https://uproxx.com/life/diy-magic-mushrooms-uncle-ben/
There's a subreddit for just about everything, but if you're a legit Uncle Ben's fan who is also a serious Redditor (that's a lonely island), you might be disappointed to find that the subreddit r/UncleBens isn't so much a gathering of hardcore pre-cooked rice fans, as it is an online sub-community of DIY psilocybin cultivators who are using Uncle Ben's and other supermarket staples to grow magic mushrooms.
[...] What makes Uncle Bens the perfect vessel for psilocybin, according to the r/UncleBens crew, is that mushroom cultivation "requires a sterile, nutrient-rich environment in which their spores can grow," and since Uncle Ben's rice is pre-cooked, sterilized and vacuum-sealed, it provides the necessary environment for cultivation.
(Score: 2) by canopic jug on Sunday July 05 2020, @09:07AM (2 children)
The shiitake farmers I read about when the farming process was developed used particularly arranged stacks of cut logs and sprinkled them periodically to maintain the right moisture level. They kept everything under net canopies to let in some light but keep in a lot of the moisture.
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by JoeMerchant on Sunday July 05 2020, @12:43PM (1 child)
I only played casual mushroom farmer the one time, a couple of years later I ran into another mushroom farmer who took it seriously - as you describe with the stacks and nets and sprinklers. When I described my pitiful crop results he asked "what year" - when I told him he said: "oh, yeah, everybody's crop was pitiful that year." So, apparently something happened that went beyond moisture and sunlight, probably a lot to do with temperature profiles, but maybe other things too. When I described my "setup" which basically consisted of fallen trees under a canopy in a swampy area the farmer said: "Oh, yeah, if you've got that naturally you probably won't get much better with the stacking and all - maybe just water them in a drought, but chlorinated city water isn't what you want to use..."
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(Score: 3, Informative) by canopic jug on Sunday July 05 2020, @04:29PM
Some municipalities will run a fungicide through the drinking water lines once a year, unannounced. So anyone serious has an alternative source year round.
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