I am going to be trying my hand at completing the undocumented life cycle of Sarcoscypha coccinea, the scarlet elf cup, later this week. It is an Ascomycete (one of two major groups of fungi) that undergoes genetic transformations in its lifecycle, and noone has pieced it together yet.
>>985380I haven't, but I will now. Let me go and find the article, but there was one that was literally about Mycelium developing a resistance after being exposed just to the extracts of molds. IE: using mold tea as an immunization to keep it from being hit hard if it gets contaminated.
>>985528You don't even know how often I get asked about that as a mycologist. There are so many other aspects to growing mushrooms, and fungi in general. People are often only concerned with what benefits them directly, usually being drugs, or the money that comes from them. Even if I tell someone I do not grow Psilocybes, they always give me this wink and nod kind of look like I just told them I was on the down-low.
Granted, there are a huge number of mycologists/mushroom cultivators that got into the practice after a magic mushroom grow pulled them in.
Renew your interest! There is hope!
