About the time I start thinking about morels. Been looking over maps and thinking spring! It's kind of interesting when you have Delorme maps of many states with hot spots marked, you kind of relive those hunts again. Missing PICKENS!!! Happy Hunting!!!
I was starting to get excited until this warm and wet span started. It seems eerily similar to last season when I had almost no finds at any of my spots.
Hi all, I'm new here. I've never found a morel in my life but I'm determined to this spring. I've gotten pretty good at fall mushrooms. Hens or sheep heads as we all call them here and chickenmushroom And even some some chanterelles and shaggy manes too. I'm in luzerne county but spend a lot of time in Wyoming and Susquehanna counties too. Anyone have any tips specific to my area that aren't mainstream info they'd want to share?
RAU..... The tip is hunt tree's first... If your looking for black's find Tulip Poplars once the blacks are done you could find the smaller yellows (poplar) morels. Looking for true yellows look for elm, ash and apple. Hunt the tree's find the morels!!
Wow guys. Daffodils were pokin' thru the ground the size of my finger nail and a tree down the road was with fuzzy buds on Jan 28th. Daffodils a few inches high on Feb 18th now have buds with their yellow visible from a distance and that same tree has leaves sprouting. Crazy I tell ya!! Also, as of the last couple days, MANY trees are budding. We were all the way up to 81 a few days ago and in the early 70s the last two. We are having a ton of rain and flood warnings are posted 'til late Sun night. Crazy weather; the 10-day forecast is showing more seasonable temps . . . I'll take 'em. Saw the 1st find posted in Georgia . . . it's almost time here.
I too miss the many back and fourths with Pickens, I only met him once but am happy that I had that chance.
Not sure whats happening on your side of the state but here in Pgh, we are experiencing massive amounts of soil erosion and landslides... Im thinking 2019 should be an amazing year if the weather conditions are decent. I say 2019 as I imagine this wont affect this season in time.
I am new to most mushrooms but have been hunting morels for 50 years. I enjoy reading your blogs. I have a question on a lions mane mushroom I found one last week on a standing beech tree. Its in bad shape, should I remove it or let it alone. Will it come back this year. The tree is still alive but very diseased.
I would knock it off... Might get mold growing on it and get in the way of the next fruiting... Keep an eye on the beech you could get a spring fruiting, but for sure in the fall. The buzzards, not sure, it's all about the soil temp and RH... Happy Hunting!!
I am from central Pa and saw some buzzards yesterday does that mean everything is going to be earlier this spring. Last year we didn't see any till the middle of march. I found my first morel on april 21 last year.
You can pick it or leave it, it WILL produce perhaps several more times this year & years to come. As far as buzzards go... I see them year round here in Northern Arkansas, so I am of no help on that question...
Picked some last year in Lycoming Co. September 23. Didn't pick any in the spring really wasn't targeting them but the opposite climate to Sept. would be April-Mayish, like when where hunting morels. Happy Hunting!!
From reading others comments I would look just in case. Everyone in my area when I first began hunting morels would swear by Ash trees. But I have had my best finds under & around sycamores. Good luck to you.
Thanks for the info. One of the areas I trout fish has a lot of sycamore trees along it, but I never went there looking for morels. There is also some limestone outcroppings there so the soil should be the right ph.
If I can find morels there it would be great, trout fishing and morel hunting in the same area. I already know its a very good stream section for trout.
Snowed again in central pa, at least it didn't last long up here. Keep thinking maybe the season will come early, but I guess you can't rush mother nature.
Officially had my first morel dream last night. Can't wait for the season to start. Any hunters in the Harrisburg area? I just moved back here and could use some advice on areas with suitable conditions.
I don't know how far it is from you, but here is a spot that I used to find some at. I haven't hunted it in over 25 years. My cousin and I found over 100 here one season. It is state game lands 230 at Carlisle springs. It had some old apple trees, which is where we found most of them. there were also a few elms at the time which we found some on some trips. The reason we had hunted it was my cousin lived down there and when he moved I didn't go back. He always let me know when they were up down there, because it was always a little earlier than up here. That way I wouldn't waste a trip.
My cousin lived in Carlisle springs so we went back 994 off rt 34 there were parking lots along 994. I don't know how much they changed the gamelands but the apple trees were dying back then. He knew where they were because he spent a lot of time on the gamelands training his dogs and hunting deer. I know we went on both sides of 994 and that we hunted the hollows along the streams and at the end of some of the fields that's about all I can remember, he was my guide. I think the elm trees were pretty far up in the one hollow towards Blue mountain. Sorry I couldn't be more help.
That's plenty, the hunt is most of the fun after all. What area are you in now? If you're out towards the Johnstown area I can return the favor for a large hunting area.
Well I took my grandson to one of my spots over the weekend just to see if it was still there. Really got the mushroom fever, and now woke up this morning to another inch of snow. I know its way too early for our area, but for some reason I can't help it this year.
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