Edmunter said:

Mycellium doesnt like certain colours, when I use blue food colouring it stalls.  Must be something in there it doesnt like.

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I tried food colouring a couple times and the mycelium eventually started feeding off it. Happened with red and green...the plates ended up looking really funky

I went back to no food colouring. I honestly didn't find much benefit from it it's slightly easier to see some contams I guess but it wasn't enough of a game changer for me to keep using it.

Tormato said:

Psilosopherr said:

yeah that part seemed normal to me, it was more the low cfm that seemed abnormal. Based on some threads I'm looking at it sounds like it might be fine but I'm still not totally sure.

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Nah...that's good! Hell the one I use is 350cfm...nah you're good.

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Yeah, it sounds fine to me. What brand of filter?

As long as your filter is providing 100cfm of flow (approx) across the front, after passing by the filter it should be fine.

LtLurker said:

Crackatoa said:

I know it's been asked but gonna make grain water agar. Do I just use half grain water half water? I thought about all grain water but that may be too much. Thanks guys

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i filter my gw for this and don't dilute it. but like said it's gonna depend on a few other factors, so when you got your grain prep consistent, it's easy to test different dilutions and see what you like.

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I gave up on grain water because it was really hit or miss for me. When it worked it was amazing but other times it seemed low nutes even though I used same grain simmer water (from wheat). I went back to MEA..all good...I love the smell of malt extract

san pedro guy said:

I finally got some powdered agar instead of this flaky shit that I had before. I think I may have used too much agar tho because the myc is not jumping off the transfer piece. What sucks is I only need about 6 of these “plates” at a time and I have to guess the ingredients measurements.

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The myc ended up liking the flavor red agar after all, I’m stoked! First real agar for me

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Yeah, it sounds fine to me. What brand of filter?

As long as your filter is providing 100cfm of flow (approx) across the front, after passing by the filter it should be fine.

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Thanks

its 'filtra corporation'

Psilosopherr said:

wonder if mushrooms watered with food coloring water would absorb the color the way plants do

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Psilosopherr said:

Yeah it arrived in good condition. 99.99% 24x24, only cost me 150.

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Shroomwomb said:

So This is my second time growing after using the brf tek I wanted to up my game a bit. I made agar plates out of grain wash and inoculated on the 29th of September. Its been only 4 days but I think my plates are fucked. What I have growing now is spreading rapidly over the surface of all of them. could anyone identify what it is? somehow its on every plate... Unless its mycelium (to me it looks way to thin and spreads way too rapidly)


Any recommendations on what to try in the future? I'm a little frustrated but I understand this is a slow process. Thanks for the help.
*I just spent a few minutes reading through the thread and feel I should mention that I used 400mL 100% grain soak water(boiled in grain 45min) and 8g agar. Why does dilution of the grain soak result in better growth?

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