Attack of the 40' Yellow Mushrooms!
Ok, so it's not 40 feet... I just noticed now that there's nothing in the picture to give a sense of scope. But these durned things grow so blindingly fast that if I went away for a few days it might just reach 40 feet.
Anyway, so these things started out on the other side of the house in the soil of a potted cactus. They would from time to time pop up and they're really hard to miss because they're dayglow yellow and when they're small (1/4 in or so), they look like tiny yellow ... (err) .... male body parts. I would scrape them away and didn't really pay much mind when a new one would appear. Then I discovered physan 20 and I never saw the little yellow vienershrooms again. Until....
I noticed a tiny one poking out (no pun intended) from below the ground cover folliage in a terrarium that I have in my living room. Couldn't have been more than 1/4". No joke, by the end of the day it was 5 inches long and the cap was 1 inch or so across! I wish the masdie that I have in there would grow so well (that'll be another post). It made me consider giving up growing orchids and getting into the shroom business.
I mixed up a fresh batch of the physan-two-zero and gave the whole terrarium a good soaking - ground cover, soil, potting mix, glass, the works. No dice. Every couple of days I have a giant mutant shroom popping up. Follow up soakings of the old phy 20 have proven just as ineffective.
So - what the heck are these things? What's it growing on? The terrarium is warm and humid, but bright and sunny - don't shrooms grow in the dark? How do I keep these mutant fungi at bay? HELP!
(by the way, so hard not to go blue with this post - I must have deleted 50 off-color comments while typing this one out. Yeah, I'm a child)
Thanks!
- J
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