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Chtouxhu said:
Growing vegetative mycelium on agar or other media is possible though.

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Could you explain this in terms that a moron can understand?

7mm_Dead said:

Could you explain this in terms that a moron can understand?

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You can clone and grow mycelium of various species of truffles on agar or other nutritious formulas, just like you would with any other species. Vegetative mycelium simply stands for mycelium that doesn't form fruiting bodies, as opposed to reproductive mycelium.

You can't grow fruiting bodies this way, but you can use the cultures you cloned to inoculate young trees, seedlings, etc. Same can be said for most other ectomycorrhizal species such as Amanita muscaria, chanterelles, Lactarius, Porcini, etc. Personally I've never done it so I can't tell you specifically how easy it is to clone a truffle on agar, but it can absolutely be done.

Here's a recent post about culturing Oregon black truffle mycelium on agar.

Hope that clears it up

Throwaway said:

20th, 24th and 29th

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Okay so another ~8 days later. I twisted off the lid and was greeted by this. The entire house smells of a rainy autumn forest and it looks really clean. The two indents are from the filter and injection ports.

What would be best?

Do I fuck with the top at all? Do I try and clear out the fruity growths? Or just put it into a watertub or like cover it with a ziploc and keep it moist?

Please advise! First time getting this far with Lion's Mane

Throwaway said:

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BRAIN HEALTH HERE I COME

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Okay so I've simply put a water-sprayed ziploc over it with a couple holes. Seems like it's doing it's thing but it's started growing against the ziploc. Do I move it to a water tub setup? I know our dear Melgo has an amazing grow going with a water tub

Camera93 said:

Can I get any feedback one might have on the following:

difference in yield supplementing with additional spawn in a "lipa tex" style grow vs. supplementing with soybean hull or wheat bran and sterilizing the sub.

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I’ll be running some side by sides on my next grow to try and see the differences in production between substrates.

Was initially just focused on seeing the differences in substrates supplemented with other available pellets such as alfalfa and bluegrass rather than soy hull pellets, but after seeing many people opting for just spawning grain to pasteurized wood pellets I figured I might as well run that in the side by side also.

Right now I’m thinking I’ll run 4 bags of Lions mane and 4 bags of king blue oyster. The first bag being 2 pounds of HWP spawned with a full mycoquart of grain. The second a pound of HWP a pound of SHP spawned with 1/3 mycoquart of grain. And the last 2 bags ran the same way but with alfalfa pellets and bluegrass pellets in place of the SHP.

I’ll post on my original thread with updates as they come
Replacing Soy Hulls in Masters Mix