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Humans were not the first to cultivate mushrooms
#725205 - 04/09/14 03:38 PM (10 years, 7 months ago) |
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According to Mushrooms Demystified by David Arora (great read so far!).
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Human beings, incidentally, are not the only ones to cultivate fungi, and were by no means the first. That honor belongs to certain ants and termites who raise fungi in their nests. On almost any walk through a tropical rain forest you can see long files of leaf-cutting ants carrying bits of leaves to their nests. These leaves are not food for the ants, but food for fungi upon which the ants feed!
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Re: Humans were not the first to cultivate mushrooms [Re: drawde]
#725206 - 04/09/14 03:49 PM (10 years, 7 months ago) |
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That's awesome!
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Re: Humans were not the first to cultivate mushrooms [Re: iStoner]
#725225 - 04/09/14 06:51 PM (10 years, 7 months ago) |
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Re: Humans were not the first to cultivate mushrooms [Re: drawde]
#725226 - 04/09/14 07:02 PM (10 years, 7 months ago) |
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I learned some neat things today. Thank you for bringing this up.
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Re: Humans were not the first to cultivate mushrooms [Re: Samadhi] 3
#725229 - 04/09/14 07:10 PM (10 years, 7 months ago) |
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How long until mushrooms cultivate humans though?
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Re: Humans were not the first to cultivate mushrooms [Re: Samadhi]
#725233 - 04/09/14 07:27 PM (10 years, 7 months ago) |
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I learned some neat things today. Thank you for bringing this up.
Awesome vid! Nice contribution
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Re: Humans were not the first to cultivate mushrooms [Re: Samadhi]
#725239 - 04/09/14 08:27 PM (10 years, 7 months ago) |
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Is it just me or is the chick in your sig throwin a devil face in the end?
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Re: Humans were not the first to cultivate mushrooms [Re: poor boy]
#725241 - 04/09/14 08:30 PM (10 years, 7 months ago) |
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i noticed that as well
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Re: Humans were not the first to cultivate mushrooms [Re: iStoner]
#725245 - 04/09/14 08:33 PM (10 years, 7 months ago) |
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Creepy, right?
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Re: Humans were not the first to cultivate mushrooms [Re: poor boy]
#725259 - 04/09/14 09:30 PM (10 years, 7 months ago) |
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Even cooler is the Cordyceps Mushroom that grows INSIDE the ant and takes over control of the ant and uses it as a hosts before it destroys the whole colony
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Re: Humans were not the first to cultivate mushrooms [Re: Picklez]
#725266 - 04/09/14 09:45 PM (10 years, 7 months ago) |
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damn imagine if there was a fungus that did that to humans
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Re: Humans were not the first to cultivate mushrooms [Re: iStoner]
#725274 - 04/09/14 10:00 PM (10 years, 7 months ago) |
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Cordyceps is actually used medicinally if I am not mistaken...
I looked into cultivating it back in the day but it is extremely hard to do
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Re: Humans were not the first to cultivate mushrooms [Re: Picklez]
#725277 - 04/09/14 10:02 PM (10 years, 7 months ago) |
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You ever do morels?
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Re: Humans were not the first to cultivate mushrooms [Re: drawde]
#725280 - 04/09/14 10:13 PM (10 years, 7 months ago) |
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Nah, never cultivated any edibles. Never saw the profit margins in it. I liked turning a 20-30$ investment into 1200-1500$.. that's the kinda business I like to be in..
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Re: Humans were not the first to cultivate mushrooms [Re: Picklez]
#725308 - 04/10/14 06:42 AM (10 years, 7 months ago) |
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30.00? Mines always a 70.00 investment. I do it the lazy way and buy premade bags and cube syringes. I can pull close to a pound every time so 70.00 aint shit considering there's little to no work.
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Re: Humans were not the first to cultivate mushrooms [Re: poor boy]
#725313 - 04/10/14 08:40 AM (10 years, 7 months ago) |
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its funny tho, we have not been able to get the ants to do it in captivity.
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Re: Humans were not the first to cultivate mushrooms [Re: poor boy]
#725414 - 04/10/14 04:05 PM (10 years, 7 months ago) |
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poor boy said: 30.00? Mines always a 70.00 investment. I do it the lazy way and buy premade bags and cube syringes. I can pull close to a pound every time so 70.00 aint shit considering there's little to no work.
Yeah I dont ever do anything pre-made.. It's not just the cost, I just dont trust someone else to sterilize/pausterize the material I am trusting with 1000-1500$ worth of profit..
I dont even buy spores from vendors after my first grow, I always make my own syringes because I know exactly how they are prepared and if I ever did have a problem, I would have only myself to blame...
But I do know a lot of people who have gone to using pre-made stuff
My investment was probably less than 20$ actually... 5 bucks for bird seed and maybe 8-10 bucks for coir (when bought in bulk)
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Re: Humans were not the first to cultivate mushrooms [Re: Picklez]
#725418 - 04/10/14 04:53 PM (10 years, 7 months ago) |
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Nice. Doing it yourself is awesome.
I just ordered some morel culture. I hear they are pretty difficult to cultivate.
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Re: Humans were not the first to cultivate mushrooms [Re: drawde]
#725420 - 04/10/14 04:56 PM (10 years, 7 months ago) |
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What, cubes are?
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Re: Humans were not the first to cultivate mushrooms [Re: Picklez]
#725422 - 04/10/14 05:01 PM (10 years, 7 months ago) |
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Morels- Morchella (elata)
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