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yogafire
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Registered: 11/11/04
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Morel MADNESS!
#5576823 - 05/01/06 10:59 AM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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Okay, hunting for morels, like I do, and I came home with my stringer nearly full!
Here is the 15 that are left after I ate about six:

Cool, huh?
So guess what people?
The advice about dead Elms has expired.
Basically, when "dutch"(it's actually from China) Elm disease spread through, it caused morel pandemonium (oh yeah, and near extinction of an imortant forest friend, but ANYWAY).
Now that the disease has gone and past, people are still looking under old dead rotten Elm trees like they are still going to find something!
Morels feed of the wasted sap of a tree that dies previous to them being ready to fruit.
This years big Winner is....
drum roll....
Fallen Cottonwoods. These trees, at my latitude and elevation, are providing the optimum fruiting conditions.
If you would like to knwo more, private message me.
Happy Hunting!
Yogafire
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mskip23
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Registered: 06/08/05
Posts: 1,522
Loc: Philly
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Re: Morel MADNESS! [Re: yogafire]
#5576855 - 05/01/06 11:09 AM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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Nice...are morles restricted to one put of the country or can you find them anywhere
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yogafire
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Re: Morel MADNESS! [Re: mskip23]
#5576895 - 05/01/06 11:20 AM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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I see you are in the south. I do not beleive they are available in your area, but I am only a self-described "expert" (well, if you compare me to my friends, I'm probably somewhere in the middle here at the Shroomery, with an emphasis on hunting wild edibles)
Mushroomexpert.com has an awesome feature, the Morel Progression map, that can give you some clue as to where peopel are "supposedly" finding them.
I live in the upper Midwest, so I am in a sense "blessed" with morels.
They are easier cultured than people are led to believe, however their commercial viability is quite low.
I did not get clones from these, I was eager to dry them and send them to my mom and the in-laws. The season is only beginning "here" and I will definitely be bringing more in, and getting off my ass, going to the asian market, buy Agar Agar, and get those petri's filled.
The joint venture I was in kind of killed off most of previous years clones due to moving and contamination and neglect, but I'm not bitter!!!
Yogafire
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georgeM
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Registered: 07/05/05
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Loc: Osage Cuestas
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Re: Morel MADNESS! [Re: yogafire]
#5577345 - 05/01/06 01:27 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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Great job Yogafire!!!!
Two years ago was my banner year for morel collection, finding literally pounds and pounds, hundreds of mushrooms. My hunting buddy and I were so sick of morels, hard to believe right, we actually packaged them up in single serve baggies and tried to sell them while sipping coffee at sidewalk cafes. The composition of the forests we were haunting consisted primarily of cedar, osage orange, and a smattering of mulberry. Typically they were deep under the low growing branches of the cedar trees however I suspect the scattered mulberry trees were an integral factor. This went against the grain of every thing I had previously assumed to be typical morel territory. These mushrooms seem to be able to exploit many different environments.
There were sweeping floods throughout the Midwest in 1993, the Kansas River, lined with cottonwood trees (Kansas state tree), produced huge numbers of morels the following two or three years. I only caught on at the end of this cycle The stories were fantastically unbelievable but confirmed by many trusted sources!
This year the spring rains came two weeks late. I personally found not a one, however a family member allowed me to eat one and a half fruit bodies he managed to locate. I'm heading north in a few weeks and plan to check out the areas around Lincoln and Omaha however i don't expect to find much as that will be pretty darn late in the year.
georgem
Edited by georgeM (05/01/06 01:34 PM)
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Arval
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Registered: 02/16/06 
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Loc: Indianapolis
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Re: Morel MADNESS! [Re: yogafire]
#5578114 - 05/01/06 05:11 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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I went mushroom hunting a lil earlier today. I only found three of em though, looked around for about an hour and a half with my mother. It's been raining for the past two days in central Indiana and haven't heard much about anyone hunting this year, hoping I didn't miss the season. Anyways, here's the picture, you can see the one on the far right has two stems.
Edited by Arval (05/01/06 05:30 PM)
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eris
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Re: Morel MADNESS! [Re: Arval]
#5578292 - 05/01/06 06:07 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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Ah that's interesting. I wonder if something could have punctured it in an earlier growth stage causing them to split.. probably just a freak morel.
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