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My 2 year experience with corncob bedding substrate
    #7698411 - 11/30/07 11:11 AM (16 years, 2 months ago)

Well, as much as I used to rave about using corncob bedding as a bulk substrate I've come to the conclusion that it is inferior to straw and other bulk substrates. Its main problem is that the pieces of corncob don't hydrate well even after boiling for 3 hours. Also, the irregular shape of the corncob pieces seems to hold excess water inbetween which settles out after a couple hours. I've made pans where I drained about a quarter cup excess liquid even though the spawn+corncob was drained well before placing in container. However, the excess water seems to be the main source of moisture for the cake to colonize. Cakes that I drained the liquid out of colonize soooo slow and some eventually start drying out before the spawn can colonize. On the other hand, cakes that I kept the liquid in colonized in about 4 weeks but had lots of metabolite from the excess liquid.

On the upside the corncob is extremely resistant to cobweb and trich (it will get infected if abused enough though). I've had pans that poorly sat in 90+ degrees incubating for weeks and never got contams, just lots more metabolite. I've even dunked and re-incubated some dryer cakes with success.

So maybe corncob is a decent medium if you have to colonize in high-contaminant conditions, but otherwise stick with straw/compost.


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Re: My 2 year experience with corncob bedding substrate [Re: AncientBeing]
    #7698595 - 11/30/07 11:54 AM (16 years, 2 months ago)

tried corn cob flour?


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