blitzfish
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Post by blitzfish on Mar 17, 2012 6:40:26 GMT -6
Okay, so I know that we are all diehard shroomers here and it may be hard to get a clear answer on this, but I have a question for all of you.
I haven't found very many blacks in the past, but was wondering what sort of locations (tree types/substrate) you often find blacks in the southern WI... if you do find many around here at all that is. I have heard waaaaaay to many different substrate types for other states, but would like to know as I do know that these tend to be the first to pop! I know it tends to be wooded areas, but I have heard everything from aspen, poplar, oak, ash, the list goes on...
I think I have also heard in the past the SE WI tends to be a dead zone for them. Any merit to that?
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omth
Mycelium
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Post by omth on Mar 17, 2012 9:05:18 GMT -6
I have a spot in N. Kettle Moraine where I find blacks, usually one to two per ash tree and not that big, but worth it!
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blitzfish
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Post by blitzfish on Mar 17, 2012 19:58:24 GMT -6
That's good news then. Maybe I'll have to check some of my old spots in N. Kettle again... not a long drive for me.
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Earthmom
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Post by Earthmom on Mar 18, 2012 8:20:50 GMT -6
I've only every found them once a couple years ago growing off a trail in the long needle pine liter. That was a great moment! They say those are the first to pop so I imagine anytime now right? Days and days of 80 degree weather should really produce anytime. We do need some rain though... I suspect it's going to be the hottest summer on record for the US this year, and although it'll suck, I can deal with it. What I can not deal with is a drought. It's not good for us, the foragers, or anyone else. Seriously we need pray, meditate, whatever to get that rain this year.
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blitzfish
Button Mushroom
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Post by blitzfish on Mar 18, 2012 21:00:28 GMT -6
The weather sites are all calling for some showers tomorrow!! And then again Wed. Night and thursday!!
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Post by patrick on Apr 3, 2012 13:22:58 GMT -6
I get my blacks in white pine forests here. It just depends on the soil type for each area and I don't think anyone has that mastered. My buddy finds morels on maple trees in southern IL and we never find them on maples from northern IL through Wausau and I've looked pretty hard! It'd be nice if there were a map of the US that showed the predominant trees that morels associate with in each area. You should get working on that blitzfish!  |
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rob
Spore
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Post by rob on Apr 4, 2012 13:51:25 GMT -6
Me and Jason went out this morning and looked in a spot wehre he has found some blacks, apparently they tend to grow singly and not in clusters.Anyhow, we did manage to find a few not very big,and they were around scrub apples,oaks and shagbark hickory soil type was a little sandy, black dirtish,probably would have looked longer but didnt have a rake or leaf blower to move all the leaves they were under.
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blitzfish
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Post by blitzfish on Apr 4, 2012 15:16:34 GMT -6
thanks for the info rob, hopefully tonight's frost wont kill them
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