Mateja said:

My gut feeling tells me that anything with fats and oils in it can't be too bad, if anything the added grease should make the seeds stick less? But maybe it will have the opposite effect, idk, but id bet it wont


I saw birdseed in the store today and immediately I felt drawn to them, just for nostalgia, havent seen a birdseed grow in a while

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The Tao said:

I used perlite in tubs for years because it all went to the garden eventually but water tubs are less mess.

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CrumpetMan said:

90% of the time if I scrape spores or try to swab them onto agar they never grow?

Why is that?

I've never had any luck making zig zag lines with the swabs and get any growth, I don't understand it..

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For germination i exclusively use potato water agar or BRF agar.
Also maybe spores too old or/and dirty.
From swabs you could pick some tissue with a tweezer and bury it in the agar.
Don´t scrape spores with a scalpel as they get damaged.
Better use sterile Q-Tips or inoculation loops (selfmade) for streaking.

       

Lithop said:

@jbgtaa

I used a fancy birdseed mix with kibble nuts and stuff in recently, 25% of that 75% of popcorn. Not so far from the ratio in your bag.
Shrooms ate it up no issues.

Good luck with them.

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jbgtaa said:

so I am running a micro grow compared to some of you right now, and didnt wanna drive all the way to the feed store so I grabbed WBS from the store when I was grabbing jars. I also wont use (or have any place to store) an entire 50lb of oats without it going bad or attracting bugs with my timeframe.

just checked the seed I got and it has peanuts and pistachios in it, even though looking at the stuff inside the bag its clearly like 80% millet and Milo. I see very few chunks of what I'd identify as nuts lol. is this gonna work? I've always seen to use the no nut but if I just do a quick cook they should be fine right? if anyone has like a good evidence against it I'll just go buy the oats and store em somewhere out of the way lol

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