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Codeac

Talking and music for your mushrooms?

[SERIOUS QUESTION] Am not stoned or high...

You know in some controversial but popular studies, there’s been evidence that talking nicely and playing soothing music to plants encourages them to grow, and also studies on yogurt being able to communicate with other yogurt/bacterial cultures behind walls etc has been evidenced...

Has anyone noticed that talking nicely, singing to or playing positive music around your growing mushrooms has any positive impact whatsoever? You know if you have a contaminated tub near a normal tub it can spread contagion... and someone recently posted about natural rain water having a massive positive impact...

It’s a serious but off the wall question. Has anyone else noted your mood/life situation in general (whether it’s all positive good vibes or going through a shitty patch) has an impact on their mushroom success?

I’m genuinely curious for the psychonauts who think about these off the wall ideas if they have an opinion on that sort of thing?

I’m doing my first grow ever and just thinking about placing my shroom grow stuff near to speakers and spraying them with rain water.

Thanks!

Posted Jul 5, 2020, 9:20 AM UTC

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Hungree_Gh0st•

Not an answer to your question but positive relationships strengthen our life. Why not foster that with as many beings as possible?

I also think if you're in a positive space, your grow will be better because you'll have more energy and a clearer head. You'll be more attentive. More careful.

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CodeacOP•

Couldn't agree more - positive vibes never hurt anybody, so I'm going to try this method. Thanks.

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WhereIsMyRent666 •

I can't answer your question but I have a cool related story from my work. I work in a university lab and we did a collaboration with another lab where they sent me cultures of an organism called beauveria to extract DNA from. Beauveria is a fungi that will infect bark beetles and is used as a natural insecticide. They also found that it will grow differently when there is bark beetle sounds being played in the background.

Basically, it is possible for fungi to respond to sounds, however, I would be surprised if mushrooms grow faster when you play music. This just doesn't strike me as an evolutionarily favored trait but the only way to find out is to test it on your own.

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CodeacOP•

Yeah, absolutely - probably won't make them grow 'faster' but I wonder if it changes the vibration or frequency of the mushroom composition in any way (possibly at ways, we as humans don't yet understand) - could be the difference between what you learn when you trip/have a bad trip to some capacity - who knows. But I think there's definitely got to be something in it...

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TemporaryGuidance1•

This isn’t far fetched at all. I haven’t conducted an experiment yet on the effect music and talking to mushrooms has, but there are studies that found music increases a plants growth. They also found a feminine voice promotes growth more so than a male voice. There’s thousands of variables when cultivating mushrooms so I doubt I’ll be able to accurately notice a positive impact when I introduce classical music, but I believe it will definitely help. I will also give them words of encouragement and adoration. Sending positive vibes can only be beneficial as mushrooms are considered a “living” form of life and have enlightening insights they can share.

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axthropod•

dude wtf

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CodeacOP•

haha, no seriously, I've been reading about it a lot with water and plant experiments - and I've met and seen enough non-visible entities to think there's probably something to it...

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