catoblepa said:

I'm seeing the same behavior on my Eryngii plates. They are also clones, so maybe the mycelium stayed in "fruiting mode" instead of reverting back to colonization? I mean, it's colonizing the plate fine, but it started off with fruiting. I really don't know why. The substrate is PDA with a little baking yeast in it.

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Archespore said:

That last pic is gorgeous , wooooow

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tree frog said:

Grab and Drag pictorial

For folks that rarely look at the front page.

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Peleus said:

Hi Arche, sorry about the picture, it's the best I could get, always a struggle to get focus to land on myc.
It's a standard 2% agar, 2% lme recipe.

I guess I won't know for sure until I send it to grains. This is already the 4th transfer.

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Brother it's looking great, rhizo growth is super optional, not even optimal in all scenarios.

You're making solid progress, it'll be second nature before you know it

tree frog said:

Those all look clean to me aside from maybe the second one F-WA.

The indication is that the yellow ring is a ring. i.e. organized.  This suggests a metabolic shift due to age, nutrients, and how much of the plate the vegetative mycelium has captured.

F-WA the ring is not well as organized, which is a bit suspicious.  But considering it's been cabined, ran through water agar, etc.  I would take it back to a nutrient plate and post a picture when it grows out a bit.  I imagine it's fine too.

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Thank you for your answer, tree frog.
That calms me down a lot.
Will follow your advice and transfer back to nutrient plates and post updated pics.
Thanks for your input.