Steve9333 said:

I tried MycoWillys fauxhood(box fan and furnace filter) Bad idea most contam I’ve had on agar.

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jay.ach said:

Purple Mystic T-5





All of my transfers for Purple Mystic have been similar to this one from my T-5 group.  About one-third of each transfer is very slow. In these shots, it's the 4 o'clock to  7 o'clock slice.  It eventually fills in but I assume this means I'm transferring something bad along with myc. 

I'm taking my transfers from the opposite side of the slow growth.  I'm planning on continuing to transfer until I get consistent growth.  Any other suggestions?

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roarkell said:

I just noticed it more and more from when I take bigger chunks as transfers... the closer-to-the-center segments always took off faster and almost always were more rhizo... ill see if I can dig up some pics to illustrate my point...

Edit:

You can kinda see what I mean here... the 6 o'clock area was the "leading edge" from the donor plate... the 12 o'clock area would've been closer to the center of the parent plate... I believe the more established myc from the interior of the parent plate tends to be stronger... the whole leading edge idea is just to ensure you're not transferring something insidious.

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Quirkmeister92 said:

Each strain present grows at slightly different rates right? If you isolate a faster strain it may fruit faster, but if the yield or potency was initially carried in genetics that were excluded then your culture may not be ideal just because it's fast. Leading edge is fast, but is it robust?

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