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New to this, couple of newbie questions.
    #26480074 - 02/11/20 12:14 PM (3 years, 11 months ago)

Hello everyone reading this. I am new to mycology and have a couple questions. 1.Why do some people put food coloring in their agar?
2. Why do some people use agar and some people use LC?


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Re: New to this, couple of newbie questions. [Re: pangolins]
    #26480079 - 02/11/20 12:18 PM (3 years, 11 months ago)

noob here also


i  believe i can answer 1st question roughly -

i  believe the best reason to colour agar is because you can notice whats going on the plate much better with a colour other than the natural agar. they contrast so the white mycelium pops through better.


learning myself so hope i helped and hope its a decent answer


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Re: New to this, couple of newbie questions. [Re: kn0wnr3m3dy]
    #26480083 - 02/11/20 12:25 PM (3 years, 11 months ago)

word thanks for responding. Also, how can you tell when spawn jars are ready to be mixed into substrate?


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Re: New to this, couple of newbie questions. [Re: pangolins]
    #26480086 - 02/11/20 12:28 PM (3 years, 11 months ago)

im currently on my first colonization stage myself.
from my own knowledge built from reading this site (sometimes very stoned) and i could be wrong, wait for the mycelium to take over the jar so only white is visable, a little shake and if the mycelium is fully taken over its time to either multiply grain or go to fruiting phase.


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Re: New to this, couple of newbie questions. [Re: kn0wnr3m3dy]
    #26480104 - 02/11/20 12:39 PM (3 years, 11 months ago)

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Re: New to this, couple of newbie questions. [Re: pangolins]
    #26480151 - 02/11/20 01:13 PM (3 years, 11 months ago)

With agar your able to see most contaminates making it much more user friendly, LC you won't be able to see contaminates well at all.

But once you have a clean LC you'll get waaay more spawn from it than a single agar plate.

Your nearly correct with that, you shake between 20-30% colonisation this spreads the mycelium around the jar making it colonise faster :smile:


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Re: New to this, couple of newbie questions. [Re: Kmacmo]
    #26480162 - 02/11/20 01:20 PM (3 years, 11 months ago)

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Kmacmo said:
Your nearly correct with that, you shake between 20-30% colonisation this spreads the mycelium around the jar making it colonise faster :smile:





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Re: New to this, couple of newbie questions. [Re: pangolins]
    #26480174 - 02/11/20 01:28 PM (3 years, 11 months ago)

LC is really just loose agar.

LC stands for liquid culture. You can make it once you have clean growth on agar.


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Re: New to this, couple of newbie questions. (moved) [Re: pangolins]
    #26480223 - 02/11/20 01:51 PM (3 years, 11 months ago)

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Re: New to this, couple of newbie questions. [Re: Kmacmo]
    #26480371 - 02/11/20 02:42 PM (3 years, 11 months ago)

thanks chief


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Re: New to this, couple of newbie questions. [Re: kn0wnr3m3dy]
    #26480431 - 02/11/20 03:11 PM (3 years, 11 months ago)

I shake my jars while they are colonizing. Shake it up let it recolonize then do it again. Usually when they look 100% and it’s very hard to shake them up is when I spawn them to substrate. I like to keep an extra colonized jar around and do G2G instead of cultures or agar. It’s just easier for me to do it that way.


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Re: New to this, couple of newbie questions. [Re: Ebah937]
    #26480476 - 02/11/20 03:25 PM (3 years, 11 months ago)

I color my agar because it looks sweet, that's it that's all.

I'll even color my lc... cause I can

Agar always, I always go spores right to agar. Why? A single drop of spores can create a full plate. You can begin transferring and multiplying your cultures. Keep these cultures alive forever if you want.
Save your spores, dont waste them and inject grain jars, you'll find yourself purchasing more in no time. That's just silly. Not to mention the contam that can follow, loss of yields.

After agar I'll noc grain jar, bags and LC.

ALWAYS AGAR. :smile:

Why lc? With a jar of lc you can noc a 100 bags, 1000 jars, its crazy. When I noc with my lc, I get more people to come by with bags and I share my culture. It's common to only use a lc once. So instead of wasting I prefer to share.
Lc always gives way better yields than anything else. I dont know why this is, it just goes ham!!! Thick sexy fruits. I recently harvested half a pound dry from the first flush of a pe. It was amazing. Didn't look like that much, but the fruits were solid and heavy. 66qt :smile:

I still noc with just agar, but I do lots of LC.
It's the best :smile:


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Re: New to this, couple of newbie questions. [Re: BlueTryptoYoshi]
    #26480574 - 02/11/20 04:00 PM (3 years, 11 months ago)

Thanks guys all this info helped a lot. I appreciate the advice!


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