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LySergic_Dude
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Mycelium or contam
#26931047 - 09/12/20 12:40 AM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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Please help out an amateur hobbyist, not sure if its mycelium or bacteria.
This is a sacrificial plate I've got 4 others just like it they hard to see through the lids so I had to pop one open



Smells like fresh mushies to me
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Looks like something is meshed in there. Not sure what tho
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Aw dang and I was hoping to transfer to grains

I guess I'll add em to grains and hope for the best
Then just start from scratch
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Okay so I touched the sacrificial plate and it turned blue
Like even the weird looking bits so I guess I dont have much to worry about
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LySergic_Dude said: Okay so I touched the sacrificial plate and it turned blue
Like even the weird looking bits so I guess I dont have much to worry about
That's not gonna tell you whether it's contaminated or not...
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Re: Mycelium or contam [Re: Forrester]
#26931186 - 09/12/20 03:56 AM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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Forrester said:
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LySergic_Dude said: Okay so I touched the sacrificial plate and it turned blue
Like even the weird looking bits so I guess I dont have much to worry about
That's not gonna tell you whether it's contaminated or not...
Aw fek 
Then what else would you recommend
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You could make some agar with activated charcoal and do more transfers to get rid of contams and the black agar will help to differentiate myc from contams.
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Do that if you want, or just use regular agar and transfer a piece from the leading edge of that to the new plate.
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Re: Mycelium or contam [Re: Forrester]
#26931333 - 09/12/20 07:48 AM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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I'll try the charcoal soon as I get some quid been interested in it
So for now I guess more transfers for me

Thanks guys
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I’d put it in a grain jar. I’ve had plates like that grow out fine. You’ll see the myc you want on your grains in about a week. Observe from there, and then toss or do G2G
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Re: Mycelium or contam [Re: SYF8]
#26932069 - 09/12/20 04:04 PM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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Much better idea to get a clean culture first before hoping you can spot contamination on grain...
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Re: Mycelium or contam [Re: Forrester]
#26932751 - 09/13/20 01:07 AM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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Lol I'm going with @Forrester advice after all this is the reason we use agar to spot contam and isolate strains
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