Churpee Choozle said: Shit on me for it if it pleases you...
Critique is not "shitting on you"... If I was shitting on you, there would be no question that I was doing so. Very few people find agar work exciting, but it's kinda just bitching about it if you bothered by doing a batch once every 18-24 months. 
smalltalk_canceled said: We (the human growers) are also a result of bajillion years of cell division. If we are not the sentient top of nature, none is.
That's the arrogance I was talking about. It is a scientific fact that dolphins and whales have larger brains than ours, with more folds than us too. Do you not see how arrogant it is for us to claim we are the smartest creatures when we can't even communicate with creatures that have more evolved brains than ours, who can communicate to each other across multiple species, and have existed FAR longer than us? Hell, we can't even properly communicate with others of our own species, let alone any other animal that exists. The only things that makes humans the top of the food chain are our adaptability, opposable thumbs, and our arrogance.
Stipe-n Cap said: If a species is endemic to a geographic location/region, then placed into a hitherto unreported location, within an unnaturally occurring habitat (man made), the location is most certainly artificial.
You do understand that "location" and "environment" are two completely different words with two different meanings, right? If you're going to make a counter-argument, use the proper words. Different locations often have the same or similar environments (temp range, humidity, amount of light, etc), and similar environments to their native location are a REQUIREMENT for them to fruit outside of their native locations.
So please, tell me what is so "unnatural" or "man-made" about growing WL's on small pieces of wood (their natural food source), outdoors, where rain and natural weather/seasonal patterns relatively match the species' native location's natural environmental conditions? Growing WL's outdoors is still growing them in their natural conditions (environment), whether the bed is naturally grown or spawned by humans. The reason I can grow the common WL's in southern Indiana is because our ENVIRONMENT is close enough to the environment of the PNW that they'll still fruit here. And the reason why allenii won't grow in southern Florida is because the ENVIRONMENT is too dissimilar to their native environment.
Mr Piggy said: Ahh yes, since we are fruiting them in their completely natural habitats of chip beds.
Piggy once again proving he doesn't understand the definitions of simple words... Wood is still wood, whether it is sticks and bark that have naturally fallen off a tree, or it's sticks and bark that were ground up in a wood chipper. That statement was as dumb as saying food becomes artificial when we chew it... WL species will readily colonize mulch beds on their own without any help at all from humans, proving my argument. Yes Piggy, small broken up pieces of wood ARE their natural habitat... That's why we mimic Nature by growing them in wood chips beds instead of from logs, or cow shit. It's not like you're growing them on shredded car tires or plastic, so wtf is so "artificial" about growing them from small pieces of wood? 
Mr Piggy said: It's all artificial environments that we create to optimize growth.
Right... Because you're creating artificial sunlight, and artificial substrates that are not wood, and you're creating artificial beneficial bacteria that work artificially in conjunction with the mycelium, and you have full control of the artificial weather patterns and artificial fruiting seasons. NOT!
Once again, you don't control shit. You are just another animal spreading culture no different than any old cow eating cube spores and then shitting them back out so the fungal colony can spread to new locations. The only difference is you inefficiently culture mycelium externally, instead of internally like a cow. Guess the cow figured out how to work smarter, not harder...
Your "set it and forget it" method of cultivation is literally nothing more than you just plopping out masticated wood spawned with culture on the ground like a painfully chunky cow patty, and you're hilariously calling that "artificial"...

The fungus has more control over you than you do it, which is evident by the fact that you actually think growing fungus on their natural carbon nutrient source, outdoors, in regions with the same/similar natural seasonal temps and natural weather patterns is somehow "artificial". I bet you think planting a walnut tree in your yard means it's "artificial" walnut cultivation, even though squirrels have been planting walnut trees in North America every winter for millenia before humans first traveled here... For fuck's sake, the wind has done more fungal species cultivation than every human who's ever existed combined. So I guess all those fungal beds the wind created by spreading spores miles from their "natural environment" must be artificial too, since the fungi didn't do it themselves...
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