Ha Ha!! In case you forgot . . . this is what they look like!
. . . remember?

(last April - pic below)

Enjoy the woods! 😎 🌞 🍷

 

I know I'm late responding to this picture but what a beautiful sight! 💕

 

Here's a Fun Pic from April 2020

 

How cool 😎

 

Well, it’s started mentally for me. Had first morel dream of the year last night due to me going to sleep thinking about them🤣. My daughter asked me yesterday when we’re going to catch mushrooms again she was 3 last year 4 now, well she heard all the birds in the morning and seeing snow gone lately and being smart as whip to spring conditions and 🍄 time she’s put it together and ready to hunt just like me! So proud as my other girls don’t have interest. Anyways been looking at notes of previous years soil and air temps in relation to my first finds from previous years. I’ve got a pretty good idea of the formula but always studying and learning. From readings I’m seeing it’s gonna be a early year. 2nd picture is eye exercise. There’s a animal in that picture I walked up on can you see it? It’s very well blended in and didn’t move until I got about 10 foot away. Took picture at about 20. Good luck to everyone this year!

 

Was she sitting on a nest?

 

I’m definitely disappointed to see this on the main page. Promoting a dangerous trespassing activity isn’t the best idea. I suppose, unless you know a railroader or two that have unwillingly killed trespassers you might not get it. People get themselves killed by trains a lot….because they think they are smarter, can hear them coming, yada yada yada….

 

Trespassing is trespassing rather its dangerous or not. They say common scene isn't so common any more, have you looked around for people with integrity lately ? Good luck finding that!

 

Buzz Kill, kill Joy, Fun Nazi
Fun Filter

When posts turn from Morels to Morals it is a sure sign that there are no Morels to be found.
(psst . . . only a short time more)

Great times & finds to all! 😎 🌞

Thankyou for not being negative sir.
Negativity kills mushrooms 😁

 

We lost our tegrity!

 

When posts turn from Morels to Morals it is a sure sign that there are no Morels to be found.
(psst . . . only a short time more)

Great times & finds to all! 😎 🌞

 

When posts turn from Morels to Morals it is a sure sign that there are no Morels to be found.
(psst . . . only a short time more)

Great times & finds to all! 😎 🌞

@sb I have neither they say...but i did have some ports and onions today to pass the time.

 

Hey Karen, how do you know that isn’t abandoned track? Really disappointing to see a supposed morel hunter poo on someone’s beautiful find. Takes a real pooper I guess

 

Inthewild -
Looks like a credible preseason warm-up now for "Morels & Ramps/Leeks" later. Ha!
Nice post. Thanks.
Enjoy the woods, all 🍷 🍺 😎

 

I posted a find last year and mentioned that I found some close to a RR (towpath that runs parallel and completely legal public land) and I got chased out of town on the forum. All, it's not worth the time wasted judging others about situations you know nothing about. How about some helpful content?? I am super stoked to get out and fill up my bag. Best of luck!!

 

Hope you have a great season. And things should be getting very good very soon.there have been reports around this area of people fi ding them.

 

Hello @sb

 

I'm here, Wade (with no Morels in my hand, Ha!)

 

I will be at my early black spot in north central ohio this weekend. I’ve been paying attn to my temp maps I go by and according to them the mushrooms should be there haha. Mother Nature makes her own rules but this method has told me when to go look at places hours away and hasn’t failed me yet so we will see. I will have a report by Sunday afternoon good or bad. 🍄🍄🍄🙏🙏🙏

 

I will be at my early black spot in north central ohio this weekend. I will have a report by Sunday afternoon good or bad. 🍄🍄🍄🙏🙏🙏

Gutterman-- Thanks. How many years have you been finding Blacks at your Black Morel spot?

If I find Blacks at my Black Morel location again this spring, it will be the 10th year in a row!!! Nothing could please me more, as my other Morel producing spots may produce 50% or maybe only 1 out of 3 or 4 years. Still worth returning to.

Last year there was a particular gully that I usually walk through every year on the way to some frequent find-them spots. It was always barren. I always asked myself WHY walk through here - because I never found them there and the answer in my mind was always: but it looks good here, none the less.

Well last year it paid off with a nice spread of about 35 in an area no bigger than my living room.

Happy mushroom outings everyone. 😎 🌞

 

I been checking my new black spot in MO like a maniac. Still don't know when to look. Only ever found one black last season LATE. Gonna use other states info to zero in on them.

 

Blacks pop first when ground temps reach 45-50. I typically find blacks starting first few days of April in north central ohio. This year we never really had a deep freeze over the winter so ground temps came up faster especially with the last few warm rains we’ve had.

 

Black season must be short then....for me at least. So odd I found one solo at the end of April last season. Thought it was a half free from a distance but I hadn't found any more halfies for a while, only large yellows. I bet the spot got worked over by a few hunters and someone didn't finish their homework. No cut stalks though..... hmm.

 

It’s all about the type of soil….really sandy soil warms faster. Find spots that have really sandy soil that looks like the richest dirt to start a garden with and youll find shrooms earlier in the season. That’s why there’s always really early finds of blacks in Michigan because it’s a sand bar haha. Spot I find mine is sandy with some rocks mixed in to absorb sun and you sink with every step you take it’s so soft.

 

Friend @gutterman
That is a lot of Solid / Sandy information
I don't know What more you could offer.
Other Than; Offer to let people just carry a bag around following you as you Find and Harvest for them..

 

It's the hardest lesson we all learn. If it looks right it's right😆

 

Been finding them there at that spot for about 5-6 years now since I first found the area scouting new ground. Area is around 300 acres of woodland but you find certain shrooms in certain areas of it. But the entire property you can locate blacks, half frees, greys, yellows, and tulips.

 

Well report from this morning is ramps are up 3-4” in a lot of spots. A lot of green foliage on undergrowth. I looked from a far at my black spots and the snow we got made the hard to see impossible to see they might be there but with the snow who knows. I’ll try again after it warms up mid week and everything melts off. Still had a good time walking around and scouting a new section I hadn’t spent much time in.

 

Oh... I see your habitat. In your pictures, I like the looks of that.. Thank You for Your Encouraging Report @gutterman

 

Redfred - The area I was referring to in post #24 above, that "looked good" is situated so that I always go through it on my way in and never on my way out.

I never stopped to realize that I most always use the same pattern for hunting that woods.

Good hunting everyone 🌞 😎

 

Starting to get excited 😊..HAPPY HUNTING ALL

 

We’re inching closer up here in portage county. Gonna go peek at my early black spot Friday if I get time.

 

My property in Champaign county is a early woods..I was finding them this time last year..so far nothin

 

Can Mushrooms Talk with Each Other?

Cool April 7 article in Scientist Magazine.
Article Here

 

Can Mushrooms Talk with Each Other?

Cool April 7 article in Scientist Magazine.
Article Here

All this time I was thinking they were just voices in my head….. Now I know I understand mushroom talk….. And if you don’t know I can tell you that mushrooms say a lot of strange thing….

 

I’m liking this upcoming forecast for southern ohio. Few nights in a row with lows only in the fifties! Fingers crossed that the blacks will be pooping up like zits on a high schooler!

 

Shhh they ain’t up yet in northern ohio BANG took about 15 mins in woods and found two already!