Home | Community | Message Board
You are not signed in.
Sign In New Account
Forum Index Search Posts Trusted Vendors Highlights Galleries FAQ User List Chat Store Random Growery


This site includes paid links. Please support our sponsors.

Mushrooms, Mycology and Psychedelics > Mushroom Cultivation
Threaded Mode Threaded  Previous topic Previous  View all topics Index  Next topic Next 

Welcome to the Shroomery Message Board! You are experiencing a small sample of what the site has to offer. Please login or register to post messages and view our exclusive members-only content. You'll gain access to additional forums, file attachments, board customizations, encrypted private messages, and much more!

Shop: North Spore Injection Grain Bag   Mushroom-Hut Mono Tub Substrate   Sporeworks.EU Spores for European Microscopy   Myyco.com Isolated Cubensis Liquid Culture For Sale   MagicBag.co All-In-One Bags That Don't Suck

Jump to first unread post Pages: < First | | 1040 | 1041 | 1042 | 1043 | 1044 | 1045 | 1046 | 1047 | 1048 | 1049 | 1050 | 1051 | 1052 | 1053 | 1054 | 1055 | 1056 | 1057 | 1058 | 1059 | 1060 | | Last >
Re: AGAR ENVY! (Anything and All things agar!) [Re: HILLBILLY OUTLAW] * 5
    #28305637 -

Some rhizo Kodama looking for an escape route



--------------------
A Love Letter to New Growers
The 7 Edicts of Mushroom Cultivation as Decreed by Smellyhobbit

:kodama:


Anyone can get a canopy. But can you get what you want?

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: AGAR ENVY! (Anything and All things agar!) [Re: Smellyhobbit]
    #28305666 -

Does this colony from my streak look like cubensis myc that grew over some bacteria? Or not cubensis myc all together?



Edited by tholos (05/04/23 03:24 PM)

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: AGAR ENVY! (Anything and All things agar!) [Re: tholos]
    #28305670 -

tholos said:
Does this colony from my streak look like cubensis myc that grew over some bacteria? Or not cubensis myc all together?







Both colonies look like mold to me.


--------------------
"Looky here, baby... You're hittin' them cornaz too goddamn fast.  You need to slow this muthafucka down.  Ya understand?  I almost spilt my yack on this $200 suit, nicca.  C'mon, baby, get it togetha."

Pinky


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: AGAR ENVY! (Anything and All things agar!) [Re: Pinkey] * 4
    #28305676 -

Neither look like either of those things. Looks like germinated spores to me. I don't see bacteria and if mold is there it's not showing it's self.


--------------------
Question everything, it's very responsive.

Culture Storage

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: AGAR ENVY! (Anything and All things agar!) [Re: Nichrome] * 2
    #28305781 -

Going to grain tomorrow





--------------------
She’s dead Jim

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: AGAR ENVY! (Anything and All things agar!) [Re: TRILLIANTFRACTALS]
    #28305871 -

which ones?

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: AGAR ENVY! (Anything and All things agar!) [Re: keeno]
    #28305874 -

All of them! It’ll be my first time working with a couple of the specimens


--------------------
She’s dead Jim

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: AGAR ENVY! (Anything and All things agar!) [Re: Tormato]
    #28306009 -

Quick question...


For Agar (my first time)


I've got 40 plastic petri dishes

(so I can't put them in the pc)

Is that OK?


Second, I can't find a recipe for WBS agar...

(I know how to use the search engine. I've  been all over this site...present and past)

Question is, from reading and inferring...

I need 500ml of WBS water that I had soaked the wbs in?

I've got Agar Agar

10mg of that?

Do I need honey?(How much?)

And do I still need to add potato flakes to this combination?

It's seems there are as many different ways to make agar as their are members on this site...


So, any help would be appreciated. I'm not afraid to read, so a link to an obvious thread that Ive missed will suffice...

I also realize that the answer could be in the 1k plus pages of THIS very thread...

But that's a bit more than I'm willing to dig through on an off chance the answer is there.

Thanks. AT


--------------------
"Approach thy grave like one who wraps the draperies of his couch about him and lies down to pleasant dreams."

-W.C.B

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: AGAR ENVY! (Anything and All things agar!) [Re: AvidTraveler] * 1
    #28306017 -

Your petri dishes should be encased in plastic and sterilized at the facility you purchased them from. If you have them opened up you'll need to acquire more as they wont be sterile for use.
500ml of grain soak water(WBS, Oat, Wheat, Rye) will have all the nutes you need, mix with 10g of agar and PC for 20-30min for use.
You wont NEED potato flakes, honey, or other additions if you're using grain soak water.
Check out this thread for more info:
https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/21922023


--------------------
Meditation Principles

Silence: Giving you room to listen / Stillness: Giving you room to feel / Spaciousness: Just giving you room

IRC: ##mycology on Libera.chat come hang!

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: AGAR ENVY! (Anything and All things agar!) [Re: mushhead]
    #28306026 -

Thanks.

I've read Bods EAF teks...through...multiple times. While they are amazing, he posts a link to recipes in the agar tek, but the thread doesn't actually make clear those things I was having to infer.

I just wanted to get clarification.

Mush love to bod for creating all the content he has. He's been my primary source for this new cultivating...endeavor.

His teks have guided me through everything thus far


--------------------
"Approach thy grave like one who wraps the draperies of his couch about him and lies down to pleasant dreams."

-W.C.B

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: AGAR ENVY! (Anything and All things agar!) [Re: AvidTraveler]
    #28306034 -

Alright well to clarify the recipes for you. Honey isn't used as much anymore in agar. Some folks still go with it and it helps in some areas.
Potato flakes are used to make Potato Dextrose Agar(PDA):
10g of Potato flakes are dissolved into distilled water and mixed with 10g agar for use. Very simple.

Grain Soak water is water held for at least 24hrs with a grain such as rye, wheat, wbs, oats, etc. Nutrients will naturally soak into this water which you then collect for use later in agar. 500ml of grain soak and 10g of agar is all you need. I suggest Rye over all other grains for soak water.

You can use Light Male Extract in your agar(LMEA):
15g LME + 10g agar + 500ml distilled water
PC for 20-30min for use.

Most recipes are quite similar and I've only gone over the three most commonly used ones that I see on a regular basis.

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: AGAR ENVY! (Anything and All things agar!) [Re: mushhead]
    #28306041 -

Yeah, I went out looking for Malt Extract earlier as I thought it was necessary but it's damned hard to find...

Then what I was reading led me to believe that all I needed was the grain soak and agar...

But further reading seemed to indicate that I needed to add the potatoes...

Anyway, I promise I'm not stupid...just a little confused after spending hours trying to pinpoint an actual recipe for the wbs...

But this leads me to another question...as you said it was 24 hours soaking...mine didn't soak that long...


I did Foo's method of boiling water, adding the wbs to it and letting it soak for just over an hour...

The water I pulled off of that is very dark, so I would think there is probably enough nutes in there for the agar...

But maybe not...


--------------------
"Approach thy grave like one who wraps the draperies of his couch about him and lies down to pleasant dreams."

-W.C.B

Edited by AvidTraveler (05/04/23 10:14 AM)

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: AGAR ENVY! (Anything and All things agar!) [Re: AvidTraveler]
    #28306046 -

That's a great way to do it, you can boil your grains no problems to make grain water.
I mention the 24hr soak because I make my own spawn jars/bags using rye grain which is soaked for around 24hrs, I collect that soak water for use in agar. Boiling is the same effect but faster.

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: AGAR ENVY! (Anything and All things agar!) [Re: Tormato] * 5
    #28306169 -

Beer brewer and wine making supply store will have malt extract in stock.


--------------------

🅃 🄴 🄰 🄼    🄲 🄻 🄸 🄽 🄶 🅆 🅁 🄰 🄿
TEAM SPREAD THE LOVE!
Smellyhobbit said:
Embarrassment and bashfulness are leeches on your ability to learn.

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: AGAR ENVY! (Anything and All things agar!) [Re: HILLBILLY OUTLAW] * 1
    #28306203 -

HILLBILLY OUTLAW said:
Beer brewer and wine making supply store will have malt extract in stock.


Yep, and Amazon.


--------------------

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: AGAR ENVY! (Anything and All things agar!) [Re: HILLBILLY OUTLAW]
    #28306227 -

The specific amount of grain water you have doesn't really matter.  If you keep boiling it, you will have a more concentrated grain water.  You can always add water to get it up to 500ml or whatever you're making.

The only part about GWA that I don't like is that it's hard to know how much nutes you're actually putting in.  I've started to experiment with it a bit to try to determine how much I need to use for a given apparent color of GW.  It's  never going to be very accurate though.

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: AGAR ENVY! (Anything and All things agar!) [Re: AvidTraveler]
    #28306318 -

AvidTraveler said:
Quick question...


For Agar (my first time)


I've got 40 plastic petri dishes

(so I can't put them in the pc)

Is that OK?


Second, I can't find a recipe for WBS agar...

(I know how to use the search engine. I've  been all over this site...present and past)

Question is, from reading and inferring...

I need 500ml of WBS water that I had soaked the wbs in?

I've got Agar Agar

10mg of that?

Do I need honey?(How much?)

And do I still need to add potato flakes to this combination?

It's seems there are as many different ways to make agar as their are members on this site...


So, any help would be appreciated. I'm not afraid to read, so a link to an obvious thread that Ive missed will suffice...

I also realize that the answer could be in the 1k plus pages of THIS very thread...

But that's a bit more than I'm willing to dig through on an off chance the answer is there.

Thanks. AT


I read all the over 1,000 pages and
highly recommend it.  Learned lots
of things that saved me time, money
and disappointment.

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: AGAR ENVY! (Anything and All things agar!) [Re: jungatheart] * 2
    #28306321 -

I'm certain you did. I just don't have the time to do it atm.

This whole site is filled with things that save time, money, and dissapointment


--------------------
"Approach thy grave like one who wraps the draperies of his couch about him and lies down to pleasant dreams."

-W.C.B

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: AGAR ENVY! (Anything and All things agar!) [Re: San Pedro Girl] * 5
    #28306345 -

San Pedro Girl said:
HILLBILLY OUTLAW said:
Beer brewer and wine making supply store will have malt extract in stock.


Yep, and Amazon.


Call me old fashioned, but I like to pay for as much of my cult supply in cash as I can.  Just can't shake that 80s-90s paranoia :scaredturtle:


--------------------
🅃🄴🄰🄼 🄸🄷🄾🄿


New to cultivation or the shroomery?  Observe the hitchhiker's guide

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Shroomery



Smellyhobbit said:
"Wiping a needle with isopropyl after flame sterilization is like shitting after you wipe your ass."

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: AGAR ENVY! (Anything and All things agar!) [Re: Mr Piggy] * 3
    #28306358 -

Mr Piggy said:
Call me old fashioned, but I like to pay for as much of my cult supply in cash as I can.  Just can't shake that 80s-90s paranoia :scaredturtle:


It's always good to be careful but once I started looking I was really surprised by how big the legal gourmet mushroom hobby is. Heck my Presto PC instructions specifically mentioned mushroom cultivation. I was like "damn I guess everyone is doing this."


--------------------
We have not succeeded in answering all our problems. The answers we have found only serve to raise a whole set of new questions. In some ways we feel we are as confused as ever, but we believe we are confused on a higher level and about more important things. -- Earl C. Kelley

Things I really wish I knew when I started // Vacuum sealer discussion thread // Shroomery gif zoo

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Jump to top Pages: < First | | 1040 | 1041 | 1042 | 1043 | 1044 | 1045 | 1046 | 1047 | 1048 | 1049 | 1050 | 1051 | 1052 | 1053 | 1054 | 1055 | 1056 | 1057 | 1058 | 1059 | 1060 | | Last >

Shop: North Spore Injection Grain Bag   Mushroom-Hut Mono Tub Substrate   Sporeworks.EU Spores for European Microscopy   Myyco.com Isolated Cubensis Liquid Culture For Sale   MagicBag.co All-In-One Bags That Don't Suck

Mushrooms, Mycology and Psychedelics > Mushroom Cultivation
Threaded Mode Threaded  Previous topic Previous  View all topics Index  Next topic Next 

Similar ThreadsPosterViewsRepliesLast post
* buying agar - help sinisha 3,840 6 03/31/06 07:49 AM
by FractalXplora
* cheapest glass petri dishes, agar, dextrose, etc Fluxburn 8,400 8 02/14/05 09:57 AM
by Roadkill
* Potato Dextrose Agar X Malt Extract Agar Alegalize 7,019 8 02/25/05 01:03 PM
by agar
* test tubes agar fungophiliac 3,711 8 06/19/20 11:41 PM
by gorilliam
* LOOK! Big AGAR problem. Ever seen this? Not I. need advice BAD! agentstone 5,334 12 03/30/20 12:37 PM
by Surf707
* Agar question WormholeSurfer 1,698 3 10/29/05 09:10 PM
by agar
* Agar and the global economy Dem_Bones 1,946 4 03/01/06 11:08 AM
by Dem_Bones
* Agar's Home Made Compost recipe for bulk substrates
( 1 2 3 4 all )		 agar 22,325 75 02/12/21 07:50 AM
by Bart84

Extra information
You cannot start new topics / You cannot reply to topics
HTML is disabled / BBCode is enabled
Moderator: DERRAYLD, Shroomism, george castanza, RogerRabbit, veggie, mushboy, fahtster, the_chosen_one, LogicaL Chaos, 13shrooms, hamloaf, cronicr, Stipe-n Cap, Pastywhyte, bodhisatta, Tormato, Land Trout, A.k.a
800,258 topic views. 18 members, 182 guests and 156 web crawlers are browsing this forum.
[ Show Images Only | Sort by Score | Print Topic ]
Search this thread:

Copyright 1997-2026 Mind Media. Some rights reserved.

Generated in 0.061 seconds spending 0.03 seconds on 16 queries.