[swi shroomer]

Mivame, great stuff. Really enjoy your reports and stories. Good luck out east!

 

[kb]

good luck mivame, Thanks for the info. Funny finding that guys stuff. I know I should be grateful to be employed, but I hate work right now.

 

[shroomtrooper]

About the grey morels being different than yellows, come to think of it I picked some greys and went back 2 weeks to find these very nice big yellows. Right in the same spot. I am thinking now mabey there just young yellows. Another year I saw a whole bunch small greys and came back a week later and not 1 left, no stumps. I guess I dont know for sure.

 

[shroomtrooper]

I googled the grey morel and they say it is a immature yellow, ouch. Makes me think.

 

[shroomtrooper]

And they say you still have to have the right conditions to get the big yellow morels, I guess if you find greys in a nice moist woods, let them go. On a drier hillside with no rain in sight, mabey pick them.

 

[cnewbykkn]

I'm up here in MI but I've got a few 100 of these guys in an area where I picked many 4-5" yellows last year. Here is the progress over the last 4 days with 34deg nights...

 

[kb]

In general they tend to turn faster in warmer/sunnier conditions. Which is why you can pick big greys on north slopes at season's end. Most times unless it has been real cloudy/misty on other slopes the sun gets to them. Just my observations from leaving dozens of patches to grow over the years. Its hard to leave them now, to many pickers, but up till about 15 years ago it was pretty easy in some spots. And I still do in select spots. sometimes they just rot fast, sometimes they get huge. Real hot days and nights blows them up like you would not believe at mid season and beyond.if its wet. Be interesting to see how those in the picture turn out if left to grow a week. Spray them with distilled or rain water if they start to dry. Hard to believe they grow at all at 34, wow. Are they catching sun?

 

[shroom god]

Mivame, how'd Davis Co. pan out? I was down that way Wednesday but avoided Davis Co. because I figured you'd picked 'em all. You didn't happen to venture north to the Eldon, Selma or Douds area, did you? I can't think of another reason why I found so few (and saw so many stems). It's all but over down there.

 

[shroom god]

cnewbykkn that's a really fascinating photo. Those cold nights remind me of what we had here April 21-24 or thereabouts. Immature ones seem to endure the cold relatively well, but the more mature ones (in southern Iowa) were clearly frostbitten.

Time to pick and eat those!