MOREL MUSHROOMS

JR.Frye · Feb 10, 2010

MOREL MUSHROOMS
Has any one on this sight ever planted and harvested your own morel mushrooms.
If so how long did it take them to come out of the ground and did they come back in the same spot the next year. I am thinking of growing some next year, because people
Here in Iowa go nuts over them and they are selling for $15.00 to $25.00 a pound.
MANY THANKS
JR.Frye

Case e · Feb 10, 2010

if you could grow them they wouldnt be worth $25 a lb.

Jahaze · Feb 10, 2010

I second Case e on this one, if there was a way to sucessfully grow them, even under perfect temperature controlled conditions they would be in the shelf of every supermarket in the country. Around us most people have "secret" mushrooming grounds that they return to every year. They often take these elusive areas to the grave with them. I have heard people sware by certain types of trees, directional facing hillsides, and soil types. The reality is they seem to grow anywhere they want to, and seem to be randonly available depending upon which way the wind blows (and if the critters don't eat them first).

Birdman · Feb 10, 2010

The ycan be grown: Morels.com
they take perfect conditions and that is really really hard to get. Thats why they seem to grow anywhere they choose but often in the same places.
They do like dead elms for sure and old coal dumps usually provide a series of the correct conditions at any given time in spring. you have to cover all areas though to find just the right spon on just the right day.

Anonymous-0 · Feb 10, 2010

sounds like people around here with their wild aspargus patches. when i lived in the city some of wifes kin would take us out to their "secret" spots but since we moved out to country and might accually remember how to get back there they havent been to keen on taking us along any more

rocko

GeneMO · Feb 10, 2010

There is a place south of Butler MO. that has a big building and claims to be growing them. I have gone by there quite a few times, but never stopped in.

Gene

1936 · Feb 10, 2010

Have a couple of hot spots that are pushing through about 10 inches of snow. Sent out my soft mouthed Lab to harvest. First she paws back the snow and bites them off at the stem and comes back one at a time and drops them in a basket. Almost have a gallon so far. What I like about the ones from the snow harvest no little bugs.

RayP(MI) · Feb 10, 2010

Morels tend to come up in same places year after year. Takes a special set of conditions for them to grow, moisture, sun exposure, type of leaves in woods carpet floor, etc. Since we have been getting so many turkeys around here, there haven"t been any to be found in my favorite place. When I was a kid, my dad brought a hat full home one spring day. Mom washed them, and I dumped the wash water under a tree in the yard. Got some morels there the following spring. Never again. They are way too fickle to be grown like conventional mushrooms.

cadet trooper · Feb 10, 2010

I classify Morel mushrooms much like S#x and that is lack of it makes you want more with that said I usually like two or three messes then I'm good until the next spring and I'm ready for the hunt alot of people freeze them but I just like the hunt as long as I can trip over the first two or three and I usually go to the same place every year at the same time and have been for over 45 years some years more some years less and no I'm not telling.;-> CT

LeoinMI · Feb 10, 2010

Mesick,Michigan. Moral Mushroom captial of the world. Lots of them up there,.. big ones too.

kyplowboy · Feb 11, 2010

I agree. They are kind of like pawpaw trees. They grow where they want to and are hard to get to grow where you want them to. I know a guy who spent years try"n to get pawpaw trees to grow in his yard cause it was too hard to get to them in the fall. No telling how many he dug up and hauled home, none ever lived a year.

On the other hand, the best mess of shrooms I found last year were around a bunch of pawpaw trees so maybe if a guy can get one to grow in his yard he might be able to get the other too also.

Dave

Anonymous-0 · Feb 11, 2010

I found 2 morels on the pasture,searched the area and never found another.The only time I saw a big crop, it grew under a big apple tree that was broken down in a storm.There were no morels in the same spot for 40 years.They are the only wild mushrooms I will pick.

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