I'm sure you guys and girls that have experience have noticed this, but it's pretty cool.

One of my "Z" jars was a slow starter. I think that was because it was the first jar I shot up and hadn't shaken the syringe enough.

Anyway, it finally started growing in a couple spots when the others were at ~30%.

After 3 days, it's still slower than others have been, but I notice different things going on in different spots.

One spot is real "thin" mycelial growth.

One is very uniform and circular, with silky, uniform "strands" radiating out in a circle.

Another is similar to the above, but with an aggressive rizomorphic growth from the exact center.

Yet another went rhizo-crazy, barely wasting time before going all ropey.

Yet another spot is thin growth in the middle, but on the outside of that circle of growth, it formed a "ring" of more robust growth.

I was all like "omg wow dood lolz" and stuff.

My roommates were less impressed, because they aren't geeks. Too bad I can't share with the geeks I know locally "hey, some guy I know grew this, check it out," so I figure I'd share with you folks.

I was going to photograph it yesterday, but camera batts needed charged and then we had a jam session that turned into a drinking binge. Batts are charging, and I'll try and get decent pics. (Damn I wish I could do color slides on the down-low...I've got a killer Nikon "Micro" lens for psycho macro work)

I'll try to get some pics this afternoon- might be interesting for people to see who ask "is this a contam or myc?"

I was also curious about the genetic implications of this growth...if I had the setup, could I grab the really weird ones and get them going on agar, reproducing their growing patterns in a future inoculation? Are these observations genetically predisposed, or are they more just...random? My other jars of Z and Brazilian are fairly uniform...I can tell the Brazilians are more rhizomorphic and less fuzzy, but as time goes on they look more similar.

I also think it's time to read in more detail about early growth stages...stuff I hadn't bothered with when just learning the teks.

Yeah, I'm more excited about this than I am about my other 23 jars going really well to about 70%.

Cheers!