JoeTherapist said:

Question? Besides food coloring what do people do to differentiate between Low nute, high nute, and WA plates? Is a tiny amount of food coloring the best way? I could just label, but, color would help this ADHD mind.

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fontinalis666 said:

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apparently im a contam connoisseur

EDIT:Im officially giving up my title as contam connoisseur and I am now the contam eradicator

Agar Wedge said:

Best bet is to transfer from around 11 oclock on the top one asap. That leading edge has the best chance of a transfer away from any nasties. The one on the bottom has mold in it, you can tell by the large area of translucent growth at 6 o'clock

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bloodssonnew said:

It's a good idea to wrap the outside of ur plates especially if your gonna handle or move em around at all otherwise u suseptable to bad stuff getting in from eddies from quick movements or just wind / lung rooms in the house n whatnot.

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thumbsy said:

This plate got kinda gross while waiting for germination from a print (NecD). It for sure has some bacteria and a mold growing on it but I noticed some (what looked like) germination a few days ago (day 21) directly in a patch of spores on the agar so I let it ride longer. The big fluffy white patch grew around the heavy spore deposit on the agar which is why it has kind of a donut shape with a dark center.

This is my first go at growing pans/NecD so I'm just not sure if the super-white stuff growing out of the heavy spore deposit is just another type of mold or if thats what pan myc looks like. I haven't seen it on any of my other plates but they are all cubes. (The agar has a lot of sediment because its the bottom of an old mix and this is what it decided to do.)

Any thoughts on the white fluff?

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As a follow-up, I had sub'd a bunch of it to 6 plates like 10 days before I made this initial post. After another few days of really good looking growth putting it over 2 weeks old now, and lots of looking at pan myc posts, I decided it's most likely good myc. I sent one of the plates to a half pint of grain today to see.