So I understand why mold occurs, spores, good environment for the spores to become mold, mycelia being annoying, my question is; why does it remain mold? Like… Say you leave a piece of bread in a breadbin and it becomes slightly moldy after a week, but it’s basically full of mold after a few weeks; at that point, where is the mold even getting the nutrients it needs? Has it not drained all the moisture and other stuff from the bread? Why does it still look the way it does?(that being full of mold) does the mold ever just… Turn to dust and float away? What happens to it?
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The visible part of the mold is just a tiny part of it. The mold actually infects the entire bread slowly turning it to mycelium. However after just a few days it have only infected the entire bread but still not consumed it. It is mostly still bread just infected with a bit of mycelia. It takes months for the mold to extract all the nutrients from the bread and converting it into the protein, fat and sugars it needs to make spores, even longer if it is cold and dry. But eventually the entire bread have been turned into spores and just some tiny bits of dust remain of it. This does take a very long time though, months or years even depending on the conditions.
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