Georgia 2023 Morel Season

Still nothing in Athens as of this past Thursday evening. Going to check again this afternoon but it turned chilly after the rain stopped, yesterday, so I doubt much else has happened. It's baffling how J Puette can have so many up already, and in my spot there are none so far, only about 15 miles south of there. My "urban" climate is noticeably warmer than the countryside, too, by several degrees nearly always.

stasiakj said:

Jpuette, I have a fruitful spot in Forest Park, GA that I typically visit the last week of March. Wonder if they are a poppin now.

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On the facebook GA. Morel Hunters group (which is not public now, due to bad spamming, you have to join to see it), morel finds have been documented all over the north half of Ga., all the way up to Bartow County (Cartersville) and in the northwest corner of the state, and in Columbia County, near Augusta, etc. They are up pretty much all the way to the northern state line, except for the mountains themselves, supposedly. I still haven't found any in my most dependable spot, near Athens, but it's going to rain today and supposedly all day tomorrow, Friday, so the weekend might be a little better for me. MANY big ones are being shown as harvested yesterday from "inside the Perimeter" in Atlanta.

I found about 8 in Clarke yesterday. A couple of em have been around for a week at least, the others looked to be about 4 days old. I'm beginning to wonder whether this patch might not be losing steam, I don't see any signs that anybody else has been picking there, and you can usually find cut stems if that has been happening. Who knows?