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I put some of this lc on rye grain for spawn but it never took. Is there a better spawn material for this species? Or maybe i got a bunk syringe
I am a baby cultivator so please take what I say with a grain of salt, I still have much to learn myself and welcome any mycological gurus to pop in with their 2 cents c:
I personally love rye, practically everything I have tried on rye has responded well. That said, I also put my A. subru lc to rye about a week ago and still haven't seen anything pop up. I have read that this species shouldn't be refrigerated for long term stoage, but I didn't give that tidbit much credit as I have heard the same about Pink Oyster and had zero issues bringing Pink out of cold storage. Thought this would be similar, but I might be wrong! I am going to keep the bag I inoculated and watch it to see if maybe it's just slow to break out of dormancy. I also kept a grown out agar plate of this in my room-temp workspace on the off chance something like this happened, so gonna do some transfers, try to get another bangin plate, and make a fresh batch of lc out of that in case the cold storage did fuck up this batch of A. subru. Live and learn!
For your situation, it's hard to say if it's a bunk syringe or if it's that A. subru truly can't tolerate being fridged and you got a syringe that had been fridged (I am hoping that the latter isn't the case, hoping I see some activity in my bag sometime soon!!). Fwiw, the culture from my post is from a syringe I got from The Mycelium Emporium, and it RIPPED out of the syringe, so I can highly recommend their product!
Thanks! All mine failed. I think ill just buy spawn and inoculate my garden next time. Ive had the same experience w oysters and lions mane.
To update you, I am finally starting to see some mycelial growth in my rye bag, so in my case it's probably just slow to pull out of dormancy (plus I don't have an incubator for my grain spawn so I don't keep them as warm as would be optimal). Hope your next attempts go well!
Congratats! I had some growth in one but it also had contams.
Ugh, contam, so frustrating! Do you make your own grain, or buy? I get bags from Fungaia and haven't had any issues with their bags going funky
I do my own grain, pretty easy. I think i get contam here and there from using a still air box instead of a flow hood (theyre expensive).
Heck yeah, much respect c: I am a little lazy and like the ease of just buying, but have thought about making my own someday down the road.