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morty422
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The Importance of Testing Cultures
#23824760 - 11/12/16 01:55 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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Everyone starts somewhere...
Usually, cakes are where a lot of new cultivators start... However, most of us get directed into the world of agar by other members of the community. I am one of those members that always tell new cultivators that have had some small amount of success at cake style grows or multi-spore>grain grows to get into the world of agar, but I often skip the act of testing cultures.
Agar is an incredibly useful tool-it allows us to isolate away from contaminates...It also allows us to transfer our cultures into new forms of spawn or media.
Agar is an essential part in our cultivation success. There is no question of this. It's a fact.
If you attempt to colonize a Liquid Culture with a few drops from a syringe - you will likely have terrible results. If you attempt to inoculate grain jars with a syringe-you will most likely have jars that are bacterial.
Fruiting either of these examples will (at the most) give you a low yield and crappy bio-efficiency. In its worst: Extremely contaminated jars/substrate.
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Whether you have a clone, monoculture, Liquid Culture, etc...It is imperative that you test your culture before you put a large amount of your time and effort into fruiting large amounts of it.
Just because you have a clean culture does not mean it will give you large flushes with potent fruits. The genetics of a fruiting body is a complicated matter, and just because you have a 'tissue clone culture' DOES NOT mean that every one of your fruits will be as big and bad ass as the initial specimen you took the clone from...
This post is for any new cultivators getting into agar, as well as growers who already have multiple cultures that you are currently isolating on agar.
TEST YOUR CULTURE.
Having 100+ jars of a culture is an awesome thing... HOWEVER! Having 100+ jars of a culture that won't even fruit is a TERRIBLE thing to realize after you have put time and effort into preparing tubs.
TEST YOUR CULTURES!
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cronicr



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Re: The Importance of Testing Cultures [Re: morty422]
#23824768 - 11/12/16 02:02 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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Cron approved post #248.
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  It doesn't matter what i think of you...all that matters is clean spawn I'm tired do me a favor
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