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Stargate
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Tub to Tub
#23616741 - 09/06/16 12:53 AM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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So, I'm getting ready to start a monotub in about a week. I would love to make more tubs than my spawn can actually make. Would it work well, if I colonized a tub, cut 10% off the end, and cut those into a set of 4 cubes, slurry them, and mix each slurred cube into a new monotub substrate? Could I get a lot more mushrooms, faster doing that?
Perhaps I could dice the tub fully into 40 cubes, and begin 40 new tubes?
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Edited by Stargate (09/06/16 12:54 AM)
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Mushierage
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I wouldn't.
Super spawning bulk indoors is pretty risky, chances are you'll end up with contaminated sub. Why don't you just PC up some more spawn and do a g2g method? That way instead of trying to spawn potential contaminants all over the outside of you sub to fresh sub, you transfer clean spawn to more clean spawn, and -then- spawn that to more sub to colonize.
You sub will also last longer this way in regard to nutrients which = more potential flushes.
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Stargate
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I generally always do just make more spawn, and do spawn slurry transfers for fast colonization. They are good, but I was just curious about sub methods. I get what you mean, as colonizing the sub is in an aseptic environment, therefore blending potential contams would give them a chance to take hold before the mycelium becomes strong enough to fight it in the beginning of each new colonization.
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aloe
Registered: 10/27/15
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Have you considered just expanding your spawn with grain to grain transfers with what you have already? Then you won't be throwing off your grain spawn to bulk substrate ratio, grain has lots of goodies for the mushrooms.
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Mushierage
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Re: Tub to Tub [Re: aloe]
#23616784 - 09/06/16 01:23 AM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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aloe said: Have you considered just expanding your spawn with grain to grain transfers with what you have already? Then you won't be throwing off your grain spawn to bulk substrate ratio, grain has lots of goodies for the mushrooms.
That's literally exactly what I just suggested. Lol
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aloe
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Quote:
Mushierage said:
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aloe said: Have you considered just expanding your spawn with grain to grain transfers with what you have already? Then you won't be throwing off your grain spawn to bulk substrate ratio, grain has lots of goodies for the mushrooms.
That's literally exactly what I just suggested. Lol
Had it typed out and got distracted for a couple minutes before submitting, didn't see the replies.
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Thedillestpickle
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you just simply can't do that.
Even if you could colonize that much sub with so little spawn, the problem would be that there are not enough calories available to the mycelium in the bulk sub. The energy to produce comes from the grain itself. You wouldn't be adding more grain with this method so therefore you wouldn't be increasing your yield at all.
back to the drawing board
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