AspectOfTheCreator said:

Spawned to cvg. No pics

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Smellyhobbit said:

Real talk: is uniform growth a scam for multispore grows? Why not send all that sectoring? The more diversity the more opportunity, right?

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Smellyhobbit said:

Real talk: is uniform growth a scam for multispore grows? Why not send all that sectoring? The more diversity the more opportunity, right?

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hazyhorse said:

NFLProof said:

Hazys point is data. With one trial as your data for an experiment I'd expect some push back. I'd keep experimenting and see where it leads you before claiming a new tek.  Good luck.

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im not trying to be a hater or anything, i would love to see someone come up with a super affordable flowhood design. the problem is, there have been a million “teks” on cheap flowhoods & they all end up the same. not saying it’s impossible for one to work, but no one thus far has proven a design that is reliable. you absolutely need more data & solid evidence that what you’re doing is as reliable as an SAB or traditional flowhood. just trying to save you from the impending shitstorm clusterfuck that you’ll have posting your tek with that amount of data. that’s great if it’s worked reliably for you so far, but we are gonna need repeatable & reliable evidence to believe your claims because i promise you people have tried this before & failed

you can get lucky a few times, or have something kind of work, but for something to be taken seriously it has to prove just as reliable as the baseline methods we tend to recommend (ie. an SAB). the shroomery is a goofy website at times, but at its core is an amateur science community & therefore it is expected that there is a reasonable burden of proof for anyone making claims that shake the status quo on here

multiple harvests will take time, so does good data. you need to really prove that this works reliably, every time, to good success or else your post will be picked apart to oblivion. amass a lot of solid data, run some really rigorous testing (doing multiple blank transfers, prove grain jars won’t contaminate when manipulated in flow, post pics of healthy subs that don’t contaminate during any point of their life etc.) & then post results. one agar plate alone is not even close to enough to prove anything to anyone on here

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Thanks Hazy. You are much more familiar with the forum and norms than a newbie like me. Perhaps I was too enthusiastic with my early success. As you suggested I will step back and compile more data.
Getting picked apart doesn't faze me, I grew up  with an older brother
Good will to all.

Stipe-n Cap said:

Smellyhobbit said:

Real talk: is uniform growth a scam for multispore grows? Why not send all that sectoring? The more diversity the more opportunity, right?

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No it's not a scam, sectoring is somewhat irrelevant. Uniform growth is an indication of health. Each "sector" is made up of many tens of thousands of individual hyphae, maybe even hundreds of thousands. Separating them with a scalpel is impossible.  Much of the hyphae have fused to exchange nucleic information which blends genetic information. The idea that a cultivator is losing genetic diversity by making multiple transfers to achieve pure culture and uniformity is not very accurate.

By inoculating haphazardly with erratic growth you're exponentially increasing the risk of contamination, not preserving genetic diversity.

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MicroMycelium said:

Can you alter your substrate to fight a contaminated grain jar?

I read that increasing the acidity level of your substrate, makes it less hospitable for contaminants.

Assuming you have a slight amount of contamination in a fully colonized grain jar, would using a more acidic substrate help fight off the contamination?

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MicroMycelium said:

Can you alter your substrate to fight a contaminated grain jar?

I read that increasing the acidity level of your substrate, makes it less hospitable for contaminants.

Assuming you have a slight amount of contamination in a fully colonized grain jar, would using a more acidic substrate help fight off the contamination?

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Stipe-n Cap said:

Scalloped plates have always resulted in problems for me. The scalloping persists no matter how many transfers. When sent to grains the growth is always slow and unhealthy. Rarely do they ever fruit, when they do my tubs are filled with metabolites and excessive moisture. The fruits are very few and sickly, any fruits are a rarity even when top fruited.



These are a great example.

Even/uniform growth may take 3 or 4 transfers to achieve but is worth it; but plates like the ones above seldom produce anything workable.

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Stipe, do we know why this happens? I got some plates too that didn't all come out right. Arranged from "best" to worst, I mean the last one just completely gave up on life.



The "A" plates (first two) came from this one:

bottom right

I couldn't find the "B" plate, but here's C to F


The "E" is the most fucked up and like you said, it did produce the same fucked up child too.

So what do now? I'm thinking keep transferring from the first 4 and put the last 3 in the "let's see if it plins" pile.

Screwup said:

Why fix stairs when you can just get a ladder?

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