dowodenum said:

Get a camera app that has a focus lock feature. OpenCamera on Android. Turn that on, tap to focus once, then adjust your distance while zoomed until the myc is in focus instead of the plate. Then zoom back out while in that position. Easier with a tripod.

#1 & #6 look the best to me, most uniform growth. But the rhizo in #5 on the right is probably worth grabbing too.

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Adobe Lightroom is what I recommend for iphone. It’s free and allows you to fully control the camera and export close to raw instead of fully compressed straight to the camera roll. It’s what I used for the pic in my signature.

dowodenum said:

Get a camera app that has a focus lock feature. OpenCamera on Android. Turn that on, tap to focus once, then adjust your distance while zoomed until the myc is in focus instead of the plate. Then zoom back out while in that position. Easier with a tripod.

#1 & #6 look the best to me, most uniform growth. But the rhizo in #5 on the right is probably worth grabbing too.

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drVetker said:

I'm supposed to cut at the edge, again a small square or triangle?

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i like doing a tic tac toe kinda cut that forms tiny diamond shaped transfers.



take pride in your cuts

mushboy said:

drVetker said:

I'm supposed to cut at the edge, again a small square or triangle?

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i like doing a tic tac toe kinda cut that forms tiny diamond shaped transfers.



take pride in your cuts

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AspectOfTheCreator said:

Do I have to let my plates fully colonize before going A2G or can I treat it like a transfer? In other words, once I get a quarter sized sample take a wedge from the leading edge to transfer to a grain jar? My thought process is the less agar I use to transfer, the less chance I'm transferring contamination.

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Whyterye said:

Yep you can go back to the T1 plate and try again if T2 plate doesn’t look great. The fridge will slow down the growth so that is definitely a good option if it’s almost to the edge. You can keep the T1 plate at room temp and it’s possible that the plate will pin then you can transfer that pin to a new plate for clean growth and stronger genetic chance. Other than that no need to throw the T1 plate out just keep an eye on it for a month and see what happens

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HILLBILLY OUTLAW said:

I like to let my plates set and hope for PLINs!

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drVetker said:

Whyterye said:

Yep you can go back to the T1 plate and try again if T2 plate doesn’t look great. The fridge will slow down the growth so that is definitely a good option if it’s almost to the edge. You can keep the T1 plate at room temp and it’s possible that the plate will pin then you can transfer that pin to a new plate for clean growth and stronger genetic chance. Other than that no need to throw the T1 plate out just keep an eye on it for a month and see what happens

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Thank you sir.
So transfering a pin would mean taking a piece of the "fruiting body" (I guess) and putting it to agar, right?
Or am I mixing up something here. I read in Mckenna's book about taking a piece of flesh from a fresh cap of a mushroom and transfering it to agar as means of getting only one specific "strain" of dikaryotic mycelium.

Is what you are talking about similar/same?

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drVetker said:

HILLBILLY OUTLAW said:

I like to let my plates set and hope for PLINs!

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I'm afraid to ask now what's a PLIN

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