Dave Bennett said:

Apologies! I completely missed that the blue plates were water agar. You can scratch what I said about a potential fungal contam unless it's growing way faster than cube mycelium normally does (like filling the plate in a matter of three or four days). Cube mycelium grows thin and wispy like that on water agar, especially if the transfer is small which limits the available nutrients for any growth. So it looks like it's good news all round.

Some agar brands seem to be more prone to showing halos but if you wanted to enhance their visibility on agar add some soluble starch, like potato or corn starch, to your agar recipe. Making the agar slightly softer helps the enzymes diffuse out more efficiently too. Exactly the same process is happening when mycelium consumes the dye or colourant in agar plates too.

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No-Pilot-555 said:

Can you elaborate? Saying something someone else says is hogwash then not correcting them is not productive. Everything they've said has made sense so far, please elaborate. It would save me a great deal of time

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No-Pilot-555 said:

Can you elaborate? Saying something someone else says is hogwash then not correcting them is not productive. Everything they've said has made sense so far, please elaborate. It would save me a great deal of time

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Dave Bennett said:

I grow purely for pleasure too and as I can grow way more than than I'm going to take in a year in one grow the majority of my work is experimental.

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RockinRobot said:

Funny with all the bad advice we have seen you give you have yet to post pictures of a single grow.

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Plenty over in the semilanceata thread. And even though Dave might now give the best advice because not everyone wants to get down to the molecular level of understanding how to grow mushrooms and that his answers can come across as confusing because he gives an in depth answer, I would say most of them isn't wrong, at worst they are counterproductive because the person on the other end don't understand them.