I have a wooded area on my property. My best friend has morels in his woods. Does anyone know if it's possible to transplant the mycelium (sp?) from one place to another? Or can you order morel spores to try and get them going?

You will probably get a number of different responses to this question saying both yes and no. There is a popular belief that if you use onion (mesh) bags to harvest your mushrooms you contribute to the spread of the morels by allowing the spores to drop while you walk through the woods. With this in mind, you might try shaking such a bag full of shrooms around in your woods or dropping a few smaller mushrooms in ideal spots.

This is just my speculation...

The mushrooms I pick are way to moist to have spors. What do you think about that theory

You probably cannot transplant existing plants, but you can purchase spawn and attempt to seed an area yourself.

Whether or not this will result in morels is not a certainty.

I believe that morels are tuned to specific soil conditions and tree species - so you'll not get "fire morels" to grow withe apple trees, or linestone soil morels to grow in loam. I'm still very early in my research, but I have found that "Western" morels don't seem to want to grow on the East Coast.

-t

When I find morels that are still a bit on the slippery side of 'ripe' I lay them out on newspaper for a couple of days. They will age somewhat normally and leave a spore print on the paper. Try this out, then put the newsprint over a promising spot, cover it with a bit of soil and see what happens.
Just my two cents worth, although morels fetch much more than two cents hereabouts.

Even if mushrooms are too moist to release spores any pieces will eventually dry up and they will blow away. It couldn't hurt to keep all the scraps and stuff and throw it out in your woods to get some spores there. I have tons of spores caked on my dehydrator but don't really know if they are any good. I doubt you can really transplant mycelia though. Good Luck!

I am in north east west virgina. I just started this year looking for morels, walked thru all the woods and along the river to no avail.. then last nite my kid comes in and says "is this what youre looking for?" and she has a morel (june 5th) .. and they are growing right next to the driveway in full sun in the lawn!!! not only that, we have been here 2 years and the area they are growing is where all the trucks and bulldozers were driving when they built the house.. it was a farm field before that. nearest trees are 30 feet away and are cedar, box elder and tree of heaven..
anyway, they are not in a good place, will get mowed and walked on.. so I am wondering if I can move them? also trying to decide wether to eat them or try to save the spores? Kathy