Wall.E said:

If I had to guess it’s because mushrooms normally grow in wet and damp environments like after a heavy rain or whatever. That’s when people find mushrooms. So while the may get hydrated, they don’t quite extend their hyphae until their enzymes or whatever detect food.

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DERRAYLD said:

The glad rounds aren't easy to see through unfortunately.

The 2nd plate looks to have growth everywhere which appears to be contamination.
The plates with growth isolated to the transfer have my likelihood of being clean.
The problem is lots of the issues could be from bacteria which is tough to see through opaque plastic.

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Are these pictures more useful?

DERRAYLD said:

If you're confident that they are clean of bacteria then the plates look okay, if that's  T1 then it is common for the growth to be irregular, you must isolate the good growth and transfer to a new plate.

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Planeraptor333 said:

then there is this guy.... it is getting thicker and growing but is sooo dense looking..

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Padaone said:

DERRAYLD said:

If you're confident that they are clean of bacteria then the plates look okay, if that's  T1 then it is common for the growth to be irregular, you must isolate the good growth and transfer to a new plate.

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Thank you, you've been very helpful. If I may ask just one more question based on what you see here where would you take transfers from? I know some of the pics are shoddy but I think I see good growth on some, just want to confirm.

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