Please Help! All plant growers!

Question

my little brother heard that you could take a branch from a tree that has moss growing on it and grind it up pretty fine and put it in a planter box and water it everyday and it will grow shrooms. I am worried if this is true because i dont want my liltte brother getting into things like that! Please and Thank you~ Ashley

Answer 1

If he's talking about eating the mushrooms or using them as a drug, MOST mushrooms are poisonous. Unless he is an EXPERT in mushroom identification, he will probably kill himself.  

Answer 2

No - unless there happen to be mushroom spores on the branch or in the moss.  Which is doubtful.  (Spores being the mushroom equivalent of seeds...no spores...no mushrooms)

Moss is not in any way related to mushrooms - with the exception that both mushrooms and moss like a damp, low-light environment.  

Answer 3

Yes it is possible that you can grow mushrooms that way, if the spores are in the moss, but they are not the type of mushrooms that would get you high.  These are grown in a certain manor, (not gonna tell you how either)

and what you have described is not it. It would be a c**p shoot as to what type of mushrooms if any would grow. It would all depend on which type of spores were in the moss. More then likely they will be poisonous to some degree, as most mushrooms are. Not all are deadly, but many can make you so sick you may wish you were dead. I would strongly advise against eating anything that grew.

Answer 4

Mushrooms will grow in any damp environment. After it rained a lot in my area, there were mushrooms in my YARD!

Answer 5

Sounds like he's already into it he just hasn't found any decent guidence yet.No he will not be making any shrooms any time soon but you may want to talk to him because he's looking for how to do it and he may find the right way before long

Answer 6

I have never heard that, but if it does grow mushrooms its probably not the drug kind.

Answer 7

First of all, l doubt that he'll get any mushrooms from that, but even if he did, the likelihood of them being one of the small number of psychoactive ones is very small.  

Sure, you don't want him getting into mushrooms of the aforementioned variety, but if the kid is simply interested in nature, I would say you should encourage him to do such experiments.

Furthermore, if you are privvy to what he's doing, you can keep an eye on where he's going with it.   Never underestimate the influence a good relationship can have on a youngster's future - "the power of love".