Mtbromo said:

Do these two jars look contam or ok? 1st attempt at it all
Thx

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Tight Lunchbox said:

I think it's better to make due without having to buy extra stuff

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mushboy said:

weigh out 1gram of LME(light malt extract..powder!) i like doing ~1g per ~250ml water.

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MRB3 said:

This might be a little off topic, but making LC has me thinking about it. How can a grain jar be too wet, if my jar of liquid culture is not too wet? Do you get my drift?

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My other theory that nobody seems to want to confirm/deny/opine is that mycelium eats by depositing metabolites on a food source, then eating the dissolved food. If a food is dry, the metabolites hit it at 100% strength and more food faster = more growth faster where if its wet, since mycelium is super tiny and only produces so much metabolite, wet food dilutes the metabolites so it takes longer to produce mushroom food hence slower growth. Its not slow in a jar of LC because the food just swirls by and the mycelium just eats it instead of the dissolve and eat cycle. Its a personal theory but nobody has debunked it or tried yet.

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Stipe-n Cap said:

You don't need an extraction method. Just pour the liquid into/onto whatever you're inoculating, like you would pouring spawn while doing grain to grain transfer.

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