I second Sakkadelic's suggestion to use brown rice flour as it should be cheap and easy to acquire.
Regardless of the medium, seeing zero mycelium growth strikes me as unusual, even if the substrate were less than ideal. My first thought was that perhaps the spores were inactive but you are confident that they are reliable. I wonder if you are not letting the syringe cool after flame sterilization, or if they were exposed to higher heat following inoculation.
In my experience, it can take over a week or more for mycelial growth to appear.
"At the sensory level I am the divine receiving station, the sacred communications satellite, a two-legged, trembling-tissue,
Jodrell Bank radar telescope, dancing, grumbling, sniffing Geiger counter. I am the Darwinian wiretap, a billion sensory microphones picking up vibrations from planetary energy systems... I am God of Common Sense. I'm you." - Timothy Leary The Politics of Ecstasy 1968