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Solipsis
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What to do with cakes that seem to stop colonizing?
#12032757 - 02/15/10 09:34 AM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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What would you do with cakes that already took a pretty long while to colonize to 90% and just won't fill up a crack somewhere? It seems like contaminants are gonna win that 10% if the speed doesn't pick up. Too much water might have been a reason by the way.
- Would you birth it and perform surgery to cut out the 10% ? - Would you crumble it into bulk and case it and stuff? - Would you leave it in no matter how slow it goes? Maybe something extra to help?
Please elaborate why you want to choose your option, I also wonder about what mycelium reinforcement that happens at 100% has got to do with this whole picture...
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Re: What to do with cakes that seem to stop colonizing? [Re: Solipsis]
#12032827 - 02/15/10 09:51 AM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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I had about 20 cakes colonizing over winter, and about half did not fully colonize. Some not even 50%, which was most likely due to excess moisture. But I birthed them all anyways and scraped off the un-colonized portions, dunked them for 24 hours, then rolled. Nearly all of them grew mushrooms eventually, and decent sized ones too. It just takes like a week longer than fully colonized cakes if they are placed in the right conditions.
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Re: What to do with cakes that seem to stop colonizing? [Re: Solipsis]
#12032850 - 02/15/10 09:57 AM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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Quote:
Solipsis said:
- Would you birth it and perform surgery to cut out the 10% ? - Would you crumble it into bulk and case it and stuff?
Either of these. Leaning towards the first, because if they are in fact too wet bacteria has probably taken hold of the remaining 10% and spawning to bulk sub you will probably expand bacteria and perpetuate your initial problem. Cut it back, fruit, and take prints. Full colonization is certainly a pinning trigger, but sometimes shit happens and you have to deal with it.
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Edited by fungus_tao (02/15/10 10:00 AM)
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Solipsis
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Re: What to do with cakes that seem to stop colonizing? [Re: fungus_tao]
#12034042 - 02/15/10 01:39 PM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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Yeah the excess moisture is a pain in the ass, I got different types of verm, so they hold different contents of water. Thats got to have messed up the ratio. This last time I checked until they only dripped a bit. I think I got it now.
But some of the cakes I took out of the PC prematurely and water condensed because of the temperature.
I have one cake of Azurescens to be spawned to rye and then alder, but it actually has a gush of water in the bottom. The mycelium got away from the sides to prevent from getting wet feet lol. A total misser moisture-wise... but it's actually doing very ok!
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