#funthem

my wittle baby inoculated mushroom spore swab colonies, all have two fungal friends that I dont want there xD- Recent fungal contam close ups, so you dont have to do it <3 —- if we compare morphologies of both contam colonies in question to the expected smaller mushroom fungus’ mycelium, its easy to tell they are troublesome fungal molds!

The mold in last two photos gives itself away by its location, its excessive growth speed, and its hyphae being overly filamentous compared to expected mushroom mycelium and esp conpared to inoculated germinations visible near it :) but as i watch the PE spores grow out the hyphae start to look similar to the edge outlier…. Hmmm. I wont toss this plate just isolate… would hate to have a particularly vigorous mushy isolate be wasted xD

first two photos are of umbo plate, with clearly a colorized mold colony, very dusty and powdery. I plan to do microscopic ID later today once I get scotch tape to try and ID it for real! Im thinking its am ascomycete at least!

two sets of plates inoculated at same time, all plates are on 2nd gen (meaning mss->1gen->2nd gen (each gen is a transfer from the mss plate which I call mother plates)

above images: These separate, 2nd gen, penis envy isolates are already so dang rhizoid in their growth!

Compared to my (below images) Huatuala plates which still need another run or two through agar over next few weeks to work towards growth that looks similar to whats shown here in these PE plates!

The selected fruits:

Example of selective harvesting 🍄

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Some macro shots by muah, of my plates that ive been showcasing lately, random order :)

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