rcraft said:

A while back, I'd posted some of my agar pictures that were quite questionable:



I let those grow out a more, and to be honest they still looked pretty wispy. I've transferred the leading edges, and a few look a bit better, but nothing like what I see from some other awesome pics here.

At the same time, I took some wedges to grain just based on a feeling, and... it went from that, to what looks like a good start to growth?!



At this point, I'm wondering if there's something off about my agar recipe or ingredients. Maybe it's not solid enough and the mycelium is embedding in the top layer and looking translucent (maybe the liquid drop from MSS contributed). Not sure!

But so far, these jars are looking as I'd expect them to. Time will tell, I guess.

In the meantime, I'm gonna get my next set of plates going on a slightly different agar concoction. Slightly lower agar/LME, maybe some nutritional yeast.

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Brian Jones said:

Is there an objective reason to ever use food coloring at all? if you use LME which gives you clear plates, I just can't see the reasoning at all.

Less ingredients at every stage works, but there is some obsession with food coloring, yeast, coffee, even vermiculite and gypsum, which are all completely unnecessary.

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Smellyhobbit said:

milkboy said:

Objectively blue agar plates look cooler

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I second this

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shroomsurf said:

Why do the male and female spores not create hyphe or mycilium in the syringe and only when in food source like grain etc?

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shroomsurf said:

Why do the male and female spores not create hyphe or mycilium in the syringe and only when in food source like grain etc?

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Egon_Spengler said:

Rotnpins said:

I made a batch of 50 condiment cups about 3 weeks ago.. I checked them after 10 or 11 days and they were clean.. now I'm down to the last 10 and 6 of them look like they have 1 tiny speck each that's bacterial isn't bacteria usually a lot faster than this? The plates have been wrapped and sealed in a ziplock the whole time.

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I had a similar experience with unused condiment cup plates left to sit undisturbed for about 15 days, checked on em and they had a perfectly clean appearance. Moved to a different shelf, and within 3 days when I came back, a good number of them had a tiny bacterial blob show up. Only theory I could come up with after that much time, was that it must’ve been knocked onto the surface from an inside wall or from the lid while switching shelves.

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me too. My tidal waves are kicking out plate pins as well

shroomsurf said:

So there like just two spores that like eachother for some reason!?

What happens in the shroomery stays in the shroomery...lol

Thanks

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iyanacuaa said:

example (B)
what is the liquid? I try to wipe out condensation from the plate lid and wipe it with alcohol before putting it back on.

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cozmyc said:

shroomsurf said:

Why do the male and female spores not create hyphe or mycilium in the syringe and only when in food source like grain etc?

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In the syringe, there is just sterile water with no food. The little genderless spores wait for their tongues* to taste something yummy. Then they go all out. 🍄

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