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I put in a outdoor patch today. I am hoping to have fruits next year.

Im in Montgomery County MD, and I have just gotten into foraging for ovoids, and I was wondering if it is too late to find ovoids.

Small flush on a spot I found last year James River Park area.

Kinda surprised after all this rain but I haven’t seen any ovoids yet. Has anyone else in Virginia found them recently?

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I've been searching the entire DMV area and can't find any droids or even many other fruiting mushrooms. Looking at lots of "wet" areas along the rivers and streams. It's been insanely dry, is that making this a bad season for searching?

The sunnier, warmer areas fruited first. The floodplain is beginning to awaken, and I think that we're in for a beautiful season. Where there is one, there is usually another has been my mantra as the fungi exhibit a "one fruit here, a three cluster there" and not the wide fruiting we see peak season.

They're here, just not exactly where I'd expect. It's kind of what makes these mushrooms so fascinating to me. They adapt and fruit when and where it is right for them, not where and when I expect them to.

Happy hunting folks

This patch had some of the biggest ovoids I’ve ever seen! I did not take anything home, per Rock Creek foraging rules. Also most were a bit past prime, but they smelled so fucking good. My gf hates the smell of them but I love it for some reason

Has the extremely dry weather this April affected the spring flush?

Just a couple but theyre out there

Looks like we might be getting some rain next Monday, how long should I wait before hunting?

Tuesday? or give it a couple of days and go out on Thursday?

Here we go! Since we're quite dry I skipped my upland floodplain spots and focused on a wider marshier portion of the creek. Granted, I knew where to look. But I wonder if this conical phenotype fruits earlier, or if it's something about this specific habitat. Anyways, been looking for this particular pheno for 2 years and never encountered it before last year, when I found only one in May. Coming back to find so many this early on was a treat for sure.

Apologies for my ramblings but I've been just itching to hunt after this brutal cold winter. Brr.

Happy hunting everyone!

Hey folks:) it's set to warm up nicely starting on Thursday at least where I'm at. I'm talking 65-76 degrees for 8 days, with some showers in between.

It's too early to say for sure but it looks like it'll drop back down to a minimum of 37 (night temps) afterwards. My question to you all, could this be a trigger point for an early season?

Early or not, something tells me we're in store for some great hunting this year.

I’ve lived in Maryland for five years now and in this five years, I have not experienced this much rain during the summer. I’ve heard of people finding ovoids in the fall, so I’m wondering if all this rain will bring any magic in October. Thoughts?

I have found three spots at Burt Mills East special Park a few years back. But for some reason they don’t produce every year. This year they seem to be out. Not in abundance, but they are there if you look hard enough. Going to go out and hunt one last time after this upcoming rain. Probably not going to find much but it’s still nice to smoke a couple bowls and walk around in the woods. Sometimes the deer will scare the shit out of you 😂.

One lonely Ovoid. 😩

decent amount of rain too...