How Mushrooms Grow in the Wild - Lifecycle of Fungus Illustrated - Spores and Mycelium
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- Опубликовано: 2 дек 2024
- A subscriber (Brett KontrolPhreak) suggested that I do more illustrations, and had the idea for this video. As it was already something that I'd been doing a lot of reading about, it was the perfect idea. The lifecycle of a wild mushroom can help us understand what it is that our cultivated mushrooms need to survive and thrive, and honestly is just a fascinating topic. In this video, I go through the major stages of mushroom development, from spore to fully matured fruiting body.
Looking forward to your comments! I love doing these illustrations, so if you have another idea for the next one please let me know!
Cheers,
Jared
This is one of the best explanations of the mushroom lifecycle I've run into.
Thank you, Jean!
You have gotten the audio levels right on this. The background music is not too loud. This is something a lot of people fail on.
Thanks! My ten year old and I watched your video to gain some knowledge before starting one of those mushroom kits that’s been our pantry for like four years. We are so excited to see if the spores will come out of their dormant state! They’re oyster mushrooms. Also, we are getting a bunch of rain in Nor Cal at the moment and hope to find some mushrooms on our new property soon. We always enjoy seeing what pops up after a rain! So we’ll subscribe and hope to learn some more on this subject while we’re waiting for the sun. Thanks for taking the time to do all this!
Great video. It explains a lot. What I would still like to know is why some people say that mushrooms have hundreds of different sexes.
This helped a lot on a project I'm doing for school. Thanks a lot! Also, the video was very entertaining and fun to watch as well as learning lots from it. Keep up the great work!
Thanks, Katie!
Hey, these videos are very helpful. I just started growing this year. I’m looking to grow more knowledge and it’s pretty exciting getting a green thumb in something. I also use them medicinally for ptsd. It has improved my symptoms greatly when nothing else would. I mean smoking bud helped but didn’t cure it or take away the flashbacks. Keep making those videos. They are very educational and helpful! 👌 I definitely would love to see more videos of the fruiting stage and more information on that.
My man, mushrooms have so much potential for good. So many studies going on right now with mushroom derived compounds for depression, PTSD (side note: MAPS is conducting phase 3 trials for MDMA treatment of PTSD with huge successes so far...not mushroom related but super exciting), fighting and preventing cancer, improving brain function, improving immune function...etc. I could go on for hours about all the exciting studies going on right now... point is, I feel like we're on the verge of major breakthroughs in the field of mycology overall, and specifically in the areas of treating neurological conditions with fungus derived compounds.
Glad you're finding some relief, and I hope you keep getting better. Thanks for watching and good luck with your projects! Let me know if you come across anything you'd like to collaborate on, or just want to get some knowledge shared with the rest of the world, I'm happy to give a shout-out and share on the channel!
@@OneEarthMushroomsI'm glad to have found your channel, as well as a few others that have a passion for mycology and want to help us newbies. I'm starting cultivation right out of the gate, doing experiments that I have not seen anyone doing yet. I have studied mushrooms as a novice for nearly 20 years, so getting into cultivation is kind of like second nature. You and a couple other people have helped me shorten my learning curve. Still made some mistakes, but I think that's a necessity.
I hope you don't buy into the macro evilutionary fairytales. Endomycorrhiza and Ectomycorrhiza are a brilliant design and could never have evolved by random mutations and genetic information is always lost and never gained. Heck, just to see how all life has adaptation ability through either shedding information or unlocking existing info is amazing to study. I love observational science and being able to reproduce processes and Fiddle around... man mycology is where it's at!
Perfect! Simple, easy to follow and understand. Some people know how to spread knowledge some are not as good. I just started
Growing and any and all knowledge is welcome. Thanx for your contribution. Once I get to that point myself I plan on passing it along as well as so many people did for me. Peace brother God bless
starting to learn about mushrooms.. thanks for illustrating.
I came, I saw, I subbed. Thank you for your informative vids!
Thanks for watching and subscribing! Glad your liking the videos!
Fantastic video! You answered my question in a very clear & entertaining way-I’m looking forward to seeing some of your other videos now. 🙂
Wow this was just in depth enough as I wanted. Excellent video man you did a great job.😊 I’m gonna check out more of your videos
I was your third subscriber and I started my mushroom project about the same time as you. When I found your videos I started using your videos to check how I am doing compared to someone else at the same stage. Thanks and keep it up.
I'd love to hear anything you're learning along the way! The more people experimenting and collaborating, the better we all get at this!
OneEarth Mushrooms so far nothing is far enough along to make any conclusions, but I am using the pasteurization method on hay with hydrated lime and pressure cooker sterilization on sawdust supplemented with ground up wheat berries. I am growing my own liquid cultures from cultures I bought and they seem to be growing very well. I plan to store them in the fridge after three weeks growing at room temperature. They should be viable in the fridge for six months before they need new sugar solution. (4% pure honey to water, pressure sterilized at 15 psi for 15 - 20 minutes. No longer or the sugars will caramelize and hinder fungi growth. A marble in the jar to break up the growth swirled mornin tv and evening to give the fungi oxygen.) I am currently cultivating maitake, white enoki, Florida oysters, lions mane, king oysters, and black morels.
@@jacobclark5851 I'd really like to make some liquid cultures. I've started growing a bunch out on agar with the drops in the bottom of syringes, that seems to be going pretty well. How are you making your liquid cultures? Did you just split a syringe between liquid culture jars? I'd love to learn more about your process on that.
And thats a lot of cultivation! I have a bunch of enoki spawn, but am still trying to come up with enough jars to actually fruit it. My lion's mane started pinning today, and the block isn't even fully colonized! I'd love to try morels.
OneEarth Mushrooms I grow my liquid cultures in pint jars with the lids having a self healing injection port and ventilation hole, covered by poly stuffing tightly rolled and stuffed in the hole. First, I measured out enough tap water, in a large measuring cup, to fill each jar I plan to use with about a cup of solution. I then add or remove a little water to get to a mark that is a multiple of 1000 ml, for easy calculations of the honey needed. Second, I figure the amount of sugar needed for the solution by weight. 4% is the number I have found through research that is most used for the amount of sugar to add. Less will result in less growth and more than 10% will kill the culture, so 4% keeps the solution diluted enough to stay well away from the concentration that would harm the culture. I use unpasteurized local honey for my sugar because it is the most readily available, and least processed, form of sugar i have. It also has the added benefit of containing some starch, which I have read is good for liquid cultures. For easy math, one ml of water equals one mg of water, so for every 1000 ml of water you should add 40 mg of honey. Third, mix the honey into the water and stir till completely mixed. Distribute one cup of solution to each jar, not exceeding the half way point of the jar. Third, place a clean marble or broken piece of glass in the jar and place the lids on the jar. The glass to break up the culture as it grows so it is able to be sucked up in a syringe. Forth, pressure cook the jars at 15 psi for 15-20 minutes. I did mine for 15 minutes. If you cook it too long it will caramelize the sugars and slow or even stop fungal growth. Treat the jars like you would when canning to prevent the jars from cracking. I had one crack so making extras is a good idea. Let them cool overnight before inoculation. Fifth, I inoculated my cultures with purchased liquid culture, but the growth from agar would likely work if dispersed in the culture. I inoculate mine in a still air box. With the liquid culture it only takes a small amount to inoculate. I used approximately ten percent of the syringe or until I saw some go into my culture. Swirl the solution around to add air into the solution. The pressure cooker removes almost all air from the solution. The culture needs oxygen to survive. Sixth, I store my cultures at room temperature out of direct sunlight on a shelf. I swirl my culture twice a day, before and after i go to sleep. After three weeks the culture will use up all of the sugar, so around two and a half weeks the culture should be moved to the back of the fridge for long term storage. Before use the culture should be brought to room temperature. The culture should remain viable for six months and at that time a sample should be taken to transfer to afresh batch of sugar solution for the process to start again. Hope this helps if you have more questions just ask and I would love to help.
OneEarth Mushrooms as for my jars I am attempting to grow in I put the fungi that are supposed to grow well in in jars in half gallon jars with wide mouths. As for the morels I could not find a sure way to grow them indoors and the climate I live in may support them so I spread the spores around newly fallen trees and brush to hopefully harvest some this fall or next spring. From those I plan to gather spores and spread them much more through the woods.
I love the way the veil breaks then makes spores bounce away as they hit it! Ambidextrous nature!
Mushies are the best!
@@OneEarthMushrooms amen to that brother
Very entertaining, found your monotub video. Look forward to seeing more.
I have a few more illustrations planned, they're a lot of fun to make. Glad you enjoyed them!
I was just thinking.... if I had filmed myself reading my biology books and drawing out these illustrations as this guy did, I prolly woulda retained the information better.
This was a great presentation!
It's a great practice for public speaking! It's funny how when I'm in front of the camera I feel like I'm standing in front of a crowd, even when it's just me in the garage.
Also, recording these makes me have to get to the essence of the information. If I can't explain something in a 5 minutes video then I really don't understand it.
Thanks for watching!
Congrats on the 120+ subs, Stay safe during these troubling times and keep up the good work!
Thank you so much! Stay safe, my friend, and thank you for watching!
My Dad told me about your channel and I’d like to start my own! Very cool!
Awesome! Let me know if you need any help!
He is a teacher at the 'School of Cool'....hehehehe. Nice video bro, thanx for making it and sharing it.
Thanks man, the knowledge you have to share is much appreciated!!
You're welcome! Thank you for watching :)
Awesome dude! Thanks for the shout out lol
No, thank you! It was your idea, I really appreciate it!
Thank You!
Amazing videos. I’m so inspired by growing mushrooms.
My husband is really curious if you work in a field with a standardized writing style like architecture or some kind of drafting. His Dad is an architect and he said your handwriting in the video looks exactly like his Dad's writing in building blueprints! He said even the stroke order of your writing and direction are exactly how his Dad writes for blueprints and it is a standard style you learn so everyone who picks it up can easily read it.
I used to be in the military and the all caps handwriting is encouraged there. But...I used that same handwriting before the military. My dad was a machinist and he used all caps, not sure if that was a requirement of his profession though!
Thank you for this! So awesome! They are just amazing little things!
They are! Mushrooms do so much that we don't even understand yet. Life on earth could not exist without them.
So dope!!!
I got a lions mane mushroom grow kit. I started it inside and then took it under the club house under some wood. Then found little lions mane in the yard later on.
Nice! That's great, thanks for helping the lions mane spread!
Also, I just checked out your channel and I'm loving it, great content that is great for the world to know about!
n southern India (Western Ghats) we used to eat some varieties of edible termitomyces fungus mushrooms which grows during every monsoon season at specific spots in our lands where there is a termite colony nearby. These mushrooms grow out of soil mostly after the first heavy rain (with severe thunder and lighting) after summer. Our ancestors says 'the thunder wakes up the mushrooms from the termite colony'. We used to eat them for centuries and most people can identify which are edible and which are not (by passed knowledge from generations), yet we have no way to cultivate them on our own. Only termites can do that.
Nature has methods that we may never figure out, and I think that's pretty amazing. There are a lot of mushroom species that humans may never be able to intentionally cultivate, but that seems to be nature's way of maintaining balance. I really believe that fungi are one of the best ways our planet maintains stability, and we can all learn more by studying how fungi work in nature. Thank you for sharing your story!
I love mushrooms they are so magical!
They are!
Always good videos
Please do a video on growing them in the wild/outdoors.
Nice work.
I have an indoor tree and I layered some wood chips under the top soil and now have lots of fruiting bodies at the base of the tree. Looks like a mini forest
Very helpful. Thanks!
You're welcome!
This is a perfect video no extra garbage just meat and potatoes lol
Educational.
Helluva explanation! Good work
Thank you Parker!
so helpful!!
Thank you 😊
You're welcome!
Hey man, only just discovered your channel and it’s great. Keep going. Any videos on the ‘Inject and forget’ bags that are becoming so popular. The bags that contain like dirt and vermiculite. I know plenty of people buying those and can’t seem to find many videos on how to use them properly, the life cycle, etc. keep up the great work
Excellent presentation!
Thank you!
Sir, do you have notes of how mycelium grow?
Very didactic 👌🏻👌🏻
Thanks!
You're welcome! Thanks for watching!
memorabilia please! Keep having fun making these videos!
Will do! Thanks for watching!
Woo, cool, thanks very much. I now know how mushroom grows😁
This is how legends are born
You should do more theese type of videos and keep the work up!❤
Thank you for watching Emils! Glad you're enjoying the videos; I have more illustrations planned!
Im having an issue where the MYC. goes dormant. Temps are regulated--humidity is regulated. Even worse is Im getting not stage 5.
Any tips?
The coir is hardly pushed aside for what looks like a large fuzzy bump. Then more Coir space before another fuzzy bump.
5
thank you!!
Typically how long is it from spore drop to the fruiting body appears?? For wild mushrooms??
Please explain the temperature and humidity requirements for fruiting, my bulk substrate colonize perfectly all the time but I haven't seen a single fruit in my tub🙏 please help
I'm very glad I found your channel. It seems you only do gourmet mushrooms. Is that right? I keep trying to find a good video on yt on how to make good substrate for psilocybin mushrooms for a monotub and I can't find anything but your videos are pretty thorough and informative. I'm about to throw my colonized block of lions mane into a monotub tomorrow. Thanks dude, cheers!
Check out Home Mycology on here, he does lots of psilocybin grows. I stick to the medicinal and gourmet, although some of the things I talk about on here will translate to other mushrooms.
Hit me up on Facebook, I'll send you my coco coir/verm calculator. It builds a pretty good recipe that should work well for your monotub grow.
Love your enthusiasm, artful mushroom interest, and information! Thanks for Sharing the fun! OK talented Jared, I have a request. How would you design 4 monotubs growing next to each other, 4 different species, indigenous to 4 different areas of the world, with different climates? Rainy, Northwest Coast, Hot, Southern Mexico, Humid, Costa Rico, and Hawaii... My Mycelium in the oven. I'm looking to do something about this in a few weeks. What do you think Jared? 👍👍 from your new subscriber!
Fabulous man...are these spores injurious?
One earth - One love ITAL!!!
Mush love!
Thank you for this video! Super helpful :)
Thank you for watching, Mariah!
Love your channel, a great repository of knowledge, without being put on a . gov list because of "funny mushrooms" LOL.
Haha I'm sure I'm still on a gov list for this! Thanks for watching:)
Friend, subb'd after watching your how monotub works video. You explained in 5mins what several hours of shroomery failed to do...bravo. The whole drawing thing - very unique and clearly demonstrates a science/engineering background. Keep it up! Also me hopes you dont forget to replace the pencils you keep borrowing from the kids lol ;) .... if I win the diagrams I promise not to sell them for profit when you're a big utube star haha x peace mush love
Haha did you see the new markers I used in this video! Kids got their pencils back 😊 So glad you enjoyed the video, and glad my engineering background is still going to good use!
I found the easiest to grow mushrooms from chopped mushrooms that are about to release the spores and their bottom, few iches of the moss around the mushroom you're picking...... placing it in the environment they like (best under the same tree- wood chops they are symbiotic with) and clean hay and moist environment.... + organic soil, no chemicals. seems like the spores inside the mushroms need to have a proper food to grow and proper moisture so that is important.
Can you fuse two different mushroom?
Hi, Very informative. Have you ever heard of or experienced a second flush of shrooms being inhibited by the first flush releasing its spores? thanks in advance...good stuff!
Nope! I've had a thick blanket of spores from a late harvest and the next flush was just as beautiful and the first!
What if my soil naturally has mycelium can I just inject liquid mushroom culture to grow mushrooms?
Does the original mycelium die out?
What's the time frame of these steps???
Do you have any training possibilities for button Mushrooms online?
I'm sorry, I don't lead any trainings at this time.
You are a mushroom god!!
Awww thanks! Hope you're loving the videos, and hope we're all learning together!
From the production of the mycelium to the fruiting process, how much time does it take? (In general, in the wild)
It very much depends on the species and the environmental conditions. Some will take years, and some only a couple weeks.
Great Video, can you make how truffles grow. Thank u
hey what came first the spore or the mushroom? jk lol. love your videos! can't believe you don't have so many more subscribers/views. since you requested a video idea: I sell soil and also love to grow mushrooms, and am wondering about the effect mycorrhizae has on soil, and how adding it to soil helps the plant grow. would love to hear a scientific approach to the idea. Thanks!! keep making videos please!!!!
Haha! Yeah, I have a great book that talks about the effect that mushroom cultivation has on the soil, I'll do some reading up on that and add it to my video list!
No matter where I go for more info on the hyphal knot stage there is always very little information on how the knots start to develops into pins it’s always a big gap. Even with published scientific research
Well I think I need to do some more research on that subject! That's a super important step, and I honestly don't understand it very well myself.
OneEarth Mushrooms very humble response! I’m looking too and hard! Just can’t find much... I’ve finally found a photo from 2004 that physically showed the hyphal knots in stages birthing from knots.
@@solumefood I've been wanting to purchase some mycology textbooks for a while, I think I'll actually buy one today. If there's any info worth sharing, I'll let you know!
@@solumefood I found "The Fungi, Second Edition" used for $40 with shipping. It's a 600 page textbook, and I was able to preview the section on morphology. I think it'll have the answer we're looking for, and hopefully many more answers to questions I have! It might take a week or two to get to me, but I'll let you know what I find. Thanks for the idea!
OneEarth Mushrooms nice! New subscriber!
Useful video thank you! Question: If the spores reproduce asexually, do they always produce the same type of mushroom, e.g. chanterelle? And when they reproduce with other spores, does this create a different mushroom? I am struggling to understand how we have so many different types of mushrooms and what determines which fruiting body is produced in the wild. Thank you :)
Mycelium is a lot like brains, the mycelium will remain underground and produce the mushrooms it has the genetic information for when it can but the mushrooms themselves produce spores of the same genus i believe
Does it take spores from 2 separate mushrooms to reproduce, or can 2 spores from the same mushroom grow mycelium that mix together and reproduce?
No they usually reproduce with themselves, it’s very rare besides when you try and breed them for 2 different mushrooms to breed
2:55 You say 'this causes germ tubes to expand'....What raw materials does the spore use to build these tubes? you mentioned it up-taking water so far...but water is just hydrogen and oxygen. Does it use any carbon from the carbon dioxide in the air? does it use any carbon or other elements/minerals from the substrate? How does this process work
In the next step you say that the spore/mycelium matrix starts secreting enzymes to break down the substrate to absorb the nutrients into it's body in order to function and grow. Perhaps this is what was happening in the previous step as well...I am just trying to figure where it gets the building blocks from to create mass.
One of the best visualizations for how I think mushrooms get so much mass from such a small base material is that video by NileRed where he mixes mercury and aluminum and a very light, pourous (opposite of dense) aluminum oxide starts growing wildly out of control; seemingly creating far more material than one would anticipate being possible. This is exactly how I figure mushrooms are created on mineral-rich decaying wood and other forms of life. Because just watching how prolifically they sprout from a pinpoint spot (that has a large matrix underneath it possibly feeding it nutrients, I know) it seems that it MUST be made of either an oxide (using the oxygen in water, or the air) or maybe a carbon based compound (once again from the air or carbon in substrate). Hopefully this isn't too far off from how it actually works.
@@ValCronin Hi, Val! Thank you for your detailed question. It is my understanding that your carbon explanation is right on. Add in the complex carbohydrates from decaying matter and minerals released by symbiotic bacteria, and the fungi is off and running through the substrate. I'm certain there is a much more detailed explanation out there, but my basic understanding matches yours!
What happens to the mycelium after it's fruited?
Decomposes on its own
I agree with Thijs...just decomposes and becomes part of the soil.
I have a question. You say the spore could reproduce asexually. I thought that this is only a few mushrooms. I was under the belief that the monokaryotic hyphae had to meet an opposite mating type to create a Dykaryotic Hyphae? Based on what you're saying they come together when they need each other from stress and not because their nuclei are attracted to each other. Now. I am certainly no expert and I'm attempting to attain more knowledge. Forgive me if I'm totally wrong but I'm trying to figure this out.
The real question is what came first the mushroom or the spore?
The chicken did!
Hi, thanx for the videos, ah man I'm struggling with my growing. I got 1 fully colonized monotub PE, and 2 BRF cakes, one still in jar one in fruiting. now I don't know if because its winter (I live in S - Africa) or if my "shotgun chamber" is all wrong, I got that one cake GT's in a tub with holes all around, 2 big ones on top at the narrow sides of the tote and small all round from the pearlite level til on top. only my lid no holes. birthed, dunked & rolled it in vermiculite but it didn't stick so good. I bother it on the 26th already. no hyphal knots, nothing. In S-Africa we still on tight lockdown. NO books!! even no cigarettes (I don't smoke I vape) even no nicotine for making juice, it's ridiculous. I ordered 2 books just before lockdown, "Psilociben bible/2016" Radical mycology, and Paul Stamets book "Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms" All of them canceled 2 days before lockdown. Brother, please do a video on ideal fruiting Example: temp, humidity, fanning & misting, etc? please if you can lend a hand Brother? Most YT videos run so fast through everything + everyone got something else to say you the first one I found that actually explains the organism, and the details very good! Yeah? awesome!!! It doesn't help growing something and not understanding the organism, hence the books I ordered.
Thanks for subscribing and watching!
Were your cakes fully colonized? Thats kind of the biggest thing, if they aren't fully colonized it's going to be difficult to fruit, even if you have all the other conditions perfect.
Sorry you didn't get your books! Hope things open back up for you all soon!
Yeah, great idea for the fruiting conditions video. I'll definitely do that in the future. I've been converting my garage to a more mushroom friendly workspace this weekend, as well as putting together a video about laminar flow hoods, hoping to have that video out tomorrow. Lots of video ideas I need to work on!
@@OneEarthMushrooms Hey brother, thank you for replying, so I got up this morning and saw the cake pushed out 2 primordial pins man I'm telling you, cause I also grow herb, in SA (we have no restrictions on growing canna), so I know to get the best outcome one needs to overstand the organism/plant fully, it's very easy to get frustrated and then not wanting to go on. Seen? like what environmental/feeding etc it needs to grow 100% as it should, so yes please do that I'm happy you got a lot of ideas or specific topics for your videos, Il be joining in for sure. Thanx once again my Brother - Peace Love - Africa.
@@nachmanedes9460 yeah, it definitely is a huge help to understand as much as possible. I just oxygen starved my lions mane and pink oysters, the fruits turned out so silly! But I learned, and know how to fruit better on the second flush. I'd love to hear all about your projects! Keep me updated please!
@@OneEarthMushrooms Ah man, I hope at least you can use them if you're not selling them, all planting is not so mundane as people would think it's quite laborious even if just to remember stuff, etc... But like you say at least we learn. Such is life, but we here to conquer brother. Seen? Good & Beautiful! Me have a something for you, hope you like!!
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@@nachmanedes9460 dude, love that song!
Yeah man, really hoping those mushies turn out for you, I'm sure it'll help you out quite a bit making it through these crazy times!
What is the life span of a mushroom? How many hours would it take to grow?
It really depends on the mushroom. Some mushrooms appear overnight, some take years to grow. Is there a particular species of mushroom you're curious about?
Magic mushrooms. The ones that grow on cow dung.
@@kristiannlim619 oh shoot, I don't know much about those. But I'm assuming they're similar to the mushrooms that grow in your yard. The spores grow to create a mycelium network in the substrate, and when conditions are right, they will grow the fruiting body overnight or over the course of a couple days.
Thanks bro. Please do some video related from magic shrooms please. For us to get more knowledge about it. God bless your channel 💞
What came first the Spore or the mushroom?
The chicken did!
Newbie as well The art would be framed and on my wall ,How do you know what spores are for what substate, will a cow pile dry and lighten up before fruits appear, almost how in tubs I see on utub have that white crystal look before seeing any thing appear? I don't understand why u can't find out what spores goes with say corn ,grains, Munwer,THANKS you will be the next person people follow, But The Big Head sets in and have to hear them complain about stuff with nothing to do with the price of rice in Japan! Teach like you would like to be shown respect like everyone isn't new at some point, Be seeing ya Thanks
Charles, it would be so cool for you to win!
Regarding what substrate to use for different mushrooms: It depends a lot on what the mushrooms like in the wild. Some mushrooms grow better on a substrate that is similar to earth/dirt (portobello for example), some love woods (lions mane for example) and some will grow on pretty much anything (oysters for example). Now, just because something grows well on wood, that doesn't mean you can't cultivate it on something else. One source that I've recommended before, and I use a lot, is Fresh Cap Mushrooms. He has really good write ups on quite a few of the commonly cultivated culinary and medicinal species, including the best substrates to grow them on. He has a RUclips channel and you can also find his website if you google it. Maybe this would be a good thing for me to do a video on some day! I'll have to do better research, because there are plenty of mushrooms out there that I haven't even started thinking about yet.
As far as mushrooms growing wild on cow patties: The environmental conditions have to be right for them to fruit. If it's a patty in an open field with direct sun and no rain, it's probably not going to fruit. But that same patty might fruit like crazy the day after a rain; they mycelium are just waiting for the right conditions to pump the fruiting body full of water and thats when we would discover the mushroom. It's likely been there the whole time, just laying dormant waiting for the right conditions to reproduce.
The white crystal look you see in monotubs is likely because we are establishing the perfect conditions for mushrooms at every stage of their development. During the colonization stage, the mono-tub isn't going through extreme changes in temperature, humidity or air flow...everything is staying pretty constant and we want it that way so that the mycelium grows as quickly as possible. This helps our desired fungi beat out any competing fungi or bacteria that might have accidentally gotten into the tub. The mycelium have a chance to stretch their legs out of the top of the substrate a bit in search of more nutrients, hence the beautiful, white mycelium covering the surface.
Back to substrates for a second: grains are typically used to produce spawn (the first major stage of cultivation). Here's how I like to think about it...we have to help the mycelium of our cultivated mushroom have the biggest advantage in fighting off competing fungi and bacteria, and a way we do that is by having a lot of our mushroom product (spores or spawn) dominate the substrate. We start with grains because they are easy to sterilize in small quantities and they have lots of inoculation points (spots for spores to latch onto, develop mycelium and start finding nutrients). We could try to inoculate our bulk substrate directly from a liquid culture or agar, but the ratio of spores to substrate would be so tiny that we'd likely be overrun by contamination before our mushrooms would have a chance.
Hope that answered your questions, please let me know if it wasn't clear. I'm tired and I kind of start running on and on, so you got an essay tonight lol. I really appreciate your questions, and am glad you found the video useful!
Blue's clues in the background 🥺🥺🥺. I used to watch that
sounds like a chicken and egg situations. what came first spore or mushroom?
Trying to think of a funny response....but I can't come up with one.
The egg comes first as it came from a variety of bird before it.
I would say it all started with a cell and gradually evolved. So the reproductory systems may also have evolved from a simple cell division to a more complex ones.
2:27 Angry but shocked face?
Haha! I didn't notice that, that's so funny!
Greetings. This is a wonderful video. I'm from Nigerian. I watched your video and it's really captivating. I plan to start farming Termite mushroom. Can you assist me with some materials? Please.
I've not seen much materials on the cultivation of this type of mushroom. Can I grow it like normal mushroom?
I'm not familiar with that mushroom!
Why straw mushroom die when you touched it
Have you studied much at all into toxoplasmosis in conjunction with psychedelics and "stoned ape theory"? There's a lot of funky stuff in the world of fungi!
I don't recall that term, but I'm familiar with the stoned ape theory. Fungi are amazing!
Can a mushroom grow from a single spor?
That is super unlikely
I get my mushrooms from a sure and trusted plug you can check him out on IG @Mycohenry33
If a mushroom produces asexually is the fruiting mushroom different in any way to a mushroom produced sexually?
Thanks for these videos. Very helpful!
Great question. Shame no one answered it
I want illustrations!
Haha I hope you win it! I'm going to use a random selector app, so it could be you!
You're the winner! Hit me up on Facebook or Instagram @OneEarthMushrooms, pm me where you'd like the illustration sent and I'll get it in the mail on Monday! Thanks for watching!
Can u please make a video on how spores are formed, and also the sexual and asexual reproduction
Process
Definitely going to at some point. That's something I need to study up on a bit more.
Dude we are just like mushrooms
Good luck everyone!!!
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I'm a newbie over here, this video helped alot, I would love to win that illustration🤓👍
Hey, I'm a newbie too! Haha I'll still feel that way in 60 years, there's so much to learn; the deeper I get in this, the more I realize that it's impossible to know everything about fungi! Good luck on the giveaway!
Boop! Great episode! Simple yet deep enough! Woooh!
Any plans on creating the environment where we no longer have to worry about the food shortage, sickness from eating toxic chemical/Frankenstein look alike?
Let's see how long it takes to create a world where we can achieve true Bliss for all... even if they want to suffer in their own ways, to which people are also able to manifest their journey in this lifetime! Woooh! Lol, going to watch more of your contents!
Thanks!
Love your username by the way..
@@OneEarthMushrooms thanks! Cheers!
I'm super stoned about mushrooms too ... LOL oh you said STOKED.....
Duddddeeee wish I could get stoned with you!
Are you able to explain why mushrooms can grow outside no problems! But indoors there's more risk of contamination! Surely outside is full of contaminants?
I don't know for certain, but I have a theory! Indoors, we are working with a very simple environment that is out of balance. The world is always striving back towards balance, and bacteria+fungi are the start of that journey back towards balance.
Think of it as similar to a field that has been plowed and had all life removed (similar to the materials we work with indoors when cultivating mushrooms). The first thing that will return to the field are bacteria and fungi in the soil, and weeds above ground. These organisms are able to rapidly establish an environment where the slower growing plants, insects and eventually animals can thrive. In our indoor mushroom cultivation, the fungi and bacteria that are present all around us are searching for a void to fill, an area of the world that is out of balance. Our mushrooms substrate is the perfect void for them to fill.
In a well established, in-balance area of nature, that void doesn't exist. The plants, animals, insects, fungi, bacteria, nematodes, etc...are all working in cycles to grow, die, break down, consume and re-grow. Fungi in the wild are fitting into their niche of that cycle. Also keep in mind that fungi are extremely good at defending their territory, some fungi will attack and kill bacterial colonies (I've seen it happen in grain spawn at home). Additionally, some mycelial networks can cover acres of land, connecting trees, shrubs, grass, and other life to each other to share resources and play their role in the balance of the Earth.
The short answer is: fungi in nature are part of a bigger system that is in balance. Fungi we are trying to cultivate is part of an out-of-balance system that is ripe for the beginning stages of life (simple bacteria and fungi).
@@OneEarthMushrooms wow I really appreciate what your saying and get that! I kind of thought it might have been like a bacterial war! The stronger more established wins! The babies we try to create are too young to fend them off and by consequence die! Never encountered means no defence! The reproduction process is like something from Prometheus! That makes me think culture and spores could be inferior to each other! Or vice versa! I wonder if mycelium networks can even be territorial? Can genetics play a key role in defence? Could the odds be tipped against stronger species losing because they had worse genetics to start with? I have so many questions and have learnt so much about this fascinating network that thrives in nature! I guess what I'm saying is a culture more able to battle contamination where baby spores are yet to establish strong genetics! Like a immune system so to speak?
I’ve heard that mushrooms are closer to the animal kingdom than the plant kingdom. Is this true?
cloning truffles is a
thing
I don't know much about truffles. Do you have any links to resources for this?
I thought the spores come out the top
In the type of mushroom pictured, they fall from underneath the cap from the gills.
Brett Control Freak
Who is Brett?
@@OneEarthMushrooms brett kontrolphreak……got the joke?