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something that confuses me about mycelial growth
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Hi again, it's me! You know, my friend is using a pure verm casing layer, and I got to thinking: how come the mycelium is able to colonize the verm layer if the verm has no nutritional value? I thought that when the jars were fully colonized, that there was no more food left for the mycelium. The mycelium colonizing a nutritional casing layer would make sense to me, but how come it's able to colonize the verm layer?

Surely it doesn't eat the verm, so what is happening? I am assuming that the mycelium is using its stored nutrients to create new cells, so theoretically it should be able to extend itself until it runs out of nutrients, and then it wouldn't be able to make fruitbodies and the network would just die there waiting for food. Is that right?

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Re: something that confuses me about mycelial growth [Re: megaman3]
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no. your thinking is flawed in many ways.

to answer your question, the myclium is simply growing through the vermiculite.



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Re: something that confuses me about mycelial growth [Re: Larrythescaryrex]
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The mycelia doesnt grow through the verm to absorb nutrients, it just grows on it because it can and because a light source is usually above it.....

I may be wrong though! I never really heard an answer because nobody ever wanted to know/cared.....

Fd :crazy: 


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Re: something that confuses me about mycelial growth [Re: Larrythescaryrex]
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> no. your thinking is flawed in many ways

lol! I take it you don't like me after that theforestfloor post. Oh well.

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Re: something that confuses me about mycelial growth [Re: Fd3000]
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> The mycelia doesnt grow through the verm to absorb nutrients, it just grows on > it because it can and because a light source is usually above it.....

There's usually no light above it during postcasing/prepinning actually.


> I may be wrong though! I never really heard an answer because nobody ever
> wanted to know/cared.....

yeah I know hehe.  I'm interested in mycological details while most people here just wanna get high  :grin:

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Re: something that confuses me about mycelial growth [Re: megaman3]
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What's with the recent rash of cultivation questions invading the General Questions forum?


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Re: something that confuses me about mycelial growth [Re: megaman3]
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the mycelium grows like roots do, it sends out tendralls. the lines of mycelium are nurished by the casing layor and run throughout the moist vermiculite layor absorbing water and when they reach the surface the light causes growth on the casing surface. Nurishment is carried from the crumpled cakes that make up the middle layor to cause growth on the surface.



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