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HappyHardcore
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Nutrients from a substrate
#7593229 - 11/04/07 12:33 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Whenever mycelium colonizes and then fruits, do the nutrients that the fruit bodies are derived from come from the entire amount of substrate?
Say you have this...
 On the first (top) casing, are most of the nutrients that the fruits come from going to be towards the top of the casing (in this case poo) or throughout since the mycelium has to colonized a layer of completely new material. So would the main source of nutrients for the fruits more likely come from what's closer to the surface? If it would be true that the nutrients is even throughout the substrate in this case, would the colonized rye on the bottom of the casing, in the event that the bottom pinned and fruited, hold nutrients from the poo (a few inches above it) even though the fruits come from the very bottom of the rye?
And on the second (bottom) casing, would mixing the spawn of rye with the poo distribute so that the nutrients from the rye and poo are mixed, therefore, the majority of the nutrients of the fruit being derived from the mixed two so that wherever pins and fruits might come from, they're all growing off the same nutrients?
I was thinking about this when I was spawning the other day; wondering if I should mix the spawn and substrate or layer it. I like the idea of layering it because it's easier to adjust the myc to growing more even towards the top and when casing, it helps to have an already evenly smooth colonized surface to colonize the casing layer keeping it even = leads to better pinset (my techniques).
I've been pondering this since I spawned. It's a curious question to me.
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RogerRabbit
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You shouldn't have one layer of spawn, and another layer of substrate. You can mix them together, or you can make several layers of each so they can mix naturally.
Once the mycelium fully colonizes the substrate, the entire mycelium becomes one organism. Tracer elements have been added to one corner of a substrate, and the fruit bodies uniformly contained that tracer element, verifying that the entire substrate feeds the flush. RR
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HappyHardcore
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Re: Nutrients from a substrate [Re: RogerRabbit]
#7593883 - 11/04/07 09:29 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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That's great to know, thanks That cleared up a lot of suspicions and assumptions I was trying not to make. I'm going to take note of what you said adjust my technique accordingly. If my "experimenting" turns out successful, I will love to share it. Thanks again Roger.
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