Axman said:

If you want to have a better chance at knowing your inoculating with clean media, agar is a good tool to have.

Also if you hang around the forums long enough (I believe 90 days, someone correct me if I'm wrong), and get your post count up to 50; you will gain access to the Marketplace. There's a lot of generous members who give away spore prints and cultures for free.

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LewDoja said:

Looks good for the most part. Did it smell shroomy when spawned?

What tek did you follow for that tub?

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Mub said:

Hmmm ok. Is it worth even using the grafting tape than?

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I wrap around the plate about 1.5 times with grafting tape, then just over 1 times with micropore tape. Usually fold over the last bit of micropore, to make it easy to remove.

I started doing this after I had some grafting tape unravel while the plate was sitting and growing.

Probably was semi-dried grafting tape, some only use grafting tape (it sticks to itself) but if you use both, it will stay shut. 

Here are plates wrapped with both.

Phaethon said:

I think you used twice the recommended amount (5 scoops or 50 g per liter, not per 500 ml).

You can always see if anything grows. But next time use a scale (scoops are not going to be very consistent) and use the prescribed amount.

Edit to point out that the components are cheap and worth buying separately imo. You can find agar agar powder and light dry malt extract easily on Amazon, and mix them at 2% each, e.g. 500 ml water, 10 g agar agar powder, 10 g malt extract. The premixes are generally ripoffs.

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bluespirit13 said:

Would you send this jar? Gonna give it a couple more days to consolidate likely.

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