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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: 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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