Sunday, November 29, 2009

Let's Grow Mushrooms! 2.8 - Master Culture Slants

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Let's Grow Mushrooms! 2.8 - Master Culture Slants

This video will show you how to preserve your cultures for long time storage. By making culture slants you are able to keep cultures for years if the conditions are right.





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Let's Grow Mushrooms! 2.7 - Strain Isolation

Let's Grow Mushrooms! 2.7 - Strain Isolation

This video is all about Strain Isolation.
If you want to isolate a very fast growing substrain that grows faster and thicker then some of the other substrains. If you isolate your own sub strain you could use it over and over without fear of having weak mycelium that will not colonize very well.




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Let's Grow Mushrooms! 2.6 - Lets Learn Agar

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Let's Grow Mushrooms! 2.6 - Lets Learn Agar

This Video will show you how to do Agar work. You can use Agar to isolate your own sub strains. To get mycelium to its fastest potential we need to isolate the fast growing thickest, and strongest looking mycelium.

You can also Cross Breed your own 2 sub strains but they have to each be a single sub strain. Once they grow together and cross, then they will become something new.
This video will help you to do your own agar work. Hopefully you will be able to isolate your own strains.




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Let's Grow Mushrooms! 2.5 - Sporeprinting and Syringe Making

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Let's Grow Mushrooms! 2.5 - Spore printing and Syringe Making

This is a great video showing the process of making your very own Spore syringes as well as taking your own spore prints. You always want to take spore prints to make sure that you never run out of spores for future grows.





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Let's Grow Mushrooms! 2.4 - On Sawdust, Woodchips

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Let's Grow Mushrooms! 2.4 - On Sawdust, Wood chips

This video will show you how to prepaid wood chips and sawdust for the wood loving mushrooms mycelium such as Shiitake, Pearl and Blue Oysters Or any other type of wood lovers.

Wood chips and saw dust are very easily obtained depending on where you live you might be able to find someone that cuts firewood and pay them for a few bags of saw dust that comes out of the back of there saw. You could always offer to help them and save the saw dust yourself.





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Let's Grow Mushrooms! 2.3 - Innoculating Substrate Bags

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Let's Grow Mushrooms! 2.3 - Innoculating Substrate Bags

This is a great video for anyone who wants to use Substrate bags. You can hold 5-10 times the amount that a jar could hold.





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Let's Grow Mushrooms! 2.2 - Sterile Innoculation Procedures

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Let's Grow Mushrooms! 2.2 - Sterile Innoculation Procedures

This video will help you if your trying to be more sterile with MS aka multispore syringes. If your having problem with contaminating, then you should watch this video. This video will show you all you need to know about being sterile when its time for inoculation.





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