Pictures of starters?

I know there was a post recently asking for pictures of starters. But that's not what im looking for. Does anyone have pictures of starters built up from a culture?

What type of culture? A starter is a form of culture, a liquid culture. Are you asking for photos of a starter built up from a solid media like agar?

Here is mine

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Yes Yes from agar please.

[noobquestion] shouldn't any starter look the same, regardless of what it comes from? [/noobquestion]

I'm trying to propagate a starter from a agar slant. but with such low counts will it come out of suspension. And as of now I'm only getting very small trace amounts in the bottom not even enough to turn the the bottom brown. I'm trying to get my technique down.

I would hazard a guess that you are trying to go from a slant to too big of a culture in one step. In the lab, I would go from a plate or slant to a 50 ml culture, then use this to inoculate a larger culture (up to about 500 ml, 1 L in a pinch).

Last time I went straight to 400ml with little success. This time I started from 15ml then went to 800ml.

P.S. I'm not using a stir plate just the swirl as you walk by method.

When you are working with such small amounts of yeast a stir plate is definitely in your best interest. When I'm working with single colony forming units of yeast I start with a 10ml starter with a stir plate. I then step up to a 100ml starter than 1000ml.

Do you have any pictures of each step built up? maybe before and after?

I do not have pictures of these starters but truthfully they don't look much different. The small starter with 10ml within it doesn't show a whole ton of yeast but it still get slightly cloudy from the yeast. Also, they will look a lot different than your starters as the stir plate doesn't allow the krausen and trub to sit there. If I were making one of these in the near future I would take some pics for you but I have White Labs vials right now that I'm using.

ok thanx for the help i guess its stir plate time. : D