wild, isn’t it? it happens that way because what we call the “mushroom” is only a small part of the organism. All those days when nothing seemed to be happening, what was really happening is an underground network of living threads called mycelia were establishing themselves in the soil and beginning to extract nutrients much like plant roots. What you saw are the fruiting bodies, which generate spores and release them to create new mycelia. With a well-established mycelium network the fruiting bodies can go from pinning (just barely visible above the surface) to massive in a day or two.
wild, isn’t it? it happens that way because what we call the “mushroom” is only a small part of the organism. All those days when nothing seemed to be happening, what was really happening is an underground network of living threads called mycelia were establishing themselves in the soil and beginning to extract nutrients much like plant roots. What you saw are the fruiting bodies, which generate spores and release them to create new mycelia. With a well-established mycelium network the fruiting bodies can go from pinning (just barely visible above the surface) to massive in a day or two.