jeffreykite said:

I set up my sousvide to 141degrees and left my bottle in the water for about 6 hours. When I got home, it still wasn't liquid.

So I popped the bottle in the microwave for a minute, that broke it up, but now it's too hot. So it went back in to the sousvide for another 30 minutes.

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Turvenuija said:

Malt extract arrived today, getting to work in a few hours. 10g agar agar, 10g malt extract, 500ml water is the basic recipe if I understood correctly?

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Awfullotofshrooms said:

When you guys do transfers do you put the transfer in the new agar mycelium facing down or up? I’ve been putting them downwards so far but I’m curious how you guys are all doing it

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Up, but it doesn't matter. It's just the flow of movement I like when I'm doing transfers.

jeffreykite said:

Is there any real benefit to doing more and more transfers?

For example, I have a few plates of mycellium that I don't plan on growing any time soon. Would it be beneficial to continue to do transfers?

Has anyone seen a difference in the way their mushrooms grow on transfer 2 vs transfer 20?

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bassboxxx12 said:

What are your thoughts on the following plates:

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Yep, they're plates alright. First few are kinda wispy. I'm presuming that's a thin layer of myc around all of them, and not some kind of film or other thing...


I'd pull anywhere from 9 to 12 on this, probably about 11:30.



Favorite of the bunch I think, bit faster looking and the thin perimeter is smaller. Thick bits at 10:30 and 1, maybe 8 just for variety.



I'd chuck this on grain ez


Guessing these are early/germ plates? Oh yeah I see the T0. I mean, they are what they are. I'll fridge a germ plate if I think I'll want it in the future but usually plates like this never get touched again. Toss.



What's the story on that lil intruder? If you dropped the wedge or otherwise know that's myc/expeected, I'd grain that (maybe chopping around the lil guy just to be safe).

But like.. what are your goals? If you're chasin ropes, T8 is a bit long, I'd start switching up temps (higher) and nutes (lower), but if you just want something stable enough to send to grain, you're there.

Dj_karma_magnet said:

Please tell me about these agar plates #1-7

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Yep, those are plates alright. Are the lil bits in the ATL bubbles/imperfections in the agar? Extra bits of myc? Not expected to be there? ATL is looking pretty even otherwise, I'd let em fill out and run it, as long as all those lil bits are benign. Very hard to tell anything in detail from the moto razr pics.


Is this a germination plate or is that two transfers? Hard to see but I'd take 1 or 8 from the top one, and 4:30 or 8 from the lower one.

The other one is kinda whatever, I'd probably take the right side of the thick part at 11:30 on the top one, and then whatever else on the perimiter just to have a backup. I guess 11:30 on the bottom part since it seems fastest. But all these JF bits seem early and like they could use another round or two.

Are your temps things that will make the tamps happy? I can see your temp cycles in the ATL ring density. Not a bad thing necessarily, just wondering.