micelio said:

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micelio said:

I forgot to add: I ground up my own brf. from a hand full of brown rice.
I used a Vitamix...

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ShaperDreaming said:

How long you PC that brf agar? Josex was recommending something like an hour for BRF Agar, but I just don't have time for that shit for agar, honestly.

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micelio said:

I forgot to add: I ground up my own brf. from a hand full of brown rice.
I used a Vitamix...

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micelio said:

A comparison between grain water and brf. Plates.
I just thought I would share this...

9/21 to 9/25
6 grams brf.
9 grams telephone agar
500 ml. water




9/21 to 9/25
10 grams telephone agar
500ml. grain water from oats



This is a sample of what most of my grain water plates look like at seven days..

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Dr.Ivan said:

micelio said:

I forgot to add: I ground up my own brf. from a hand full of brown rice.
I used a Vitamix...

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Damn your plates look great. I have used the same recipe as you have, but with purchased organic BRF. I am getting frustrated with my cultures. They never seem to take off. Almost seems to me like there is some growth inhibitor in my mixture, some fungicide or similar.

Yesterday I have transferred to purchased ready made plates with Kimmig agar for mushrooms. So far there is zero reaction after 24 hours. Looks like the mycelium does nothing. Very strange.

When you grind brwon rice in your Vitamix does it become like fine flour or is it more fine granulates?

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It's a very fine granulates to a powder...
When I mixed It up with water the powder disbursed nicely but I could see small granular particles settled down to the bottom of the container.



The culture I'm using is B+ from a pin on the first ms flush.
The tub had a nice pin set on nine days and was harvesting on thirteen days, so I grabbed a few pins and went to my agar dish. Each dish grew out with contaminated free cultures. The cultures in the pictures are transfer 2 from the pins.

I got to like telephone brand agar powder in the 25 gram sealed packed.
I don't have to worry about using old oxidative agar  that lost It jelling power..
7-25 grams units for ten dollars on ebay..