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Why do you use different agar recipies?
    #26870677 - 08/08/20 09:04 PM (3 years, 5 months ago)

This may have been asked many times before, but i have not found any conclusive answers to this: why use different agar recipes?

1. is it to speed up growth
2. reduce contams
3. to provide different nuts for continued transfers (myc needs a change up of food)
4. for stubbornly germinating spores

Why not just use the standard plain agar or MEA? Please enlighten me :smile:


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Re: Why do you use different agar recipies? [Re: maxmush]
    #26870686 - 08/08/20 09:13 PM (3 years, 5 months ago)

I'm just here for the info.


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Re: Why do you use different agar recipies? [Re: SoupyGeorge]
    #26870694 - 08/08/20 09:19 PM (3 years, 5 months ago)

ill change it if im bored. maybe the myc feels the same way? not sure.

antibiotic agars seem useful in some instances like cloning wild fruits. ive never used it tho.

if spores are stubborn i find a softer agar more useful than changing the nutes.


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Re: Why do you use different agar recipies? [Re: mushboy]
    #26870713 - 08/08/20 09:52 PM (3 years, 5 months ago)

Quote:

mushboy said:
ill change it if im bored. maybe the myc feels the same way? not sure.




:cookiemonster: Also, I have found the myc to stay more aggressive when keeping a constant rotation of nutes every transfer. I think you kind of hit on all of them. The faster the myc, the better the chance for it to consume the agar.

The other reason is grain water soak is incredibly cheap and can help cut into costs/inventory of buying supplies for MEA/PDA.


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Re: Why do you use different agar recipies? [Re: FeedYourMind]
    #26870801 - 08/08/20 11:36 PM (3 years, 5 months ago)

Mostly #3 is why I would.  I don't do it often.  But adding a little bit of grain water to my potato flake agar seems to help prepare the mycelium to leap off onto grain better.


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Re: Why do you use different agar recipies? [Re: Inocuole]
    #26870882 - 08/09/20 01:34 AM (3 years, 5 months ago)

I dont switch it up much at all. Myco standard 1.5% mea all day for me

For slants i use 3%

I use antibiotics sometimes to clean up a wild sample, or a rare sporeprint that is dirty af beyond easy cleaning w serial streaking. Sometimes i will use em on a plate before making slants, not usually tho. Very very rarely are they called for

Will play w the agar agar and nutrient % a bit if i have trouble germinting some tricky spores i really care about


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