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Re: AGAR ENVY! (Anything and All things agar!) [Re: Awfullotofshrooms]
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Literally night and fucking day difference with this new agar recipe. Like holy shit. Well here’s some of what I got









Compared to the old batch


Edited by Awfullotofshrooms (06/14/26 02:50 PM)

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Re: AGAR ENVY! (Anything and All things agar!) [Re: Awfullotofshrooms]
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Yeah the yellow blob looks bacterial to me.

No matter how good your sterile techniques it - even under lab conditions - some contamination can still happen. It's part of the journey. And that is why we T1, T2, etc. If you're super worried, it's a good opportunity to learn/mess around with Cabin Sequestration too. :smile:


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Eskawata kaya waikiki
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Re: AGAR ENVY! (Anything and All things agar!) [Re: Nokumana]
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Which one has the yellow dot? Just looked over the ones I posted and I don’t see anything obviously out of the ordinary.

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Re: AGAR ENVY! (Anything and All things agar!) [Re: Turvenuija] * 1
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Turvenuija said:
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?







Poorly :lol: 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.



Looks like the beginning of mold to me & the yellow blob looks like bacteria

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Re: AGAR ENVY! (Anything and All things agar!) [Re: Fantastic Mr. Fox]
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Yeah, I'll toss it because I don't really need it anymore :shrug:


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Re: AGAR ENVY! (Anything and All things agar!) [Re: Turvenuija] * 1
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Must admit I’m so glad I started using the rice water agar as it’s so much faster and better then my previous batches. I finally have nice white ropes to look at and choose from.



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Re: AGAR ENVY! (Anything and All things agar!) [Re: mindfuel] * 1
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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.



Antibiotics don't kill penicillium.


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Re: AGAR ENVY! (Anything and All things agar!) [Re: Turvenuija]
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Turvenuija said:
Is this dot mold on my x7x+ or did I drop a piece of myc last time when transferring? I transferred away from it just in case. Otherwise these look pretty clean to me but how do they look to you?






The dot by the edge is mold. Aspergillus


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Re: AGAR ENVY! (Anything and All things agar!) [Re: Nichrome]
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Nichrome said:
Turvenuija said:
Is this dot mold on my x7x+ or did I drop a piece of myc last time when transferring? I transferred away from it just in case. Otherwise these look pretty clean to me but how do they look to you?






The dot by the edge is mold. Aspergillus




Ding ding ding, into the trash it went



I'm hoping this iceberg stops being dumb soon and stops being transparent. It looks clean in my eyes though, I do want to put all of these through a ditch/cabin before putting them on grain though. The one on the blue plate is 0,5% MEA which is accidental, I wonder if it would do better on regular 2%.


My og B+ plin clone is doing the best so far so if nothing else is ready by the time I'm ready to start messing with grain, that's what I'll be doing first.


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Re: AGAR ENVY! (Anything and All things agar!) [Re: Turvenuija] * 4
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It would definitely make it easier to see what’s going on.  Cubes don’t do well on low nute IME

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Re: AGAR ENVY! (Anything and All things agar!) [Re: Nichrome] * 1
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Thank you for that answer, saved me a plate! I appreciate it.


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Re: AGAR ENVY! (Anything and All things agar!) [Re: mindfuel]
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Grown out T2 ochra plates. Got some WBS, mostly white/red millet prepped for noc.

How do they look?





This one has some dark spots that can only be seen when lit from the front. They have not changed in appearance, and could be air bubbles. The agar was poured chunky and several plates have bubbles in them.

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Re: AGAR ENVY! (Anything and All things agar!) [Re: Hotboxer] * 1
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Obviously it's some kind of contam, but WTF is this growing left of center? Mold? Spontaneous beard? I've never seen anything that puts out long curly growth like that.

(and yeah, I see the bacterial blob at 3:00)

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Re: AGAR ENVY! (Anything and All things agar!) [Re: Hotboxer] * 1
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pickle_jars said:

Obviously it's some kind of contam, but WTF is this growing left of center? Mold? Spontaneous beard? I've never seen anything that puts out long curly growth like that.

(and yeah, I see the bacterial blob at 3:00)



Yes and yes, that is beard mold.

:cujo:


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Some fungi are only edible once.”
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Re: AGAR ENVY! (Anything and All things agar!) [Re: Kloakk] * 1
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Awesome, thanks Kloakk! Going to grain today!

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Re: AGAR ENVY! (Anything and All things agar!) [Re: Hotboxer]
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Hotboxer said:
Awesome, thanks Kloakk! Going to grain today!



:snoopyes:


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Some fungi are only edible once.”
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Re: AGAR ENVY! (Anything and All things agar!) [Re: Kloakk]
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Like this?

I'm not sure if you (and/or Amazon) are joking, but it's getting sent. Outside. With a kettle of boiling water poured on it. I might try doing a couple transfers away from it in my SAB, but I'm iffy on opening it indoors. I don't open anything with actively sporulating mold indoors, but at the moment it's just myc spreading quickly. What do you think?

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Re: AGAR ENVY! (Anything and All things agar!) [Re: pickle_jars]
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pickle_jars said:

Like this?

I'm not sure if you (and/or Amazon) are joking, but it's getting sent. Outside. With a kettle of boiling water poured on it. I might try doing a couple transfers away from it in my SAB, but I'm iffy on opening it indoors. I don't open anything with actively sporulating mold indoors, but at the moment it's just myc spreading quickly. What do you think?



I think that Amazon's beard mold supply comes from reddit, further more, it is some kind of mold, but I have no clue, send it was to hotboxer, but I'll throw you a gif as well.



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Some fungi are only edible once.”
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Re: AGAR ENVY! (Anything and All things agar!) [Re: Kloakk]
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How do my plates look?

Ones from a dried up yeti wedge I was able to save somehow.

The other two spore plates are tidal wave.


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Re: AGAR ENVY! (Anything and All things agar!) [Re: MycoKyle] * 1
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From the first plate I’d take a transfer from 10-11 o clock. The other two are your choice just look for some clean growth by the edge but it’s looking good man. That first plate has some nice rhizos

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