Bonus Post - Material Experimentation
- bettinaevincenti
- May 10, 2022
- 1 min read
Updated: May 25, 2022
I wanted to try and test some of the facts from the previous post for myself but first I left the myselium for a month with out touching it to see what would happen. I had the myselium brick which I had killed off but the interesting thing was I don't think I left it in the oven long enough. When I came back to check on it, it stared growing a new layer around itself. It was very soft, smooth almost like it grew skin, leather like.
Next I checked on a separate experiment where I never killed off the mycelium, I let it do its own thing for two months. it started growing upward like it was sprouting and going to become a mushroom, it never did (fully). Then underneath where there was a little hole I forgot to close up, it began growing fungus.
Next up a little bit of fun.
I wanted to see if the myselium brick would set on fire and float. I held a flame on the brick for a couple of minutes and it never went up into flames. It did burn it and it was smoking but still no fire. The buoyancy test was amazing, I filled a sink up with water and places the brick inside it. no matter what side I put it on the brick kept floating, I even fully submerged it but it would keep bouncing back up.
Side note : the area on the mycelium brick which is grey is where the glue was keeping the mould together. The mycelium didn't seem to like it.
Here are a couple of videos.
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