Smellyhobbit said:

nektar61 said:

x7x+ climbing the wall of the plate. It wants out.

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“Let me out, mumma. I want to play.”

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OK, now it's grown up the wall and over the inside lip, is trying to grow down to escape. x7x+ doing x7x+ robust things. I might just let it go and see if it busts through the grafting tape I wrap my plates with.

LewDoja said:

Not x7x+ specifically, but have had a few others do exactly that...

Especially lions mane, and once it hits fresh air it fruits. But that's not saying much for LM

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It's my new way to skip grains and start full agar plates right to wood

No room in agar dish to fruit really I pull the colonized wood off into larger baggie to make wood chip spawn to expand out

U shud try it out post results.

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tinkscat said:

These are my first ever T1 plates so I'm here with noob questions!...
Are these ready to transfer? Any advice as to where I should sample from?

Plate 2 only has a bottom picture because the top has condensation and my phone camera couldn't handle it

Plate 1


Plate 2

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tinkscat said:

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It's my new way to skip grains and start full agar plates right to wood

No room in agar dish to fruit really I pull the colonized wood off into larger baggie to make wood chip spawn to expand out

U shud try it out post results.

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This is so cool.. I have questions! (Sorry if I missed the answers)..

- do you inoculation the plate with the wood chips already on it?
- do you PC steralise the wood chips first?
- is this a T1 plate or do you save the woodchips for a later transfer?

Thanks!

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Hey so I used a fully colonized plate from November,  once plate was long ready i pre soaked chips in baggie, ( hand smashed aspen) (soaked few days till all pcs sink down) and put soaked chips in ontop mycelium in colonized plate. Maybe month or lil more later I peeled off colonized chips with tweezers and put in baggie with more soaked aspen hand pulverized,  its jumping off already in a week very well too. Im thrilled this worked so well

nektar61 said:

LewDoja said:

Not x7x+ specifically, but have had a few others do exactly that...

Especially lions mane, and once it hits fresh air it fruits. But that's not saying much for LM

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I've never grown lions mane but it looks like expanding insulation foam...with teeth.

I half believe the culture on this plate of mine smells the 40 pound bag of grain 10 feet away.

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I just harvested 2nd flush of LM, super aggressive and not picky about conditions.  These pics are from the 1st flush

Smellyhobbit said:

My plates have been acting very strange lately. I thought it was from bad water at first, but I made these with bottled water and brown rice syrup. Still getting weird growth. Any ideas?



Thin, slow, and erratic growth. Some cultures won’t grow at all, they just sit on the plate and do nothing.

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Smellyhobbit said:

My plates have been acting very strange lately. I thought it was from bad water at first, but I made these with bottled water and brown rice syrup. Still getting weird growth. Any ideas?



Thin, slow, and erratic growth. Some cultures won’t grow at all, they just sit on the plate and do nothing.

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I just experienced something similar. At first I thought it was the blue food colouring, but I’m not sure anymore. It's better on the plates without the colouring, but still bad.




Got them over on BRF(1,5%)/ELME(0,5%) plates, with the following results thus far:




My theory is that either higher temps have influenced the way they grow on the ELME or it's gone bad.

Unfortunately I don't possess constant and wide enough data for any comparison, so it's nothing but speculation from my side. Higher nute content, different agar stiffness. The only thing the bad ones have in common is 1-1,6% ELME.

The only thing I know to be true, is that all my cultures do better on BRF/ELME instead of just ELME.

I have the same water source, using the same filter all across the board.
The water is pretty decent drinking water, except for it being quite hard.
Never had issues without filtering it first either.