Agar Plates I don’t like petri dishes, probably because I had a lot of contamination (because I didn’t turn them upside down) We use agar “jars” to isolate our strains. So yes we can add some spores or a piece of mushroom fruiting body or...
Saprophyte Fungi Most of the gourmet and medicinal mushrooms fall under the saprophyte fungi, so this is where we concentrate our efforts. Mushrooms grow best in organic materials that are rich in natural sugars as well as nitrogen (bran). horse manure mixed...
You can grow mushrooms from any stage of their life cycle. We can take spores or a peice of mushroom body (cloning) and watch mycelium grow on an agar plate. You can buy spore prints and liquid mycelium on-line We can take this agar and add it to a jar of sterilised...
When the mushroom has reached the last stage of it’s life cycle, think brown mushroom, the black under the mushroom caps are spores, (button mushrooms are harvested before their caps have opened). These spores are released, and like pollen are distributed via the...
What are Mushrooms? Mushrooms or fleshy fungi, are the premier recyclers on the planet. Fungi are essental to recycling organic wastes and the efcient return of nutrients back into the ecosystem. Not only are they recognized for their importance within the...
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