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Post by skot1856 on Mar 26, 2012 14:27:18 GMT -6
Anyone else finding them in WI even this size yet? Been watching this one for the last week, and it was one of the small ones. Can't imagine I'm the only one who is picking them already around here. Attachments:
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Post by blitzfish on Mar 26, 2012 17:56:44 GMT -6
Wow skot, giving away a spot like that? that is some really great info, but now I know where you find them ha ha. I won't raid your spot anytime soon, even though that is only 5 minutes from my grandparents place. Nice to know that they pop up around dead aspen like that. I'll have to find a few places like that for myself sometime. jwesty, this site is reliable and we've definitely have had 50+ degrees in soil temps the past week at least (hell, water warms up slower than the soil would and many water temps got into the 60's) www.soils.wisc.edu/asigServlets/AWSReport?ReportType=Soil |
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Post by Earthmom on Mar 26, 2012 18:28:37 GMT -6
You are totally my hero SKOT!!! I am going to hit every aspen grove I can find! I wouldn't drive up to your spot but I really can't emphasize enough how helpful this info is! I mean we've been talking about that for awhile now but we never quite put our finger on exactly where to find these buggers! I really hope I find some now that I've finally got a clue. PAYNE we are so going to find black morels next weekend!
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Post by skot1856 on Mar 26, 2012 18:48:22 GMT -6
These pics were all taken on my land so I'm not too worried about anyone finding them. As far as any around Oxford we could prob. use some more tourist $ anyway ha ha. Your not going to find bushels of them(or at least I haven't)but man do they come up early! Found my first this year on Mar. 21st and it was already about 4in. tall. That shatters my old record of April 10th from 2 years back. I had a feeling it was going to be an early season bcuz of the weather this year. I will just have to start looking after the Skunk cabbage blooms in the spring from now on. In my neck of the woods the Mayapple's have just barely sprouted, the lilacs have just leafed out...not a hint of purple, and I've only seen one teeny little Devils urn. So I guess the old standbys just don't work some years.
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Post by blitzfish on Mar 26, 2012 18:54:52 GMT -6
My grandparents have always talked about someone that finds morels in Oxford. I have hunted their land, but never found anything at all.
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Post by skot1856 on Mar 26, 2012 19:00:22 GMT -6
I never even bothered to look around my property the first two years because I didn't have any elms at all, let alone dead ones. Just happened to stumble across some growing under the dead aspens. Then I found them growing in seemingy random spots every year since. Completely missed last year though so they have had a chance to catch up.
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Post by blitzfish on Mar 26, 2012 19:05:44 GMT -6
Ha ha, yeah, I have hunted for blacks up north in aspens before, but not dead aspen before, cool to know that they still grow there when they die.
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Post by skot1856 on Mar 26, 2012 19:19:05 GMT -6
They seem to prefer the big toothed aspen instead of the quaking aspen, at least here. I have a stand of both on my propery on opposite ends and have never found any below the quaking.
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Post by skot1856 on Mar 30, 2012 9:30:31 GMT -6
One of the bigger blacks I've been watching for the last week. Starting to think my property is some kind of freak of nature. I was down in Portage for the last couple days and hit some of my old spots. When I got there...realized I forgot my repellent. BIG MISTAKE...flicked off at least 40 deer ticks inside of an hour. Not a single wood tick...like it matters. Plenty of dead elms, etc. But nothing found. As a former forester its the first time I can remember getting driven out of the woods by ticks. Attachments:
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Post by Earthmom on Mar 30, 2012 12:06:33 GMT -6
Well I have to say that I'm pretty envious of your morel farm SKOT! Are there any elms at all in the area that these are growing? How mature are the aspens that they grow near? I notice some long needle pines in some of your photos...are there many of those around? The only one time I found black morels they were growing in long needle pine debris so it's curious that you have them in the area of your morels. There's got to be a connection...
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Post by skot1856 on Mar 30, 2012 12:21:47 GMT -6
You find the connection and let me know...I honestly have know idea why they come up so early around here. Been watching the other forums for the last 3 years or so and it seemed I always have been eating a few meals of the blacks weeks before anyone else even finds the smallest ones.
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Post by skot1856 on Mar 30, 2012 16:15:07 GMT -6
Until then...just in case Attachments:
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Post by blitzfish on Mar 30, 2012 22:31:35 GMT -6
In northern WI they will definitely grow around white pine. I have found both blacks and whites around white pine and sometimes quite a few, but normally it is only in an open area or a wooded area with a single or two white pines at most. That is why if you know of a white pine plantation, check the edges of the lot.
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Post by omth on Mar 31, 2012 2:27:02 GMT -6
Blitz... you are in SP right? hehe, up here we call that south central WI!
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Post by blitzfish on Mar 31, 2012 10:58:50 GMT -6
Well, that last post was referring to where I turkey hunt in Taylor county, but yes i go to school in Stevens Point. My hometown is Hartford though and that is the area I find most of my morels.
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