Moving Mushrooms

[Kinesthesia]

I have a rock about the size of my fist with about five lavender mushrooms on it and yesterday noticed one growing up between the others like a flute to get to the light. Should I move one or more of them off the rock to make room? and if so, how do I do that? just cut them loose and glue them somewhere?

[hamburglar]

You can just let them go on their own if you want to. They will only grow where they can get enough light.

I have used a pair of stainless steel scissors to remove mushrooms from a rock before but that always makes 2 of them if you leave any of the original one behind. If you must remove one from where it is you will have to remove all traces of it.

For example, I have a very large rock with 3 wonderful ricordia mushrooms on it. This rock also has 50-60 super fast growing purple mushrooms on it. I want to make sure that the ricordia's have plenty of space to multiply so I cut off the caps of the neighboring purple mushrooms every few weeks to slow down their growth. I then let these removed caps attach to rubble and take them into my LFS for a discount.

If you cut a mushroom, make sure that you have some water circulation around it. They could turn to mush on you from a bacterial infection although I’ve never seen it happen.

[hamburglar]

Sorry I didn't talk about letting them attach.

I just let them sit in a cave in my rock (very little water movement) where they will attach to the sand. I then suuperglue the sand to a rock. I don't think it is a good idea to put glue directly on the mushrooms.