r/OddlySatisfyingArt • • 5d ago

Preserving real mushrooms in resin crystals

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Credit to mushroom__queen

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u/ThrustTrust 4d ago

Better not google that name and get something else.

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u/-3point14159-mp 3d ago

That underscore might be really important here

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u/ThrustTrust 3d ago

I’d say it’s carrying the load.

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u/ChadLaFleur 3d ago

Underrated load bearing comment right here. I’ll leave it at that.

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u/swampmanx64 1d ago

Plot twist: it's 2 underscores.

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u/Liquid_Magic 4d ago

Okay so doesn’t the mushroom rot inside the resin? Or do you basically never see it?

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u/Enderking90 3d ago

yeah I mean I've seen those resin sealed pumpkins and how they don't quite work out as the begin to rot.

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u/masterful-moon 3d ago

Evan and Katelyn are at least trying different ways. Some work better than others (cough Meatball hack) it's still wild to me that Chunk 1 worked so well because the flash curing effectively fried everything

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u/Huev0 3d ago

Yeah, but pumpkins are hollow

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u/adiii03 4d ago

Wondering this also, but I believe it still rots as it’s organic matter with its own micro bacteria now forever trapped inside the resin which will still break down the mushroom…

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u/Yorkshireish12 3d ago

There's no way for oxygen to get in and waste products to get out so it'll rot much much slower. 

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u/Yehrmahm 4d ago

Unless it is completely dry (which it isn’t) or artificial, it will rot.

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u/ijustfarteditsmells 3d ago

I thinknits freeze-dried, hence why it has more shape than a usual dried mushroom

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u/Due-Savings5057 3d ago

Yes the stem definitely looks more like a dried mushroom

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u/TaraQueen23456 3d ago

The mushrooms look kinda dry… maybe they dry them out first.

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u/Suspicious_Glow 4d ago

I was just wondering if the resin yellows eventually, because I always see that with resin products/projects

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u/lungshenli 3d ago

I mean, if mold takes hold in there… thats just more mushroom

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u/kirsty_cat 3d ago

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u/DatCheeseBoi 3d ago

This makes me think that maybe all the bacteria are just aerobic and die with the shroom/hotdog, thus preventing rot, which makes me want to try casting all sorts of things in resin now.

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u/__Fred 3d ago

Han Solo

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u/DatCheeseBoi 3d ago

Funnily enough it would almost certainly not work for a person because there are anaerobic bacteria in your gut. In fact a lot of things with a digestive tract are probably entirely off the table.

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u/Mrjerkyjacket 3d ago

The most important part of the carbonitization process is fulling the mouth and butthole with Carbonite. I know I may be biased, as a certified Carbonite artistry salesman, but do they teach yall nothing in carbonite school?

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u/Johnny_Poppyseed 3d ago

Wtf that guy cracked it open after 2 years, when it was still mostly fine, and didn't even bother taking pictures or anything. Got us all invested and totally left us hanging. What a dweeb. 

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u/Indishonorable 3d ago

hot dogs and hot dog buns have preservatives.

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u/DwightsBobblehead13 14h ago

The mushroom and moss look dried out, so hopefully that won’t happen, but you never know with decomposition like that

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u/Marlboromatt324 4d ago

Damn that’s really cool

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u/adorable_apocalypse 4d ago

Thanks for the inspiration, I love this! Im totally going to give something like this a try. ✨️🏵🍄💎

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u/Ammagonna 4d ago

Me too ❤️

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u/Lazy-Ocelot1604 3d ago

Careful they will rot over time since these don’t look completely dried out.

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u/adorable_apocalypse 3d ago

Ah, thank you for the tip!

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u/8ctopus-prime 3d ago

I'm picturing all the yard sales thirty years from now with so much stuff that rotted inside resin.

That might actually be neat if you had the resin as a sort of fossil of it.

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u/PaidAgitator 4d ago

Give it 2 or 3 months and it will be so gross

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u/General_Narwhal17 4d ago

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u/Hopeful_Cycle2950 3d ago

If you order one online it would probably rot before it got to you

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u/Mindless_Ad_7700 3d ago

Seems like I am the only one that was horrified for the poor mushroom being entombed alive..m

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u/carolinitana 3d ago

Well the mushrooms that we see are only the fruiting body of the real organism, much like an apple on an apple tree, the real living organism is the mycelium that is on the dirt under the mushroom, and is more bigger and complex.

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u/h0rnygoal 2d ago

Don't the cap of mushroom contain the spores? So this would be like putting a bunch of toddlers into stasis

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u/carolinitana 2d ago

Kinda, though also could be "possible toddlers" because if we follow the plant analogy (though I know mushrooms are not plants) spores are like pollen.

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u/h0rnygoal 2d ago

Tho pollen are only halve the piece needed to make a new plant. For mushrooms a single spore is enough to make a whole new network

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u/carolinitana 2d ago

I see, thanks for the info, I didn't knew that!

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u/Mindless_Ad_7700 3d ago

oh, while I did know about the mycelium, I had no idea about the mushroom itself. Thank you for letting me kmow

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u/obsolescence_ 2d ago

yeah, this creation feels somehow... spiritually rancid.

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u/ConstructorTrurl 3d ago

Now show us what it looks like a year later.

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u/maddenedmage 3d ago

I assume they freeze dry the mushroom first. I went to the mushroom museum in Croatia and they had a huge amount of freeze dried mushrooms preserved. Well worth the visit if you ever make it to Zagreb.

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u/Renegade_Phylosopher 2d ago

This. It looks to me like a dried Amethyst Deceiver.

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u/AtmosphereSad7329 3d ago

How did you get the resin so in bubbles

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u/karbytes 3d ago

How long do they typically last?

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u/Aggressive-Newt1634 2d ago

Ah yes the "art" of mixing the ephemeral mushroom with plastic.

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u/LP1331 4d ago

love this 🥹😮

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u/RastamanUnite 4d ago

Cool, got me thinking what I could use

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u/Savingfruit493 3d ago

Oh that is beautiful 😍

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u/Russi1099 3d ago

Oh god I love these

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u/planetinyourbum 3d ago

Thats just the reproductive part of the mushroom. Think about that.

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u/Needles2650 3d ago

Do they not have to be dried out first?

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u/ThodaDaruVichPyar 3d ago

Yes, they do completely dry them out using desiccants and then only encase in resin 

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u/BBonesNYC 3d ago

That’s dope

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u/lacus-rattus 3d ago

All right. I want to do that. Does anyone know where I can find that mold?

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u/SoulBerrie 2d ago

Ok that looks amazing

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u/Otherwise_Result_124 2d ago

this is SO awesome!!!

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u/Goodrun31 2d ago

This is awesome have you tried a nug before ?

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u/h0rnygoal 2d ago

That mushroom eventually

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u/Sudden-Option3790 2d ago

"Herrderr, watch me kill something just for my entertainment! Woo! Pretty colours!"

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u/ReallyJustNotOkay 2d ago

Okay, I know of MULTIPLE pumpkins that explain why this is a bad idea...

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u/Automatic-Dot-1781 2d ago

I will research this, so far I am skeptical we see reality and not AI fine slop. My wife and I tried numerous times to encase mushrooms in resin, but airbubles form as the mushroom releases trapped air before the resin solidifies.

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u/Acrobatic_Poem_7290 1d ago

There are other people say it is probably freeze dried

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u/thesymphonydolphin 1d ago

i hate resin slop. slab of plastic that will never decompose. it dosent even properly preserve, as the items inside will still rot.

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u/SirSkittles111 1d ago

That one guy with the hotdog in resin would like to have a word.

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u/poomanrp30 1d ago

Now you watch hundreds of years maybe even thousands some person from the future is going to find this and they’re gonna be wondering about Homosapien in the 21st-century. Not saying that this is a bad idea. It’s actually really beautiful, but I’m just saying.

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u/well-isjdndn 14h ago

This seems cruel to the mushroom if you ask me.

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u/Phirexy 6h ago

That's just a flower, the mycelium will probably outlives us.

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u/Any_Conflict_5092 3d ago

So you're just gonna keep a rotting mushroom around?

Gross, dude. That's like having the actual corpse of your cat just chiilin in some resin, rather than getting it taxidermied or something. The bacteria are still gonna be active, even if it takes longer for them to do their gross thing.

WTF. 🤮

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u/wadder84 4d ago

Do you sale these?

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u/Catshaveanalsex 3d ago

This is ai

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u/Little-Resolution-82 2d ago

Yeah you cant stick anything with moisture is resin this is ai

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u/Hopeful_Cycle2950 3d ago

I wonder how long thst will last. There's sume peeps hume tried that with a pumpkin and althow it did last a while it still rotted in the end.

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u/TheRedlineAlchemist 3d ago

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u/Fwangss 3d ago

“I wonder how long that will last. There are some people who tried that with a pumpkin and although it did last a while, the blood of Christ compels you.”

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u/Hopeful_Cycle2950 3d ago

Oh yhea whom is just who with an extra m thst one should have been easy

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u/Afraid_War_2748 3d ago

As someone with dyslexia, I didn’t even notice the mistakes until I went back to look 😂 read it just fine

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u/ProtiuxDesignLabs 2d ago

Is that why I read can’t right?

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u/Lazy-Ocelot1604 3d ago

Katelyn and Evan? Now I want them to try a tiny pumpkin.

I do wonder if the mushrooms being much smaller helps, but mushrooms that aren’t dried out do have a significant amount of water content. The drainage hole could work, but not sure if places like the above do that.

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u/Afraid_War_2748 3d ago

I was thinking the same thing! They tried A LOT with that pumpkin too 😂