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Re: MS Inoculation to Agar and DIRECT Transfer to Grain [Re: mushhead]
#26625483 - 04/24/20 07:18 PM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Yeah! That's a nice looking jar. Thanks for the update!
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Re: MS Inoculation to Agar and DIRECT Transfer to Grain [Re: genesis128]
#26626241 - 04/25/20 04:45 AM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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Well I made two jars, one is a 1litre tub and the other a small band and lid jar. The intention was to use the ms nocc'd agar to see how it went (using very thin plates and the cleanest looking ones). Happy to report both jars have continued healthy growth. Will post a pic in a couple days or update if disaster strikes, feeling optimistic!
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Re: MS Inoculation to Agar and DIRECT Transfer to Grain [Re: genesis128]
#26626313 - 04/25/20 06:07 AM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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As long as the culture on your agar is clean, drop a chunk in a grain jar! Thats how its done.
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Re: MS Inoculation to Agar and DIRECT Transfer to Grain [Re: LogicaL Chaos]
#26647424 - 05/04/20 04:16 AM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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Spawned the ms agar grain to a shoebox this morning. The grain smelt of fresh mush so hoping for good results. Other clean transferred grain jars are colonising well. Very happy with the surface conditions of the shoebox, had to manually get the coir to field capacity but oh well. Did 1:1, I planned on CVG but didn't bother with verm just coir and gyp and cased with coir. I then clicked the lid on and put it in a bin bag out the way, can anyone tell me whether there is something better to do or if just leaving it in the bin bag for the next 10 days is the best port of call?
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Re: MS Inoculation to Agar and DIRECT Transfer to Grain [Re: Htaeh]
#26647511 - 05/04/20 05:33 AM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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Hey! I followed this TEK with pretty good results
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Re: MS Inoculation to Agar and DIRECT Transfer to Grain [Re: mimir]
#26647531 - 05/04/20 05:50 AM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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Top guy thanks.
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Re: MS Inoculation to Agar and DIRECT Transfer to Grain [Re: genesis128]
#26647658 - 05/04/20 07:50 AM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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genesis128 said: Can I get some of your guys experiences regarding this?
I want to inoculate an agar dish with a ms print. And without transferring to any more plates, I'd like to transfer that only plate to grains. Would the myc be too weak or would it be ok? Looking for a lot of experiences and advice.
...I would base my decision to transfer further based on all of your info.
Thank you
You should always transfer at least once. Why wouldn't you? I transfer as soon as I see clean growth. It would only add two days to your grow. Prints are never %100 clean , because the mushrooms are grown in open air. When you inoculate, you swipe the spores across the plate in a zig zag pattern. It makes it easier to identify clean myc to transfer after germination. Contams like bacteria or mold colonies can sometimes be hidden in plates, especially in germination plates. Agar gives us a 2D surface to isolate clean myc from contams. It's the whole point.
Otherwise, you might as well make spore syringes from your print
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Re: MS Inoculation to Agar and DIRECT Transfer to Grain [Re: mushpunx]
#26677379 - 05/17/20 06:03 PM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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any updates on this project? anyone got shrooms pumped out yet? I just put some agar to a spawn bag and it's colonizing but pretty slowly.... Way too slow. I wonder if my grains are too dry? Can anyone confirm how grains are supposed to look after pressure cooking? Are they supposed to be pretty wet looking or dry? Please help
I can't tell if my culture is slow or my grains aren't proper.
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Re: MS Inoculation to Agar and DIRECT Transfer to Grain [Re: genesis128]
#26677839 - 05/17/20 10:03 PM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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Re: MS Inoculation to Agar and DIRECT Transfer to Grain [Re: genesis128]
#26677881 - 05/17/20 10:40 PM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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I think it's actually better to prep grains a bit on the dry side. How big of a wedge did you inoculate with?
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Re: MS Inoculation to Agar and DIRECT Transfer to Grain [Re: mushpunx]
#26677899 - 05/17/20 11:01 PM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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Probably about 40 %of the agar dish. Another One was 20% of the agar dish. I want to see if it'll be able to colonize at that tiny size.
Why do you like it dry? For what reason?
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Re: MS Inoculation to Agar and DIRECT Transfer to Grain [Re: genesis128]
#26678033 - 05/18/20 01:29 AM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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I just think it does better than wet.
Those wedges are fine sizes, how much grain did you put in the spawn bags?
Once a size about the size of my fist is colonized, I break it up and shake the spawn. It usually finishes colonization in a few days after that.
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Re: MS Inoculation to Agar and DIRECT Transfer to Grain [Re: mushpunx]
#26678035 - 05/18/20 01:31 AM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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I’d say each bag had 1-3 quarts haha... didn’t really weigh it out. It was extra grain. I made too many. Will report back on how they do.
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Re: MS Inoculation to Agar and DIRECT Transfer to Grain [Re: genesis128]
#26680245 - 05/19/20 03:43 AM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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Good morning! A quick update on my germination plate to grain to shoebox. It's day 14 since spawn and WE got pins 
All other grain jars are very healthy (much more violent myc in comparison to the germ noc up) but I only really noc grains with agar pins at the moment. I feel its a sure fire way, with little room for error.
To add to what mushpunx said below, dryer grains in my opinion seem to perform better, I've had to experiment with the water content (oats) recently and the only two that contaminated (albeit I know exactly why they did) they were indeed considerably wetter than the ones that perform well and haven't contaminated.
As for colonisation times, as long as it doesn't stall and you continue to notice growth even small amounts of growth its worth letting them continue as you have a lot to gain and nothing to lose. Colonisation times vary, I've got a jar almost ready which was nocc'd ten days ago, one that's about 30% and that was nocc'd the same time so its just about patience really.
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Re: MS Inoculation to Agar and DIRECT Transfer to Grain [Re: Htaeh]
#26681133 - 05/19/20 01:13 PM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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Very Interesting Htaeh! / By agar pins I'm assuming you wait til your agar pins then put it to grain
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Re: MS Inoculation to Agar and DIRECT Transfer to Grain [Re: genesis128]
#26681157 - 05/19/20 01:25 PM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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Or do you just drop the little pin by itself to grain? curious
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Re: MS Inoculation to Agar and DIRECT Transfer to Grain [Re: PMBastian]
#26681159 - 05/19/20 01:27 PM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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You pop the pin off the plate and toss it in the jar.
I’ve got some rusty whyte pins on grain myself.
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Re: MS Inoculation to Agar and DIRECT Transfer to Grain [Re: A.k.a]
#26681168 - 05/19/20 01:29 PM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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cool, does that colonize quicker than just putting wedges to grain? never had an agar pin before, but i've left my agar plates out this time around in hopes of getting them.
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Re: MS Inoculation to Agar and DIRECT Transfer to Grain [Re: PMBastian]
#26681177 - 05/19/20 01:33 PM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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Well.
Cronicr made a thread and his was extremely fast.
Mine have not been but I also didn’t drop the pins until they were close to an inch long. I dropped two at first and it took about four days to see myc starting but really only on the cap and very end. But then I dropped a third younger pin the other day and the whole thing is starting to grow myc after two days.
So I think the key is to get it on grain ASAP.
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Re: MS Inoculation to Agar and DIRECT Transfer to Grain [Re: A.k.a]
#26681416 - 05/19/20 03:48 PM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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genesis128 said: Very Interesting Htaeh! / By agar pins I'm assuming you wait til your agar pins then put it to grain
As A.K.a said above, the plate will pin if left long enough and then you transfer said pin to the grain itself.
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A.k.a said: Well.
Cronicr made a thread and his was extremely fast.
Mine have not been but I also didn’t drop the pins until they were close to an inch long. I dropped two at first and it took about four days to see myc starting but really only on the cap and very end. But then I dropped a third younger pin the other day and the whole thing is starting to grow myc after two days.
So I think the key is to get it on grain ASAP.
I decided to try three things in three separate Jars to compare.
First was a pin, real small young pin. Second, a more matured pin/mush half way between a knot and breaking the veil. Third, a fully matured sporulating mushroom (on agar of course).
The first small pin, I pretty much lost for about a week, no amount of rolling the jar around could I find it. After day seven I noticed a green spot, thought it was contam and took it downstairs to chuck it out but instead just left it inside a cupboard, long story short that was the pin turning blue not green and now the jar is over 50% colonised with healthy violent myc. Day 11 since nocc'd.
Also day 11 since inoculation the second more mature pin is over 80% colonised, this pin took less time to turn back from mush chitin to mycelium onto the grain. It's currently just recovered from a shake, again, healthy 'violent' myc.
The third, fully matured mush, took even less time to transfer back to myc and onto the grains. Its just four days since inoculation but still less that 10% colonised.
I surmise that somewhere in between the mush life cycle is best for grain transfer. The small young pin took considerably longer to transfer into mycelium and onto the grain compared to the 'half way' second pin. And although the third one is again quicker than the second to transfer back into myc and onto the grain the second still seems quicker and with healthier myc by comparison. Understandably, its still too soon to tell really, given the third one has only been nocc'd four days ago.
Of course this was just one little test, genetics are different etc but they are all AA+.
Above all, it is a very straight forward and quick inoculation of grain. Using sterile tweezers its an almost fool proof and sure fire way of getting clean spawn.
Edited by Htaeh (05/19/20 03:56 PM)
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