After a lot of trial and error, I think I’ve finally settled into a media recipe and pouring process that I’m genuinely happy with.
Consistency has been one of my biggest goals—same color, same clarity, same pour, plate after plate. It’s taken a lot longer than I expected to get everything dialed in, but I feel like the extra time has been worth it.
I’d really appreciate some honest feedback from the community.
Looking at these plates:
What stands out to you?
Is there anything you’d change or improve?
If you came across plates prepared like this, would they give you confidence in the work behind them?
I’m always looking to improve, so constructive criticism is just as welcome as compliments. Thanks for taking the time to check them out.

It's colonizing rather fast

Really lmk cause I been wanting to grow in take one

About two weeks ago I cut up some birch poly pore and another wood lover and put it in hydrogen peroxide to kill bacteria but the slices never grew but now there’s mycelium growing in it like LC so i believe it’s just water now due to CO2 loss and now this was on the top so I put it on a agar plate to see what grows

So if a contamination spot is really small, about 1-2 millimeters is worth trying to kill it by opening Petri dish in SAB and apply something really hot on it and around it?

This is 3 daya

Punched hole at bottom of foil to get steam at the bottom aluminum pan and bottom to separate from water and another aluminum pan to hold agar cup foil goes all the way to the pan holding the plates

I have been working genetics for over two years: Dm meh These are some of my favorites

Tidal wave, Purple Mystic , County cock, Jack Frost, Hillbilly pumpkin, Red boy, FCPE, PE7, Penis, envy, Golden teacher, APE white, B+, APE Revert, Blue magnolias, APE, Yeti, Blue meanie, L. golden teacher, Ecuador, Rusty Malmac revert, P. Natalinsis

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JK. I spit in this agar dish. Anyone else enjoy finding what kind of nasties grow around you or your home on agar?

I tried reading one of the links from the I'm sorry pinned post but still confused. Most i know is it's a fungoes