rockyfungus said:

Was working Burnells that were known to be dirty.
Did a few transfers and kept my germ. Sent a few looking decent plates and spawn was always meh.
Germ plate finally started doing some subtle funky things. Gonna let it ride to see.


Well that's a T1. Germ ain't better obviously.

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ruawakeyet said:

I will remember all of this when I start back up. I definitely saw those same spots on agar and grain, but the grain eventually went green IIRC. (I should have kept taking notes.)

Did you see what looked like knots, except they developed UNDER the surface of the agar? There were also knots on top, but none of them developed into fruits. All of them would start bruising blue after a couple weeks. My plates had dark spots all over them within a few weeks, but they didn't grow into mold nor sporulate. I wish I had taken some pictures, but they looked like a contaminated mess!

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I just can't recall if the plates spotted... I only remember it on the jars. The first jar did produce gobs of fruit but there were a high number of aborts and the second flush completely aborted all pins that formed. Aborts are extremely, extremely rare for me. I just don't encounter them much. So perhaps this was some form of contamination, though nothing ever showed up in the tray - no molds or trich. But I had spots on another jar of peace river that grew this solid canopy that I posted the other day (pic re-posted below). It's on its second flush now and a day or two away from being finished. So I am still not sure the dots are connected to any contamination. It could just be something a lot of pans do. I bet the first time people grew tamps, they thought they were screwed because tamp mycelium does really weird things because of the sclerotia formation.

Hongosamongus said:

What LC recipe do you use for Pans?

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