[gourmet] Is this normal for lions mane liquid culture on PDA?
![[gourmet] Is this normal for lions mane liquid culture on PDA?](https://i.redd.it/c5fnlnvmm1i81.jpg)
Posted Feb 15, 2022, 6:51 PM UTC
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Yep looks pretty good to me. Lion's mane grows weird like that.
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should take off faster on grain right?
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How old is this pic?
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two weeks of growth.
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Yeah that's pretty good growth. About what I'd expect straight from LC syringe. It'll keep going the next week or so and fill out the plate.
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Lions mane is a notoriously slow colonizer. In my experience, it takes almost twice as long as species like oysters.
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I squirted some LC i got on this plate 1-30. i had tried twice to inoculate uncle ben’s bags with this same syringe and had zero growth, so i decided to try and test on agar. it took a week to see any growth at all, most chunks just seem dead with a few growing out myc. Is this bad culture? contam? senescence? totally normal? going to try to get some clean myc and put it on grain.