The talk about sterility and cleanness is that you want to give only your spores the best shot at growing, not all fungus or bacteria. the spores get transferred in this solution, and germinate (they will create "fluffy clouds", that you can use later to colonize jars). this means putting the spores into a sterile solution of water+sugars (think preparing a mix of water+honey, then sterilizing it in a jar). Usually people leave the spores in this solution to hydrate for a up to a couple of days, but they can stay like this for a long time too.Īlternatively, you could go for a liquid culture first. Using a new needle and the sterile syringe, you suck up the solution. this now contains thousands of spores in a watery medium. an alternative is to use bottled spring water, if it is sterile (and unopened!).
faucet water is not good enough, as it isnt sterile, but you may use water for injections that might be sold in pharmacies. In sterile conditions (the glovebox people mention, though it is possible to do without it if one is patient and very meticulous), you scratch off ~0,5 square cm from the print (so you detach the spores using the tip of a sterile needle) into a sterile solution (this can be distilled water, for instance, and will be the ml you want, for instance, 5-10ml). To create a spore syringe, you need a normal syringe (~5ml min, 20ml probably is overkill), and several needles. it is a dry sterile medium that is very good for storage. all the spores are on a surface, stuck to it. these are not ideal, as the needle is quite fine and might clog up when injecting. So, an insulin syringe is a normal syringe that is smaller (less capacity, 1ml) and probably has a needle already attached. since you are at the beginning its normal to have a lot of questions, but it is a lot easier to get answers if people think you did your homework. this is not to discourage you or me acting like a dick, its jsut that you have lot of questions that are answered already in guides all over the net. Hmm, i dont think i will get to all your questions but i will try.įirst i recommend you read up a bit more on the growing. anyway, the hyrdroshroom kit i bought has instructions that i can inject between 1.5ml to 2.0 ml of spore solution, now since my syringe's capacity is only at 1 ml, will this be fine? how much spore print should it have and how much is water? is this all variable? the instruction mentioned about using clean water, is water on the faucet clean enough? is cold water ok? spring water? i find it amusing why the "cleanliness" and "sterileness" when mushrooms in the wild grow on the dirtiest shits. I have seen youtube videos about mushroom cultivation but I need as much answers as I can get. Does size of syringes matter? It's a 1ml/cc syringe. That confused me a bit on why a syringe would be called insulin syringe. I was told this is for insulin shots, it's a syringe, it does not have insulin in them. I ask for syringes, I was sold insulin syringes. So now since I know I should use a syringe to inject the spore print into the jars, I went to CVS to buy a pack of syringes. The instructions for it to cultivate mushroom required injected the spore into the jars (my spore is not in a syringe, it's a print).
i also have the mushroom cultivation kit called hydroshroom. the spore was only available as print not syringe. but here's the thing, I bought my spore at a reputable online seller. If you're really a beginner though, start with just the syringe and some PF cakes.
Mushroom spore syringe shelf life plus#
Then if you do that you have a much bigger volume to inoculate with, plus it saves time because they are already germinated so colonization is much faster and even more aggressive. It's an alternative to direct use of the spore syringe, in short: you inoculate a mixture that has sugars like honey in it and get the spores to germinate. I also advise you to investigate liquid culture. He relaxes me like Bob Ross although not quite to that extreme extent.
Mushroom spore syringe shelf life series#
I advise you to look up the series of videos by RR (RogerRabbit) a member of the Shroomery, he's a freakin master that guy. But of course chances of that are slim if you will just follow sterile procedure like you should do in all subsequent steps as well. Prints have a better shelf life, but they require an extra step to be ready for inoculation and that is to suspend them in sterile water.
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