[Beast]

do you know Beastmaster, (or anyone) if you can dehydrate
them and rehydrate them at a later date, plant them and get
more flushes of mushrooms?

Well, there have been people who've revived old dessicated mycellial tissue on agar. ...And that's basically what sclerotia is, even more so as it seems to be designed to be a genetic storage point for perennial flushes of mushrooms?

The do dry out, and they can be rehydrated. When it comes to dosing dry sclerotia, its almost essential. I put em in a half pint jar with some water and mead and let em sit for about 6 hours or so, by which time they were not as tough and could be chomped and gulped down. The resultant water/wine mix with floaties of verm/wbs bits was not the best thing to wash it down but it felt more magical than the stones. Probably was. Cold water(w/ 15% alc) extract anyone?

I've been thinking, since its about time to refresh the substrate in a few of my terrariums that maybe planting some sclerotia in there with the worm castings and coir could produce some appreciable results...