Splittinghairs said:

Dr. Smoke said:

6/7 is about the same size as 6/5 so seems faster.

But I think I see contam in all of them.  Hard to tell with the reflections and blue agar.  Are you sterilizing for an hour?  Letting the air out of the PC?  Using an SAB?

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Yeah. I used the insta tech and let them sterilize for an extra half hour.

I use my over sized bathroom for sterilized techs like grains and have only lost a couple of jars over all my grows (not including one syringe where I lost all the jars cause assuming that syringe was bunk)

Non of the 50 plates I have made started growing anything unless I’ve put a swab to it. All my reserve plates are still clean so I don’t think I introduced contam during the pour.

There is contam on the plates that have myc growth but assuming that’s from swabs.

As far as the white patches they shine through with light and no discoloration. The 6/7 one you pointed out I will probably transfer some later as on the other side of the dish there is contam as well.

Unless I’m not understanding agar, I thought contam from swabs happens as it’s part of the process from wiping?

It’s a shame. Cause one of my TW plates just got some white growth, but I can see a pink dot in the center.

Is there a better color to use other than blue?

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NO color.

In any room you Earthlings inhabit there is always Evil floating down from above.

And everyone does their own thing but I would never use swabs.  You're just asking for it.

I use a SAB and innoc loop.  I flame the loop with a jet lighter (weed shop) to red-hot before every transfer, cool it in agar, and only open the petri long enough to do the transfer from print, even though I'm in the SAB.  And Beef says never move your hands over an open dish.

Most here bought at Goodwill, for cheep:

dinosaurs said:

yes its starting to knot

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Splittinghairs said:

Gonna have to look up the innoc loop stuff.

I just picked one method and went with it. (Being swabs)

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Splittinghairs said:

That could be something to look into for sure regarding the tote.

But yeah. I’ve never had a SAB. I will use my instapot for sterilize. Wipe down all my counters with 70% and some Lysol 

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Splittinghairs said:

Gonna have to look up the innoc loop stuff.

I just picked one method and went with it. (Being swabs)

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Home Grower said:

How long do you think before I have pins?

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nektar61 said:

Splittinghairs said:

That could be something to look into for sure regarding the tote.

But yeah. I’ve never had a SAB. I will use my instapot for sterilize. Wipe down all my counters with 70% and some Lysol 

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you do shroom work with agar but no SAB, and have done lots of grows with no contam, are you sure no contam?

bacteria can produce not a lot visually, can usually be smelled, but maybe you don't know what to look for. Jars not completing 100 percent within a month is one example (and not completing even if you go two more weeks), spawn in jar being a hard ball that doesn't want to come out of jar is another.

Doing this right with no still box of some kind (or flow hood), seems shocking that it would work. Especially with insta pot not PC.

got pix of your work and results? Do you flame scalpel? how'd you learn to grow, you've done hundreds of grows but joined here this year.

Not saying this is the only path but I'm still incredulous. Your tagline says "know it all", and you posted yesterday that you recently did your first ever agar. And that's mold on at 3 oclock on that plate, the dark spot.

https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/29240121

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Dr. Smoke said:

True, most here use scalpels for transfer.  Some prints are stuck fast, depending on age.  It may be that a scalpel is better. (Feed & Seed store)

Contam on the underside is a sure sign that you are not achieving sterilization, FYI.

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MojaveMyc said:

Splittinghairs said:

Gonna have to look up the innoc loop stuff.

I just picked one method and went with it. (Being swabs)

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Swabs are fine. They're all I've used over the years. Your initial impression (that ridealongs are just going to happen) is correct. Whether you use a scalpel, swab, or loop, a print is what it is (clean/dirty/meh) & if there are nasties on it, they will come along for the ride. Blue is fine. You're doing great so far, keep it up.

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Splittinghairs said:

Wait wait wait.

Not sure where the know it all tagline thing is but that’s not something I have in mine that I put in for sure. If I knew it all the last place I would be in most of the time is in the questions areas trying to fine tune things and understand. So that’s a huge misunderstanding somewhere.

With regards to hundreds. It’s jars. I’ve gone through a hundred grain jars. I have journals that have pics of grows. There are other websites that people talk about growing that I USED to be at. So the being here isn’t the only window of me growing. But I left the other websites cause I didn’t see a way to learn more there as information often regurgitated there was bad/old stuck in archaic ways. So I joined here to learn some more.

The old tech I used before am not allowed to mention as it’s one of the more popular techs on the video platform and thus, incredibly shitted on here. Name of a USA city and someone who you learn from.

Yes I flamed my scalpe before making a cut AFTER I wiped everything down with ISO. I let it sit for a couple of minutes before making an incision and side poked what I cut to move the transfer over to the other plate and didn’t move my hands back and forth over the plate.

I’ve had some contam in my jars. But I’m talking like 1 for every 7 or 8 which to me falls within more than acceptable lines. What I spawn should be

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I'm half kidding with pointing out the "know it all" but you don't know it? It's on your user page:
https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showprofile.php?User=630963

"Bio: Parent veteran construction worker and know it all"

I think you should make an SAB. I'm not trying to shame you, I'm trying to help you grow clean, tasty shrooms.

I recommend you post those 3 APE plates here on this thread and on the Agar Envy thread, and ask for second opinions. I'm seeing mold on two of them, without even looking big and close.

You could easily transfer away the good there to new plates and have really clean spawn in 1 or 2 transfers with an SAB, but I believe it's never going to happen in open air, no matter how much Lysol you use. (

God I can smell that crap in my mind from my first month here just at the mention of it. I still have a half-unused can I haven't touched since.

Read my sig line link, (FROM SPORES TO TRIPS). It's tips, and link to a good SAB tek.

You can get an amazingly good pressure cooker for 110 bucks on Amazon, and I give the model number there.

A few people here have managed to do clean work with an insta pot, long cook times, and an SAB. I don't think anyone has done it without the SAB.

An SAB costs 10 bucks to make and takes 20 minutes to make. You say you'll do it if you get contam, but you have contam.

I'd also recommend not using colored agar until you can tell when you have contam.

Welcome.

Is the "he who cannot be named" on YouTube the idiot with the skull mask? We mention him and make fun of him all the time, it's not forbidden. A lot of us spend a lot of fucking energy and time for free undoing the damage he does, while he gets rich off his Patreon.

LewDoja said:

F1 is your first "produced" spores ....
So F0

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LewDoja said:

F1 is your first "produced" spores ....
So F0

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