Stipe-n Cap said:

The only folks who've claimed that scalloped edges are perfectly normal/healthy growth, are people I'd probably refer to as noobs.

I've never encountered a scalloped plate that colonized grain without issue, or fruited properly.

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Kloakk said:

So my FP+ myc keeps doing this weird(to me) things, could someone tell me why and if I should do more transfers because of it?

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Pnin said:

Stipe-n Cap said:

The only folks who've claimed that scalloped edges are perfectly normal/healthy growth, are people I'd probably refer to as noobs.

I've never encountered a scalloped plate that colonized grain without issue, or fruited properly.

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Stipe said this in another thread. Id keep transferring.

Looks like you have plenty of good transfer candidates though.

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Yeah Stipe said something like that to me once too. But scalloping can also be a trait of being a monokaryon.

Check for clamps, if they're present, try cabin Sequester. If they're not present, you set yourself up for a breeding project.

ThurmanMurman said:

I was hunting for tea tins to make no pours easier. Ive got 90mm petris, and one of these PP5 screw tops from Dollar Tree is gonna work out great. The bottom is tapered, so I put a HG container in the bottom to occupy enough space to allow the petri to sit flat without jamming in there.

7 plates to a container aint bad. 🤘

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cronicr said:

Bro u got a ffu just pour them or buy clean swabs n swab the condensation off 😂

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Kloakk said:

So my FP+ myc keeps doing this weird(to me) things, could someone tell me why and if I should do more transfers because of it?

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Lots of folks parrot the whole scalloped myc is fucked, enmeshed blah blah, nobody this, everybody that, but you'd be surprised how many of them who are so invested in being the authority on mushroom growing, don't actually grow mushrooms, haven't grown mushrooms in years, and never really grew very many mushrooms successfully anyway.

I've seen plenty of "scalloped" cultures fruit out just fine, and I've seen them also have serious issues. I've seen plenty of standard looking cultures have issues as well.

There are a lot of different phenomena that are all being lumped under one roof using the descriptor scalloped.

This Burma clone was consistent in every way. It was consistently scalloped on agar, consistently fucky looking on grain, and consistently produced a great yield of stellar fruits. The dish "BC" is this particular clone and the other dish is another culture of the same line. These are old photos from some years ago. I've been poked fun at for using them still when the situation arises but that is just some kind of penis envy type thing I think.



If someone with some ego trip wants to call me a noob then they are just petty and I'll tell them to go have a juice box and a nap and come back to talk when they have run through a few thousand more cultures.

I ran scalloped FP+ cultures and they were fussy for sure but they did the thing.

Pnin said:

Stipe-n Cap said:

The only folks who've claimed that scalloped edges are perfectly normal/healthy growth, are people I'd probably refer to as noobs.

I've never encountered a scalloped plate that colonized grain without issue, or fruited properly.

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Stipe said this in another thread. Id keep transferring.

Looks like you have plenty of good transfer candidates though.

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AspectOfTheCreator said:

In my limited experience dealing with scalloped plates, Ive never successfully salvaged any of them. No matter how much transferring all subsequent plates also scallop. If left alone long enough contam showed up in the gaps. Just my 2c

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SupaThaRipper said:

Yeah Stipe said something like that to me once too. But scalloping can also be a trait of being a monokaryon.

Check for clamps, if they're present, try cabin Sequester. If they're not present, you set yourself up for a breeding project.

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Thank you for taking time to answer. Now, I do not have a microscope so I can not look for clamps, I did however try to take more pictures and would appreciate any feedback(if possible from the new pictures) on what my next step would be. I also took some pictures of T0(it was a wedge sent to me) and T1, I don't know if it helps determine my next step, but I really want to clean up my FP+ if possible.

T0


T1



T2(backlight)



T2(closeup)



The T0 is all fluff and white at this point, but I can se some yellow/orange tint in the middle of both T1 plates. Is that normal or contamination? They've been sitting at about 24°C(75°F).
The T2 does have mycelium in between the scalloping and even tho I do not have a microscope, I don't se any contamination.

Thanks again.

Nichrome said:

Lots of folks parrot the whole scalloped myc is fucked, enmeshed blah blah, nobody this, everybody that, but you'd be surprised how many of them who are so invested in being the authority on mushroom growing, don't actually grow mushrooms, haven't grown mushrooms in years, and never really grew very many mushrooms successfully anyway.

I've seen plenty of "scalloped" cultures fruit out just fine, and I've seen them also have serious issues. I've seen plenty of standard looking cultures have issues as well.

There are a lot of different phenomena that are all being lumped under one roof using the descriptor scalloped.

This Burma clone was consistent in every way. It was consistently scalloped on agar, consistently fucky looking on grain, and consistently produced a great yield of stellar fruits. The dish "BC" is this particular clone and the other dish is another culture of the same line. These are old photos from some years ago. I've been poked fun at for using them still when the situation arises but that is just some kind of penis envy type thing I think.



If someone with some ego trip wants to call me a noob then they are just petty and I'll tell them to go have a juice box and a nap and come back to talk when they have run through a few thousand more cultures.

I ran scalloped FP+ cultures and they were fussy for sure but they did the thing.

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Thanks for sharing your experience with scalloping. I don't know much about it so the more info I can get the better I can understanding it, and glad that two of the comment say it does not have to be contamination. I have no problem doing more transfers, but if all I get is scalloping and all my other plates with other varieties is clean then I might just have to send it to grains to know for sure, would like to hear you opinion after you looked at the new pictures

SupaThaRipper said:

On nichromes note, and considering you don't have a scope, I say just send it dude. It's better to fail than to have never tried at all.

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Thanks, I just loaded the PC with 3 jars and have to get the LAGM 25' spores to agar today, but I'll get to it in a couple of days for sure. I'll also do some transfers to new plates an reporter back in this thread

SupaThaRipper said:

On nichromes note, and considering you don't have a scope, I say just send it dude. It's better to fail than to have never tried at all.

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Advice is nice, but experience is the best teacher.

Stipe-n Cap said:

You don't just produce a monokaryon by accident. I'm not an egotistical authority either, nor am I passive aggressive. ; )

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