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- coolguides@lemmit.online
You’d be lucky af to actually get a mushroom to propagate as crudely as that.
It’s not impossible, but I feel like this is a massive simplification and a method that yields very poor results.
Yeah you can clone mushroom of an existing one, but straight up planting a piece of mushroom…? Nah fam. Not gonna take.
Yeah especially since they remove the cap if anything that’s what I’d put in because it contains the spores. But yeah the stem isn’t going to like root and grow in the dirt or something I feel like there’s not any chance at all that would work. I think the artist doesn’t understand mushrooms maybe. Or maybe somehow this works for some reason and I’m sounding like an asshole right now lol
Or maybe somehow this works for some reason and
Well you don’t sound like an asshole at all, but technically it is plausible. One can clown mushrooms much the same way one clones cuttings, but it’s not exactly the same thing.
Mushroom clones are done by taking a piece of the mycelium and then growing it on a sterile medium, like an agar plate.
That mycelium will then build “a new body” of which fruiting bodies (the things colloquially called mushrooms) could come out of.
So technically, technically, you could just stick a piece of mushroom on a medium and it could take it over and then fruit. But to have that actually work feels like a one in a million. I’ve purposefully tried growing shrooms and while I’ve had a few successes, I’ve had a lot more failures. Usually because molds are pretty much present as spores everywhere, and they’re more vigorous than the shrooms I’ve tried propagating. So the medium you prep usually gets colonised by mold, not the mushroom you’re trying to propagate.
So with OP’s instructions, a vast majority will just get a moldy pot. And OP says “a mix of compost and soil” when neither is a sterile growing medium.
To grow shrooms usually one uses an organic medium like rye seeds, rice, popcorn kernels, even coffee, but only after it’s been sterilised in a pressure cooker or with another method.
Then one introduces either spores or a bit of the mushroom that one is cloning. If it’s a bit of the shroom, then it should be a sterile as possible bit of it, so like a tiny wedge from the middle of the body.
Mushroom growing is a hobby that requires very meticulous hygiene, not something you just slap in a pot. Plants are much less demanding.
Source from the Reddit comments with higher res image:
https://ibiene.com/food/food-that-magically-regrows-itself-some-food-scraps-you-can-upcycle/
Most of these are just impractical.
My pineapple plant never produces fruit. It’s been… 8 years. It sure is big and healthy though!
Downvoted for linking to Reddit’s fucked redirect-to-a-webpage image hosting.
Nice guide! Actually had a pinapple for dessert today, have now put the top in water hoping to see results after a while ;D
Reasonably sure that ginger ginger grown from the rhizome can’t flower - which is a shame as it’s flowers are both beautiful and smell wonderful.