giant pile of horse manure, a new garden plot to break and prep for next season, and lots of planting to do around the yard, not to mention my cultivation experiment.
Once again, those are some real beauties!
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Re: Kansas morel season in full swing (20 pictures) [Re: DannyGlick]
#8351426 - 05/01/08 08:52 PM |
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I threw some wash water around in a spot last year and this year.Nothing yet.
I take that back.
  
  
  
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Re: Kansas morel season in full swing (20 pictures) [Re: DannyGlick]
#8351582 - 05/01/08 09:34 PM |
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No way!!! Wow!
I was skeptical about my patches but now this, that is totally awesome!
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Re: Kansas morel season in full swing (20 pictures) [Re: georgeM]
#8351595 - 05/01/08 09:37 PM |
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It works.I've probably been mowing them with tractor.Heh.
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