Traveler42 said:

Followed on some advice from a question on the QQQA thread about cleaning up my first ever plates. 


The plates in question-




My attempt at a cabin-


Cabin a week later




A trench and a couple of regular transfers-

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PhenoDreamers said:

Ok guys, I'm back on the horse after a year break. Seeing all my beds come up outside this fall has really relit my flame! I spent all day Wednesday cleaning the thick dust and cat hair off of everything my lab. I put trays into fruiting that I inoculated a year ago 🤣 interesting experiment. We will see what comes of them. I did some plate work yesterday. Pulled maybe 30-40 things out of culture storage.



Many from section cordisporae, semilanceatae, and subaeruginosae. Several things that I have not fruited yet myself and a few that I have for outdoor beds. I'll be running several things indoor over the winter though nothing hot. Just cold and room temp stuff.

My top 4 bed goals for next year:
baeocystis
pelliculosa
caerulipes
weraroa

Number 1 goal for indoor grow is anything in section cordisporae. It is the only section that I have not fruited anything from. I cannot retire from growing until I do. banderillensis or yungensis would be really cool. I also MUST fruit hoogshagenii from Section Mexicanae though. I did pull out two isolates of hoogshagenii from Ecuador.

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I will be monitoring your progress of cultivating baeocystis like it was my own pup.... Can't wait and I'm sure you will have great success

It is one of the fungi I want to see cultivated more than any other fungi I have researched all fungi have a place in my heart tho this one's different for me and part of the reason I learned to cult and definitely is the reason I made it to shroomery if I never found a wild baeocystis in my childhood I'd probably have never been as interested in the uniqueness of fungi and raritys that are hidden in plain site sometimes

send baeocystis pics when available

PhenoDreamers said:

Ok guys, I'm back on the horse after a year break. Seeing all my beds come up outside this fall has really relit my flame! I spent all day Wednesday cleaning the thick dust and cat hair off of everything my lab. I put trays into fruiting that I inoculated a year ago 🤣 interesting experiment. We will see what comes of them. I did some plate work yesterday. Pulled maybe 30-40 things out of culture storage.



Many from section cordisporae, semilanceatae, and subaeruginosae. Several things that I have not fruited yet myself and a few that I have for outdoor beds. I'll be running several things indoor over the winter though nothing hot. Just cold and room temp stuff.

My top 5 bed goals for next year:
baeocystis
pelliculosa
caerulipes
weraroa
semilanceata

Number 1 goal for indoor grow is anything in section cordisporae. It is the only section that I have not fruited anything from. I cannot retire from growing until I do. banderillensis or yungensis would be really cool. I also MUST fruit hoogshagenii from Section Mexicanae though. I did pull out two isolates of hoogshagenii from Ecuador.

I'd say my overall goal is to fruit 50 different species.

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0_tonin said:

this nerd will be making agar for the first time soon. Still need to get some food coloring and a cheese cloth. I think thats all I need.

Send luck.

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And nice, you don't need that food coloring though and a coffee filter works better, but can be sloooow

Hope you come back with an update when you've done the first pour

Kloakk said:

And nice, you don't need that food coloring though and a coffee filter works better, but can be sloooow

Hope you come back with an update when you've done the first pour

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Agar Wedge said:

You also don't need to filter if you don't mind a little sediment. LME is clear enough as is. Though I understand the desire for clear as can be.

Personally, I like my agar the same way I like my cigarettes, unfiltered

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I like my Hazy beers which are unfiltered.
But I will filter the agar just because I think a clean af plate looks cool. Im in no rush. Thanks for commenting and the good luck wishes Agar Wedge

0_tonin said:

Oh nice! Yeah I have time. And a coffee filter will be cheaper so... keen. Thanks bud.

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Anytime, and like Agar Wedge said filtering is only for clearity and the mycelium don't mind sediment. If you are filtering remember to don't add the agar agar until you're done filtering.

And if you go with coffee filters, don't try to filter 800ml with one filter, it's not going to work
They clog pretty fast, when I filter 800ml I use at least 4 filters.

Kloakk said:

0_tonin said:

Oh nice! Yeah I have time. And a coffee filter will be cheaper so... keen. Thanks bud.

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Anytime, and like Agar Wedge said filtering is only for clearity and the mycelium don't mind sediment. If you are filtering remember to don't add the agar agar until you're done filtering.

And if you go with coffee filters, don't try to filter 800ml with one filter, it's not going to work
They clog pretty fast, when I filter 800ml I use at least 4 filters.

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0_tonin said:

Amazing, taking notes.

But wait... 800ml?
My bottle is 1000ml I was thinking of doing around 600ml or so. You reckon 800ml on a 1LT bottle is fine? I thought 2/3 full was the rule of thumb to be safe it wont make a mess in the PC.

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0_tonin said:

I have 70 plates, 60mm

Thats a ridiculous amount but I have a friend who will gladly take a couple stacks.

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