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Old 09-27-09, 03:46   #1 (permalink)
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Is it worth fruiting Mycrobags invitro?

Mycrotopia supercake mix bags each have about 3 cups of substrate in them. Is it worth fruiting these invitro if you have a bunch?
The appeal would be the speed and simplicity as you just have to innoculate and when its colonized cut some air slits and turn on a fan.
After harvest they could easily be dunked and then placed in a new ziploc bag with air slits to fruit.
If it would help they could even be dunked before the first flush.
So the pros are that you have a number of invitro bags so if you have any contams its isolated, require the minimalest of care and attention, after harvest easily dunk and use a new bag, speed from innoculation to harvest, you just have bags no jars or tubs so a grow can easily be tossed in a bag and moved.
The con is that its only 3 cups of substrate and theres a much greater yield by spawning to bulk but that involves time cost and preperation.
Basically it seems like the Mycrobags invitro are worth it if they can produce any kind of yield. The bags they come in seem unnecessarily big for fruiting I assume theyre so big for air colonization, if they can be dunked for beneficial effect prior to the first flush they could be dunked and placed into a much smaller ziplock bag to fruit to maximize space efficiency
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Was just lookin at the super cake formula:
"I take:
lake water
I toss a cup of worm castings in a 2.5 gallon jug with,
2 tablespoons of liquid kelp extract added per gallon

And let it brew a couple days

> a batch = 12 half pints

Each batch gets:
4 heaping cups vermiculite , medium horticultural grade,
2 heaping cups coarse freshly ground rice,
2 level cups lake water 'tea'

Then I add:
1 teaspoon of nutritional yeast,
1 tablespoon bee pollen,
1 tablespoon flax seed,
1 tablespoon shredded coconut meat/flour,
1 tablespoon blue corn meal,
1 tablespoon coarse yellow corn meal,
1 tablespoon of powdered/ground kelp meal,
1 tablespoon of cottonseed meal

and mix well"

And it seems like pound for pound this mixture has a greater variety of "food" (I use the term loosely) for the mycellium than most bulk mixtures (simple straw/poo, coir, etc...) simply due to all the things included.
This gives me hope for their fruiting capabilities
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