Calling all mycophiles 🍄

[Guybrush]

Oo, @Mrs. Waffles . I'm intrigued 🍄🍄🍄

That is interesting. This thread might give me the nudge to try growing some.

I'll try my best to remember and take pictures to share from my walks as well. It would be cool to see if everyone gets similar ones or not.

Do it!! It's been a crap autumn for shrooming here, so I'd love an opportunity to live out my mycophilia by proxy 😄

BTW despite the disappointing autumn, I did see this lovely Amanita last Saturday:

[FETCHER.]

Oo, @Mrs. Waffles I'm intrigued 🍄🍄🍄

Do it!! It's been a crap autumn for shrooming here, so I'd love an opportunity to live out my mycophilia by proxy 😄

BTW despite the disappointing autumn, I did see this lovely Amanita last Saturday:

@Mrs. Waffles . I'm intrigued as well! I'll keep a close eye for your story haha.

That is one beautiful mushroom Guybrush!! I have only seen red ones similar to that when I was on the west highland way. I'll need to dig photos out of them. It'll give me a little challenge on my walks this week, the weather here has been horrible so it'll maybe make them more fun 😂

[Lexi Darling]

Okay, so this story might get a bit icky for some. Reader discretion is advised.

Spoiler

So in April 2017, I nearly died from an appendix that was on the verge of bursting. That event has some crazy stories of its own, but in the weeks following the appendectomy surgery, I was basically just sleeping and taking painkillers all day. I had left my apartment in a hurry to get to the hospital, and somehow a 2 liter coke bottle with some small amount of soda inside had been left under my sink. It would be two-three weeks before I next opened the cabinet below the sink. So apparently the lighting, moisture and overall conditions were exactly right for a bunch of oyster mushrooms to grow in that coke bottle, and that was what I was greeted with when I opened the cabinet.

Bizarrely I wasn't disgusted at either the mushrooms or my own negligence to notice the bottle, I was just kind of awestruck at what I had wrought, haha. I was, however, an idiot, and threw the thing out without taking a picture. So to answer your question, @FETCHER. , I have grown mushrooms, just by complete accident, haha. Never tried since, I'm not even sure what other conditions I satisfied by leaving the coke bottle in there since I don't remember the state of it when I left it there, and from what I've read online since, mushrooms would need some other substance in order to grow in the bottle. So until they invent time travel, I'll probably never know my own accidental mushroom-growing plans. 

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