Nice, you must’ve used a liquid culture instead of a spore syringe to get such immediate mycelium
I’ve just started a few 500ml popcorn grain jars with a mix of spore syringes and liquid culture, and the spore syringe jars are only just showing mycelium now 2-3 weeks later, while the liquid culture jars have almost finished colonization.
It was actually a grain to grain transfer but yeah you’re correct, I started with mycelium and not spores.
Sounds like you’re just getting to the exciting part! Share some pictures if you can, I’d love to see!
By the way, I’ve heard that it’s a bad idea to use old substrate to kick off new growth due to how mycelium ages or something or other. Is the same not true for grain to grain spawn growth? I’m new to the hobby so forgive my ignorance
Oh, you’re talking about senescence. New growers are always concerned with it. G2G transfers are generally good to do about 3-4 times, could be more depending on the genetics and the quantity of grain spawn.
This one is my second G2G, it should still fruit nicely, but next generation I’ll probably start from spores again.
Is that corn?
Yep! Corn kernels make great grain spawn.
Have you tried multiples and like corn kernals the best? Or did you just start with this one? PGT on YouTube does a bunch of tests and I was going to try some different ones. Working on just rice right now.
