Packed on top of the collapsing shotgun fruiting chamber we see something really cool. Those eight jars in the back are my first and second attempt at a grain-to-grain transfer. Both batches of jars were shaken to fully break them up at about 80% colonization to look for contaminants and they're all looking clean.
For the lids I used a new kind of synthetic filter that I have never seen before. The filters are about as thick as a paper towel and they're made of teflon. Teflon is hydrophobic which helps keep contaminants from germinating through a wet filter. It should also be extremely durable. These are the two lid designs I've been working with:
The lids with injection ports were the first I made and they actually have two layers of the filter material. When I saw these filters stay adhered and work out in general I made the newer ones with just one layer.
And the two smaller jars? Those are biopsies I scraped from the soft insides of this jolly bunch
It's the same cake in both pics.
And this little lump of questionable looking mold is actually one of the bruised, moist looking pieces of mushroom tissue that turned furry just this morning
It's really tricky to get a sharp image of something happening inside one of those jars...
And now the story of that grain/vermiculite abomination in a pyrex dish. I threw it out. Not before it flushed three times for about 40 fresh grams, though! Not exactly worthwhile but worth it as an experiment, I'd say.
That thing grew out some gnarly fruitbodies. Here's a picture of the third flush, just in time for Halloween!
And that's about it for now. Enjoy some more photos of a seriously fucked up mutation and some random seed waiting for the impending doom.
