Tex, ATL#7, Mex A, Mex Jalisco, Goliath

[koldjgdaro]

All of them in only one incubator.

On the lower floor there are about 6 days old texs (PF TEK cakes). They're doing great .
And today I nocced
5 jars of ATL#7 (from a syringe)
3 jars of Mex A (from a little print)
3 jars of Jalisco (from a little bigger print)
all on rye
except Goliath which is on pure Hpoo (about 2,5cc of spore solution)

[dial8]

Looking good. Keep us updated.

[vinz]

niceeeeeee cant wait to see your comparisons

[Hippie3]

good luck,
want to see how your sclerotia do.

[koldjgdaro]

Thx. All these exotics have to work out since I probably lost my Azures! It's been about two weeks and nothing has germinated in the jars. Heck with that. Will try them again ASAP, at least now I have these to care for .

[mycobri]

Good Luck

i hope you get some nice fruits and stones

[koldjgdaro]

Well, I think that the Texs are doomed - at 50-90% colonization. About half of the jars show signs of green mold and I'm afraid that the rest is contamed as well. Crap...

Dunno why. Was it because of the print or the jars? I will let the rest of them grow some more and see if they show any bad signs. If they do, I'll get over to glass jars.

The exotics haven't shown any growth yet.

[spacecake]

Originally Posted by koldjgdaro

Thx. All these exotics have to work out since I probably lost my Azures! It's been about two weeks and nothing has germinated in the jars. Heck with that. Will try them again ASAP, at least now I have these to care for .

With Azure it can take up to two weeks,before you see any signs of growth...

[koldjgdaro]

I nocced Azures 19.02. Nothing yet. But I'll keep them some more time.

Meanwhile the Goliaths have germinated , although the rest of the pack is still asleep.

And... I found some interesting stuff in the woods and on a field :P.
Ps. Azurescens and Ps. Subaeruginosa spawns and a Semilanceata print.
Any ideas how I should work these little spawns out will be greatly appreciated . There is some mycelium in the Azurescens bag, but I don't see any in Subaeruginosa. I want to save at least one of them. Help, plz.

[spacecake]

Don't really understand your question..!

You found Azure and Subaeruginosa Spawn,but you don't have Subaeruginosa Myc. ???

No myc = no Spawn...

[BigStemz]

the first pic, with the plastic containers, are those pc friendly? and if so where can i get some!???

[koldjgdaro]

Originally Posted by spacecake

Don't really understand your question..!

You found Azure and Subaeruginosa Spawn,but you don't have Subaeruginosa Myc. ???

No myc = no Spawn...

Hehe, actually a FAOF has shared some of his own spawn. I don't see any myc in this Subaeruginosa spawn, but I believe that there are some living cells that will show some white fluff soon :P. So the question is; how to deal with these spawns? I think that I could scrape some of Azure myc and work with it further on agar. Sadly, yesterday I discovered that my petri dishes simply melt in PC. Not good...

As for the plastic containers - yup. They are PC friendly. I got mine in Denmark, so I don't really know how I can help you with them, but just FYO - plastic containers with PP 5 (in a triangle) designation can withstand up to 120 degree Celsius. You can find this kind of plastic used as food containers. Mine had honey in them . Actually today I got 50 of them for free. I called the manufacturer and told that I would like to buy some of these containers, but when I heard that I gotta buy 1500, I got a little bit shocked. But I was proposed a sample of 50 for free! Hell yeah! But they left me with one problem - they forgot to send me the lids for the jars! And now I'm missing like 50 of them. I'll contact the producer of the jars tomorrow and ask them for another favor. And if I get the lids, I'll be able to get on with agar .

Oh BTW - the mexicanae has germinated. I'll shoot some pics ASA the myc grows so I can catch it with my Cybershot phone (which isn't a real digital camera). Damn, I wish I could shoot some good macros.

[spacecake]

Originally Posted by koldjgdaro

I think that I could scrape some of Azure myc and work with it further on agar. Sadly, yesterday I discovered that my petri dishes simply melt in PC. Not good...

You could try some cardboard...

[koldjgdaro]

Good idea, thx . But I'll wait for the jar lids anyway.

[koldjgdaro]

ATL#7 is coming along nicely. Doesn't this grain look too dry?

Fat syringes from the Sporeworks rock!

The others are also showing some white fluff but aren't that vigorous. Pix soon.

[koldjgdaro]

Pix
Only 2 days later!

[koldjgdaro]

Update.

The three friends are:

Mex Jalisco, ATL#7, Mex A

Although Mex A is the slowest one, the myc is really thick - I like it.

What do you think about the grain? Looks dry to me and looks like the growth has slowed down - particularly in the ATL#7 ;/. You can see some uncolonized, dry grain on top.

[BigStemz]

can schlerotia fruit ofF of Brf cakes, or only on grains? or both mayb?

[koldjgdaro]

Most ppl use rye grass seed both to grow sclerotia and fruits - works fine. I used rye berries because they're tastier than rye grass seed :P. That's because eating sclerotia always means eating some substrate, therefore you don't wanna grow it on verm.

[fedshtkpndrk]

Lookin Good

-feds

[BigStemz]

so they can be grown off of brf cakes with good results?

[koldjgdaro]

Dunno if anyone tried it :|. I believe so, but as I said before - most ppl use some kind of grain to grow sclerotia producers. Rye grass, rye berries and WBS work well. You have to use this kind of substrate if you plan on harvesting sclerotia, but if you only wanna grow mushrooms, it shouldn't matter. Sclerotia is hardened mycelium mass that "absorbs" the substrate inside. It often contains some grain in it. Therefore it would be unwise to cultivate vermiculite-sclerotia :P. But talking about the fruits again - Mexicanae need casing, so standard PF tek cakes won't do, unless you crumble the cakes and case them. Anyway - just use some kind of grain .

[BigStemz]

so to get the hard truffle like fruits the jars are kept in the dark?

[koldjgdaro]

Yup, basically it's just prolonged incubation.

Easy stuff - nocc and forget for 2-3 months .

[koldjgdaro]

First stones

I just love how easy it goes. I think I'm gonna make some LC and nocc a loooot of rye .

[koldjgdaro]

Surprise!

My old Semilanceata LC showed it's value. I thought that it was wasted after so long time (3-4 months in the fridge) and I thought it was contamed as well, anyway I nocced 2 jars of brf style cakes that shrunk after nuking in the PC and here it is. In the beginning it grew slowly and suddenly it speeded up, so I thought that it was a contam. I left the jars wait for 2 days (I think) and there were no signs of trich or any other mold. So I opened one to smell it and it smells very mushy . Here are some shots. I hope this is not a contam and if it is, it looks great and smells good, too :P.

Well, I still have a Semilanceata print, but I hope that this will just work.