Synack said:

Hard to imagine I'd get a vendor LC syringe of pure mold, no?

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PuffM4gicDr4gon said:

To me, the edges are uneven and the texture is powdery. I could be wrong, but aren't both of those signs of contam? It doesn't have to be tomentose, but the argument was whether it was tomentose vs contam. The OP was asking whether this would be a good plate to use to make LC with. I said that I wouldn't trust it due to the above reasons, and a 3rd person began arguing that the entire plate was 1. Healthy and 2. Tomentose.

If I'm wrong, I'd really like to know. I don't want to be giving bad advice here or anywhere.

I do know, that if this was my plate of cube mycelium I wouldn't put it to grain let alone LC.

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BeefSupremeJr said:

puffin is about to cure cancer, meanwhile cron and I over here like

"what?! yall never eat your donor plates!? its DELiCIOUs!"

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PuffM4gicDr4gon said:

Why did you cut pieces out of those plates that aren't MIB and Semp?

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anders said:

PuffM4gicDr4gon said:

Why did you cut pieces out of those plates that aren't MIB and Semp?

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I guess you are referring to me?  Some incel earlier said he is not looking at plates with "bites out of them".  Glad to not have his input.

Sometimes a plate in which you've invested four wedges develops trich or mold.  Rather than move four wedges, I cut out the bad.  Sometimes more comes so I cut that out.  I realize that this is not de rigueur but it is the way I do it, just like many things I do are not 'according to Hoyle'. (ancient reference)  Hell, putting a wedge into four quadrants is 'just not done'.  But I do it.

Back in the '70's Japanese cars were just crap and everyone knew it.  But the makers zeroed in on the actual problems with clarity and focus, and fixed them one-by-one, and I'll bet you drive a Japanese car now.  It's called the Scientific Process.

I was aware of trich and how it looks, but was fooled by mould.  Now I am aware of that and am mitigating.  Sometimes the only option is to remove the last good wedge and put it on a fresh plate, which is what I've done with MiB.  Today I did a mass innoc to grain, and I know that at least 4 jars are going to be pure mould.  But I will let them grow because I want to see what that actually looks like.  Of my 14 jars (all catalogued) I hope to have at least some rip nicely.  But time will tell.  Have I introduced dlean myc?  Have I hydrated the grain to the correct level, etc?

What I know though is the UV sterilization flood is a good decision, as were several others I've learned.  Bit-by-bit.

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