Spank said:

Hey, new cultivator here! I'm wondering if this could be something other than cube myc?

First pic is a Z-strain germ plate from a swab, done on 7-1 (it took about two weeks until one point germinated near the edge, which took over the plate very quickly), and the other two are transfers taken from that on 7-21, and those were fully grown out in 7-10 days. The "puffing up" overlay looking stuff didn't really happen until heavy colonization, it grew fairly uniformly across the surface before that.



A few things concern me: the colonization speed, starting location, and weirdly the smell of the plate. It has an almost tropical-fruity scent, like suntan lotion, bananas, or baby powder or something. But that's just the open plate, I haven't smelled disturbed mycelium directly yet. My other definitely-clean-cube-myc plates definitely smell more neutral.

I really hope this is the myc I'm looking for, but part of me wonders if it's too good to be true. I also know that even if it is cube myc it might not fruit or could have other bad genetics, but I just wanna make sure I'm not inoculating my limited grain jars with mold  xD

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wild_aussie said:

So I have some nat plate pins I'm putting into lc.  Is there a better note sterile way to do it or just open in SAB cut with scalpel stab and drop into lc is that about it.  Just want to make sure I do it as clean as possible thanks

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Spank said:

My camera's busted, already on manual focus, but I opened a plate to try for a better pic.



I'm not worried about underlying contam, as I watched the germ plate like a hawk, and nothing else grew. I swabbed 3 plates, and one did nothing, one only grew whatever this is, and the other has multiple points of germination only recently, no visible contam, which I'll transfer from soon. All of that mycelium is very tomentose and aerial as well.

edit: as for temps, I'm low 70s to mid 80s. Knock on wood, but all of my contam issues have been obvious to spot and easy to fix or mitigate, the heat hasn't been a problem. With this plate, it looked a lot like thin tomentose mycelium as it quickly spread over the surface. It seemed to grow fast but I figured it was just an aggressive colonizer. But then it did all this weird aerial stuff. Maybe you can see, the myc is practically as tall as the agar is deep.

I guess I'm just wondering if anybody else has grown some kind of mold that makes big fluffy pure white clouds over their entire plates, because if not then this is almost surely clean cube myc... unless there's also some kind of completely macroscopically invisible agar contam I haven't read about

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Spank said:

This was z-strain cubensis, which I've heard can be an aggressive colonizer

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It was for me. Very rhizo too.

I had a plate of it in a fridge for 7 months. Took a transfer to new plates, this was a week later:


Shrooms I grew from it grew fast, were small but very potent for cubes.


Bruised more green than blue too. The B+ I grew for my first grow did that too.

Guerrilla said:

You can definitely caramelize the sugars going for longer.. Why are you going that long? 15-20 mins is perfectly fine.

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Guerrilla said:

Try 20 mins, if it works, win. If it doesn't, then you can rule that out and keep looking.

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I'm rooting for you.

I'm thinking it's gotta be your PC times,.. I mean, from what I can tell, you've pretty much ruled out every other variable

Rotnpins said:

Guerrilla said:

Try 20 mins, if it works, win. If it doesn't, then you can rule that out and keep looking.

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I'm rooting for you.

I'm thinking it's gotta be your PC times,.. I mean, from what I can tell, you've pretty much ruled out every other variable

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