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Tattoo
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Does smaller amounts of substrate turn over faster colonozation
#5348697 - 02/28/06 09:38 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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assuming you use the same amount of spores? and if so does this mean that to a small degree it will turn over faster (tho smaller) fruiting?
Say, drastically smaller amounts of substrate, or would the colony starve itself too soon?
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Re: Does smaller amounts of substrate turn over faster colonozation [Re: Tattoo]
#5348700 - 02/28/06 09:39 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Look at it this way. a one pint jar of BRF and verm can take up to three times as long to completely colonize as one half-pint jar.
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Re: Does smaller amounts of substrate turn over faster colonozation [Re: Fraggin]
#5348704 - 02/28/06 09:41 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Is time a factor with potency?
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Re: Does smaller amounts of substrate turn over faster colonozation [Re: Tattoo]
#5348706 - 02/28/06 09:42 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Not really. Nutrition is a factor in potoencey
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Re: Does smaller amounts of substrate turn over faster colonozation [Re: Fraggin]
#5348714 - 02/28/06 09:46 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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do you think- if someone attempted a 1/4- or 1/8 pint grow and did regular colonozation parameters that the cake would run out of nutrients quickly if administered the same amount of spores as a 1/2 pint grow?
Would dunking be a good excersize then?
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Re: Does smaller amounts of substrate turn over faster colonozation [Re: Tattoo]
#5348719 - 02/28/06 09:49 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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the amount of spores is n/a. One drop can contain thousands. The mycelium is smart enough to calculate it's nutrient content to determine how many fruits to grow and how big to grow them. You may get one medium size shroom or 10 small ones. Or, 10 fat asses.... Mycelium is a very interesting life form that will do what it has to to ensure it's own immortality.
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Re: Does smaller amounts of substrate turn over faster colonozation [Re: Fraggin]
#5348725 - 02/28/06 09:52 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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so can somone keep the colony alive indefinitly if they keep providing more nutrients? Instead of doing teks over and over again, why aren't people just feeding colonies more?
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Edited by Tattoo (02/28/06 09:52 AM)
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Re: Does smaller amounts of substrate turn over faster colonozation [Re: Tattoo]
#5348739 - 02/28/06 09:58 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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The strain becomes weak over time. Kind of like inbreeding. Read up on mycelium a bit more and you will understand.
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Re: Does smaller amounts of substrate turn over faster colonozation [Re: Fraggin]
#5348760 - 02/28/06 10:09 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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so can somone keep the colony alive indefinitly if they keep providing more nutrients? Instead of doing teks over and over again, why aren't people just feeding colonies more?
1)If by keeping the colony alive indefinately, you mean supplementing the fruiting substrate... supplementation CAN be done, but you will eventually end up with a contaminated substrate.
2)You can keep the colony alive on agar nearly indefinately... but after several generations you will get mutations as Fraggin said. I like to keep my agar "masters" in the fridge. Then every once in a while I use those to renew the DNA.
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