Morel Mushrooms 2024 ...Chaos in the Mycelium !

[@JulysAngel69]

It would be nice if Title would say what State this is, and if it's northern, southern, eastern, or western part. That helps new morel hunters in other states an idea of when they need to look. Also, a nice tree identification close up of bark, leaves might be helpful. Other thing that may help is identifying some ground cover plants. Thanks.

[@johnnyfish6051]

I'm south of the eastern part of west half just a little north of their. When you get their look for morels. The bark is like a Labrador. Good ground cover is usually a big tarp.

[@bradondempsey8639]

Ohio?

[@johnnyfish6051]

@@bradondempsey8639 just eastwest of them.

[@adamrv666]

​@@johnnyfish6051😂😂😂😂 that's about how i describe my spots too

[@johnnyfish6051]

@@adamrv666 walk till ya drop.

[@randym8963]

heh buddy, thats pure awesomeness. I can smell them from 3000 miles away! Thankyou for sharing , it helps us get pumped up for the upcoming season.

[@johnnyfish6051]

What's up Grandpa Morel. Anything for you man! See ya.

[@bonthor7515]

Nice find! What county or state is this jw so I can start my journey

[@samaustin6255]

The Leaf cover under sycamore trees is so thick it is almost impossible to see a small morel so the morels tend to be bigger when found under the Sycamore lesf cover

[@slabslayers]

Nice haul! Looks like fun hunting for morel mushrooms. I can't wait till they start popping up in my area.

[@johnnyfish6051]

Thanks, I hope the slabs are plentiful. Yes very fun, just an excuse to be in the woods.

[@rarebond8102]

There you go Johnny! First robin of spring in the yard here yesterday. SW WI. Winter didn't bring a foot of snow total. We're in trouble. Good seein ya' gettin that gold!

[@johnnyfish6051]

Thanks,you're the best! Do a rain dance.

[@JimmyHarwood-v3z]

Love mushroom hunting, great vid

[@johnnyfish6051]

It's ok...........just kidding, me too! See ya.

[@sitindogmas]

chomping at the bit here in W.V. happy hunting 💚

[@johnnyfish6051]

Seems like it will never happen.....then it does. Never gets old.

[@kenseymour5152]

Elmes are good in Michigan but I have good luck around sycamores too

[@mymorelmaddness83]

Well, look at you go I was out this morning myself. Our ground is absolutely warm. And we've had plenty of rain but there's nothing there yet any day now

[@johnnyfish6051]

Our temperatures have been freakishly warm. Get'm!

[@tomkarau]

I love it when you see a big bonanza of Morel Mushrooms.. when you see them faster than you can pick them.. when you see so many that you start losing track of all the shrooms you've seen.. you just can't pick them fast enough. There's no better adrenaline rush!!! 😊

[@johnnyfish6051]

Veins of gold.

[@joet81]

Man I cannot wait for the morels to come up here in Southern Ontario Canada ! Usually it's the last week of April until the end of may, but I've heard that they are up to 3 weeks early in some areas. Morel progression maps have some small ones being found not too far south of Lake Erie already!! Hopefully we have another good year- last year was amazing here! Our Hauls don't compare with the ones you get down South though!! How are things going for you so far?? Early??

[@johnnyfish6051]

What's up Joe! It was but things are cooling back down to normal. Good luck.

[@joet81]

@@johnnyfish6051 thanks, hope the rest of the season goes well for ya

[@johnnyfish6051]

@@joet81 thanks

[@randymiller1604]

I wish I was there with you awesome mushrooms man

[@johnnyfish6051]

So lucky, I till myself everytime .....so lucky.

[@johnnyfish6051]

Thanks!

[@plprimary]

Amazing quantity ! Season has just started here in France, hope the first ones will come soon !!

[@johnnyfish6051]

So lucky. They always come around, though it can seem not soon enough. It's part of the morels allure.

[@Ang85323]

This is so great ❤. I'm so jealous I live in Wyoming and they are hard to find here 😢

[@johnnyfish6051]

Get'm! Walk till ya drop.

[@meibrown6004]

😂😂😂6000 calories to keep you going for more mushrooms hurt 😅. Great video

[@johnnyfish6051]

Like, don't have enough fat to burn already! Thanks.

[@chengsAdventure2331]

How do you cook these morel mushrooms and eat it. I would like to try them.

[@johnnyfish6051]

Their is no bad way. For me, any good mushroom intensifies whatever meal it's prepared with. It absorbs any seasonings or sauces you create like a sponge and magically doubles the flavor. A Morel Mushroom......it's the magician that all others Wana be.

[@DanaChandler-eg5wd]

Cut in half,end to end,season flour,salt pep,try curry,fry in quarter inch bacon drippins til golden brown, approx 20 min. Hot n fast

[@pXnEmerica]

It would be interesting to see the size of sclerotia that these are popping up from and how deep they are.

[@johnnyfish6051]

AAaaa probably.......pretty small???

[@johnnyfish6051]

What would be your guess?

[@pXnEmerica]

@@johnnyfish6051 The ones I started growing in august are the size of large peas to small grapes. Preferred the coco peat mix over the wood pellets. Kept at room temp, got one bag outside and a bunch of inoculated apples in the garage that I'll need to see what happened once it warms up in the next couple weeks. Still frozen up here in Alberta.

[@johnnyfish6051]

​@pXnEmerica hope you get a bunch!

[@pXnEmerica]

@@johnnyfish6051 we'll see what happens, might take a few years. I'm gonna take some liquid culture and put it in the bucket I use for the sprinkler fert this spring and just put some everywhere lol.

[@kevinmasyon2843]

It's still 28 degrees at night here in Northville MI.

[@johnnyfish6051]

I love cold. Summer is a dirty word in my book.

[@breccamerie1]

Oh man.... I went out to my grove today only to find the land owner actively bulldozing it under. The oaks are still there but he bulldozed clear up to their bases. I almost cried. I'm hoping that he didn't harm the mycelium and we will get active blooms maybe next year.

[@johnnyfish6051]

Time will tell could be bad could be good . Hopefully, they let nature settle back in. New growth can cause a royal flush of morels.

[@Ang85323]

Your cooler is full of spore ❤. Rinse it and toss it around your home outside ❤

[@johnnyfish6051]

I'm the king of catching spores. Keep watching. I put spores back in the woods like no one else. THANKS

[@Th3Chuzzl3r]

think its the bark from the sycamore that the morels like?

[@johnnyfish6051]

They are a self shedding tree and constantly repairing themselves. So the same thing is probably happening underground with their roots also. Like I say, this is causing chaos to the mycelium and making morels fruit. The great thing is that this happens while the tree is alive and will produce for the life of the tree. Unlike Elms and Coniferous trees that only provide Morels when their dead or dying. They might produce 3 years tops. Sycamore go for a lifetime, and yes, all that bark peel adds to the duff.

[@TimothyCibula-vh5ip]

Awesome what state is this in ?

[@johnnyfish6051]

I'm so far in the sticks we don't even name this place.

[@michaelclemons9723]

Man up here in bedford va, we call them woodfish

[@jonathanyates5198]

In Dickenson County Virginia we call them Dry Land Fish. Finding any yet?

[@garfieldeastwood8939]

What state is this?

[@chrisxx012]

Do you believe there is a daytime and nighttime temperature when it's time to go look for morels? What daytime temperatures and nighttime temperatures that come together is the good time to look for morels?

[@johnnyfish6051]

Night time Temps are key. When night time temp start consistently staying in the low 50's. When soil temp is in the low 50,s for three or four days straight, just after sun rise. The number one guaranteed way to know if morels are up ...Apple tress are in bloom... GUARANTEED!!!

[@pointsnpoles4640]

​@johnnyfish6051 thank you for that info...this is one thing I've never done but I'm thinking bout getting into it...everyone up here around me in Missouri does it...better late than never I guess...we also have paw paws up here...I'd never heard of them until I found a tree last year with fruits I'd never seen or maybe just never noticed before and looked em up. Do they grow in your neck of the woods? They are actually delicious...like top 3 favorite fruit now

[@kevinmasyon2843]

40s at night 60 days.groung temp. in the 50s.

[@johnnyfish6051]

@pointsnpoles4640 Fried morels are delicious! Yes, paw paws are very abundant and underappreciated

[@michaelclemons9723]

They some kind of good man,they just like lays potatoe chips

[@johnnyfish6051]

Ha!

[@rabbitbully1810]

PLEASE do more fishing videos!!!

[@johnnyfish6051]

Sorry, buddy

[@awaystorkawaaay]

to piggyback your theory, when mycelium breaks (from younger tree growth) and then rejoins at junctions, it produces hyphal knotting and that induces pinning, hence new mushroom growth

[@johnnyfish6051]

That's what I meant to say. Thanks

[@awaystorkawaaay]

@@johnnyfish6051oh, its just something I know from cultivating a lot of mushroom. anyone that says they know exactly why morels grow and where is sorta full of it but, in general, mycelium typically works the same in regards to how it pins. nice video btw

[@johnnyfish6051]

@awaystorkawaaay Thanks!

[@Th3Chuzzl3r]

gonna be some goooood eatin

[@johnnyfish6051]

Always! Sometimes you get a bad peace of meat or bitter fruit. There is too much string in your bean but morels....there always gooood.

[@palmer66terry]

Where are you located. What state plz?

[@EmmieBrock]

Yes where are you located ?

[@PaulDanciu]

in what type of forest you find it

[@johnnyfish6051]

All

[@Snowforcastauthority]

Where is this video taken?

[@johnnyfish6051]

So far out in the sticks, we don't even name this place.

[@monicasgeorgia]

The one question you never ask a morel hunter 😂 my own momma asked me the other day where I find mine and I said momma I love you so much , but uhhhh no! I'll put my location in my will... when you told em in the sticks I was thinking that was too much info 😉

[@Snowforcastauthority]

@monicasgeorgia 🤣 OK, let me refraze that. I was trying to figure out what state and what part as me and my brother are planning a trip from missouri south this week lol.

[@Snowforcastauthority]

I will assume this is in Alabama or Georgia tho

[@monicasgeorgia]

@@Snowforcastauthority 🤣😂

[@Forests444]

Medford oregon is popping now😊

[@johnnyfish6051]

Get'm

[@bouncerslabrealnature9143]

I just love delicious 🤤🤤

[@janharrell102]

What state are you in?

[@johnnyfish6051]

Well.....usually confused!

[@SC0PE0NMYR0PE]

What state are you in

[@johnnyfish6051]

Mostly content. Thanks for watching.

[@SC0PE0NMYR0PE]

@@johnnyfish6051 what state are you in I'm trying to find out much longer I have till I can start looking

[@johnnyfish6051]

@SC0PE0NMYR0PE so far in the sticks we don't even name this place.

[@patrickrogers3064]

what county? State?

[@paulezycom]

Beaver Chewed Ash Trees in that first patch?

[@johnnyfish6051]

Cottonwood. Thanks for watching.

[@TheEverLovingOutdoors]

Crazy, I walked 10 miles Friday and found 0.

[@johnnyfish6051]

I'm sorry to hear that. Keeps the fire burning.

[@TattooedGranny]

Let’s gooooo!❤

[@johnnyfish6051]

Hi Granny, I got nice slow, all day rain today. Yay!!

[@TattooedGranny]

You guys are in for an epic season!

[@janharrell102]

I’m in Texas in zone 8

[@johnnyfish6051]

They popping?

[@maggotish]

Still too cold up here. likely north of yall

[@bridgettewood1713]

So, we don't eat mushrooms, we moved here to Missouri from North Carolina, and have noticed a large amount of people hunting for this moral muchroom why?😊 inquiring minds want to know!🎉

[@danielsheets6841]

You can’t even answer what state? I love and appreciate your videos and information, but at least give us a region so we know what to expect as far as temps in our area vs yours.

[@johnnyfish6051]

Thanks for your support. I'm glad you enjoyed the video.

[@robertcaldwell7918]

Fantastic

[@johnnyfish6051]

Thanks for watching!

[@jetsam12]

He's in Oklahoma

[@johnnyfish6051]

Florida....next show, epic Palm tree flush.

[@WillieMakeit]

damn son

[@johnnyfish6051]

Enough said.

[@michaelclemons9723]

I been hutting these thangs

[@michaelclemons9723]

Every sence i was a kid

[@lalaJ109]

I enjoyed your video, but i dont understand why you wont give a general location. No one wants to know your spots or even a close proximity, but where's the harm in mentioning what state you're in?

[@johnnyfish6051]

Gees mowez.... I say where if from in every other video. It's not a secret.

[@johnnyfish6051]

Thanks, glad you enjoyed it. My next video there will be no doubt where I'm from. I say it loud and very pround many times. I promise!

[@xbhendrix]

blond beauties of the forrest

[@johnnyfish6051]

O yeah!

[@michaelclemons9723]

Bet you cant eat just one

[@johnnyfish6051]

Ha! Nope.

[@Synthescape]

Everybody is missing the biggest hunting key. I’m going to make a video and help everybody out. it’s growing all around, but people are oblivious to it. Transition area You are missing it completely It’s right in front of your face.

[@johnnyfish6051]

My biggest secret ......will never be revealed.

[@Synthescape]

@@johnnyfish6051 ⚡️ I know. I’m doing another video on that

[@johnnyfish6051]

Can't wait....

[@willmelrath4205]

Trees

[@johnnyfish6051]

@willmelrath4205 dirt, they grow in dirt