Awfullotofshrooms said:

I thought grain water agars were pretty reliable?  I agree that the mushrooms definitely don’t really care as long as they have nutrition but some grains are obviously faster then others. But I was guessing that since the mycelium was growing on rice water agar that when I put it to the brown rice it jumped to the grains faster then the corn did and my hypothesis was that since it was growing on that medium already it was used to it and therefore quicker to start colonizing the rice

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That is the word around town So the hypothesis is that if the mycelium is already growing on GW plates made from the same grains as it will be inoculated into, they should already be producing the digestive enzymes they use to digest the grains.

I have no idea of it is true, but I am willing to give it a shot to see if it matters, I have some species that ain't really fond of grains, but I really want them to "learn" to like it

Right now I'm running different species on 3 different strength GW plates. The only ones moving fast enough to share any pictures is pans and cubensis. Pictures was taken yesterday so this is 6 days of growth.

Highest consentration og GW from left to right.

bloodssonnew said:

This will probably only logically be effective for clone culture work. To keep enzyme production already active by keeping that material in whatever it is colonizing. (though entirely unsure abt if agar is considered a different medium than grains evin if there's the same grains in the agar to the mushroom meaning evin with grains in agar it might produce slightly different enzymes?(No clue)) Edit. My 420th post! Gonna go blaze up.

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Why would it only be logic to use clone cultures? I was hoping I could use spores to see if I can find a culture more willing to feed off grains

Is the mycelium even digesting the agar I don't have a clue as well, but I'm going to be running this experiment for a while anyway

Awfullotofshrooms said:

What recipe are you using? I had two batches I made with just corn syrup and they all grew like water agar almost. Very light whispy growth but then I used rice water and corn syrup and the difference was night and day. Also when I put the agar from the rice water to rice it immediately started spreading unlike when I put the agar to Corn it took a few days to start spreading on the corn.

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