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EZPZyaBZ said:
Yo bro, since you are in a position to equip yourself so thoroughly "like it ain't no thang", you should get an AA 75x when you can. You will LOVE it.

They are plug-in sterilizers and you can set them up with a timer. If you are planning on going relatively big it will change your life.

After my flowhood, it's the best thing I own. Might be close actually.

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Kabluee said:
So ive decided to go with Corn instead of Rye as i have a few bags of the rye currently colonizing and im finding it difficult to see if they are clean or not due to the color of rye being brown and mold and contams tend to be green which makes it very difficult to see being colorblind,so im thinking corn will give me more transparency when looking for contams.

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I will leave the discussion of rye vs corn for someone else, but if you are relying too much upon your eyes in this hobby you are going to be let down a fair bit. Your flowhood with proper sterile technique is the answer. Rather than choose a grain based on something like "easier to see contaminants on", I'd go with what you find to be the better performing grain in general, because even if the grain was see through, you aint gonna see all of the contaminants that can and will rear their ugly heads if you don't have sterile technique down.  Of the two you mentioned my money is on rye though, and I think that sentiment is pervasive, but popcorn does have it's fans. Do what works for you, but don't give too much credit to any particular grain when it comes to successful grows, or to being able to see stuff on it, or because of the contamination rate you may or may not experience, or because of anything else, because grain choice is a distant second to the end all be all of sterile technique. I may already be preaching to the choir to some extent as you've clearly done your homework broskie. You're on your way, I expect big things.

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Nichrome said:
I would recommend any good BINOCULAR microscope preferably with both bottom and top lights.

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Thanks Big Dogg

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Nichrome said:
This is looking through the lid of a petri dish at 1600. Photos are taken with a 5mp microscope lens camera. I would recommend any good BINOCULAR microscope preferably with both bottom and top lights.



The field of view is about 10x that of the camera with the naked eye and real life resolution is clear as day.

This is an oil immersion view of zapotecorum? spores.




I see LOTS of mis-identification due to lack of microscopy capabilities. Very experienced cult members regularly call things mold and bacteria that are absolutely not either of those things... (picture 2 is Aspergillus Oryzae mold)

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