still a little early I think. I would give it about two more weeks. Wait for the May Apples to start popping their heads out, their usually about the same time.
Have not went looking yet seems a little cool but did notice some trees getting ready to bud... figure about a week maybe two and we should start finding them. Hope the rain and floods make em pop out like the weeds in my garden.
Last year at the end of april it got real hot and then got cold I found 146 in 39 degree temp. I couldn't believe it,did anyone else find some in that cold snap?
Rich
Rich,
Me too. We camped last april and it was so cold that we worried about our camper's water pipes. We put on our coats and found a good mess of white mushrooms. I am sure that they had came up about 3 days prior to the record cold weather.
Leroy
I have witnessed them getting bigger there is one report on the great morel about somebody puting a mason jar over one and watering it claims they had to break the jar to get the shroom out. I am trying the bottom half of a milk jug as a mini greenhouse on a pair that I found on my property. If you would like I can repost and let you know how it goes.
Found 5 false morels today between Branson and Ozark. Friday morning I'll head south of Branson: should be tons there by now. I'm hoping that there will be quite a few this year after the ice and snow.
Ground is still too cold (49) for morels to start around my area (St. Charles). Ground temp has to hit 52 minimum for them to start. I'd say another week.
The Missouri Mycological Society is holding 2 forays (hunts) this weekend:
Saturday 4/5 we are going to hunt by the water works which is off of Hog Hollow Road at 10 a.m. Go out Highway 40 (from 270, it's still open), take the Chesterfield Parkway exit, turn right on Olive Blvd. (towards Faust Park). Look for Hog Hollow Road to the left (it does not cross Olive), turn left, go down to Water Works Road and look for us there. We are hunting a slope near the water works.
Sunday we are meeting at the Visitor's Center at Greensfelder Park at 10:00 a.m.
Take the Six Flags exit, turn right on Six Flags Road, which goes up a hill and
goes past Six Flags (don't go into the park). This becomes Allenton Road. Look
for the Greensfelder Park Visitor's Center.
We searched up and down a couple of slopes in back of the visitor center, but
found nothing. Just a few old turkey tail. It was nice and wet there, but hardly
any green showing at all. There was a little sweet woodruff near the ridge tops.
I did find a nice antler shed on one of the slopes. I'm sure it will be better this
weekend, but I won't have time to do much looking yet Sat. or Sunday, taking a half
day today though :)
Good luck to all, & if you want to hunt good mushrooms for the rest of the year (from now
through December!), check out www.momyco.org and join us for one of the many other forays we
will have this year.
I went to Castlewood yesterday & hunted the north ridges (Grotpeter trail),
only found 1 devil's urn. The road under the bridge to the river access is blocked
off, but you can probably walk down to there. If there's not too much silt, you
may have some luck.
Seems like spring is coming late! I found 4 small greys Friday, when I should have found 40 medium to large whites. The trees are not green yet but I will try it again tomorrow
I've heard about some small finds of 30 in St Joe area in the past couple days. I'm North at the state line and haven't found or heard of any finds here yet,but it should be within days now.
I agree with those suggesting that we are still about a week or two away from finding much here in mid state.
However all the conditions are much more favorable to a good season then what we have dealt with the past few years.
All us seasoned die hards were dissappointed due to last years crazy false spring that triggered everything to early,then of course we had that delightful record breaking cold snap that pretty much wiped out the morels here.
This year the weather is right on track,everything is warming up in a more normal fasion,the ground moisture is good,the mycelium is spreading,the sap is falling and feeding it.
The forecast for the upcoming week is abit cold at night,but I'm betting the following week we will start finding good numbers along the river bottoms under the maples and elms.
We went out agian today and picked 4 more nice size reds,but no greys yet...north of Springfield that is. Argggg i have the shroom fever in a bad way and it looks like there are plenty of others that have the fever as well(Wishing all you SHROOMERS the very best of luck in your hunts)))
My father and I went out today and didn't find any in our spot yet. We are about 20 mins southwest of St. Louis (Jefferson Co). It wont be long though!!
Oh with this rain tonight,,its going to be a good year.
About time after the last two lean years.
Location;
In the hills and Bottoms east of KC along the Mighty Mo.
I think they will be popping fresh this weekend.
We will be out with the Dogs hard.
The vegetation is slow to get going which should really help spot the yum yums.
I have hunted mushrooms all my life. They are being very late this year. I did find 15 today 4-19-08
The ice storm and heavy rains have left my woods a mess. Very difficult to get through. I usually start finding them last of March to first week of April, early gray, usually around mid April the large yellow are up.
Missouri river, KC.
Found 268 on Saturday, mostly small to medium, all colors. Only 1 or 2 big ones.
Do the big ones generally start after the others, or is it just not a year for large morels?
Anyway, they're finally here in KC.
Yes, the big ones come at the end of the season. I have good luck in tall grass at edges of timber lines. Not a large quantity of them, but friggin huge ones.
Does anyone that is finding these morel smushrooms have any for Sale? Would like to surprise my Brother with some.....He is fighting Cancer and is unable to go searching like he normally does..... Contact me at 8166940314 Thank you...
I found about a dozen of these mammouth shrooms The look like the morels but red. Some info on the net says they are ok, others say beware. Any thoughts?????
WE call em reds or elephant ears. I dont eat them but I have before. Some people get the you know whats (bathroom). Some get sick. Some nothin but good eatin
Garatron - I found 184 today, much larger (up to 6 inches) than the last batch a week or so ago, so you were right about larger ones arriving later, but... will there be even larger ones in another week? I know I've seen the 8" to 12" lunker ones. Are these yet another type of morel that comes up at a different time, or were the 6"ers the last of the season?
I've still been finding them in the sunny cleared bottoms, but not finding anything in the shaded woodland or above it in the grass. Am I likely to start finding them in the dense shaded woodland bluff as the soil warms as I've never really found anything there before?
Mike Cee - you've been looking for 4 years and not found them probably because someone else was looking before you looked. That's generally why people don't find them.
Hi just drove across Mizzou yesterday on I-70 stopped to hike at a wildlife refuge/lake sorry didn't grab the name but 11miles East of Cloumbia 4miles South of I70 and found a beautiful clump of morels. Yeah going to cook them this evening in Colorado. They are out under the oaks GL and good hunting
If you know of any1 who is interested in selling morels to us, please let me know on this site, thanks. We live in Warsaw and have only found TWO small ones.
My Dad and I have found in excess of one hundred yellows the last two days of April through yesterday. Eighty of which were three to four inch in beautiful shape. I counted 25 smaller that were drying out near the crest of a hill near a very large rotting dead elm. I hope this rain will allow some more to pop before our short season is over. Good luck to all
We hunt the IL side near St. Louis MO. Found about 7lbs of grays and yellows on 04/27/08. It seems that the conditions are the best I have seen in a long time due to the break in the drought for this area.
Found them on higher ground, the bottoms being so soggy.
We found about 50 lbs with in a day and a variety of the kinds... I've looked for 4 years in my woods and never found any... My friends said people buy them by the pounds in California and up North near Canada? Whats the going rate and how would I go out doing this?
Garatron - I found 184 on the 5th, much larger (up to 6 inches) than the last batch a week or so ago, so you were right about larger ones arriving later, but... will there be even larger ones in another week? I know I've seen the 8" to 12" lunker ones. Are these yet another type of morel that comes up at a different time, or were the 6"ers the last of the season?
I've still been finding them in the sunny cleared bottoms, but not finding anything in the shaded woodland or above it in the grass. Am I likely to start finding them in the dense shaded woodland bluff as the soil warms as I've never really found anything there before?
Mike Cee - you've been looking for 4 years and not found them probably because someone else was looking before you looked. That's generally why people don't find them.
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