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agar said:
agar@agar.com

LOL, I am jealous.

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FreeSporePrints said:
Thanks agar but I was referring to a possible recipe using liquid malt (not the extract malt)..and more generally to understand how much a mushroom need to "eat"

Fabio - I've used the liquid malt from Muntons (same stuff I showed the local links for - check them out, I'm curious to see if they're useful, by the way, I'm not exactly sure on the search terms, I kept trying until I found it for ya...). Anyway, the Muntons works great, and I just weighed it like anything else, I just put a baby food jar on my scale, and poured until I got the right amount - I usually used 15-20g per 25g agar+1000ml spring water.

I also highly concur with RR. Don't make yourself crazy looking for malt. I've used all kinds of crazy stuff including crackers, organic whole wheat cereals, coconut water (instead of the distilled or spring water - you crack open the coconut and pour the water into your mix, not coconut water from a store...), John Holiday from Aloha Medicinals says in a place in the Advanced forums (this is a few years back tho...) that he went to the pet store, bought crickets, and put them in the blender and used the dead crickets as the nutrients. He was trying to do some invigorating of a strain in that example though. I've heard dog food agar works great -also from John at Aloha, but haven't used it myself.

So the point is, get yourself some agar first, and then try different nutrient sources (just use your imagination). I like to use about 15-20 grams of any selected nutrient source per 25g agar and 1000ml water.

Loving y'all
JD