strawboy said:

Magnesium will make the gel more elastic but I prefer Calcium Chloride which creates a brittle network. That's how I'm able to easily create a liquid inoculant with a stir bar.

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Mind sharing the recipe? Also, do you use a different recipe for plates for cabins or plates  that's not going to be used for LI?

strawboy said:

You can go with .2g or .3g of Calcium Chloride for cabins. 0.1 for slurry. 0.2g for an all arounder.
https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/29508830

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Thank you

strawboy said:

You can't just replace the chloride with your lactate though. Lactate is heavier

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strawboy said:

My Calcium Chloride is anhydrous so it's 36% elemental calcium. You can multiply my measurements by 2.8

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mindfuel said:

I know you all say blue is cool, but, um, yeah. Tmac on PDA, think Ill put some of the original wedge onto an antibiotic plate and see how it goes.

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Kloakk said:

mindfuel said:

I know you all say blue is cool, but, um, yeah. Tmac on PDA, think Ill put some of the original wedge onto an antibiotic plate and see how it goes.

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Nokumana said:

Looking closer, I think I see mycelium, so could be mold or fungus or it could be a satellite of your original culture if you weren't too careful about transferring it. How did you plate the original culture?

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Poorly I started from spores and then tried to take some aerial mycelium to t-1. The satellite texture is different, looks like tv static. I doubt it's cube myc.

The yellow blob on the t-0 is interesting, I thought it was clumped malt extract but it seems to be growing.

I guess the take away is that something is wrong with my sterile work.