Alas, was tied up and wasn't able to get to the agar work today. I will have to reschedule it for the weekend...
In person the plate on the left looks like there's more and cleaner mycelium than onthe right one, though there are a couple sectors on there I want to try and transfer if I can.
Since this is such a rare species I'm going to dedicate a bunch of time to this-- I want to get some good clean cultures and I think taking a shotgun approach with picking like 10 spots off these plates and giving them their own chance to open up on another surface might be the way to go.
I may go ahead and start another germ plate off of the print while I'm at it to keep lines/genetics growing so I can choose the best of what I get from the lottery.
My Zap germ plates are still DOA-- I may mix up a batch of high-nute agar based on JOC's stubborn pan recipe... I know the genetics are good-- a well-known member here provided them this past spring-- but the print is a couple years old and I don't know how well Zap spores age...
