What Would Happen If

there would be all different mushrooms growing outta one cake

no, they would compete with each other until one is left but has only the resources for fruiting that is left after the war

Originally Posted by ANC

no, they would compete with each other until one is left but has only the resources for fruiting that is left after the war

interesting, i did not no, ive seen multple species in the same general area in nature(not cubes) so i assumed it was similar. sry for the misinformation

Depends on what you mean by different kinds. I've seen pics on another forum of a cake with two very different cube strains growing from it,though they do seem to colonise their own half and fruit from it, no overlapping. Different species might vie to outcompete each other, it stands to reason it would happen in such a closed environment but in the wild I have personally seen up to 3 species growing from the same cow turd which when broken, showed the same sort of thing, each species colonised as much of the lump as it could and then stopped and fruited from that section. Just what I have seen and what reason therefore leads me to believe.

Sure you could do a tray with say two strains at either side, but it would be a mistake mixing the strains and then trying to grow them together in a tray like a bunch of wildflowers.

Some mushrooms kill they're neighbors. Depends on species/Genus

I've just done it actually with Golden Teacher and Albino A+ in an "x" innoculation pattern. Was hoping for a cake with normal looking fruit and the albino fruit coming out the same cake. As it turns out, only the GT quarters fruited. I should have expected that in any case since AA+ was always difficult to fruit.

If you looks closely you can see the "x" pattern where the 2 strains of mycelium met.

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I would imagine certain species of mushrooms would be suited better to grow near one another?