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fidget
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Does mycelium turn blue agar orange?
#26660717 - 05/09/20 07:38 PM (4 years, 8 months ago) |
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I made a batch of plates that I transferred from clean growth plates where the same agar recipe was used in both. I used blue food coloring, but as growth happened on the new plates, the blue turned to orange as the mycelium grows. Does the mycelium eat the blue or is a competing contam?
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Nimpo
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Re: Does mycelium turn blue agar orange? [Re: fidget] 1
#26660875 - 05/09/20 08:49 PM (4 years, 8 months ago) |
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Hit us with some pics
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fidget
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Re: Does mycelium turn blue agar orange? [Re: Nimpo]
#26667381 - 05/12/20 07:38 PM (4 years, 8 months ago) |
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Here are some of ones that started blue and all the blue is gone now. I did some transfers even with the orange and sure enough orange is starting on the new blue plates.
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Broken Veils
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Re: Does mycelium turn blue agar orange? [Re: fidget]
#26667413 - 05/12/20 07:53 PM (4 years, 8 months ago) |
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I believe mycelium can eat through food coloring...might be whats happening here since the coloration only changes when in colonized areas
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Ambrose

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Re: Does mycelium turn blue agar orange? [Re: Broken Veils]
#26667463 - 05/12/20 08:23 PM (4 years, 8 months ago) |
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Ignorantape
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Re: Does mycelium turn blue agar orange? [Re: Ambrose]
#26667486 - 05/12/20 08:42 PM (4 years, 8 months ago) |
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It turns my green agar kind of yellowish. Pretty useful actually. It gives me an idea of how old the plate is with just a glance.
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jcm4620
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Re: Does mycelium turn blue agar orange? [Re: Ignorantape]
#26667701 - 05/12/20 11:47 PM (4 years, 8 months ago) |
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yup heres a good example of myc eating food coloring rite out of the agar

 it started out bright blue then turned purple then clear
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Re: Does mycelium turn blue agar orange? [Re: jcm4620]
#26668123 - 05/13/20 07:22 AM (4 years, 8 months ago) |
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It does it to my blue plates as well.
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Re: Does mycelium turn blue agar orange? [Re: Domno]
#26668349 - 05/13/20 10:01 AM (4 years, 8 months ago) |
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Same thing here, totally normal.
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Re: Does mycelium turn blue agar orange? [Re: jcm4620]
#26671236 - 05/14/20 06:53 PM (4 years, 7 months ago) |
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Thank you all, I was worried as the first plates that were streaked with spores didnt do it and now all of them are doing it!!!
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