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Spotting contamination on pasty plates
    #26844830 - 07/25/20 03:35 PM (3 years, 6 months ago)

Hi all! First time grower, want to say thanks for the wealth of information that's been aggregated here over the years- it seems almost every question has an answer to it somewhere.

After weeks of research and gathering supplies, I started my first run-through of PastyWhyte's Easy Agar Tek five days ago, and inoculated with a spore syringe in a SAB the next day. There is still a fair amount of condensation on my plates, although it has decreased some, but from what I've gathered I just need to be patient about that.

With that in mind, I've been trying to spot growth by holding it up to the light and looking through the bottom of it; I feel like I'm definitely seeing growth, but without taking the top of the plates off, it's really difficult to get any kind of good look at it. So I guess that I have two questions:

1. Can anyone tell from these pictures of the underside if it looks like I have contamination? My inclination is to say yes (I tried to emotionally prepare myself to fuck something up the first time, lol) but I have no way of knowing for sure what it looks like.

2. Is there a good way that I could take the top off and get a picture of the plates from above for better identification? I'd much prefer to post pictures that would be of good use to more experienced cultivators, but I'm not sure how to go about it.

Sidenote- the only differences in my procedure is that I didn't use food coloring (I have a new batch of pasty plates with green coloring added cooling in my PC right now, just wanted to see if I could get some more info before I went about inoculating them), and instead of Karo or honey, I used 1/4tsp of dextrose powder. I believe I might have been overthinking things-- I was struggling to choose the right kind of honey, and the only karo I could find had 0 grams of high-fructose corn syrup added, and I was reading conflicting reports about whether that was important. I know that I've invited error by deviating from the TEK at all, but could anyone tell me if these seem like points where I obviously fucked up?

Thanks! If there is any more information you need please just let me know




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