Foulhook Posted September 8, 2022 Report Posted September 8, 2022 Northeast PA had a pretty bad drought this summer. I have been here 20 years and never seen a drought like this one. After morel season I literally saw zero mushrooms this year. What are the chances this last 4 days of heavy rain will save the fall season? We went from a dessert to a rice patty in 4 days. Sump pump is still running this morning.
bprzyw Posted September 8, 2022 Report Posted September 8, 2022 LOL! That’s the truth! Dry, dry then tons of rain. We had 4” here over the last 3 days. Other than some oysters, a few cotw I’ve had no luck. Nothing has been growing. Was out yesterday and…..nothing.
JOHNY Posted September 8, 2022 Report Posted September 8, 2022 We had drought in North West Ontario last year. There were zero Chanterelles and other mid summer mushrooms. It started to rain in mid August. There was massive numbers of Boletes and Lobster mushrooms that sprung up within two weeks and continued until frosts. It was wild. Many people said they had never seem so many mushrooms before. Daily harvests of 10-15 pounds dominated by King Boletes was common. Maybe, hopefully, you will experience what we did last year.
Foulhook Posted September 8, 2022 Author Report Posted September 8, 2022 4 hours ago, JOHNY said: We had drought in North West Ontario last year. There were zero Chanterelles and other mid summer mushrooms. It started to rain in mid August. There was massive numbers of Boletes and Lobster mushrooms that sprung up within two weeks and continued until frosts. It was wild. Many people said they had never seem so many mushrooms before. Daily harvests of 10-15 pounds dominated by King Boletes was common. Maybe, hopefully, you will experience what we did last year. Wow! Saying a prayer for the same thing to happen here! Impressive haul 6 hours ago, bprzyw said: LOL! That’s the truth! Dry, dry then tons of rain. We had 4” here over the last 3 days. Other than some oysters, a few cotw I’ve had no luck. Nothing has been growing. Was out yesterday and…..nothing. I stand corrected. I did find some chickens recently. Other than that absolutely nothing. Hoping for consistent weekly rain. Maybe we’ll get lucky
Staveshaver Posted September 13, 2022 Report Posted September 13, 2022 Same thing here in western Pa. Very dry, but finally got some rain recently. Meadow mushrooms popped up the last few days in the yard. I hope we get some more rain soon. We're about due for a good sheepshead year. Let's keep our collective fingers crossed.
bprzyw Posted September 13, 2022 Report Posted September 13, 2022 Yes, meadow mushrooms by the buckets! Nothing else really. Crossed fingers!
JOHNY Posted September 28, 2022 Report Posted September 28, 2022 Give us an update please. I'm interested to know if your rain after drought had any effect on mushrooms
Kevin Hoover Posted September 28, 2022 Report Posted September 28, 2022 We’ve been getting some rain here in central PA. Lots of stuff popping up later in the year than we normally find it. Two of us took a walk at one of the state parks yesterday and found all sorts of stuff - 3 hens, spotted boletes, painted suillius, hedgehogs, gilled boletes, and much more. The ironic thing is that just last week I showed our Central PA club president how to ID Boletus seperans. That’s who I was hunting with yesterday. Here is what we also found:
Foulhook Posted September 28, 2022 Author Report Posted September 28, 2022 9 hours ago, JOHNY said: Give us an update please. I'm interested to know if your rain after drought had any effect on mushrooms I wish I could say things exploded but that’s certainly not the case in NEPA. I haven’t found anything desirable. Hoping for a better season next year. 8 hours ago, Kevin Hoover said: We’ve been getting some rain here in central PA. Lots of stuff popping up later in the year than we normally find it. Two of us took a walk at one of the state parks yesterday and found all sorts of stuff - 3 hens, spotted boletes, painted suillius, hedgehogs, gilled boletes, and much more. The ironic thing is that just last week I showed our Central PA club president how to ID Boletus seperans. That’s who I was hunting with yesterday. Here is what we also found: Very nice haul Kevin! I’m very jealous. I normally harvest about 5 lbs of lilac bolete (Seperans) in my yard. Have some white pine spots normally loaded with painted suillius and zero this year. Same thing with honeys, hens, chants, etc. nothing! Worst year ever for me
troutddicted Posted September 29, 2022 Report Posted September 29, 2022 Strange for me here. Last year ( Im in central-ish Ontario ) we had no rain, then came the rains followed by big flushes. This year it was sort of dry, rains came but the flushes never did. I was convinced it would be a banger year again… such is the life of a mushroom.
JOHNY Posted September 30, 2022 Report Posted September 30, 2022 21 hours ago, troutddicted said: Strange for me here. Last year ( Im in central-ish Ontario ) we had no rain, then came the rains followed by big flushes. This year it was sort of dry, rains came but the flushes never did. I was convinced it would be a banger year again… such is the life of a mushroom. Same here in North West Ontario. Two years of drought followed by rain ++ starting mid August last year. Lots of rain last fall. Huge snow depth last winter. Lots of rain this spring and summer. But: zero Morels this spring. Huge numbers of Chanterelles mid summer. Almost no boletes of any species all summer and fall. No saffron milk caps, no shaggy manes. Weird. Hoping for Blewits and Hedgehogs soon
Kevin Hoover Posted October 1, 2022 Report Posted October 1, 2022 Johny, Hedgehogs are flushing here in central PA. Picked 63 just before dark last night. Could have picked more if I had the time ( and daylight!).
Staveshaver Posted October 4, 2022 Report Posted October 4, 2022 Nothing of value to me popping up here in western Pa yet. Had a good bit of rain recently too. Found some Jackolanterns yesterday. Oh well, I'll look a few more times then it'll be time to hunt critters instead of mushrooms.
bprzyw Posted October 5, 2022 Report Posted October 5, 2022 I have nothing. My mother in law passed two weeks ago, then I had a seizure and to top it off my dad is end stage bladder cancer. So I have not really been out in two weeks. Kevin, that’s a great haul! Hope it keeps up for you! I think it’s been raining for 5 days.
Kevin Hoover Posted October 5, 2022 Report Posted October 5, 2022 So sorry to hear that you’re going through all that.
bprzyw Posted October 5, 2022 Report Posted October 5, 2022 Thank you Kevin. It’s a rough patch right now. Everyone has to deal with at some point.
Foulhook Posted October 7, 2022 Author Report Posted October 7, 2022 Hey man, just letting you know I decided to check a hen spot today and got a perfect specimen 👍.. there is still some hope.
Foulhook Posted October 9, 2022 Author Report Posted October 9, 2022 On 10/5/2022 at 12:00 PM, bprzyw said: Thank you Kevin. It’s a rough patch right now. Everyone has to deal with at some point. Went out yesterday for just a few hours. 4 perfect hens and plentiful honeys.. guess those last few days of rain finally paid off.
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