It was probably a bad idea, but I couldn't resist doing it. I just ordered 3 books on cultivating mushrooms and a mushroom growing kit. Bad idea since

Wow, that's intense. Maybe they were skipping some basic sterilization procedures

@MrAboo Fungi spores will grow on anything. A human lives in a world of a continual balance of aerobic and anaerobic bacterial biomes. That's what protects us from fungi. If that balance is deposted by enough fungus spores and imbalanced by the ordinary fluctuations of bacterial defense systems, the fungi wins.

Don't even think it was something as simple as not enough hygiene. No matter what they did it would have happened. Even a tree can't beat those nasty little spores.

@SteelHands that’s terrible but there really isn’t an excuse to mess up that bad it’s pretty easy to keep this going

@SW-User Not indoors where humans live eat and breath. If you try that you'll regret it.

So the problem was in having it in the home and not a private lab on the scale they were growing mushrooms?

@MrAboo The information that was shared with me was so horrible to hear that I didn't ask or wish to know.

Since I'd always been told that mushroom spores don't attach to living material I found it more important to check if that was factual.

What I found out was that some spores are extremely ph adaptable, easily airborne, secrete a variety of acids and enzymes, and that actually parasitic forms do exist and are usually fatal to the host.

At that point one needs to know that the risks far outweigh the potential fun of a hallucinogenic trip. Eating something grown in your basement or an outdoor shed that prefers cow shit as it's food source might not be advisable.

@SteelHands no, I’m not planning to grow hallucinogens. Just food. It sounds like it was the concentration of spores that affected them though