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wade said:
🍄🍄‍🟫🌧❄ Hoping for a Blizzard. But So far 6:00am in Morgan Monroe Forest..
Zero Snow...Not even one Snowflake ❄
We do Have Report that Ice has Just begun along the Ohio River in Kentucky View attachment 49867
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Looks like you got your wish Wade! Got about a foot looks like here in Morgan county where I live. that should flatten the leaves and add good moisture gradually to the woods. Looks like it should lay on for a while too. Fingers crossed for a banner season!
 
#107 ·
Kokomorel said:
Ok sense we talking about blacks What is the best environment meaning trees shrubs hillsides like to hear everybody’s opinion
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I like to look near the top of ridges where they just start to go downhill. Preferably near Poplar, Ash,Sassafras, and especially Pignut Hickory. Also looking uphill helps considerably. Helps see under the leaves and puts you closer to eye level. I have been picking the one patch for 30 plus years. Since it's public I have to be the first one there or its stump city.Hope this helps someone. My opinion only for central Indiana. Good luck out there and be safe this season.
 
#108 ·
rick said:
Does anyone here have any experience hunting morels on newly logged ground? We select cut our farm last year in April/May. The majority that was cut was white oak over 18 inches. Also cut some hickory and poplar over 18 inches. The place is a mess and last summer/fall I went to check on how much damage was done to different morel patches. These are patches that I have picked for the past 15-25 years. In the past I have been able to walk straight up to these patches and check them early in the season and find 1/2-1 inch blacks just as they are popping through the leaves. I was really disappointed when I couldn’t recognize where the patches were due to the surrounding damage. Any tips would really be appreciated.
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I've had luck around the stumps the first couple years after logging. Of course you have to know your stumps tree bark to identify the Morel producing species. It's usually tough going through all the downed tops. Well worth it especially around the elm stumps and the damaged smaller ones from falling trees and heavy equipment damaging the bark of standing trees. They also may come up very early there as more sunlight can get through with lighter canopy overhead. Hope this helps. good luck there.
 
#112 ·
I posted about my neighbors Crocus's blooming the last few years. as a reference it was the 26th of Feb last year. They bloomed overnight so it looks like 10 days later this year. I found my first Black Morel on the 27th of March in 2024. So it was 27 days later from the blooming of the flowers. Hmmm, looks like they should pop up in my spot the 1st week or two in April. time and weather will tell. Going to be quite a bit of nice weather next couple weeks. Pray it doesn't get too warm. Seems to shut the blacks down a bit.
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I know it's hard to see but the light patches under the trees are the crocus's
 
#125 ·
shroomsearcher said:
i was out running errands for much of the day and kept my eye on the woods a whole lot. There is absolutely nothing green going on out there yet! And there's really no good reason that there should be! It's mid March in NE Ohio for crying out loud! We can get snow on Easter! I do plan to take a walk in a local woods tomorrow because it is supposed to be an absolutely beautiful day, and it will just be nice to get out and stretch legs.
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It will be worth your while for the exercise. Never know you may find Morel sporing places you never thought of before. Maybe a deadhead or deer shed, that is a bonus. The next rain here in central Indiana should turn the grass green and the Maple trees here are budding. Everything growing may set themselves up to get frost bit. Nothing new for this time of year.( Going to plant potatoes tomorrow) they will lay there until it's time to come up. Happy foraging.
 
#127 ·
Was driving to Indy today and noticed daffodils blooming at Centerton Indiana. Home of Johnny Wooden. Bradford woods at Centerton back in my childhood was notorious for grocery bags full of Morels. In the day they were paper bags. This storm we are supposed to have tonight may cause some disruption to the woods causing more Morels ? Who knows?
 
#132 ·
Looks like the Morel progression has reached Tennessee. Grass greened up nicely overnight and the willow trees started to green up here after the rain. The temps are going to be more early springlike so to me it's still looking good for a great start to the season soon. The great white river at Martinsville In. was up and rolling today so we had a substantial rain in it's concourse upstream. Been quite a while since that has happened. .
 
#135 ·
scoondog said:
Little story ,I have been eyeballing a property for years, its on my way home and have hunted just up he road and had success ,I have the place memorized from google searches , had the property owners names in my pocket forever yet ,never asked, I have a rule, I never just drive up and knock on a door ,I will not stop unless I see someone outside , especially a place like this were the house is way back and secluded, its been killing me because I have never seen any activity there and I look every day, seasons go by and I almost broke my rule last year, Thursday I saw an elderly lady outside picking up sticks and thought its now or never, turned around, you could tell she was a little apprehensive as I got out of my truck, wilh a little small talk I could tell she was comfortable, told her my story and how many years I have been wanting to ask and she said she defiantly would not have opened the door on a knock and she had a big dog that doesn't like strangers, so I ask the big question and he said ,oh honey that woods is full of mushrooms, the last guy that hunted there would come out with sacks full ,I am shitt'n my self right now ,but they don't eat them and he hasn't been there for 2-3 years and doubt if he is coming back, the old man came rolling in on his tractor and we hit it off too, I got permission, Take away from this is people are way more receptive when they are outside when you roll in, works almost every time and this was well worth the wait I hope ,BTY 10 acres of old woods and the other property up the road ,same story ,caught them out burning brush
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That is awesome!! I hate to ask permission I'm just too apprehensive . Too many land owners have bad experiences with hunters and such that abuse their permission and rules of use . I have to stick with hunting state property. Good job I know there is some great land out there that the mushrooms are plentiful and just go to spore and reproduce. Good luck and hope you hit the mother load!
 
#138 ·
scoondog said:
I need it seems all my spots from over the years have dried up or sold ,been having a heck of a time just pulling in a couple messes a year, been exploring state land more but it takes time to find that spot know body else knows about,
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My spots on public are hard hunted. just have to be there at the right time. had fellers go in ahead of us with headlamps on before daylight. But luckily they were coming out just as they were popping up so they weren't even looking at the ground they had covered. We stopped and let them pass and then resumed our hunt. Several we found were smashed flat but still salvageable. took many miles and years to find my spots on public land. they still produce every year. Hope I didn't just jinx my self. lol. Hope you score big!!
 
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