Luftwaffles90 said:

Can hoogshagenii be spawned to plain coir/ verm or does it need additional nutes?

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I´d treat them like panaeolus as grass lovers.
Never grew them though.

       

Nichrome said:

Looks like your spores were clean but not viable (dead). It also appears that your environment is also clean and chance did not land anything that would eat that media upon it. If you want to know if the agar is useless, just lick your finger and touch the media in one of your plates. If stuff grows, the agar is likely fine.

The color of that agar is weird. What kind of agar did you buy?

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Proposition 122 said:

Proposition 122 said:

I can't even grow contams!

In my effort to track down why things are not working I reconciled myself to the fact I have to learn agar To eliminate the possibility of me making bad agar i purchased pre-made agar plates off the internet. I inoculated one with Penis Envy (LC Syringe), another with Golden Teacher (spore syringe), and left the other open to the air for one minute as a control.

Since NOTHING grew, including contams, I suspect the agar is bad/non-existent/corrupt. Would that be the right conclusion? Should I try again with different agar? What next?

EDIT: stored at a consistent 70-degrees, intermittent light.

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Bump

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johnukguy said:

I wonder if a little more FAE might help?

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Huskies said:

I'd like advice on what to look for to know if my tubs are dialed in. They have condensation on the sides, not too much, dryer around the holes with polyfill.  No droplets on the surface.  Worth misting before pinning?

What about surface conditions? I hate doing liners, but in the past without them I'd get side pins/under pins, and I would like to avoid that.

Also, I have found that my swabs are not taking to my agar plates.

I pressure cook moist q-tips wrapped in foil, then swab the print under my sab, get it somewhat black from doing a portion of the print, and swab it on my plates, rubbing it in, even in two different corners.

Hasn't been working as well as it used to. I remember hearing that I need just a bit, but maybe I should get my q-tip fully saturated with spores?

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Huskies said:

These aren't fully colonized yet, but It's been a while since my tubs where 100% white. Could be this coir brand (canna coco), but it was at field capacity, but more droplets vs one stream. Perhaps it is just on the drier side and I  need to adjust?











The driest one is the one with medical tape, double sided, which I remember doing succesfully in the past. Perhaps it needs less?

On another note, maybe I'm using too much coir. These tubs were 3:1 per qt. I see here that this shoebox tek is just 1.5:1, perhaps that is a better ratio if I feel like my coir has not been colonizing 100%?

And for the agar, I'm using the regular pasty plate recipe with powdered telephone brand agar which has always worked in the past.  Perhaps if they are too hard, I should decrease the amount of agar powder? I normally do a double recipe, although the potato flakes I find now are butter herb flavored (which has worked in the past as well). Maybe I should do just grain water agar next time?

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