Kinoko314 said:

Is that post-shake? If so, how long ago was it?  How long ago did you inoculate?

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Those jars were inoculated around 8-12. They were shaken around 80%, recovered well. They were left to consolidate (to ensure full colonization of any grains on top or in the middle) for about 5 days then spawned around 9-2. The jars of different varities were indistinguishable from each other. Here are some other tubs.













The bottom 2 are penis envy, the rest tidal wave. The penis envy always get an orange tinge on top. The last tub that looked like that fruited well though so im just leaving it alone. Theres 2 other penis envy shoeboxes but theyre cased, some myc is starting to poke through. All these tubs were spawned on 9-2 at either 1:1 or 1:2 ratio. No top layers because they always seem to contaminate. I gave one a top layer as an experiment and low and behold its contaminating with blue.

Edit: heres an example of the plates i use. May even be the exact plate. Looks organized and symetrical but what do i know. Others told me it was good.





I have tons of other plates that look identical and theyre still around and havent contammed. Only ever seen 1 contam after 4 months.

Pnin said:

I have a couple pints of spawn that are recovering really slow after a shake at full colonization. Pretty sure they're contaminated. Could I just pop em open and stuff some coir on top? Or is that just a trich recipe?

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NotFromGeorgia said:

CocaineBuffet said:

Bustaboo said:

CaptainPuffy said:

I'm going to try making Agar plates using PP5 ketchup cups. I'm not sure if I should do a pour or no-pour tek. Any advice?

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Do no pours. That’s the advantage of those ketchup cups I think.
crack plates

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With all respect to Crack I think the consensus now is that a lot of these condiment cups are clean on arrival so you can do hot pours.

I haven't done it myself I am only telling you what I have seen over the past couple years.

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the trick seems to be to pour as many as you can the first time, if you leave half the bag of cups to pour later they'll have a lot higher contam chance. i haven't found any with pp5 lids to try no pour with them

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thcee said:

Is keeping an air purifier going 24/7 in the same room helping/harming at all?

My guess is no but just curious.

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