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DERRAYLD
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Re: AGAR ENVY! (Anything and All things agar!)

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#27316130 - 05/20/21 12:10 PM (5 years, 5 months ago)

:mad:

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Re: AGAR ENVY! (Anything and All things agar!)

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#27316252 - 05/20/21 01:46 PM (5 years, 5 months ago)

Bummer. How'd you pull that off? It's easily savable though, so that's nice.

Southerner, I can't tell a gosh darned thing from that photo. Standing water can and will cause the myc to look odd and make it hard to distinguish clean cultures from dirty ones.

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DERRAYLD
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Re: AGAR ENVY! (Anything and All things agar!)

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#27316270 - 05/20/21 02:01 PM (5 years, 5 months ago)

I'm trying to figure that out at the moment.
Starting a new batch of agar tonight to make some transfers tomorrow, quite a few plates look like this unfortunately.

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Southerner
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Re: AGAR ENVY! (Anything and All things agar!)

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#27316299 - 05/20/21 02:30 PM (5 years, 5 months ago)

verum subsequentis said:

Southerner, I can't tell a gosh darned thing from that photo. Standing water can and will cause the myc to look odd and make it hard to distinguish clean cultures from dirty ones.

Haha yeah it was a pain trying to get a picture with everything visible. If you expand the photo and zoom in on the transferred wedge you can see some squiggly growth that I’m assuming/hoping is pearl oyster myc. The bumpy area is at the very top of the plate but it’s not very visible.

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Re: AGAR ENVY! (Anything and All things agar!)

[Re: DERRAYLD]
#27316448 - 05/20/21 04:16 PM (5 years, 5 months ago)

I’d bet it’s from bumping your scalpel or something the way the bacteria seems to be mostly in a straight line across the plate.

Also I’m pretty sure that’s not oyster myc, looks like some weird tentacle :eek:

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Re: AGAR ENVY! (Anything and All things agar!)

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#27316678 - 05/20/21 06:37 PM (5 years, 5 months ago)

A.k.a said:

Also I’m pretty sure that’s not oyster myc, looks like some weird tentacle

Well what in fuckin’ tarnations is it then?! 😂 That’s the second time I’ve gotten that sort of ‘myc’ growth off of a plug a friend gave me. Other one looked like a translucent tree. Beautiful but sadly didn’t see it until I opened the plate to toss it. Figured that’s just how it was expressing itself on straight oat water agar.

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DERRAYLD
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Re: AGAR ENVY! (Anything and All things agar!)

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#27317011 - 05/21/21 01:56 AM (5 years, 5 months ago)

A.k.a said:

I’d bet it’s from bumping your scalpel or something the way the bacteria seems to be mostly in a straight line across the plate.

I'm busy trying to figure it out at this stage, I've introduce too many new variables, tools,etc.
Stepping back to keep it simple and get it all clean again.

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verum subsequentis
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Re: AGAR ENVY! (Anything and All things agar!)

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#27317134 - 05/21/21 07:58 AM (5 years, 5 months ago)

Looks to me like you gleeked on it.
I think that's what it's called.

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Re: AGAR ENVY! (Anything and All things agar!)

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#27317139 - 05/21/21 08:08 AM (5 years, 5 months ago)

Lmao yeah did you hold your tongue at a weird angle and spray contam??

I feel you man one of my biggest problems is changing a bunch of things at once and then I have no idea what’s causing things to happen and have to go through and test one by one.

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Re: AGAR ENVY! (Anything and All things agar!)

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#27317141 - 05/21/21 08:12 AM (5 years, 5 months ago)

fur realz.
Best advice ever, walk in the established path.
If you decide to switch thangs up, do it one thang at a time and only once you have gotten your sea legs.

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Re: AGAR ENVY! (Anything and All things agar!)

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#27317195 - 05/21/21 09:23 AM (5 years, 5 months ago)

I worked in quality control R&D for a while and that's the probably the most valuable bit of advice anyone can ever receive. Any changes or adjustments made need to be one at a time and in small increments while collecting data. When you work that way, you build a data trend that gives you a real time view of what your changes are actually changing. When you make big jumps or change too many processes, you get wild results and you don't know have a clue what it was that helped or hurt your end goal.

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Re: AGAR ENVY! (Anything and All things agar!)

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#27317200 - 05/21/21 09:27 AM (5 years, 5 months ago)

10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000%
Aspiring noobs should tattoo this backwards on their forehead and read it every day while brushing their teeth.

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Re: AGAR ENVY! (Anything and All things agar!)

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#27317215 - 05/21/21 09:40 AM (5 years, 5 months ago)

The problem I have is literally everything changed for me so everything is currently a variable that I'm trying to cancel out as vectors.

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Re: AGAR ENVY! (Anything and All things agar!)

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#27317220 - 05/21/21 09:42 AM (5 years, 5 months ago)

I've been there.
Just dial everything in back as close as you can to what has worked before.
And carry on.
You got this.

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#27317229 - 05/21/21 09:55 AM (5 years, 5 months ago)

I setup some control plates last night as well to check my pc times for agar, hopefully everything is ok as expected but I have to check everything now.

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Re: AGAR ENVY! (Anything and All things agar!)

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#27317245 - 05/21/21 10:03 AM (5 years, 5 months ago)

I'm a pretty newbie in agar teks. I prefer Malt Extract Yeast Extract peptone Activated Carbone Agar. my Myceliums grow fairly well. most of them Rizho Growth and some of them are tomentose but very fast grows.
but I See Some Pictures of Agar Cultures From Experienced Growers on the internet they achieve an Extremely Ropey Tissue of mycelium.
I Use Lab Grade Ingredients and spend a lot of money on them. but I can't achieve that yet. do you have any advice on it?

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Re: AGAR ENVY! (Anything and All things agar!)

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#27317249 - 05/21/21 10:08 AM (5 years, 5 months ago)

My advice:
Quit searching for extremely ropey myc.
Ditch the lab grade expensive ingredients.
Use malt extract and agar at 2%.
Works for me.

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D3_Myc
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Re: AGAR ENVY! (Anything and All things agar!)

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#27317254 - 05/21/21 10:15 AM (5 years, 5 months ago)

Mycoctopuss said:

I'm a pretty newbie in agar teks. I prefer Malt Extract Yeast Extract peptone Activated Carbone Agar. my Myceliums grow fairly well. most of them Rizho Growth and some of them are tomentose but very fast grows.
but I See Some Pictures of Agar Cultures From Experienced Growers on the internet they achieve an Extremely Ropey Tissue of mycelium.
I Use Lab Grade Ingredients and spend a lot of money on them. but I can't achieve that yet. do you have any advice on it?

Keep it simple, I use amazon grade beer light malt extract, living jin brand agar.. thats it. Occasionally anyhonys premium yeast flakes. Non fortified.

Standard recipe

1000ml distilled water
20g agar
Anywhere between 14-17g LME.

If I want to switch things up I’ll add 1g yeast to the recipe.

Green in the pics is on yeast

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Re: AGAR ENVY! (Anything and All things agar!)

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#27317330 - 05/21/21 11:35 AM (5 years, 5 months ago)

Mycoctopuss said:

I'm a pretty newbie in agar teks. I prefer Malt Extract Yeast Extract peptone Activated Carbone Agar. my Myceliums grow fairly well. most of them Rizho Growth and some of them are tomentose but very fast grows.
but I See Some Pictures of Agar Cultures From Experienced Growers on the internet they achieve an Extremely Ropey Tissue of mycelium.
I Use Lab Grade Ingredients and spend a lot of money on them. but I can't achieve that yet. do you have any advice on it?

Ropey rhizo myc means nothing. You can have a killer tub from either tomentose or rhizo myc. Truthfully, I've gotten better pin sets from tomentose cultures than I have from my rhizo cultures. My Rhizo has been like that beautiful tall blonde with big tits. Good as fuck to look at but when you try to hold a conversation, you find out that she's dumber than shit. :shrug:

:shrug:

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Summers
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Re: AGAR ENVY! (Anything and All things agar!)

[Re: Doctor Mario]
#27317589 - 05/21/21 03:34 PM (5 years, 5 months ago)

Reading this thread gave me so many good ideas and the confidence to buy and prepare agar...
So exciting!!
:headbanger:

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