Once you’ve mastered the basics of DIY mushroom cultivation and you’re ready to take a deep dive into the heart of mycology, making your own agar media and petri dishes is a must.
In this in-depth video, you’ll discover the secret recipe to unlock infinite nutritious growth media for your fungus. Learn how to prepare, sterilize, pour, catalogue and store your very own petri dishes. Pick up lots of great tips and tricks along the way, including how to make hydrogen peroxide media (a great alternative to antibiotic agar), how to avoid senescence, get the most out of your mycelium and keep your fungus well-fed and happy for years to come.
Once you’ve tackled the techniques in this video, you’ll be ready to charge ahead into the uncharted territory of advanced DIY mycology, including breeding, cloning and culture preservation. Next, check out our tutorial on sterile culture technique, Mycology Lab 101: [ Ссылка ]
Made with love by Fungaia, a heart-centered, donation-based mushroom company:
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For the best, most reliable and super affordable mushroom
genetics and liquid culture, visit our favorite culture library:
True Blue Genetics
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Discount code: BLAGAR
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Supplies List
1. Mushroom Genetics
Gourmet and Medicinal Mushroom Cultures from Fungaia
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The best liquid culture on the market:
True Blue Genetics
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This is the last genetics provider you will ever need!
2. Ingredients
Organic Gelidium Agar & Media Premix
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Malt Extract: [ Ссылка ]
Nutritional Yeast: [ Ссылка ]
Gypsum: [ Ссылка ]
Activated Charcoal: [ Ссылка ]
3. Petri Dishes
Sterile, Disposable Petri Dishes
Pack of 25: [ Ссылка ]
Case of 500: [ Ссылка ]
Pyrex Petri Dishes
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Recipes
MEA
10 grams agar
10 grams malt extract
pinch each gypsum & yeast
500 mL water
PDA
10 grams agar
8 grams dextrose
3 grams potato flakes
pinch each gypsum & yeast
500 mL water
VIDEO CORRECTION!
The correct dilution for hydrogen peroxide is 0.03%, not 0.3% as said in the video. The measurement shown is correct, 1 ml 3% H2O2 into 100 mL agar. Sorry!
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Other Useful Supplies
The Fungaia Cube Kit
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An organic, all-in-one grow kit for dung-lover mushrooms
Pre-Sterilized Grain Bags
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Pasteurized, Manure-Based Mushroom Substrate
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Monotubs and monotub filters: Microppose
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Discount code FUNGAIA
Bulk Liquid Culture IV Bags
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More Videos from Fungaia
Mycology Lab 101: Sterile Culture Technique
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How to Grow Mushrooms the Easy Way:
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How to Make Grain Spawn:
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How to make your own liquid culture
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Advanced liquid culture method
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How to make your own injection port jar lids:
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Upcoming videos:
Introduction to Mushroom Cultivation
The Basics of Breeding
Storing Genetics and Managing a Mushroom Culture Library
Troubleshooting Contamination: Identification, Prevention and Problem-Solving
Working with Mushroom Grow Bags
Making Substrate for Dung-Loving Mushrooms
Making Substrate for Wood-Loving Mushrooms
Building a Home Lab
The Laminar Flow Hood
The Fungaia Flow Hood Kit
DIY Bulk Pasteurizer
DIY Cold Storage
DIY Water Filtration
Tyndallization: How to Make Grain Spawn without a Pressure Cooker
Low-Tech Mushroom Cultivation
Outdoor Mushroom Cultivation
The Liquid Culture Revolution: 5 Ways Liquid Culture Will Change the World
Fungaia's Bulk Liquid Culture System
R.E.M.I.S.: The Remarkably Efficient Mass Inoculation System
Myco-Materials
Created by Paul Lynn. All rights reserved.
(Made using some free stock footage.)
© 2024 Alembic Enterprises LLC
Walla Walla, Washington
0:00 Intro
3:18 Overview
3:35 Background
5:48 Side Note: No-Pour Agar Tek
6:26 Supplies
10:48 Ingredients
17:49 Recipes
23:05 Part 2: Prep & Sterilization
26:12 Part 3: Pouring Plates
29:14 Pro Tip #1: Color Coding
29:47 Pro Tip #2: Hydrogen Peroxide Plates
31:38 Drying
32:06 Pro Tip #3: Collating
32:34 Storage
33:44 Cleanup
34:08 Outro
