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well, there are some benefits in the long run for diverse myc. cultures, if a pure strain is used it is more susceptiple to disease/death by contam. because what will kill one part of your culture will kill it all, whereas with a diverse culture you have a better chance that one of the sets of genes will be more able to fend off or be immune to any said attack.

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in theory, a colony of myc. in a cake will NOT be genetically homogenous, where a fuzzy mess will sprout is where the spores settle/where the spawn lays, and unless it was a pure cultured cake to begin with it is highly unlikely, but not impossible, that the colony is a pure culture.

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with spores, keep in mind that a single spore will produce a colony of cells called a monokaryon which will never produce fruits, it takes another compatible monokaryon to encounter, mate, and exchange cytoplasmic and genetic material to produce a dikaryon which IS able to fruit.

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i suggest you get yourself an agar kit and play around, the best way for you to learn about this is to see it happening.

- doc

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Good idea!

Thanks for the response

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if i'm understanding mushroom genetics right, only one in 4 pure strains of cubensis is actually capable of fruiting. would this mean that obtaining a pure, fruiting strain of cubensis via cloning would result in substantially better flushes? would it also mean better pinsets?

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if you isolate a strand of rhizomorphic growth from one of your cloned isolates it will be bigger, even pinsets IMO. 

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Thanks for the tip

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if you isolate a rhizo from your cloned fruitbody is what i'm sayin, then it will be the same genetics only stronger. 

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Gotcha

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Substrains interact, and rewire each other

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