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u are still very vauge i need more info what do i do scrape it off the agar and put in sterlized water then suck it into a needle ?? should one of my objective be to take as little agar as possable with the mould culture ?

i under stand what your saying but how would u extract the mould off the agar what are your methods maby do u mean a diffrent kind of agar then im accustomed to eg. in a petri dish

wat is this liquid culture u speak of cant i use the agar to innulate grain substrate from there or a flower cake ?

hello i was wondering

i have perpaired some agar and i was wondering if i cut a peace of the stem of a mushroom one of the biggest in my batch and the fastest growing (extract a peace of fresh flesh) would it colinize ? and is that what u would call a single strain innoculation now that i have fresh ones how do i pick the best and get a single strain outta it . this would seem to be a better mothod (single strain innoculation) how can i attemp it help a rookie out please

ok i c i have had this batch and its been 6 days and they still are not developed compleatly but some of the caps are starting to turn a nice golden colour and i can c the veil forming

i have nice pinning on two of my cakes with some of them an inch and a half long now how long would u guys say it takes to fully form the mushroom in ideal conditions ? 7-10 days ? from pinning ?

well two of the jars fully conlized and the third is really slow but it is still making progress like iv seen it said i jsut need to wait for that one i put the two fully conlized one in my fc i will send pictures in a few days

i hurd that spent cakes are a good way to start a outdoor grow cause they still contain myclium u jsut need to rehydrate and apply more food i read a blog on this called outdoor growing i bveleave it was in the shroomery

damn that is beautiful right on right on

yes` that might be good but i cant seem to get the agar to be clear and i was wondering if i could use just agar and dextros and what is malt

i was wondering if any body here could help me out with this i would like to know how to make agar i have attempted to and use some all ready but the agar i make is all ways cloudy i have been making it with potato,dextrose,and agar 20 g agar 10 dextrose and i boiled potato's for an hour and use the liquid left over i only start with one liter of liquid when boiling potato's then bring the liquid up to one liter after boiling and straining the potato's i only use 350 g patoats i was also wondering if just agar and dextrose would be a good host for my-cilium (would myclium grow on just agar and dextrose compound much easer less time) how would i also get the agar clear is it the potato's

would someone tell me wha type of paper i need and how would i make a spore print

like i have said befor im just a begginer but what i would say is u could proble keep it for a long time u just have to reactivate the spores properly eg1. innoculate flower cake eg2. innoculate petri dish with agar......this method would take a lot longer to do but u will get better results then just trying to spawn from spore print and u need a lot less to grow a culture so as a result the spore print could be two years old and have only 25 percent of the spores left on the print usable and the other 75 percent unsable and still have a better chance of growing a culture but we all must not for get that most people dont wanna wait an extra month to grow a good culture wich in turn with produce twice as many fruits and will conlize faster all some people c is whats is gonna happen first another  good way to grow a killer culture is to take the best mushroom outta the crop and use some of its flesh to grow a culture in agar

i read some were that abort are 10x more potent per gram then normal size versions

im not an expert just a fellow expermenter but u should drill the holes just above the level of the perlite  because your are making the holes to get rid of the co2 and it would ten to settle about the perlite i think and from what i understand

what do u think how much longer till i should im my fc one of them have stunted i think the one on the left i have pictures of front and back and i was wondering about something i saw on the internet a video were someone took his cakes and crumbled them in a bag and put them in a trey to fruit what do u think of this method


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i was wonder if someone could tell me the diffrence between perlite and vermiclite if i could exchange vermiclite for perlite