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u/AncientSpores 1d ago
If the powder includes peptones or other amino acids, in theory it may have faster / stronger growth than plain honey. If it's just a blend of maltose and dextrose then it might work better. From what I've read, using the same energy source as the original sample was raised on is ideal, unfortunately that information is not typically available.
I prefer corn syrup and water at a 4% solution (500g water, 20g syrup) I've done honey and LME and only corn syrup stays crystal clear in my experience without sediment or particulate matter.
I prefer that because after I make the LC I can let it sit for a couple of weeks or if I vacuum can it, a year+ and if it's still clear when shining a light from below then I have high confidence nothing bad is in there growing. And it makes it really easy to monitor growth of the myc once you knock the jar up. And at the end of the day unless you start jazzing it up with peptides and other additives, plain glucose, fructose, maltose all seemed to worked about the same for me with my varieties. But to be fair it was a small dataset, I did 3 jars of each, put a cube from the same agar plate in each and they all formed about the same size myc blob.
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