toadking said:

15 psi?

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LotKid said:

Splittinghairs said:

LotKid said:

Splittinghairs said:

Was planning on for certain tearing off swab for last plate.

Wanna inoculate 10 plates.

I can just never tell if adding water to swab helps or not. I’ve gone through two yeti swabs (one I just added a drop of water to, other dry) and closing in on two weeks nothing. Didn’t do the swab on those mainly cause trying to figure out why the swabs seem to never germinate.

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Why do you feel the need to streak 10 plates? That sounds like a very unnecessary amount to me. I'd start with one plate and then if i get growth, start transferring to new plates. One plate for germination is all you need.  If you get germination on all 10 plates, then what? Transfer from all them to new plates? That's a lot of unnecessary work and supplies.

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Trying to up the odds.

You’re probably right though. Just do like 4 and one buried. At that point fuck it.

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4 is more than i would do. But you do you. You'll figure it out eventually. But, i tried to tell you.

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Gonna reiterate what LotKid said here, and he has a fuck ton more experience than I do. The most I’ve ever inoculated was 3 plates of the same culture, and that was because I was experimenting with 3 different agar recipes and wanted to see which plate did better with a specific shroom. Taking that into consideration, I usually inoculate 2 plates of any one type of shroom, this way if one is bacterial I still have another plate that maybe won’t be. TBH, one plate is truly enough, because you can work with it and transfer to other plates. To inoculate 10 plates, or even 4 is kinda overkill. Unless you are planning on making a bodacious amount of jars and tubs all at once to cultivate pounds of shrooms. I mean basically when it comes down to it, the world is your oyster, so if it makes you happy then by all means go for it! Grow baby, grow! 🧫

1NFIN8 said:

toadking said:

15 psi?

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Link to altitude adjustment in my sig if you need it.

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I quickly read this as "attitude adjustment" and laughed at the idea of you having a link in your sig to you just beating the shit out of a pressure cooker. 

GenesisCorrupted said:

That looks like a small little circle of MYC with contaminated stuff around it.
I would not transfer from there.

I would transfer from 10 or 2 o'clock on the top plate.

Six thirtyish on the second plate.

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dinosaurs said:

sorry for yet another agar question, but this thread is what it is and all...

to my 2-star cultivator eyes, these plates look ready for selective transfer.  this is the squat mac I was mistakenly sent early this year from a vendors private stock.





so beyond spoon feeding my suggestions on what to transfer (i *think* its pretty obvious?), I'm curious about the brighter white spot on the top plate around the 3 o'clock position.  it's in a weak area of growth but almost looks like it's forming primordia.  so thats really my question.  what do you think that is and if primordia should I take it despite it existing in a weak growth area?  getting decent pix of plates is a real pain in the ass but I hope you can see enough.

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dinosaurs said:

sorry for yet another agar question, but this thread is what it is and all...

to my 2-star cultivator eyes, these plates look ready for selective transfer.  this is the squat mac I was mistakenly sent early this year from a vendors private stock.





so beyond spoon feeding my suggestions on what to transfer (i *think* its pretty obvious?), I'm curious about the brighter white spot on the top plate around the 3 o'clock position.  it's in a weak area of growth but almost looks like it's forming primordia.  so thats really my question.  what do you think that is and if primordia should I take it despite it existing in a weak growth area?  getting decent pix of plates is a real pain in the ass but I hope you can see enough.

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lopenator said:

Yes thank you for the response

The first 3 are tub 1 and the next 3 are tub 2

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dinosaurs said:

GenesisCorrupted said:

That looks like a small little circle of MYC with contaminated stuff around it.
I would not transfer from there.

I would transfer from 10 or 2 o'clock on the top plate.

Six thirtyish on the second plate.

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good to know; thanks.  there's really much out there Ive found to help identify what I'm seeing on plates but those areas you mention seem undeniable.  at least if I know what the stuff I want looks like, everything else is noise.

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lopenator said:

hey thanks for the input. I definitely don't want to get sick! lol. ah well

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LotKid said:

I've had friends get pounds of weed and mushrooms delivered to hotels they weren't staying at while out on tour...

If you run out and need 10 pounds by Chicago.... pick a hotel and order ahead of time. Have it waiting for you when you get in town

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