Mushroom eaters and mushroom pickers around the world can be counted in a huge number. It is so established that a good half of humanity has been eating mushrooms for a long time! They are s alted, dried, fried, boiled, eaten raw… Many people love not only to cook and eat mushrooms, but also to pick them. What could be more exciting than "silent hunting" in a clean deciduous or pine forest in the fresh air! Therefore, beginners are interested in how much mushrooms grow, so as not to get into a mess and not come to empty places where mushrooms have not had time to grow yet.
Influence of air temperature and lighting
In fact, the growth time of mushrooms directly depends on many reasons and factors. One of them is air temperature. Optimum for most types of mushrooms, the ambient temperature is from 18 to 28 Celsius. Many species (for example, champignons) develop well in the dark. Meadow mushrooms, on the contrary, need the sun - only then they can grow well.
So after all, how much do mushrooms grow? Very fast! In a few days (from three to six) they reachof medium size, characteristic of this species, become large on about the tenth day, but even after that they can continue to grow. In the first days, the growth of the fungus is faster, then slows down. The caps take longer to grow than the legs. Some insects are known to slow down the growth of fungi. And warm rainy weather, on the contrary, contributes to rapid growth.
Boletus (white) and chanterelle
Real mushroom pickers also know how long the white mushroom grows (from five to ten days). Armed with this knowledge, it’s easier to “hunt” porcini during the mushroom season. Moreover, if the average weight of a mushroom is about two hundred grams, then mushrooms grown in warm rainy weather can weigh even more than a kilo! After the formation of spores, the giant quickly ages, but this process may slow down in autumn.
How long do chanterelle mushrooms grow? Quite a long time - from one week to two.
When a mushroom picker knows how much mushrooms grow to a ripe state, he will never come out of the forest with an empty basket.
Stories of rapid mushroom growth
Perhaps no living creature grows to maturity so quickly. This is where the well-known expression comes from: “grow like mushrooms”. But rumors about how much mushrooms grow (the mycelium is located underground, and the fruiting body is above), that is, the growth rate of the fruiting body, are often exaggerated. This happens because during the "silent hunt" part of the mushrooms goes unnoticed, and when repeatedvisiting the same place in a day or two mushroom pickers discover "huge" fruits! After all, the so-called cap mushrooms increase in size very quickly. Within a day or two, an increase of two or three times is possible. Butter, russula, boletus, boletus are usually harvested within a day after appearing on the surface.
Fruiting bodies of cap mushrooms are first born underground, grow there and crawl out to the surface already fully formed. Hence the stories of mushroom pickers about the instantaneous growth of fruiting bodies of mushrooms!
