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you'd be shocked at how easy it is to grow most edible mushrooms. all you need to grow oysters is a syringe full of spores and some uncle bens pre-cooked vacuum sealed rice. If you want to do lion's mane or other more complex growing cycles like that, just add a rubbermade tub half full of vermiculite and coconut coir. You can be in this hobby for like $100 up front and then like $30/batch. And yes you can grow those mushrooms, where legal of course. I haven't tried it but it seems to be no more difficult than the ones I've successfully grown, and the rice trick actually comes from that community (google "uncle ben tek" for more info)
Actually seen someone grow (regular, culinary) mushrooms off of these yellow blocks. They were definitely oyster types, but don't ask me which, or which color. The memory's gone.
What wasn't gone from my memory tho, was the size and time it took to grow. Like, I saw them prepare those blocks one night. Next day.... Nothing. The day after, still nothing visible.
Then I actually slept there, and the morning after.... Like, man... I was actually scared when I first saw it. The sprouts or whatever... They were bigger than my hands. And I have pretty big, pianist hands. A single night and the whole thing just... Just... jutting out off the side, as if a hole had been there all along. And then they grew more and more over the next three days. The full thing ended two times the size the yellow block, and at least larger than its original volume.
wild, isn't it? it happens that way because what we call the "mushroom" is only a small part of the organism. All those days when nothing seemed to be happening, what was really happening is an underground network of living threads called mycelia were establishing themselves in the soil and beginning to extract nutrients much like plant roots. What you saw are the fruiting bodies, which generate spores and release them to create new mycelia. With a well-established mycelium network the fruiting bodies can go from pinning (just barely visible above the surface) to massive in a day or two.
The magical ones are nice too (•‿•)