Spellbound. “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic” puts it perfectly. I’ve been backyard lab testing different anywhere-available mushroom substrates recently and what I think is Jute is one of them. Burlap type old sacking. First tests are slowly are slowly working with chopped strands, but things got bionic after I ‘nixtamalised’ the Jute, involving boiling the stuff in an acid and then soaking in a base to 6.5ph. This was mixed with a rice flour and vermiculite substrate. The P.Eringii spore injection took up the flour and scaled the 3d jute mesh for a few days then flipped to eating it . It’s been the most successful colonisation so far from this lot so I expect a cake harder than a hockey puck. How did You treat the fibres before inoculation if I may ask?. Viva Italia!! and happy xmas people. x