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Jesus kid, the only photoshopped photo I ever posted here was the one above.

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Mr. Mushrooms said:
Jesus kid, the only photoshopped photo I ever posted here was the one above.

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Only photoshopped photo huh? *EDIT, I see now that the Clitocybe photo wasn't photshopped, but was altered with lighting effects or whatever.

I know you don't care what I think, I just wanted everyone in the thread above that was amazed to know that you aren't to be trusted in matters such as extreme color variants if mushrooms.

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That's fine.  After all this is the Shroomery.  Thanks for adding the edit.  It wasn't photoshopped.  I don't even know how to photoshop a color.  Here, like everywhere, people will believe what they want to believe. 

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It's all good, if you did find a "greenie", then that is super cool.

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Thanks.  I thought so too until you started doubting it. 

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If Blacks are fruiting during heavy rain they can discolor to grayish tan.

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Just finished cooking them.  I have 20 pounds dried from last year so this year I am eating them or selling them. Last night was baked potatoes with sauteed morels, butter, and sour cream with chives.  Tonight is sauteed morels over rice.

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Here's a first for me!  I found a GREENIE!  (also called a Pickle) 

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Here's a first for me!  I found a GREENIE!  (also called a Pickle) 

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Next time you find one of those please slice it open and get a cross section pic.

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Here's a first for me!  I found a GREENIE!  (also called a Pickle) 

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Next time you find one of those please slice it open and get a cross section pic.

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Excellent idea.  With the shift in the weather, temps up to 92 today and no rain for days, the "color"  has gone back to "normal."  I'll be sure to remember if they are fruiting with lots of rain, be on the look out for odd coloration.

Here's some of today's.  First a photo of a "patch."  Yes, there is a morel in there.  Who can find it?  We hunted for 30 minutes to find 7 Blacks.  Very little vegetation and mostly just leaves, but boy, can these things hide.



The "haul."

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Glynis27 said:
You are doing much better than I. I've been out 6 times in the past 2 week and have only found 2 greys and 3 yellows. None in the place I found them last year. I don't know if it has just been too dry or what. I'll likely head out again in a day or too. I really wanted enough to make a mushroom pie.

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That sucks.  If you didn't find them in the places you looked last year does that mean you didn't find them last year in the places you found them this year?  In the past when I used to just wander the forest in the hopes of finding some, they seemed sporadic.  It was like they were wandering the forest just like I was.  In the past ten years I started paying close attention to the conditions.  Now I am able to predict where they will be and when they will be there.  The "misses" I explain by poor timing of the hunt to the conditions.  Morels do not come up simultaneously at every place at the same time.  Forests have micro-climates.  Most notably for morels Southern and Northern exposures.  Every spot I hunted last year has produced Blacks for me this year.  I know where to go, and, just as importantly, when.

Here's two more from today.