Hello dear professional, i want to grow Tramella Fuciformis, i will buy your website the culture. But this spicies is different, symbiotic live with another mushroom parasitic. Can you recommend a document that will help me? I couldn't find the parasitic fungus of tramella fuciformis on your website, hypoxylon? Other mantas I can breed now are reishi, lions mane, maitake, turkey tail, red and yellow oyster, shitake. I have all the laboratory equipment and I want to develop the tramella fuciformis strain. I found a few academic articles and patents, there are Koreans who produce shiitake from waste compost.
By-the-way stop calling data flow Hood a flow hood is a large metallic box with an acrylic shield on it I'm a microbiologist and I've working labs for 35 years if I ever called a filter with a fan on it a flow Hood they would fire me or send me for psychiatric evaluation that is not a flow Hood
I just read on your site that you will never replace a dead culture due to weather conditions and shipping what a great fucking company I make cultures by the 5-gallon batch they cost nothing there a hundred percent profit what kind of cheap-ass company wouldn't replace a customer's dead liquid culture? You also wouldn't replace something lost in the mail? You are literally the only company in the continental United States that refuses to reship a customer's order if it's lost. What kind of greedy greedy people would treat their customers like this? I just bought a 14000 square-foot Warehouse I will never purchase any supplies from you are terrible
Is the plastic lid autoclavable? If so, that might be cheaper as the seal on the metal lid(s) may only be one-time-only. Also, can you make a liquid culture jar by placing a small piece of the mushroom fruiting body into it? I feel that starting with liquid cultures and syringes might be better for me as I am a beginner. Can the liquid culture be transferred to plates and/or slants?
I did 1 cc per grain jar. Only because I didn't have a bunch of LC..... Wish I had a bit more so I could have done 2 or 3 cc But I'm happy I'm getting my money's worth even if it takes a few days longer to colonize.. .
Would love to see a video of all your different varieties of mushrooms you offer. I've looked online but watching a video just seems like a better way to see everything! Thanks, will be placing an order soon!
Just got these as a free syringe. Super excited about growing these. The customer service you give is outstanding, don't know if I will be able to purchase from anyone else in the future!
Just received my order from you guys! Thanks for being prompt and all the updates. The cultures all look fine and I will be transferring them to substrate soon. As I do not have a flowhood yet I usually sterilize my work area and spray ozium to clean the bugs, any comments about open air transfers or any hints to help people without a flow hood? Thanks and keep up the good work!
Unrelated question. What happens if you transfer mycelium 90-95% (covering jar) spawning it to bulk before total colonization? Since it's going to keep growing in the more nutrient environment bulk substrate. why do I keep hearing that's so important to wait?
Bc you can't be sure that the uncolonized grain doesn't have some sort of contam. And bulk substrate is not more nutritious for most species I have an experience with. Anyway you can do so, and it's not going to cause trouble, but fully colonized jar gives you more confidence
Cool video - just a tip for everyone who might be reading this. You can also prepare an 'agar plate' in that jar instead and use the same lid. This gives you the benefit of using the SHIP to inoculate it while still giving you the benefit of agar for testing LCs (mainly that it's way easier and quicker to see contamination). You'd also only need to sterilize those for about 30 mins which saves you some additional money on heating your pressure cooker. You can still use it for agar2grain afterwards if you want.
