Mycota
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Psilocybe
Ⱄ 𓋼𓍊 🍄🌌👽 How Fungi breath
🍄 Fungi do not have the complex structures that plants do, which allow plants to use sunlight efficiently and produce large amounts of their own energy. Instead, fungi must rely on more flexible methods of absorbing the necessary gases and gaining their energy from the environment around them.
Plants breath in carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and breth out oxygen. Contrary to that, fungi breath in oxygen sacks from the trapped air within the soil, using a underground thread like network called Hyphea, and breaths out carbon dioxide, just like human lungs. Hyphea is very thin and spreads into places that the root cannot penetrate. The group of hyphae create mycelium network. Along side Hyphea, when Fungi fruits, the part up the ground also starts exchanging gas with the atmosphere.
Yeast, for instance, conducts respiration based on the presence of oxygen. If oxygen and air are available, the yeast absorbs oxygen through tiny pores in aerobic respiration. If there is no oxygen present, the yeast performs anaerobic respiration, absorbing what nutrients it can and causing fermentation in the process.
Ⱄ 𓋼𓍊 🍄🌌👽 What is Fungi ?
👽 Fungi are microscopic cells that usually grow as long threads or strands called hyphae, which force their way between particles of soil, rocks and roots. They are closely related to animals and plants, and have been around for an estimated billion or so years. Humans share about 80 percent of their genes with fungi, meaning that you and the yiest in the yiest in your beer have more in common than you can imagine.
There are thousand types of different fungis known to us to date. There are divided into four different categories: Zygomycota, Ascomycota, Basidiomycota, and Deuteromycota (mycota means mushroom in encient Greek).
Fungi can be found as yiest, mushrooms, psilocybe mushrooms, etc. Yiest is found in phylum Ascomycota. Mushrooms belong to the bisidiomycota phylum and some to Ascomycota like truffles and morels, which are edible. Psilocybe mushrooms belong to bisidomycota phylum.
Mushrooms can be edible, poisonous, and psychedelic. An edible mushroom could be truffels, which belong to the category tuber (same as potatos, edible roots). They belong to Ascomycota phylum, and have many different types.
𓋼 Grow (Golden teacher mycelium box):
Mycelium boxes will yield within 10 to 20 days, so be ready and be there with your growing box.
Mushrooms are very sensitive. The atmosphere around us is filled with all kinds of spores from endless types of other mushrooms, waiting for the perfect living space you are about to create inside the plastic box for your own mushrooms, so any puff of a wind can bring them in and grow colorful molds on your myceliums.
Leave the mycelium box in the fridge for slowing down the growth and preserving. Lowering temperature can also be a temperature shock for pinning, for some strains that belong to cold environments, not necessary for the tropical strains.
Meanwhile, go to your box and start preparing. This is going to be your mushroom's home.
You will cut some holes into the plastic box to cover with micropore breathable tapes. Mushrooms breathe oxygen in and breathe carbon dioxide out, just like us, contrary to plants (look at hyphae).
To cut, use a cutter and keep the lighter's flame at the cutting edge, together they heat up and cut the plastic cleanly without breaking it. Cut out holes around or on top of the plastic box. Cover the holes with micropore tape. Make a tiny hole for the probe attached to the heating mat, insert it, and seal its hole. Find a hanging place for the waterproof moisture control and thermometer, hang them inside the box.
I make two extra holes to add a glove, big enough for a fist to get in the box. The idea is to be able to harvest or readjust the mycelium box without opening the box up to the atmosphere. Make another hole and glue a plastic bag to it (completely attached and isolated from the outside). This one is to put the harvested mushrooms in without opening the box. You will put the mushrooms inside the bag using the gloved hole, then keep one end of the plastic bag closed with hand to block the air, and get the mushrooms out and close the plastic bag again. All these methods are meant to block spore-filled air from getting into the mushroom home and to mushrooms.
Disinfect the inside of the mushroom home everytime before closing it, with peroxide and disinfection tissues
When ready with the holes, take the mycelium box out of the fridge, clean it, and open its lid. Use a sterilized fork to fork the top of the soil, pour cooled down boiled water to fill it in, and close the lid. If you prefere you can also do this inside the closed and disinfected box you made. Leave it outside the fridge for some hours, depending on the instruction of your myceium box (2 to 6 to 12 hours may differ). Take it out and drain the excess water out. Disinfect the mushroom home. Pour 450 ml of cooled down boiled water in the home and put the mycelium box in it. The mycelium box should now be dry but moist, so the water in the home box shouldn't get inside mycelium box.Then close the home box and leave it on the heating mat. Set the temperature of the mat to 21°-25°C and go about your life for 10 days. Wait for the mushrooms to show up. The box is going to sweat since inside is warmer than the walls, so if you want to sneak a peek, use an isolation cover around it to avoid the sweating by keeping the walls warm as well. Do not open the home box under any circumstances: the microscopic malicious spores are everywhere.
* In heating mat, thermostat device turns the heating source on and off based on the fluctuating of temperature, whereas a thermistor device can constantly feed information back to the heater to control the temperature.
When harvested, leave them in a food dehydrator (non-plastic) and leave it in a jar to store with silica gel bags in it. Also can use plastic bags and air vaccum it for long term storage.
Ⱄ 𓋼𓍊 🍄🌌👽 Growing DIY:
𓋼 Growing kit necessities: Mushrooms need humidity, shadow, and constant tempreture of 25-30 °C and 90% humidity. They need to be in an isolated, closed hygene box with 450 ml water, a waterproof termometer and humidity meter. The box needs to remain closed all the time with the least amount of contact to the outside, since the air we breath is filled with every other melicious spores waiting to sit on the growing soil of your mushrooms.
𓋼 Growing Process:
𓋼 Buy:
𓍊 Choose your Psilocybe type. You can choose your favorite mushroom in a spore box or in a mycelium box, which grows faster.
𓍊 A sacrificial cutter, a lighter, a PP plastic box (this will be your growing box, so it should be at least 20 cm in height)
𓍊 Proxide 3%, water spray, and disinfection tissues for sterilizing
𓍊 A heating mat consisting a thermometer and thermostat
𓍊 Gloves to look like a lab technician
𓍊 Thermometer and moisture meter (waterproof to put inside the box)
𓍊 Food dehydrator (non-plastic)
𓍊 Micropore tape
Ⱄ 𓋼𓍊 🍄🌌👽 Natural Food dehydrator
Every night it needs to come in, every morning it can go out. It doesnt stay out and is closed enough for bugs. You can set up a fan as well for air circulation, for that, since it's outside, can be used a small fan and a small solar panel. Also to get more heat it's possible to make a green house effect by adding glass walls as well.
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