altford78 said:

Tri-Polar said:

Oh shoot thought I mentioned, been 4.5 days, and I have an insane sporeload(moldy apartment building + pnw) so I know shits on there.

Good writeup, I am personally somewhat partial to MEA even though I've been fucking it up a lot recently lol, im drawn to toxic relationships 

I read a thread (the "no pours suck" one) and it seemed like the OP had a lot of contams that weren't showing up due to seemingly his agar being too hard, lowered it to 1.25% or something and found so much trouble with contam I think they denounced SABs and quit the hobby lmao, rough stuff. But from that thread I've been inspired to 1. Lower my agar concentration and see if im secretly harboring nasties and 2. Create a time-lapse of particulates in an SAB

Also my sig is TW and Hillbilly pumpkin

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Backlight them, do you still see nothing?
You have a whole range of nutrient % in there, something should find one of them hospitable.

I mean contam will even show up on water agar eventually so something's up here if nothing grows by tomorrow/after tomorrow.

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Today:


The flecks are sediment, no signs of anything at all.

I've ordered maltoferm 1001, going to do another little LME brand shootout to see if I can conquer hot-break but now I'm also definitely lowering the agar concentration, this is weird to me.

Stipe-n Cap said:

Not all of your pictured plates are scalloped. The mycelium is just faster in some places, this is where you select from the strongest/fastest growth to produce symmetrical growth downstream.

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Stipe, remember this conversation about scalloping we had? You told me to avoid these:


Can I join the scalloping club now? Look at this shit: (top, fully colonized plates on each row are mother plates, offspring underneath)



The "best" plates reverted to dogshit tomentose and the rest are like pizzas that a drunk beaver had fun with.



These are the only somewhat organized



Unfortunately this organized one has a tomentose sector splitting it in half, and some weird fuzzy balls on it. Probably nothing, but still annoying. I should have removed the condensation, but I think you can still see what I'm talking about.


Fuck man, I was hoping to get a bit better plates than this. More transfers I guess...

Pandaskis said:

Is tomentose growth bad? ._., alot of plates i send are mostly tomentose

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No. Rhizo just looks cooler. A lot of PE is tomentose, so is usually RustyWhyte. Other varieties can go either way, depending on genetics and nutrients. The x7x I grow is always rhizo for me.

Main reason I like rhizo is no mold I've gotten looks like rhizo, and a lot of mold looks somewhat like tommy-toes shroom mycelium.

Rhizo is easier to tell from mold.

FYI, mold is fungus, just microscopic fungus.


Here's some rhizo Psilo Cyan that I only grew to this point, not to shrooms. Gave up wanting to grow it after I learned about Woodlover's Paralysis. It's rare but sounds horrific.

Yahra said:

WLP is the reason i have absolutely no desire to grow woodlovers. Scary shit.

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Yahra said:

WLP is the reason i have absolutely no desire to grow woodlovers. Scary shit.

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Just wait until one day you get to the point where you think to yourself 'huh, I think growing Pans would be fun '

nektar61 said:

Main reason I like rhizo is no mold I've gotten looks like rhizo, and a lot of mold looks somewhat like tommy-toes shroom mycelium.

Rhizo is easier to tell from mold.

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Unless you get that nice strong organised tomentose with the straight strands,  it's a bit

altford78 said:

nektar61 said:

Main reason I like rhizo is no mold I've gotten looks like rhizo, and a lot of mold looks somewhat like tommy-toes shroom mycelium.

Rhizo is easier to tell from mold.

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Unless you get that nice strong organised tomentose with the straight strands,  it's a bit

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SirPsycho said:

Nice mold

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Thanks

That AMZ on the bottom pic looks alright or it's also just organized mold? I don't know maybe it's some German mold.

I think all of that shit is just trash except the AMZ and the rhizo obviously.

altford78 said:

SirPsycho said:

Nice mold

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Thanks

That AMZ on the bottom pic looks alright or it's also just organized mold? I don't know maybe it's some German mold.

I think all of that shit is just trash except the AMZ and the rhizo obviously.

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Pandaskis said:

Mold be like, Oh shit its the trusted mold cultivator, better get our shit together

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