Well, maybe you can explain to us simple souls how they grow?Originally posted by Mivaro+23 March 2003 - 19:03--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Mivaro @ 23 March 2003 - 19:03)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin--el-producto@23 March 2003 - 18:53
ughh yeah i dont believe everything on the internet...
you cannot grow shrooms
The reason shrooms grow "out of", not on, cow dung, is because of the chemistry that exists in the breakdown of the dung at certain humidity levels.
If you ever turn over a cow pie that has shrooms growing out of it, you will notice a white fluffy substance.
This is the actual plant.
The shroom is the fruit of that plant.
The plant itself is fairly easy to get to grow but it bruises easily. (the purple color).
However, it requires a specific chemistry and temperature and humidity before it will sprout the shrooms.
Cow dung provides that while it is decomposing.
It can also be created in your modern kitchen.
Agar Agar, which is a geletin made from kelp, is the most common initial growth medium for the mycilium, (shroom plant).
That and keeping a clean growth area are really the only hard parts of the process.
I know...Shrooms grow out of cow dung. Why do they need a clean area?
Because, in case you haven't noticed, shrooms don't grow in every cow pie.
They really grow in a very small percentage of cow pies.
That is because most other spores and bacteria are stronger. Unless the shroom gets a good start with no competition, it will fail.
That means that if you don't protect it from contamination, you will fail to grow shrooms in roughly 80 to 90 percent of your attempts.
Oh, and for people who do not have access to Agar Agar, regular geletin can be used following instruction that are available on some web pages.
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