In a desperate attempt to grow shrooms for my own pleasure I have taken a cow patty and began watering it with a spray bottle to keep it moistened. I placed seeds in the middle of the patty because I read that it helps in the process of sprouting mushrooms with psilocybe. I'm keeping it under the shade of a tree in my yard, and it's hot and humid outside as it always is in this part of Tx. I only want to know how good my chances are of successfuly growing the right shrooms.
first off mushies dont have seeds they have spores which work very differently... and I can all but guarantee that that wont work. If you want to grow some shrooms google the PF tek method, or research using grains and spawn bags. And whatever you do dont buy spores from the spore store, their syringes are junk and a half
I know that during the right season in texas, I rarely ever came back from hunting empty-handed. But as far as selecting one patty from the field, your chances are pretty slim, but not 100% impossible. & I'm not sure what you mean when you say "seeds," I assume your speaking of vegetation but whether or not your medium contains your desired species is all up to wild spore transference in the field. Your best bet is to leave the pattys where they are, & you return to them when the weather is right, you'll have much better luck.
slim to none. you took a random patty from a random field. you have about a half of a percent chance of it growing a mushroom that is psychoactive. what did you think would happen? do you think all cow patties produce shrooms? did you even check to see if there is mycelium in the patty? and even if there was mycelium the chances of it being cubensis, especially if you haven't even seen a cubensis in that field, are very very mall. read up, get some spores and do a casing or a monotub. www.shroomery.org has basically everything you need to know about indoor mushroom cultivation.
indeed, shroomery.org has just about anything you would ever want to know about shrooms. That and the community is very friendly and eager to help where they can, you should definitely check it out.
Could someone explain WHY this wouldn't work? And if someone had spores? My knowledge is kinda fail, but wild mushies pop up the day after it rains down here, and cultivated take like...20 times as long. My redneck buddy proposed it to me, and...I can't come up with a way to knock it, if you buy the spores. Mushies overnight would be...they need an orgasm smiley.
mushrooms are the fruit body of mycelium. where mushrooms are popping up there is mycelium that is well formed, it takes longer than a day.
total fail. it wont work because spores dont germinate in shit after sprinkling them on top of it. it might work if there was already mycelium in the poop, but he didnt say there was. even if there is mycelium there is no way to tell if its the right kind. he could raise that mycelium and grow the wrong kind of mushroom. it is bad to rip patties with mycelium from the field cus you destroy the sensitive parts of the mycelium that are underground. in the wild its a complex process. in the fields there are billions of spores floating in the air and land on the grass. the cows eat grass with spores and in their four stomachs the spores are incubated inside until the cow shits it out like a perfect package. while the patty ages the mycelium grows over several months and grows into the ground and then when it's the right weather it fruits mushrooms out of the patty. its like a big circle of life, the field needs the cows, the cows need the field, the shrooms need the cows, we need the shrooms ect. a field is a very complex living thing. way more than we can understand.
