Miltonius said:

A. I literally mentioned how smaller agar is usually cleaner and less likely to transfer contam but that I found it to be whispier and more aerial in general when solely comparing transfer size from clean agar. Idk if you misread my message as “I find bigger transfers to be cleaner” but that wasnt what I was saying. Josex tek is just talking about cleanliness which, obviously, less agar means less things getting transferred over therefore generally cleaner agar. Thats not what Im talking about though Im talking purely about the strength of the mycelium itself which in my experience and in “the redditors” experience has shown that larger agar (to a certain extent) leads to generally stronger mycelium [with the caveat obviously being A GENERALLY HIGHER RISK OF TRANSFERRING BACTERIA etc when transferring from unclean samples]

B. These were dirty wild spores that I got gifted so Im not looking for canopies, Im growing them out to try and hybridize them in the next generation, and I already said that I was aware the plates werent normal looking or particularly healthy. So the “it took you multiple transfers to get garbage plates” is an unnecessary insult just because I barely disagreed with you. Everything in this community is learned through seeing what works and what doesnt and that includes stacking agar transfers like a pyramid and seeing what happens.

C. You just sound pompous here. Just because the dudes a CPA and posting on reddit doesnt make his findings illegitimate or wrong. Do you know what Pastywhyte or Bod or Josex does for a living? No. Mush love

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Miltonius said:

A. I literally mentioned how smaller agar is usually cleaner and less likely to transfer contam but that I found it to be whispier and more aerial in general when solely comparing transfer size from clean agar. Idk if you misread my message as “I find bigger transfers to be cleaner” but that wasnt what I was saying. Josex tek is just talking about cleanliness which, obviously, less agar means less things getting transferred over therefore generally cleaner agar. Thats not what Im talking about though Im talking purely about the strength of the mycelium itself which in my experience and in “the redditors” experience has shown that larger agar (to a certain extent) leads to generally stronger mycelium [with the caveat obviously being A GENERALLY HIGHER RISK OF TRANSFERRING BACTERIA etc when transferring from unclean samples]

B. These were dirty wild spores that I got gifted so Im not looking for canopies, Im growing them out to try and hybridize them in the next generation, and I already said that I was aware the plates werent normal looking or particularly healthy. So the “it took you multiple transfers to get garbage plates” is an unnecessary insult just because I barely disagreed with you. Everything in this community is learned through seeing what works and what doesnt and that includes stacking agar transfers like a pyramid and seeing what happens.

C. You just sound pompous here. Just because the dudes a CPA and posting on reddit doesnt make his findings illegitimate or wrong. Do you know what Pastywhyte or Bod or Josex does for a living? No. Mush love

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Miltonius said:

Transferred these to grain but was wondering if these cultures are healthy? I know P. Cyan mycelium is whispier but do these look okay or if I should've waited for another transfer? (I transferred two of the fluffy overlay circles to agar but they likely wont goto grain anytime soon)

The top is a Florida Pan Cyan and the bottom is a “fire dancer” Cambodian variety.

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Miltonius said:

Stone making pan? Lmao wtf is that?

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Miltonius said:

Damn had never heard of cyanescens making sclerotia, only maybe some pseudosclerotia but I just compared some prior plates to some cinctulus “blue pearls” pictures on here and had some very similar looking growths. I also had some ATL7 and Subtropicalis plates from way back that were sclerotia producing that I looked at and I honestly wouldnt be surprised if youre right. Hopefully they still fruit but definitely a twist I didnt expect, but all the more reason I post on here — for info like this. The more you know. Grazie.

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