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Is ANY of this Reishi mycelium?
    #28441533 - 08/21/23 10:08 AM (5 months, 5 days ago)

Hey people!

Friend sent some vacation pictures of some gorgeous Reishi growing in nature. I jokingly said bring one back for me and they went out of their way to try taking a tissue sample. Didn't know how to politely say this was a bad idea without experience/equipment, so I just went with it and sent it to a petri. Here is where that is at today:



There is clearly a lot going on here, but I am not experienced enough with Reishi to see what is good and bad. Pretty sure everything from 5 to 12 o'clock is contam, but could you guys tell me if there is anything worth saving on this plate?

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Re: Is ANY of this Reishi mycelium? [Re: Shroomish8]
    #28442885 - 08/22/23 02:28 PM (5 months, 4 days ago)

Without a response, I am going to transfer the yellow looking part which seems best to me. Still not sure if even that is reishi mycelium, but we are gonna have to find out the long way


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Re: Is ANY of this Reishi mycelium? [Re: Shroomish8]
    #28442981 - 08/22/23 04:12 PM (5 months, 4 days ago)

Reishi mycelium is white and thick. The only white area seems too thin to me, you can try a transfer but I don't really believe in it.


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Re: Is ANY of this Reishi mycelium? [Re: Shroomish8]
    #28444648 - 08/24/23 02:41 AM (5 months, 2 days ago)

This looks like what Reishi mycelium looks like when it's old and sweaty. How old is the plate? Maybe your transfer will come to life all nice and white and fluffy other wise I'd start again. Just my two cents. Good luck.


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Re: Is ANY of this Reishi mycelium? [Re: themushroombloke] * 1
    #28584290 - 12/15/23 06:05 PM (1 month, 12 days ago)

Lost track of this thread my bad. At least I can give an update now!

At the time of the original post, the plate in the picture was about 2.5 weeks old and was the second transfer from the original, questionable tissue sample. I ended up transferring from the top right "banana yellow" sector (that is the one you were talking about, right?) to another dish, and whatever this was stayed yellow but seemed to be isolated by that point. From there it went into two grain bags which both contamed relatively quickly.

I've got some Reishi LCs coming soon, and hopefully we can have more success this time around. Thanks for your advice! Now I will know my Reishi cultures are getting old if plates ever start turning yellow.


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Re: Is ANY of this Reishi mycelium? [Re: Shroomish8]
    #28587406 - 12/17/23 08:57 PM (1 month, 10 days ago)

Thanks for updating :cheers:


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