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Old cakes left in incubator
    #5911089 - 07/29/06 03:13 AM (17 years, 6 months ago)

I've got about 6 cakes left in an incubator, they've been in there for a while, since before summer,they seem to be alright, except they have A lot of myc piss on them. The incubator is similar to alien's incubator, so they've been in the dark. I'm still getting fruits from my double tubs which I started at the beginning of summer but I'm thinking about starting a new one.

My question, Would you (the experienced grower)use these old cakes? I really hate buying syringes and making new cakes everytime I'm going to case. So is it alright to cover and leave them in the fridge (next time, instead of leaving them in the incubator) in order to preserve them? what else can I do to make things easier?



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Re: Old cakes left in incubator [Re: xsc]
    #5911131 - 07/29/06 03:48 AM (17 years, 6 months ago)

I wouldn't use them.

If you still have fruiting tubs why not just make some prints so you don't have to buy new syringes??


Yes you can stall cakes by placing them in the refrigerator. I prefer not to though. I get better results by making new jars when I need to start new casings.

You might want to look into grains. A few more steps in the process but not really much harder than cakes, if any harder at all in my opinion, although others will claim that is more so.

Grains will colonize alot faster since you can shake them up. You could also take a sterile knife and take chunks of the jars you have sitting and place the chunks into new substrate jars. This is called Grain to Grain transfers (G2G). That will allow you to not have to buy new spore syringes or make them up for that matter. But you cannot do this forever. The genetics start to degenerate after awhile. So it is good to make some prints as you go.


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Re: Old cakes left in incubator [Re: hawksapprentice]
    #5911490 - 07/29/06 09:40 AM (17 years, 6 months ago)

no.


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Re: Old cakes left in incubator [Re: monstermitch]
    #5912321 - 07/29/06 03:14 PM (17 years, 6 months ago)

thanks hawks'I currently use wbs as cakes, I believe u are referring to these grains as faster colonizers. I will definitely start spore printing as this has always been in the back of my mind, but never researched it fully.


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