Mark_M said:

catnip40 said:

They look great to me actually. Imagine wasting 3 or 4 pages bc someone that didn't know any better said they were thirsty

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Thanks:) To be fair I think a lot of the dialog was from someone else's post but mine seems to have been drawn into it regarding dryness. I think it took a day or two for the chamber to really come to balance. I'm not misting at all but things seem to be growing steadily and when this cake was still in the all-in-one bag I had caused some matting. That (and reading other posts here) is how I realized the value of getting it out of the bag and into a larger environment where it's easier to keep both moisture, temperature and oxygen in balance.

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GenesisCorrupted said:

They look thirsty.
Did you get the sub straight to field capacity?

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GenesisCorrupted said:

I’m in the process of learning too.

I feel like we’re supposed to be able to ask questions here and that shouldn’t be something that is insulted. This is a place of learning so if somebody is having trouble understanding something this is where you’re supposed to get those answers.

There shouldn’t be any gatekeeping name-calling insulting or trying to withhold information because you think somebody has a different motivation.

That sort of behavior drives people away from this place.

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I agree with you, we are all learning here. I think there's a time and a place for certain strict attitudes, but this thread specifically should be a bit more open minded because the whole purpose is to ask quick questions. Half the questions have been asked thirty times before! We are all just a bunch of apes trying to grow apes, living on a rock in some forgettable corner of the universe. Mush love!

GenesisCorrupted said:

I’m in the process of learning too.

I feel like we’re supposed to be able to ask questions here and that shouldn’t be something that is insulted. This is a place of learning so if somebody is having trouble understanding something this is where you’re supposed to get those answers.

There shouldn’t be any gatekeeping name-calling insulting or trying to withhold information because you think somebody has a different motivation.

That sort of behavior drives people away from this place.

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Pin said:

Rate my oats?

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Let's have a look inside

eilauver said:

I shook these jars at about 80-90% mainly to see how they would recover. It’s been 4 days. Before the shake they were colonising much more uniformly and rhizomorphicaly(?). Now they are kind of whispy. Am I worrying for a reason?



Actually the look a bit whiter in real life, camera kind of looses the details…

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eilauver said:

That’s great! As this is my first grain run I have a feeling that the first hand experience is still missing. Only bunch of reading a seeing jars of others. But it’s not quite the same as seeing your own growing.

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Best way to get good at health checking your spawn is to make a few hundred jars of grain and see what happens. I could spot an off color grain in a 5 gallon jug at 100 yards with all the Contam I’ve seen

Mara said:

Very New here, quick agar question.

Working with BRF, Agar, and dH2O (3g, 4g, and fill to 200ml) at pour with a measured temp of ~120 +/- 2f agar is nearly solid.

What am I doing wrong?

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GenesisCorrupted said:

How long is the consensus for leaving a scalpel in a sterilizer?

I set mine to high mode so the back end is orange. I have been leaving in for about 14 seconds but some of my transfers have been having slime mold problems.

I’m tempted to just throw the entire thing into the dishwasher at this point.

I don’t wanna have to leave it in there until the entire tip is glowing orange but I’ve been tempted.

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