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Re: AGAR ENVY! (Anything and All things agar!)

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#29337310 - 09/07/25 04:48 PM (1 year, 12 days ago)

I torch my foil. That way I don’t need to go through pre sterilizing it. Not that’s it’s a bad idea or anything but it’s pretty fast

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#29337347 - 09/07/25 05:40 PM (1 year, 12 days ago)

oh cool. dang i always just used it straight up

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#29337368 - 09/07/25 05:57 PM (1 year, 12 days ago)

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#29337371 - 09/07/25 05:59 PM (1 year, 12 days ago)

You’re making my OCD go crazy.. that bottom right corner hook is a little offset.

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#29337374 - 09/07/25 06:01 PM (1 year, 12 days ago)

BeefSupremeJr said:

built this today.

Very cool man!!! :rockon:

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#29337379 - 09/07/25 06:13 PM (1 year, 12 days ago)

fahtster said:

You’re making my OCD go crazy.. that bottom right corner hook is a little offset.

Jk

god fucking dammit i wouldnt have noticed!!!

its more to do with my circular saw skill than my measuring

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#29337467 - 09/07/25 08:14 PM (1 year, 12 days ago)

Haha.. I kid I kid.. looks awesome

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#29337564 - 09/07/25 09:55 PM (1 year, 12 days ago)

anders said:

Nothing wrong with condensation. It can and should be resorbed into the medium. I go ahead and use the plates with condensate, and it clears up. More humidity is good®.

Well. I've had plates with condensation sitting in front of my hood for two days, and then unwrapped in a drawer for a week. It doesn't reabsorb for me. *shrug*

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#29337568 - 09/07/25 09:57 PM (1 year, 12 days ago)

it doesnt reabsorb.

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#29337658 - 09/08/25 02:32 AM (1 year, 12 days ago)

Bottom plate had loads of excess moisture after pc but I used it anyway.

Now the mycelium has sloshed around and started appearing all over the plate.

Some of the condensation has definitely dried up but after 2 weeks it's clearly still there.

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#29337694 - 09/08/25 05:34 AM (1 year, 11 days ago)

it does just evaporate out or get consumed. especially if the plates are stored vertical.

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#29337700 - 09/08/25 06:10 AM (1 year, 11 days ago)

I do prepour HG cups so I get a fair amount of condensation.

I'll usually store my unused PC'd plates upside down, and then bang them against a desk vertically before putting it into my SAB.

Before innoculating, I'll just open it upside down and angled a bit inside my SAB so anything excess drips out. This gets rid of any pooling. I still deal with the occasional lid that has some condensation, but HG cups aren't the best for pretty pics anyways so I just ignore it.

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Re: AGAR ENVY! (Anything and All things agar!)

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#29337791 - 09/08/25 09:04 AM (1 year, 11 days ago)

anders said:

Nothing wrong with condensation. It can and should be resorbed into the medium. I go ahead and use the plates with condensate, and it clears up. More humidity is good®.

When stacking your plates after a pour, keep in mind that nasties are falling from above all the time, especially if you are in the kitchen. I move my stacks into the lab next to the SAB and cover with clingwrap until use.

When pouring, only tip the lid up far enough to pour, then close.

When culturing only tip the lid up far enough to work then close, even in the SAB. I do this -and- culture my plates as vertical as I can, and then close with my thumb. Have had virtually no contam since these (and other) practices, with six species.

I am always surprised to see those mixing 1.5%, 2%, and more MEA. I guess my one post on this has had no effect. You want lower nutes for contam to eat, and you want the myc to be reaching out for nutes so you can ID strong fuzzy myc.

At first I had horrible mold problems with my MiB species. I found that mold often puts out long strands reaching out and over as much as 25mm before landing again on agar. See that, you have mold. Do a transfer the far side from it immediately and cabin.

BeefSupremeJr said:

it doesnt reabsorb.

I know, I know, and nasties do not fall from above, open the plates fully to pour and culture, use more MEA rather than less, etc, etc.

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#29337808 - 09/08/25 09:42 AM (1 year, 11 days ago)

my my. i thought your return meant that you were ready to play nice and here we are, trolling again.

you arent even close to being at a level to give any advice.

please stop. just listen and learn for now. thank you.

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#29337811 - 09/08/25 09:45 AM (1 year, 11 days ago)

Oh no Beef, he's going to put you on ignore now.

I'd love to see his new work considering he's had so much success recently.... as in like a week ago
He was growing nothing but mold but i'm sure he's got incredible looking plates now because he's been so open to our advice.

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#29337828 - 09/08/25 10:21 AM (1 year, 11 days ago)

anders said:

You want lower nutes for contam to eat

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Re: AGAR ENVY! (Anything and All things agar!)

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#29338048 - 09/08/25 04:00 PM (1 year, 11 days ago)

Synack said:

anders said:

Nothing wrong with condensation. It can and should be resorbed into the medium. I go ahead and use the plates with condensate, and it clears up. More humidity is good®.

Well. I've had plates with condensation sitting in front of my hood for two days, and then unwrapped in a drawer for a week. It doesn't reabsorb for me. *shrug*

sounds counter productive but have u tried pouring them kinda hot? i usually pour mine to where its almost not bearable to hold the bottle. then i leave them stacked and unwrapped in front of the hood. i usually have an inch or two left in the media bottle and put it on top the stack. seems to clear up completely for me. maybe i light condo on a couple plates

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#29338051 - 09/08/25 04:03 PM (1 year, 11 days ago)

how come nobody hears me when i say storing vertical gets rid of condensation? 🥺😭

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#29338056 - 09/08/25 04:12 PM (1 year, 11 days ago)

i hear ya man im just afraid theyre gonna roll away

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edit: woah.. square plates. now thatd be somthin

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#29338067 - 09/08/25 04:31 PM (1 year, 11 days ago)

BeefSupremeJr said:

how come nobody hears me when i say storing vertical gets rid of condensation? 🥺😭

You got the nice set up for em too!

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