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OregonHerbalist
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Registered: 05/28/08
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Found my first morels of the season today..
#14260590 - 04/08/11 08:36 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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So I found this spot last fall, its a local spot here in town that they are doing a habitat resteration on. Last fall they spread a ton of hardwood chips around all of the habitat they planted new trees in. This area used to be riparian habitat though, so I had a hunch to go check it out today.. So I noticed these Peziza all around when I first walked into the area.



And I know that these are sometimes an indicator species for morels, and then BAM!! I saw a few, and then a few more.




I believe morel season just started here in the PNW lowlands, im at 200ft.. I only found about 10 today, but its just getting started here...More pics to come in a few days.
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weedhopper
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Re: Found my first morels of the season today.. [Re: OregonHerbalist]
#14260611 - 04/08/11 08:43 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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You lucky dog. Congrats and enjoy.
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psylosymonreturns
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Re: Found my first morels of the season today.. [Re: weedhopper]
#14260645 - 04/08/11 08:52 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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oh ya nice one man!!
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OregonHerbalist
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Right on guys,many thanks... Im really stoked we have mushrooms poppin again..lol
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allaroundhunter
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Re: Found my first morels of the season today.. [Re: OregonHerbalist]
#14260942 - 04/08/11 10:11 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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Congrats on your great finds
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savage.renegade



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Re: Found my first morels of the season today.. [Re: allaroundhunter]
#14260987 - 04/08/11 10:22 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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Awesome. I have yet to find any ever.
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OregonHerbalist
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Re: Found my first morels of the season today.. [Re: savage.renegade]
#14261703 - 04/09/11 02:22 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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I know that feeling dude, I hunted for a few years when I first started hunting for morels to no avail.... And then 3 years ago I started finding them finally. Now I know why they are so expensive..lol
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T-Tone
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I'm so jealous. I went with my buddy and he found about 10, I found squat. At least he was nice and shared!
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elprawn
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Re: I'm Jealous [Re: T-Tone]
#14262449 - 04/09/11 10:18 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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I'd say it's summer weather here, but there's not been a drop of rain in well over a week.
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OregonHerbalist
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Re: I'm Jealous [Re: elprawn]
#14275693 - 04/11/11 11:26 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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So I went to the same spot today to see if anymore decided to pop up, and I diddnt find even 1 single morel...Strange... I guess these guys were the super early ones..
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OregonHerbalist
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I finally found some more in this same spot... Not a bunch more, but enough to go with dinner anyhow...
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davide
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nice job bro - gonna have to start looking myself. riparian eh...
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OregonHerbalist
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Re: I'm Jealous [Re: davide]
#14353169 - 04/26/11 01:32 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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So I went back today to this same spot to see if there was more, and I found some. It seems they are getting larger now, and no signs of slowing down yet, today I found more than in the last few weeks. I also found these turkey tails aswell along the way..



Here is the habitat that im finding these morels in, they are growing scatterd all around in the woodchips.

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cacharstar
Strange is good...


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stuff those babies with your favorite cheese and broil. but don't put too much; morels shrink and then the cheese squeezes out the holes. yumm!!! morel poppers.
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Oreganic
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Hey, nice Morels OH!! Those are some beauts... and thanks for the habitat shot 
Things are getting into full swing around here, it's great. I have found 3 spots around my town already. 
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markos
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Re: I'm Jealous [Re: Oreganic]
#14357321 - 04/26/11 07:46 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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Yumm!
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CubensisCliff
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Re: Found my first morels of the season today.. [Re: OregonHerbalist]
#14359944 - 04/27/11 08:08 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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just started finding morels here in michigan yesterday on a big game reserve just outside of town around the bases of recently deceased elm trees. nothing of size like the ones you have, but i will give it a few days and see how they come along....
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i am definately going to have to try this!
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OregonHerbalist
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Right on guys,many thanks. Oreganic, do you live in Southern Oregon?
Thats cool CubensisCliff, I was wondering when michigan was going to start up, you guys have some nice morels indeed..
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OregonHerbalist
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Im still finding them, but I think in a few weeks im going to have to leave town, and go up around 1000ft.. They are slowing down a bit now here at just above sea level, not as big, but still finding them in town none the less.. found some more at this same spot again today...


I took this pic to show that they love to grow closebye these Peziza..

Here are some more that got simi scorched by the recent sun..


Here is a grey one..

Here are my faves of the day, they are almost all the way dried already..

These are the smaller ones here, I feel bad for picking some of these small ones, but If I dont they might have shrivled up to a black crisp by the middle of this week...lol


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Nice Finds!
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OregonHerbalist
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Right on man...many thanks
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OregonHerbalist
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WOW... Crazy spring mushroom season here in the PNW... This is day 35 since I first found them at this spot here in town, urban style im at 200ft elevation.. In the last 3 years, I would have had to hunt around 1500-2000ft by now. I forgot my camera today, so the celly pics is all I have...May 13, at 200ft.. I cant believe it...lol 






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Nice finds man   Found my first morels of the season yesterday too - but halfway thru the day with only meager finds - the ball joint of my car separated into pieces Kinda fucked my first "almost good" morel day
Its NUTS how you n the PNW seem to have LOTS of these woodchip loving morels too Your majik is EVERYWHERE in chips and you also have morels there too
Enjoy that majik land
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OregonHerbalist
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Right on wiscokid, thats great that you found some morels....but dam!!!
That shit sucks hardcore about the ball joint of your car separating into pieces dude....!!!
I only had to walk a 1/4 mile here in town to find these. Woodchips here are majik indeed, I love that hundreds of people walk/bike past these morels every day. They have no clue what is right before there eyes...lol
It is super rare for these to still be pumping out flushes down low here west of the Cascade Mountains in may... I think you will have a late season like we are having.. You will find some nice morels indeed in the next few weeks...
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Oreganic
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wiscokid said: Its NUTS how you n the PNW seem to have LOTS of these woodchip loving morels too Your majik is EVERYWHERE in chips and you also have morels there too
Enjoy that majik land
The PNW is a pretty magical place indeed.. It dawned on me the other day that in a little one mile radius of my town I have my Morel patch and two Fall Cyan patches.. 
I picked about 4 really nice sized morels from my mulch spot yesterday as well - it's been a really weird mushroom season up here. I haven't seen any Marasmius oreades, Pan Foes, or even many Turkey Tails yet and we are like half way through May. But I've found like 60 nice sized Morels since March. Guess I can't complain?
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