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Mycelium as building material, which species is better?
    #13984460 - 02/18/11 12:35 PM (13 years, 15 days ago)

Background:

Some companies are experimenting with making things from mycelium, that is, isolation for houses, bricks, ford is even experimenting with replacement of certain plastic car parts with mycelium parts.

Since I am no expert I tried to google for the answers and looking for them in the shroomery, but I did't find any.

But the questions I have are:

Does it matter what kind of mycelium you grow? That is does different kinds of mushrooms have different properties of mycelium, that is strength, thickness e.t.c. ?

The intuition tells me yes!

Then the real question is, which mushroom kind has the strongest mycelium [1], and is possible to grow at home, and preferably being legal?

[1] That is strongest mycelium in the sense then you grow and dry it, it won't fall apart and be able to hold some weight.


If anyone got any suggestions, I will be most grateful. I love the idea and want to experiment a bit with it, but don't really know where to start, which spores to order.


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The 500 bricks he grew at Far West Fungi were so sturdy that he destroyed many a metal file and saw blade in shaping the ‘shrooms'.




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Re: Mycelium as building material, which species is better? [Re: Buben]
    #13984693 - 02/18/11 01:22 PM (13 years, 15 days ago)

Fucking awesome.


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Re: Mycelium as building material, which species is better? [Re: Buben]
    #13985689 - 02/18/11 04:54 PM (13 years, 15 days ago)

The polypores and there close relatives generally have tougher mycelium. I think the stuff they are using for insulation is Ganoderma lucidum.

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Re: Mycelium as building material, which species is better? [Re: falcon]
    #13987674 - 02/18/11 11:09 PM (13 years, 15 days ago)

The big problem I see is after the mycelium dies, if the outside structure springs a leak, and it will, the mycelium gets wet and begins to rot.
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Re: Mycelium as building material, which species is better? [Re: RogerRabbit]
    #13989076 - 02/19/11 08:41 AM (13 years, 14 days ago)

Thank you I'll start poking around Polypores, Ganoderma lucidum, and their relatives.

When it comes to mycelium rotting when wet. Yes that's quite a problem when working with biodegradable material, you want it to rot when you are do with it, not while you still use it. But that's something which got to be figured out somehow later, don't really know how yet, the easiest is probably just to paint it with water resistant paint afterwards. But I'll start on the small scale first with indoor thing to see what is possible.

Anyway, there are obviously quite some experimenting left to do, I'll try to remember posting as soon as I have tried, but it will be in couple of months, time is not my friend right now...


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Re: Mycelium as building material, which species is better? [Re: Buben]
    #13991646 - 02/19/11 07:02 PM (13 years, 14 days ago)

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Some companies are experimenting with making things from mycelium, that is, isolation for houses, bricks, ford is even experimenting with replacement of certain plastic car parts with mycelium parts.





I would think oyster because it grows fast???
http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/car-parts-from-mushrooms


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Re: Mycelium as building material, which species is better? [Re: pepper]
    #13992225 - 02/19/11 08:52 PM (13 years, 14 days ago)

Yea, grows fast is good, but how fragile is the mycelium when it dries?

I mean cosmically speaking, is there a big difference between different kind of mycelium when it comes to strength?
I can't answer that question myself since I only have grown one kind... :tongue: But some one with experience from growing different kind of mushrooms should know perhaps.

But thank you, now there are three things to explore. If there are more suggestions, keep them coming.


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Re: Mycelium as building material, which species is better? [Re: Buben]
    #13992363 - 02/19/11 09:14 PM (13 years, 14 days ago)

I have experimented with this idea and the forerunners so far are trametes versicolor, and polyporus squamosa,


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Re: Mycelium as building material, which species is better? [Re: mycoelf]
    #13994688 - 02/20/11 09:28 AM (13 years, 13 days ago)

Oh, nice, thank you!

I'm so eager to try right now...


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Re: Mycelium as building material, which species is better? [Re: Buben] * 1
    #14036609 - 02/27/11 03:37 PM (13 years, 6 days ago)

Did anyone catch that in the video...he said, "I think you've been smoking too many mushrooms." Hmmm. I have nothing else to say.


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Re: Mycelium as building material, which species is better? [Re: BlueLightRain]
    #14047729 - 03/01/11 10:16 AM (13 years, 4 days ago)

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