Clint
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I got my two inoculates today. These are what will be used to start cultures with. Notice my horrific handwriting Those of you who have traded with me know it's miraculous you even get my packages!
It's got a cup of rice in each one, and when I get to the store and the washed perlite dries, will have 2 cups of perlite in each and 2 cups of corn meal in each. Perlite would be so I can have something I can use over and over again to start new batches (instead of recycling old corn meal and rice. YUCK!) and also to loosen up the media a bit.
Air holes
If I get interest in this, I can write up a pictorial how-to and maybe it can be a sticky or something. I'm going to use an autoclave sine my mom has like 3 of them for cooking, but I'd venture to guess that you don't need to sterilize the jars/media with an autoclave since dirt is riddled with contaminates anyway.
After the initial GROSS factor I can see why people think fungi are cool. I was looking up stuff on trichoderma and came across a few sites where people grow mushrooms and they had jars that had been contaminated by trichoderma and OMG! It was HORRIBLE looking! Blah!
It's got a cup of rice in each one, and when I get to the store and the washed perlite dries, will have 2 cups of perlite in each and 2 cups of corn meal in each. Perlite would be so I can have something I can use over and over again to start new batches (instead of recycling old corn meal and rice. YUCK!) and also to loosen up the media a bit.
Air holes
If I get interest in this, I can write up a pictorial how-to and maybe it can be a sticky or something. I'm going to use an autoclave sine my mom has like 3 of them for cooking, but I'd venture to guess that you don't need to sterilize the jars/media with an autoclave since dirt is riddled with contaminates anyway.
After the initial GROSS factor I can see why people think fungi are cool. I was looking up stuff on trichoderma and came across a few sites where people grow mushrooms and they had jars that had been contaminated by trichoderma and OMG! It was HORRIBLE looking! Blah!