Re: Anti mold bud
That's interesting. I want to try using an anti mold strain as a substrate or extract supplement for a substrate and breed the mushrooms for resistence to it so there's no need to sterilize or pasteurize or anything like that.
Far fetched, maybe. But it'd be cool if it worked. It would probably be easy to breed plants for resistence to mold by adding something like brown rice flour plus vermiculite onto the buds and allowing them to become moldy. I'm thinking tyvek and plastic bags with foil or something like that.
The selection would need to be from a very large number though, unfortunately. Probably in the hundreds or thousands. Not something I can do in this region. So buying the seeds would save a lot of time. I'm most interested in bud that is unlikely to mold or least likely to mold, even when it's harvested and still kind of moist.
A high calyx to leaf ratio would probably eliminate the possibility of the mold inhibition being from loose floral clusters.
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