Mycology -- Tricks of the Trade

I ordered a mushroom kit and spore syringes.

How much spore water do I add to each bag (2 pounds) and mason jar (pint)? Also do I mix the bag or do I wait?

Thanks

3-5mL should be enough. Roll the bag around the first few days to make sure theres no pooling liquid.

If you want to guarantee success, try innoculating some petri dishes instead of the grain bag.
Spore to grain is risky because spore syringes usually arent sterile like liquid culture syringes

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Completely agree, or at the very least be prepared to clone a viable piece of fruit since the bags you get will be what is called a multispore culture and an isolation is wanted

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You can recover any culture within 3 platings over 14 days.

@Thetetraguy is sooo right:

Plates are a visual checksum: plate until it’s ropey. No greens, fuzz, or anything other than rhizo.

Then you can throw a slice and continue knowing you didn’t drag along unwanted cultures.

Edit: remember plates on agar do best when not allowed to grow to the edge. Best to make selections sooner rather than later. You can slow or stall growth in a wine fridge or freezer.

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What do you mean by this? What do you switch to

I’m going to guess malt extract agar, potato dextrose agar, not quite sure of the other two

Y is yeast. I’ve seen some great growth with a dash of nutritional yeast in my agar.

Does he mean using a different agar formulation in that list every so often to prevent senescence or using one of the formulations he describes to prevent senescence

Yep.

To paraphrase: switch up the food dude.

Any update on this? been ~2 years or so

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I know most of you have seen a lot of crazy posts the last few days, but I figured I’d break this down into a timeline for you to help understand truly how unhinged of a situation this is. I’ll try to break it into a few key points because up until the last few weeks, I really haven’t given a single fuck about @millerlitern in any way shape or form as he was never really in my end of the business, country or close to my stage in life as he’s about 20 years older than me.

On the evening of Feb. 20th I was alerted several times to @millerliteRN mistaking an alt account who was making fun of him for myself. I informed him pretty quickly once I saw I was tagged with very colorful language about something I was not doing as he just previously was not worth the time of day for me.

Apparently this hurt his feelings because he had hung onto this animosity for awhile and had verified he had seen my responses with his “Go fuck yourself… Alt Account Shithead” response later that night on Feb. 20th.

Then, all of a sudden on April 8th he had decided to send me two pictures. The first one being of me and my ex girlfriend - the second one being a close up picture of my daughter’s face which he had cropped me out of for some ungodly reason.

These were both pictures on my facebook that you would have had to been a friend of a friend to view. @millerliteRN is not of that group, so even more concerning that the picture of my daughter was shared from another member who COULD see it. @moveweight had posted the same picture of myself and my ex last year so it wasn’t a surprise to see his profile unblocked when previously @moveweight sent those pictures of my family to me and thanks to the links to his facebook from several members could confirm he had me definitively blocked which would make sense because Facebook won’t let you re-block someone for 48 hours for harassment related reasons - but at this point I am more highlighting ‘coincidences’, such as how on this post -

https://future4200.com/t/tariff-market-banter/230536/714?u=substitutecreature

he speaks quite favorably about the person who had sent pictures of my family to me originally…and then does the same thing he did about a year back, minus sending me a zoomed in picture of my daughter’s face but that’s neither here nor there because @millerlitern ultimately decided it prudent to send that to me in the dead of night along with the same exact picture @moveweight decided to post a year back too, but as I said, at this point i’m just highlighting coincidences.

Since this incident I have posed the question publicly because if someone is going to send me pictures of my family as an implied threat on their safety, then I want the answer…in public.

What was the intention of you sending me pictures of my family? Was that an overt threat on myself and my family’s safety? Why did you crop me out of the picture of my daughter and only leave her face? Why won’t you directly answer questions about your actions? Who - if anyone, provided you the pictures? If someone provided you the pictures, are the pictures of my little girl still saved on THEIR device, because you, as a random person could not see my profile. Do you still have pictures saved?

@millerlitern 6 days since you sent me a picture of my daughter with me cropped out and of me/my ex with no text at all in it - and have logged in a few times since, so you’ve seen these questions posed yet decided that it’s not important enough to respond to.

Anyway. Thank you for reading my timeline of this extremely dumb situation that I can’t believe i’m dealing with from a business owner in his 50s.

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Another day - another lack of a reason why a man in his 50s is in possession of and distributing pictures of my family.

I told you not to fuck with my family

Anyway here’s a link to something posted by another member about the guy @millerlitern is very vocal about how he got into his current industry doing things that are really not great for any industry. They’re best buddies! He keeps great company. Here’s an especially powerful screenshot from the thread.

https://future4200.com/t/new-lab-buildout/193983/169?u=substitutecreature

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Another day, another empty inbox except for the pictures of my kid he tried threatening me with. Weird!

Why is this here?
Not respectable of him at all but maybe another thread that showcases his name on the title would be more sutable location for this

He won’t respond and say a god damn thing for himself. If he didn’t bring my baby girl into this it wouldn’t be at this point. I made it very clear in that timeline how he took it from 0-100 by thinking an alt was me and then jumping 5000 spaces ahead and dragging family into it.

That’s a serious threat to safety so I feel the community needs to be informed.

I get that, but starting a new thread with his name in the title would be a better option, and just keep bumping it every 8 hours, so everyone can see it.
Maybe even make the title alittle juicy and clickbaity, so it gets more attention.
I dont imagine alot of people are on here for the mushies, so they probably dont even click into this thread

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