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 Adamist
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 Lunar effects on shroom growth?
#8679315 - 07/25/08 05:47 AM (4 months, 6 days ago) |
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My friend and I have been wondering...
Could it be possible that the phases of the moon affect mushroom growth in some way?
The reason I ask is because we've been hunting the same field every day for the past couple of weeks,
and the most luck we had just happened to be during a full moon.
Not only that, but ever since the moon has been waning,
there have been several days with seemingly PERFECT conditions for mushroom growth...
But after hunting all day we couldn't find anything!
Has anyone researched this idea?
What other factors could be playing a part here?
Because as far as I can tell, the only difference between the bountiful days and the lacking ones were the phases of the moon.
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 Re: Lunar effects on shroom growth? [Re: Adamist]
#8679457 - 07/25/08 08:00 AM (4 months, 6 days ago) |
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Due to the difficulty of structurally isolating factors that could influence mushroom fruiting habits, I suppose we'll never know. But it does sound a bit far-fetched to my ears; I'd focus on the more obvious parameters such as humidity and temperature instead. Keep in mind that most species require a few days of good conditions before they start fruiting; evolution has taught them that much.
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Re: Lunar effects on shroom growth? [Re: koraks]
#8679488 - 07/25/08 08:16 AM (4 months, 6 days ago) |
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Moon affects the tides, I guess there could be some connection?
Anyway <insert joke about the 90 million year old mushroom, and how someone claimed it's spores are from space>.
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Re: Lunar effects on shroom growth? [Re: Amberica]
#8679501 - 07/25/08 08:20 AM (4 months, 6 days ago) |
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I'm not saying that there is no connection, but I'm afraid we'll just never know. It would be interesting to investigate the effects of slight changes in gravitational pull on an organism's growth, but I cannot see a clear evolutionary advantage to fruiting during full moon since mushrooms do not seem to rely on being spotted at night by animals for their reproduction, so I couldn't explain a relationship from an evolutionary perspective. Which, again, doesn't mean it isn't there.
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Re: Lunar effects on shroom growth? [Re: koraks]
#8679526 - 07/25/08 08:34 AM (4 months, 6 days ago) |
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Actually mushrooms were grown in space on a NASA mission in 93 -- Flammulina was the subject of the study.
Regarding light -- Phycomyces species when grown in culture have been shown to possess such light sensitivity that they will produce fruit bodies that bend toward light sources equivalent to the light emitted by a single star.
Edited by georgeM (07/25/08 08:43 AM)
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Re: Lunar effects on shroom growth? [Re: koraks]
#8679530 - 07/25/08 08:35 AM (4 months, 6 days ago) |
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Personally i don't think there's any connection whatsoever... The moon's gravity acts on the entire massive size of the combined oceans, and only manages to pull the water one or two metres up. It would have almost no effect on mushrooms, the gravity of your head would probably have more of an effect (seriously).
That said, if there IS an effect of the moon, my guess would be that it is from the increased light of the full moon at night initiating pinning perhaps.
OR, if you were hunting at night, you'd see more mushrooms because you could see better 
But as koraks says, you'd never be able to do a perfect experiment to find out, what about humidity? temperature? time since last fruiting? size of the patch? disturbance of the patch?
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