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 whythewho
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 Mushrooms In Northeastern Oklahoma 
#6770605 - 04/10/07 02:40 PM (17 years, 10 days ago) |
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so a couple weeks ago, when it was warmer and it rained good, i went out and found these morels in my secret spot. I find morels there every year, its a nice gulley between two cow fields, in the gulley there are sycamore, elm and other trees growing. The morels i find are usually within 15 feet of a sycamore tree, huddled in the leaves. Heres a batch i found, i found two or three like it since then, but it is too cold now to find any....
i was inspired by stamets, so i washed them all in a tub of water, and saved the water. A day or two later i sprinkled it upon a debris pile of sycamore leaves, twigs and sticks. I covered this with a couple inches of manure enriched soil, and now i await the first signs of colonization.
Has anyone else found any morels?
what micro-climates do you find them in?
under what trees?
have you tried cultivating them? if so, how?
discuss!
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Edited by whythewho (04/24/07 09:07 PM)
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 Re: Morels In Northeastern Oklahoma [Re: whythewho]
#6770656 - 04/10/07 02:51 PM (17 years, 10 days ago) |
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Beautiful! I like that you are spreading the spores! 
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Re: Morels In Northeastern Oklahoma [Re: whythewho]
#6770662 - 04/10/07 02:52 PM (17 years, 10 days ago) |
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I made an outdoor bed out of fresh hardwood chips, soil, leaves and burnt wood ashes/pieces. I inoculated it the same way you did. Funny thing is I only get about 10 mushrooms per season from the bed, most the fruits come up about 30 feet away from the spot I planted the spores.
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[quote]KristiMidocean said:
Good now thats clear.WHO FUCKING CARES. If I am fat u all keep pointing it out like its suppose to be a secret.LIke u really have nothing better to do then make fat jokes. If o know its like I do I know yall can come up with NEW AND BETTER SHIT . This shit is old and boring . I left in the first place cause this shit got boring not because of the fat jokes . Fat jokes dont bother me but seriously its old[/quote]
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Re: Morels In Northeastern Oklahoma [Re: whythewho]
#6770788 - 04/10/07 03:20 PM (17 years, 10 days ago) |
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Great find!
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Re: Morels In Northeastern Oklahoma [Re: xmush]
#6770911 - 04/10/07 03:46 PM (17 years, 10 days ago) |
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hey psychoslut, do you water the bed?
is it located in the shade?
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Re: Morels In Northeastern Oklahoma [Re: whythewho]
#6771219 - 04/10/07 05:12 PM (17 years, 10 days ago) |
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no i dont do anything to it, i just let nature do it all.
it is in the shade.
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[quote]KristiMidocean said:
Good now thats clear.WHO FUCKING CARES. If I am fat u all keep pointing it out like its suppose to be a secret.LIke u really have nothing better to do then make fat jokes. If o know its like I do I know yall can come up with NEW AND BETTER SHIT . This shit is old and boring . I left in the first place cause this shit got boring not because of the fat jokes . Fat jokes dont bother me but seriously its old[/quote]
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Re: Morels In Northeastern Oklahoma [Re: whythewho]
#6771532 - 04/10/07 06:28 PM (17 years, 10 days ago) |
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dang man!!! that is a nice haul!!! I gotta check out those sycamores! 
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Re: Morels In Northeastern Oklahoma [Re: whythewho]
#6772130 - 04/10/07 08:13 PM (17 years, 10 days ago) |
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nice ones!
I have (for lack of a better word) cultivated morels in a plum orchard right next to my mom's house by dumping wash water there. they've been fruiting there every spring since (the past 5 years or so).
unfortunately the landowner took out the most productive piece of orchard just a few weeks ago. but here's a couple shots from last spring's flush...
  
found ONE just barely poking up there sunday morning, hopefully there are more on the way ...
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Re: Morels In Northeastern Oklahoma [Re: spores]
#6772288 - 04/10/07 08:35 PM (17 years, 10 days ago) |
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WOAH!!!
That is the most hands-off, high yielding patch of morels I have seen!
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Re: Morels In Northeastern Oklahoma [Re: spores]
#6772859 - 04/10/07 10:15 PM (17 years, 10 days ago) |
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Quote:
spores said:
nice ones!
I have (for lack of a better word) cultivated morels in a plum orchard right next to my mom's house by dumping wash water there. they've been fruiting there every spring since (the past 5 years or so).
unfortunately the landowner took out the most productive piece of orchard just a few weeks ago. but here's a couple shots from last spring's flush...
found ONE just barely poking up there sunday morning, hopefully there are more on the way ...
wow man that is really cool. I seen that many morels together only one time and it was in the middle of a big city back behind a kfc. Apparently a guy dumped morel wash water there the season before.
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[quote]KristiMidocean said:
Good now thats clear.WHO FUCKING CARES. If I am fat u all keep pointing it out like its suppose to be a secret.LIke u really have nothing better to do then make fat jokes. If o know its like I do I know yall can come up with NEW AND BETTER SHIT . This shit is old and boring . I left in the first place cause this shit got boring not because of the fat jokes . Fat jokes dont bother me but seriously its old[/quote]
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Re: Morels In Northeastern Oklahoma [Re: Psychoslut]
#6773020 - 04/10/07 10:47 PM (17 years, 10 days ago) |
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Im gonna go hunting in rural northwest AR see if I find any morels.
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whythewho
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wow! thats a great morel patch you've conjured up there,
sad to hear of its destruction! If you were that successful with spore water in plain dirt, im sure ill be successful with my debris piles and woodchip mulch.
Hunting should be good in these parts for the next couple days, we just got a decent rain, im thinking ill go out tonight and check for signs of life.
A sad fact, but it might be good for spotting the morels:
last week we had a hard frost in the lower 20's. killed everything cultivated, including radishes, cabbage and turnips, i was very sad. All the oak leaves had leafed out, flowered, and now their leaves are all dead and falling off, i dont think there will be and apples, acorns, peaches and such this year, in fact it even killed the mayapples! I was very sad about this, but now i realize i wont have so much living matter in my field of vision, and i should be able to see more MORELS!!
come on tho, anyone else in this area bringin home the goods?
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Re: Morels In Northeastern Oklahoma [Re: whythewho]
#6774125 - 04/11/07 07:54 AM (17 years, 9 days ago) |
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oh and another thing, i found a buyer or three who will pay 50 dollars a pound for fresh morels! They want as many as i can supply, a restaurant, and ive been seriously contemplating giving up my 50 dollar an 8-hour day job and chasing the morel season up into the great lakes, has anyone else heard about this or considered doing it? wanna start a caravan?
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Re: Morels In Northeastern Oklahoma [Re: whythewho]
#6774322 - 04/11/07 09:39 AM (17 years, 9 days ago) |
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Quote:
whythewho said:
oh and another thing, i found a buyer or three who will pay 50 dollars a pound for fresh morels! They want as many as i can supply, a restaurant, and ive been seriously contemplating giving up my 50 dollar an 8-hour day job and chasing the morel season up into the great lakes, has anyone else heard about this or considered doing it? wanna start a caravan?
Up here every season i find a couple pounds, sell half to a bar for $40 a pound and have a community cook-out with the rest. Morel season doesn't start for about antoher month here in the great lakes region.
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Re: Morels In Northeastern Oklahoma [Re: Ransford]
#6775470 - 04/11/07 02:47 PM (17 years, 9 days ago) |
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Well if theyre paying that much wouldn't it just be easier to take your morels make some print and grow em yourself? I might go searching for morels in nw ar I will see if I find any.
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morels are edible but not active correct?
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yep just as simple as that 
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[quote]KristiMidocean said:
Good now thats clear.WHO FUCKING CARES. If I am fat u all keep pointing it out like its suppose to be a secret.LIke u really have nothing better to do then make fat jokes. If o know its like I do I know yall can come up with NEW AND BETTER SHIT . This shit is old and boring . I left in the first place cause this shit got boring not because of the fat jokes . Fat jokes dont bother me but seriously its old[/quote]
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 Re: Morels In Northeastern Oklahoma [Re: whythewho]
#6775703 - 04/11/07 03:36 PM (17 years, 9 days ago) |
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Quote:
whythewho said:
Has anyone else found any morels?
what micro-climates do you find them in?
under what trees?
have you tried cultivating them? if so, how?
discuss!
I’ve found a few little piles of morels this year in north eastern kansas. The micro climates I’ve noticed this year are north or east facing slopes where the soil remains shielded from the afternoon sun and thusly retains higher moisture content… that is my hypothesis anyway. This, of course, hasn't necessarily been the case in years past.
The trees populating my favored patches consist primarily of cedar believe it or not. The other trees, in descending order, are: mulberry, osage orange, walnut, locust, and elm. I find them by crawling under the low hanging cedar branches, they are relatively easy to spot as the cedars drop a mulch that tends to inhibit nearly all plant growth beneath them.
Regarding cultivation (super low tech attempt) I poured spore water in a few pots in 2004 and this year spotted a few fruitbodies. I’m not sure if it has anything to do with the spore inoculation, however in the six or seven years I have been checking the spot this is the first sign of morels growing in the area.
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Re: Morels In Northeastern Oklahoma [Re: georgeM]
#6775725 - 04/11/07 03:41 PM (17 years, 9 days ago) |
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I think i find mine mostly by oak trees...im not to sure I usually am on my knees crawling so I dont look up,lol.
I never thought of doing anythign with the water i soak my morels in but im thinking of just taking it with me and dumping them in my spot, couldn't hurt I guess.
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Re: Morels In Northeastern Oklahoma [Re: Ransford]
#6776798 - 04/11/07 08:15 PM (17 years, 9 days ago) |
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Around here we find almost all our morels near elm trees. We dont even look at the ground if theres not a elm tree real close. First we find a elm then look around brushing over the mayapples, I find allot of morels growing up under mayapples. This year we had a bad ice storm and now theres allot of wood on the ground, the next few years should be good for morels.
Yeah dude never let your spore water go down the drain, if nothing else dump it in your back yard. Ive heard allot of storys about people getting morels popping up in there grass the year after doing that.
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[quote]KristiMidocean said:
Good now thats clear.WHO FUCKING CARES. If I am fat u all keep pointing it out like its suppose to be a secret.LIke u really have nothing better to do then make fat jokes. If o know its like I do I know yall can come up with NEW AND BETTER SHIT . This shit is old and boring . I left in the first place cause this shit got boring not because of the fat jokes . Fat jokes dont bother me but seriously its old[/quote]
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