chfbrd said:

took a piece of grain from a bag that seemed to grow pretty fast....not sure though if it was myc or white mold??  does any part of this plate look like myc or is it all white mold?

thanks

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CaptainPuffy said:

chfbrd said:

took a piece of grain from a bag that seemed to grow pretty fast....not sure though if it was myc or white mold??  does any part of this plate look like myc or is it all white mold?

thanks

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This post was written a few hours ago, it is super informative about recognizing contamination on agar. Compare what you have on this plate to the pictures of troubled areas mentioned in the post:

https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/29052121

I think you will agree that what you have doesn't look like cube mycelium.

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Mr Piggy said:

Autism baby, there ain't any emotion in those facts.

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Mackload said:

clone tissue transfer from a few days ago



thought it looked maybe ok. but close up shows scalpel marks from the flailing technique, and little amber beads of what I guess is bacteria. barely discernable with the naked eye, spotted with magnification.





now can't unsee lol. time for a transfer was yesterday

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fahtster said:

Noice.  It really is pretty great.  All my masters fit in a qt ziplock in swab packs with like 15ish grains per.  Every time I take a clone, I clone to 4oz grain jars to double check cleanliness before g2g’ing that to qts and when I do that, I leave like a 1/4 tsp of grains in the 4oz jar.  I have adjustable ge lids for the 4oz jars that I can expose most of the lid area and put that jar with a little bit of grains in front of a fan and they’re dry in like 3-4 days.  So every clone I take immediately has been backed up on dry grains and in a swab pack before the qts are even done colonizing.  If the clone ends up shit, I just toss the swab packs



It’s a pretty great system

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