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OregonBluesGil
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Re: new pics and serious question [Re: Bi0TeK]
#4917276 - 11/10/05 09:59 AM (18 years, 4 months ago) |
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Hello I have some Nor-cal Cyan spore Prints,whats the Best way to get started with just spores
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Silverwolf
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When you remove the mycellium do you simply remove the chips the fruiting bodies are on or do you need to go below the surface ? Once removed how quickly should the transplant be completed and what is the storage method whilst in transit; i.e plastic or non-plastic,bag or box, filtered or air-tight ? Would you line the hole with pre-soaked alder chips and how shallow is "shallow" -metric or imperial either will do-?
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Bi0TeK
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OregonBluesGil said: Hello I have some Nor-cal Cyan spore Prints,whats the Best way to get started with just spores
Well if the spore print was taken from a wild mushroom the chances are that the print is contaminated.
To make a clean culture I pasteurize a small square of cardboard (wood-lovers devour cardboard) and transfer it to antibiotic or peroxidated agar before inoculating the cardboard with spores. When the spores germinate they colonize the cardboard before then spreading onto the agar.
I then transfer wedges of the most vigorous healthy mycelium to fresh antibiotic agar and once they have colonized transfer more wedges of healthy mycelium. You basically just do this again and again until you have a clean culture.
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Edited by Bi0TeK (11/10/05 02:41 PM)
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oregonshroomer
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Re: new pics and serious question [Re: Bi0TeK]
#4921404 - 11/11/05 08:29 AM (18 years, 4 months ago) |
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When you say pasturized, what do you mean.
And where can I find a suitable agar. or what type of agar do you use
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Bi0TeK
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oregonshroomer said: When you say pasturized, what do you mean.
pasteurize
v.t. sterilize partially, by heating to, and maintaining at, a high temperature. pasteurization, n.
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oregonshroomer said: And where can I find a suitable agar. or what type of agar do you use
Many of the shroomery sponsors sell premixed agar ( Sporeworks for example) but I've always made my own by purchasing inexpensive agar agar from Asian supermarkets and adding either malt extract (MEA) or potato, dextrose and yeast (PDYA).
Adding hydrogen peroxide (H202) to the mix will kill bacteria and fungal spores and inhibit the growth of yeasts. Unfortunately mushroom spores are killed on contact with the peroxidated agar but this is where the pasteurized cardboard square comes into effect. The cardboard acts as a barrier allowing the spores to germinate before colonizing the peroxidated agar.
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oregonshroomer
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Re: new pics and serious question [Re: Bi0TeK]
#4922605 - 11/11/05 02:56 PM (18 years, 4 months ago) |
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So how do you pasturize the cardboard square?
Do most asian supermarkets carry agar. Is there a special kind to look for? HOw do you add that other stuf to your agar. Just pour the peroxide on the agar.
And if im right you were saying to place the pasturized cardboard piece in the middle of the agar and then spore print it.
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Bi0TeK
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The answers to the majority of your questions can be found here
http://www.shroomery.org/index/par/3
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Re: new pics and serious question [Re: Bi0TeK]
#4922740 - 11/11/05 03:33 PM (18 years, 4 months ago) |
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Thanks
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