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Dog Food and Verm Cakes
    #26399555 - 12/24/19 06:46 PM (4 years, 1 month ago)

I haven't found BRF locally, so I order it online. I recently made some agar plates with dog food and they're working phenomenally. So I decided to make some dog food cakes instead of BRF. I ground the dog food up in a blender and added it to damp verm then added that to a half-pint jar.

I'm curious about what you guys think.  I'm going to attempt to create a poll.  They were noc'd with spores so we should see results within about 10 days. I'll report back once I see growth.
Will dog food cakes work?
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Re: Dog Food and Verm Cakes [Re: JohnW]
    #26399573 - 12/24/19 06:58 PM (4 years, 1 month ago)

Dog food has meat.  Never thought of that, not sure how I feel about it.


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Re: Dog Food and Verm Cakes [Re: Morel Guy]
    #26399611 - 12/24/19 07:30 PM (4 years, 1 month ago)

It will work :thumbup:


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Re: Dog Food and Verm Cakes [Re: Tormato]
    #26399615 - 12/24/19 07:32 PM (4 years, 1 month ago)

Nice avatar


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Re: Dog Food and Verm Cakes [Re: Morel Guy]
    #26399618 - 12/24/19 07:34 PM (4 years, 1 month ago)

Could you tell us what brand, or post an ingredient list? And with what strain did you inoculate?

I think it'll probably work. My biggest worry would be that because of some of the fat in the dog food going rancid and the flavoring compounds breaking down you may not notice if you start getting off smells from your cakes. There's probably also food coloring in the dog food; so between changing the smell and coloring your verm, it may be harder to identify contamination.


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Re: Dog Food and Verm Cakes [Re: Stryst]
    #26399623 - 12/24/19 07:37 PM (4 years, 1 month ago)

Dry dog food is what you wanna use. It's used in agar recipes and I've seen other growers have success with it in cakes, blocks and bulk.


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Re: Dog Food and Verm Cakes [Re: Stryst]
    #26399632 - 12/24/19 07:44 PM (4 years, 1 month ago)

I used Beneful and noc'd it with Malabar. Here are the ingredients I found online:

Beef, Whole Grain Corn, Barley, Rice, Whole Grain Wheat, Chicken By-Product Meal, Corn Gluten Meal, Beef Fat Naturally Preserved With Mixed-Tocopherols, Soybean Meal, Oat Meal, Poultry By-Product Meal, Glycerin, Egg And Chicken Flavor, Mono And Dicalcium Phosphate, Calcium Carbonate, Salt, Natural Flavor, Potassium Chloride, Dried Spinach, Dried Peas, Dried Carrots, Iron Oxide Color, Minerals [Zinc Sulfate, Ferrous Sulfate, Manganese Sulfate, Copper Sulfate, Calcium Iodate, Sodium Selenite], Vitamins [Vitamin E Supplement, Niacin (Vitamin B-3), Vitamin A Supplement, Calcium Pantothenate (Vitamin B-5), Pyridoxine Hydrochloride (Vitamin B-6), Vitamin B-12 Supplement, Thiamine Mononitrate (Vitamin B-1), Vitamin D-3 Supplement, Riboflavin Supplement (Vitamin B-2), Menadione Sodium Bisulfite Complex (Vitamin K), Folic Acid (Vitamin B-9), Biotin (Vitamin B-7)], Choline Chloride, L-Lysine Monohydrochloride. P409018.


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Re: Dog Food and Verm Cakes [Re: Tormato]
    #26399636 - 12/24/19 07:47 PM (4 years, 1 month ago)

Yeah it's working great in my plates. I didn't realize other people had used it in cakes, thought i was on to something new.


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Re: Dog Food and Verm Cakes [Re: JohnW]
    #26399640 - 12/24/19 07:50 PM (4 years, 1 month ago)

I contacted the guy that used it. He grew some cubes and Lion's mane using it as supplementation.


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Re: Dog Food and Verm Cakes [Re: Tormato]
    #26399644 - 12/24/19 07:56 PM (4 years, 1 month ago)

Cool! I'm still a noob so I'll have to look up supplementation. These are probably the last cakes I'll make. I'm moving to grain after this first grow.


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Re: Dog Food and Verm Cakes [Re: JohnW]
    #26399672 - 12/24/19 08:37 PM (4 years, 1 month ago)

If you have a blender to grind the dog food, you can use the same blender to grind BRF. It comes out coarse, but it works just fine. Its how I do it when I need BRF.


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Re: Dog Food and Verm Cakes [Re: wildernessjunkie]
    #26399709 - 12/24/19 09:21 PM (4 years, 1 month ago)

Yeah dog food works I've used it in muda bottles a lot


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Re: Dog Food and Verm Cakes [Re: JohnW]
    #26416677 - 01/04/20 09:02 PM (4 years, 25 days ago)

Ok, the results are in...

Drum roll please...

The answer is YES myc grows great on verm and dog food cakes!! of the two noc points one is larger than a quarter and the other is pea size.

the dog food agar is a different story tho. the growth has slowed considerably compared to my pda plates. But that might be due to poor AE.


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Re: Dog Food and Verm Cakes [Re: JohnW]
    #26416712 - 01/04/20 09:31 PM (4 years, 25 days ago)

Pics?


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Re: Dog Food and Verm Cakes [Re: wildernessjunkie]
    #26417362 - 01/05/20 10:57 AM (4 years, 24 days ago)

Quote:

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Pics?



:whathesaid::popcorn:


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Re: Dog Food and Verm Cakes [Re: Tormato]
    #26418632 - 01/06/20 12:47 AM (4 years, 23 days ago)

Ok, sorry about the delay.  This is my first uploaded pic so I had to figure out which hoops to jump thru.


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Re: Dog Food and Verm Cakes [Re: JohnW]
    #26418635 - 01/06/20 12:51 AM (4 years, 23 days ago)

How did you go about hydrating the dog food?


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Re: Dog Food and Verm Cakes [Re: Randalf the Grey]
    #26418640 - 01/06/20 12:58 AM (4 years, 23 days ago)

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How did you go about hydrating the dog food?




I didn't. I ground it up in a blender and used it the same as you would BRF.


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Re: Dog Food and Verm Cakes [Re: JohnW]
    #26419810 - 01/06/20 06:40 PM (4 years, 23 days ago)

Looks fine to me.


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Re: Dog Food and Verm Cakes [Re: wildernessjunkie]
    #26419814 - 01/06/20 06:43 PM (4 years, 23 days ago)

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Looks fine to me.



:whathesaid:Hell Yeah :rockon:


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