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AspectOfTheCreator said:

Always use a top layer. 2 quarts top layer for penis envy. 1 quart for all else.

Wish I had more pics of the tubs. That one only started looking like that after 6 weeks or so. Ive had others that looked better. Regardless they never pin. Its been 72F in the house. Afaik even bacterial jars are expected to yield atleast SOMETHING.

Ive posted many times. People on here are probably gettong as sick of my failures as i am at this point.

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I never bother spawning bacterial jars for this exact reason. Best case is usually a shitty yield that wasn't worth the time and resources and worst is that it explodes with mold and I have to clean it up. It's perfect or compost, one way or another. I shake my masters at least a couple of times to test bacterial growth and recovery that might become hidden after a few days.

Looked at your agar pics. Had the same issue once. Turned out I was growing random white mold and bacteria. Could try switching the malt out for PDA if you think the media might be the issue but for me it came down to what I was selecting from the germination plates and my aspetic technique sucking.

Putting cultures through water agar has become my standard practice for a T2 transfer to ditch most of the bacteria on the dish that sometimes isn't o obvious to the eye. Good idea to test your SAB (or rather, your environment isn't full of particles that take much longer to settle than green mold spores) by doing a plate exposure over a few weeks if bacteria seems to be getting everywhere.

When I moved last,.my plate contamination rate went from 1/10 from the old place to 6/10 after sitting for a week post-pour. 10/10 after two weeks. I didn't notice it at first because I was using the plates quickly and assumed I had the SAB technique down. Eventually gave up and bought an FFU, lol. SAB efficacy is something to think about maybe.

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Ive experimented with water agar as well.


Twa is transfer from water agar.

People here seem to expect atleast some yield even from bacterial jars. So even if my spawn jars aren't all 110% I should have expected to get atleast something by now. Instead the tubs never pin.


These jars should give me SOMETHING.

tryptkaloids said:

Are you sourcing all you spores from the same place? Trusted vendor/trade?

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AspectOfTheCreator said:

Always use a top layer. 2 quarts top layer for penis envy. 1 quart for all else.

Wish I had more pics of the tubs. That one only started looking like that after 6 weeks or so. Ive had others that looked better. Regardless they never pin. Its been 72F in the house. Afaik even bacterial jars are expected to yield atleast SOMETHING.

Ive posted many times. People on here are probably gettong as sick of my failures as i am at this point.

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Benson said:

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cool back story/lore behind Oakridge, beautiful plate

Camera93 said:

Benson said:

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cool back story/lore behind Oakridge, beautiful plate

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Camera93 said:

Oakridge

Probably not much there if you really dug into it, but on the surface it at least has a cool origin story

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So dope, I love variety lore. Thanks for sharing man



Edit: Timely for Oppenheimer

Culliganman360 said:

That is dope. I want to grow some oak ridge now lol
i got some apeu ill trade if theres any takers.

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I'll make a note and let you know in a week or so