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charvo
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updated 5 year old strains
#11171829 - 10/02/09 08:29 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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update below
So I've had several species in slants, and in the refrigerator for almost 6 years. I'm in the process of reviving them. I cooked up some agar about a week ago, and transferred some mycelium to new plates. 2 out of 10 came back. Pretty cool. just thought I'd share that with ya'll. looks like i won't get all of them back, but at least some are still viable. Here are some photos of a blue oyster pleurotus columbinus and aspen oyster(Pleurotus populinus) growing on agar.
This afternoon i did another transfer with the plate you see below. I also have started working with the other slants i have to see if they'll come back as well.
10/5/2009
just a quick update. I got 10 more plate worked up again, and i got one more species to come back to life. Its a coprinus comatus that i found in the wild back in 2004. I made a clone form two of the four mushrooms i found. looks like just the one is showing new growth. I'm happy with that thou. I'll probably grow them outdoors next year. I may follow up with pics laters.
I thought this was just the coolest thing. the pleurotus populinus is pinning on agar. heres a pic from yesterday. I looked at it today and the pins are really coming along. I'll get another pic in a day or so. I have duplicated all the plates of the cultures that came back to life, and will get them on slants soon as i can. I also want to transfer the plate that is pinning to some grain. I think i'll grow this one out indoors. I just cant wait to see her grow. One other thing. I had a fourth culture come back to life. The morchella And i believe it's the morchella angusticeps. i inquired this one from a wild mushroom found in northern Michigan. The original plate had alot of sclerotia formed on it. We'll have to see about this one. I'm not a morel expert, but i do know that the species genetically degrade very fast. It may possibly never fruit. I'd have quite a hard time with it in my climate anyway.
This is the last update to the thread.
The photos of the plates are labeled. You can see the species that i revived after almost 6 yrs of lying dormant. I am totally impressed with the aspen oyster pinning on agar after all this time. I actually put the plate in the fruiting chamber just see what it would do. In the picture you'll see half the agar has been cut away. I made an LC with that side. I have multiple plates of all species that i'm posting pictures of, and I plan on working with them through out the winter Indoors. hopefully by spring i'll have my outdoor fruiting house done.
Edited by charvo (10/10/09 08:57 PM)
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Re: 5 year old strains [Re: charvo]
#11171852 - 10/02/09 08:35 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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Cultures with plain water, or toothpick, or? What size of slants are you using, and how many ml of the culture remained in the slants? Thanks for sharing the pics. ~P~
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Re: 5 year old strains [Re: Psuper]
#11171880 - 10/02/09 08:44 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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Sick head!
Were all 10 oyster cultures?
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Re: 5 year old strains [Re: Psuper]
#11171881 - 10/02/09 08:45 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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well the slants were 15x100 tubes. cultures were stored with MEYA. There's not much left of the culture slants at this point. i could probably get another plate from the slants, but i won't. i have new growth to work with now.
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Re: 5 year old strains [Re: badman]
#11172027 - 10/02/09 09:24 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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badman said: Sick head!
Were all 10 oyster cultures?
No not all were oysters. interesting thou, the only ones that revived were oysters thou.
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Re: 5 year old strains [Re: charvo]
#11173849 - 10/03/09 07:47 AM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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Yeah that is interesting.
What were the other 8?
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Re: 5 year old strains [Re: badman]
#11174242 - 10/03/09 10:45 AM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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2 out of 10 is pretty good after all those years. I've found oyster, shiitake and reishi can survive that long. The others are probably toast. Putting a piece of wood in the slant will help a lot, but five years is a long time. I re-make all my slants once per year. RR
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RogerRabbit said: I re-make all my slants once per year. RR
Good idea. When you talk about your farm, it makes me wonder things like; Do you have employees? Do you spend two days JUST re-starting your slants, or do you do a few here and a few there?, etc. Fascinating stuff.
I'm still waiting with anticipation to see a pic of your new grow bunker FULL of edibles! (Damned your lucky. You need to buy the wife some more flowers!)
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BrandNewbie said:
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RogerRabbit said: I re-make all my slants once per year. RR
Good idea. When you talk about your farm, it makes me wonder things like; Do you have employees? Do you spend two days JUST re-starting your slants, or do you do a few here and a few there?, etc. Fascinating stuff.
I'm still waiting with anticipation to see a pic of your new grow bunker FULL of edibles! (Damned your lucky. You need to buy the wife some more flowers!)
Yep, I want to see this thing up and running as well.
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Re: 5 year old strains [Re: badman]
#11177057 - 10/03/09 08:01 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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badman said: Yeah that is interesting.
What were the other 8?
The other eight.
cant even remember all of them,but one was a morchella isolate. The others were some cube isolates, form back in the day. Myself and a friend of mine had a thread going called The clone wars or something like that. The out come of this war was some pretty darn nice cube strains we saved. I was trying to talk him into starting it again, but i dont think it'll happen. the whole clone war thing was kinda a show down to see who grew the largest mushroom. we both had mushroom growing between 75 and 96 grams. wet weight
Edited by charvo (10/03/09 08:09 PM)
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Re: 5 year old strains [Re: charvo]
#11177132 - 10/03/09 08:21 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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Shit they do look pretty big, 100 odd grams each.
Shame none of the actives worked youll have to clone some more
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Re: 5 year old strains [Re: badman]
#11177322 - 10/03/09 08:47 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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well they weren't quite 100 but close. did you look the clone war thread up?
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Re: 5 year old strains [Re: charvo]
#11177366 - 10/03/09 08:55 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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yeh fucking sweet plates and the rest. Quality through and through.
I misread, it said 'grams GT #103' i interpreted as 103 g but its actually the clone label
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Re: 5 year old strains [Re: badman]
#11189430 - 10/05/09 07:19 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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updated above
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Re: 5 year old strains [Re: charvo]
#11198759 - 10/07/09 05:54 AM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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nice, a very cool munchroom.
Are you going to keep trying the remaining seven until you run out of myc?
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Re: 5 year old strains [Re: badman]
#11210851 - 10/08/09 08:46 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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badman said: nice, a very cool munchroom.
Are you going to keep trying the remaining seven until you run out of myc?
Well The update above stating that i produced 10 more plates, was another attempt at reviving those that did not come back the first time. I wasn't to optimistic about them coming back. i'm sure it's just a loss. I also have used most of the culture media i had. It's over for those cubies. No biggie thou i have plenty to play with for now.
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Re: 5 year old strains [Re: charvo]
#11214400 - 10/09/09 10:32 AM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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I suppose if you really want those cultures you can always start from the beginning, from spores or a culture off someone. Good luck with the rest of them.
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Re: 5 year old strains [Re: badman]
#11223246 - 10/10/09 08:58 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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the pictures i said were coming are now posted above.
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Re: 5 year old strains [Re: charvo]
#11225135 - 10/11/09 06:00 AM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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Is the last plat pic an oyster?
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Re: 5 year old strains [Re: badman]
#11225889 - 10/11/09 10:35 AM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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ya the one that is pinning is an oyster. I put the plate in my FC now the pins are clear up over the top of the plate. Oyster's are know for pinning on agar, but after almost 6 yrs. Im amazed.
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