2.5 Day Progress (60 hours)

Mold is still growing at a reduced rate because of its abundant food supply.  We will soon be modifying the experiments to test growth rate when in search of food.  In the meantime, here are some updated pics:

The mold in the original petri dish has not been fed since it left the lab.  It is relentlessly trying to escape the dish and has succeeded in growing into the surrounding bubble wrap after multiple attempts to kill off extraneous growth.  This was a nice discovery, proving that the agar solution is not necessary to successfully produce growth.

Mold is successful at following a path of food.  We will soon divert that path and see if the mold follows.
Example 1:

Example 2:

Mold is growing away from known repellents.  However, growth in any direction is typical when searching for food.  We are going to let this one keep growing as is and see if it moves towards the sleeping pill once it fully populates its immediate area.

Color change is not working as well as we thought.  There is a slight red hue to the mold that is more apparent in the original mass of nuclei than in new growth.  We are going to move the blue colored oats closer to new growth to quickly see if any color mixing occurs.