Mackload said:

I think you mentioned it before but what is with the red exudate? just wild

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It's guttation.  Plants do it too.

But here is a fun article with pictures of mushrooms.

https://weirdandwonderfulwildmushrooms.blogspot.com/2014/08/read-it-and-weep-fungal-guttation.html?m=1

And a study going into what all it might be doing for the mushrooms.

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/0dd2/2c574af4697192d239e65f0bafe683168e93.pdf

I did check this under a scope.  And did a nutrient agar test with an exterior flesh sample.  Also taste test.



It tastes high in iron, which matches the color. It has very little movement under the microscope, which suggests it has antibacterial properties.  And the exterior tissue culture grew out.  If I had been this sloppy with a cyan I'm sure it would be covered in sludge.

fahtster said:

That’s pretty cool.  I wonder if you could use it on other samples clone material?  Like have some of these going at all times to use their guttation to cover clone bits in lol

Or harvest the guttation somehow to put on the leading edge of a sector to grow through to get clean growth on the other side

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Maybe, the even sloppier MEA clones didn't seem to mind the bacterial colonies.






I still saved the WA tissue culture for clone runs to be safe though

Guess I didn't take a pic before transferring from WA.  But definitely the easiest Copelandia I've ever taken tissue from.  And if it's antibacterial, that's a bonus.

Smellyhobbit said:

Appolo in a 12Q tub

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My JCM totes are 105 qt, that’s wild you’re spawning a literal farm inside a 120! You gonna have some chonkers!

tree frog said:

*Zips back up her human suit*

It clearly wasn't aliens fellow humans.  Just an innocent frog with a camera.

Mackload said:

I think you mentioned it before but what is with the red exudate? just wild

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It's guttation.  Plants do it too.

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Philo martian gettin’ guttational, for reference.😜