• insomniac_lemon@kbin.social
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    Ugch, fine, you can use me to feed a patch of mushrooms that’s beginning to grow in the now-warming areas of the planet, ultimately to become a giant organism/network that covers Antarctica in white mycelium/mushrooms/spores to replace the albedo effect of snow/ice to save the future of all life on Earth.

    But I’ll need a ride there.

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    8 months ago

    Wouldn’t fungi all die out if it weren’t for plants and bacteria? They’re parasitic and feed on dead things no?

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      plants and bacteria would struggle without animals and fungi as well, everything depends on like literally the entire earth’s ecosystems to survive to some degree.

      like fungi recycle dead things into an absurd amount of nutrients, without them trees especially would barely break down and just stick around until very very eventually they turn into coal.

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        like fungi recycle dead things into an absurd amount of nutrients, without them trees especially would barely break down and just stick around until very very eventually they turn into coal.

        this is just such a cool thing to think about, there was a time when there were just dead trees everywhere in forests, like just laying there being logs or whatever, just piles and piles of dead trees and that’s where coal comes from.

        The people mining and dying and polluting the planet just digging out piles of dead trees.

        Just like what? I get it, but what?

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        Yes they would struggle, but eventually they would adapt.

        If everything but plants disappeared tomorrow, many plants would die but some would survive and adapt.

        If everything but fungi disappeared tomorrow, they would all die out.

        Same with animals.

        Bacteria would survive like plants would, with most of them dying but many surviving and adapting.

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        8 months ago

        Not plants and bacteria, many of them can survive off sunlight and minerals broken down from stones, such as lichen. Although I guess lichen is a combination of plants, bacteria and fungi

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        8 months ago

        I’m afraid I only eat alive food it’s important for my internal vibration and helps me meditate more intensively to find my true self.

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      8 months ago

      Some are parasitic, most are saprophytic (decomposers/recyclers), others are symbiotic and exchange nutrients with trees

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    8 months ago

    I’m that guy growing magic mushrooms and telling people about how awesome fungi are in general now that I know more about them

    I’m doing my part!

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        So you can buy the spores online and have them legally shipped to your door basically anywhere in the US from a site sharing it’s name with the garden humans first lived in before Eve ate the apple

        Once you’ve got those they grow in a shotgun fruiting chamber, a type of fungus growing that is used for many kinds of mushrooms and is completely normal to talk about.

        You take some vermiculite, brown rice flour, and some jars, sterilize the dirt (boil it), put it in jars, and squirt some spores into the jars

        Leave them in a drawer to become a full cake, then into the fruiting chamber. Spritz with water 3x daily and in a month you’ve got more mushrooms than you can cook with

        My first harvest was a little over an oz of dried goodness for an investment initially of about $150, and I can do it again at least 2 more times with current supplies

  • Nobsi@feddit.de
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    8 months ago

    Well… Is Fungi a cute widdle baby meow meow boo that i want to hug? Didnt think so. Fuck you Fungi.