Little Mushroom Experiment

Hey guys so I just spent ten minutes tapping all my mushies to try and get some spores from them, basically everything that fell out I put in a small amount of water and saturated a small plastic cup with some dirt and stuff in it with said water, so hopefully if I'm extremely lucky ill get some growth within a couple days, if not, well I tried lol. If I DO get some going I'll take another spore print off whatever grows in this cup and put those out the front lol I have a perfect little spot in my front garden mushies would LOVE and nobody would see them =)

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No no no.

canndo said:

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No no no.

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What an incredibly well thought out response.

TheGrassIsGreenerInAus said:

What an incredibly well thought out response.

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Honestly it was a valid response to your post. Everything you typed was wrong, and shows you didn't bother to do any research what so ever.

Thundercat said:

Honestly it was a valid response to your post. Everything you typed was wrong, and shows you didn't bother to do any research what so ever.

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Actually I did dude but believe what you want. What I did is as low budget and low effort as it comes but I still did what needed doing. Got spores, put them in water, inoculate the medium. So don't try and mock my intelligence, yall a bunch of self righteous arses.

Not to mention, how do you think it happens in nature? Spores spread onto wet mediums and take root. Nature doesn't get any fancy inoculations or fruiting boxes so nyeh.

TheGrassIsGreenerInAus said:

Actually I did dude but believe what you want. What I did is as low budget and low effort as it comes but I still did what needed doing. Got spores, put them in water, inoculate the medium. So don't try and mock my intelligence, yall a bunch of self righteous arses.

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TheGrassIsGreenerInAus said:

Not to mention, how do you think it happens in nature? Spores spread onto wet mediums and take root. Nature doesn't get any fancy inoculations or fruiting boxes so nyeh.

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Lol you didn't do anything. You don't innoculate soil by putting spores in it. In nature mycleum spreads into proper food source mediums yes. You put spores in dirt..... Dirt grows plants not muchrooms.

What you did was definitely low budget and low effort. I never mocked your intelligence, I said you didn't put in the effort to research the way to do this right. Mocking your intelligence would have been more like "you are a moron for trying to plant spores in dirt". See the difference....

"Dirt" is not a medium or decent substrate. This organism does not grow on "dirt".

If it did, then what you did was to give your selected organism an only equal chance to grow with every other competing contaminant.

Yes, what you did happens in nature. A typical cap will emit millions or billions of Spores for a reason. Given natural conditions two matching spores are highly unlikely to light on the perfect substate and the right condition unless there are many many chances.

Your task is to make conditions very conducive for growth of the selected species and no other such that you tip the odds heavily in your favor.

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Lol you didn't do anything. You don't innoculate soil by putting spores in it. In nature mycleum spreads into proper food source mediums yes. You put spores in dirt..... Dirt grows plants not muchrooms.

What you did was definitely low budget and low effort. I never mocked your intelligence, I said you didn't put in the effort to research the way to do this right. Mocking your intelligence would have been more like "you are a moron for trying to plant spores in dirt". See the difference....

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Well I can't argue with that. But I will say this, it's looking like it worked there's white fuzz starting to appear =) looks like mycelium, if it keeps spreading ill go buy proper substrate for it to spread out to.

Ok. I would interested in your experiment however. "White fuzz" is the early evidences of almost every mold. Let us know what color it is in a few days. Ot is most likely that you encouraged a competitor mold to grow.

But it is possible. Let's see

canndo said:

Ok. I would interested in your experiment however. "White fuzz" is the early evidences of almost every mold. Let us know what color it is in a few days. Ot is most likely that you encouraged a competitor mold to grow.

But it is possible. Let's see

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I'm hoping so I'm not sure now it could just be fluff =( but all I can do is wait and see =)

TheGrassIsGreenerInAus said:

Hey guys so I just spent ten minutes tapping all my mushies to try and get some spores from them, basically everything that fell out I put in a small amount of water and saturated a small plastic cup with some dirt and stuff in it with said water, so hopefully if I'm extremely lucky ill get some growth within a couple days, if not, well I tried lol. If I DO get some going I'll take another spore print off whatever grows in this cup and put those out the front lol I have a perfect little spot in my front garden mushies would LOVE and nobody would see them =)

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what an incredibly thought out question too bad you cant edit ninja

WildCard008 said:

what an incredibly thought out question too bad you cant edit ninja

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What?

TheGrassIsGreenerInAus said:

What?

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you can edit your posts for only so long

WildCard008 said:

you can edit your posts for only so long

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Yeah but why would I want to? That dude was on f**ken drugs lol

idk man it seems he knows way more than you

Jesus christ did nobody read the original post? I'm not fecking explaining it over and over again, I wasn't trying to do anything fancy. It was cheap and dirty. Christ

What happened with the white fuzz that was appearing? Did you get a few mushrooms?

TheGrassIsGreenerInAus said:

Jesus christ did nobody read the original post? I'm not fecking explaining it over and over again, I wasn't trying to do anything fancy. It was cheap and dirty. Christ

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Can You please elaborate on the subject, Mate?

The fuzz turned a different color. Betcha. I know of no mushroom that has such a pure white color that will only change if it is potent and bruised, then there will be a blue, and in very rare instances a green tint.

I'll say it again, mushrooms shoot (yes, they actually fire) spores in the millions. There is another thread here where a guy saw caps with a purple brown dusting on the top. If a single Spore is microscopic, really really small, how many do you figure it would take for someone to actually see their color?

If every spore from just s few caps were to germinate everything would be mycelium.

We could calculate the odds that a Spore will light on a good place and adjacent to a sexually appropriate second Spore (they are sexed) and it would be a tiny tiny number.


There are ways to grow morels. You make a slurry, a rather thick mixture of morels, or spores in water and then just pour it everywhere in your yard. You might. Might, get morels next year. Might. That is how hard it is to skew the odds in your favor unless you eliminate every competitor and introduce perfect conditions.