Moe Lawn
Registered: 11/03/21 Posts: 107 Loc: PacNorthWet Last seen: 11 months, 14 days
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Here, have 5 shrooms!
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11/21/21 05:21 AM
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I commend you for starting your cultivation journey with learning how to do agar. You also sound like a good guy!
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Northerner
splelling chceker

Registered: 07/29/12 Posts: 14,828 Loc: FNQ Last seen: 14 hours, 42 minutes
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5* for being a huge help
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09/10/21 08:33 AM
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Dude is willing to help and hold a hand of a clueless stranger on the internet, for no benefit to himself. I think there is a lot to be said about that. Thank you dude!
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Socrateshroom
сталкер
Registered: 09/05/18 Posts: 1,844 Loc: Westworld Last seen: 4 days, 18 hours
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:thanx:
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08/13/20 07:27 AM
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Your replies were very helpful, thank you for taking the time. I can see that you are a compassionate and smart person
Socrateshroom responded on 08/13/20 08:26 AM:
Thank you for the kind words and I'm glad I could be useful

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poisoned
untitled

Registered: 04/17/13 Posts: 1,738 Loc: Yurop Last seen: 1 year, 6 months
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always pops up with good know-how
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05/11/20 04:31 AM
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rumfor69
Bodhicitta Cultivator

Registered: 08/05/11 Posts: 7,139 Loc: In the Gills Last seen: 12 hours, 49 minutes
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i like what you said to this guy
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04/17/20 02:54 AM
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rumfor69 said:
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zoidberg666 said: True, that's reassuring. If you don't mind me asking, how do you usually get rid of contams?
That's a broad question with a lot of answers and variables. Basically from the start...spores aren't sterile that you buy. It's just in their nature from being grown in open air.
So if you inject them into brf jars for cakes or onto grains it's always going to be a dice roll on contamination.
That's where agar comes in. The spores can be germinated on agar and you can identify the clean mycelium easily and cut a tiny piece of it and transfer it to another agar plate to see if it grows clean then...and over and over until perfect.
Agar cuttings can then be tossed into grains, and grown clean. Grain jars have to have good lid setups like the polyfill lids people make or my personal favorite, synthetic filter disks.
All of this stuff takes practice, there's even a little more art to it than just skill in a way. You have to have the right tools. Still air boxs(SAB) are ok but aren't perfect and can still have a small dice roll for contamination. Flowhoods are expensive but are almost practically perfect to work in front of.
Look through the Everything you need to know link 👇 I personally wouldn't even bother with cakes but they're cheap and easy to make and try but they use spore solution so they contaminate a lot. But if one cake grows a fruit it can be cloned to agar with a piece of sterile flesh from the center of a stem to make a clean culture.
Reading, studying, practice, the right tools = no contams Or I misunderstood the question and then the answer is yeah..throw them out
rumfor69 responded on 04/20/20 06:35 PM:
Thank you!
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