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Re: AGAR ENVY! (Anything and All things agar!) [Re: Morinsana1]
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Nice work! I also use a Gordobox and love it! Don't let any of the haters dull yer shine, dude! Laminar flow or not, if it succeeds in keeping your plates free from contams, that's the only thing that matters. 

Rock on!


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Re: AGAR ENVY! (Anything and All things agar!) [Re: flapping_bird] * 5
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Explaining how and why laminar flow works is not being a hater.:lol:

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Re: AGAR ENVY! (Anything and All things agar!) [Re: JW123] * 1
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JW123 said:
Explaining how and why laminar flow works is not being a hater.:lol:


:whathesaid:

That being said, I’m a gordo box hater.  It’s not real clean work and it’s a ridiculously expensive getup compared to a seven dollar SAB that is more effective.  If you want a flow hood then build a real flow hood :shrug:


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Smellyhobbit said:
"Wiping a needle with isopropyl after flame sterilization is like shitting after you wipe your ass."

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Re: AGAR ENVY! (Anything and All things agar!) [Re: JW123] * 1
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JW123 said:
It's kind of hard to see what is going on with the mycelium. It looks to me that the discoloration is the mycelium eating the food coloring. The weird stuff that happens with colored agar is the main reason I quit using it. I would grow that transfer out and see how it looks.


Yeah I dumped the rest of the unused ones from that batch and have a new batch in the PC now with no food coloring. The myc is spreading very slowly compared to some other transfers and clowns so I’ll see what that one does over the next couple weeks. Thanks for the reply.


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Re: AGAR ENVY! (Anything and All things agar!) [Re: Rooster87] * 7
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APE Plin plate on Gnocchi Agar with Nutritional Yeast and Maple Syrup



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Re: AGAR ENVY! (Anything and All things agar!) [Re: Huskies] * 1
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Cleaned up this ms culture





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Re: AGAR ENVY! (Anything and All things agar!) [Re: Krakencaps]
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I josexed this out of a mexicana 'Rancho Agosto' germ plate that showed mostly green. It is the tiny hole in the biggest colony. Can anyone confirm if this is indeed Rancho Agosto? It sure doesn't look like my galindoi used to do.




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Re: AGAR ENVY! (Anything and All things agar!) [Re: Churpee Choozle] * 11
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Ovoid germ plate



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Re: AGAR ENVY! (Anything and All things agar!) [Re: Smellyhobbit] * 6
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Re: AGAR ENVY! (Anything and All things agar!) [Re: Smellyhobbit] * 1
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Smellyhobbit said:
Ovoid germ plate




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Re: AGAR ENVY! (Anything and All things agar!) [Re: Tormato]
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Hello,
I am trying to cross strains...is this looking like it might work?  you can see in the pics, the before and after of where I took samples from.  Does this look like the correct place to get a sample from?  Does it look like the PP is taking over the TP sample?
thanks

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Re: AGAR ENVY! (Anything and All things agar!) [Re: chfbrd] * 3
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I believe to cross strains you mix the spores together and hope they make your desired mycelium. Not totally sure just intertwingling the mycelium will do anything

check out this strain crossing thread

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Re: AGAR ENVY! (Anything and All things agar!) [Re: san pedro guy] * 1
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Here is another one where faht used other methods.
https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/28117746/page/1

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Re: AGAR ENVY! (Anything and All things agar!) [Re: JW123] * 1
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Starch water from boiling vermicelli noodles. Ingredients: Rice Flour, Water





I think this might be an interesting base for agar. Gnocchi water is my go to, I tried ramen boil water, but those ramen noodles have a lot of palm oil and sodium and it would leave swirls on top that could be confused for bacteria.

The Vietnamese vermicelli was way less ingredients than the gnocchi, so I wonder if it will create less sediment. 

On that note, last time I did my gnocchi water agar, I tried straining it because there were a lot of starch solids that never mixed perfectly. It's still working but growth is less impressive. Last time I also added nutritional yeast and things exploded pretty quickly on those plates.


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Re: AGAR ENVY! (Anything and All things agar!) [Re: chfbrd]
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chfbrd said:
Hello,
I am trying to cross strains...is this looking like it might work?  you can see in the pics, the before and after of where I took samples from.  Does this look like the correct place to get a sample from?  Does it look like the PP is taking over the TP sample?
thanks


These are both dikaryotic, you need the monokaryotic forms of each, then you can use this method to cross the strains

edit: from one of the links provided above

cronicr said:
Fruits are made of dikaryotic mycelium
Dikaryons are the result of two monokaryons fusing, each monokaryon has half a set of genetics that make a fruit.
When a spore germinate it is a monokaryon, so two spores germinate to become a dikaryon.


Edited by tholos (03/25/25 11:21 AM)

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Re: AGAR ENVY! (Anything and All things agar!) [Re: tholos] * 4
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ochra clone I'm currently playing with - lookin pretty for a T2


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Re: AGAR ENVY! (Anything and All things agar!) [Re: Carnonos]
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Just out of curiosity can a piece of grain covered in mycelium be put on agar to obtain a clean culture? Say if the grain was taken from a jar that was contaminated in one spot, but clean in other places.

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Re: AGAR ENVY! (Anything and All things agar!) [Re: AZ Starman2112] * 3
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Yeah. You might bring over some contamination that isn’t yet visible but you can clean it up with transfers :awesomenod:

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Re: AGAR ENVY! (Anything and All things agar!) [Re: oat bag] * 2
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If you want to be real thorough you could drop a grain on a BRF puck and transfer that growth to a plate.


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Smellyhobbit said:
"Wiping a needle with isopropyl after flame sterilization is like shitting after you wipe your ass."

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Re: AGAR ENVY! (Anything and All things agar!) [Re: Mr Piggy] * 5
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Maketi grain on its way to agar.


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