Hello!
Watch me and the girls grow Button and Portobello mushrooms from a common variety that you can pick-up FRESH from your local grocery store.
There're going to be times when you will need to click your path in order to separate the mushroom species. When that time comes you will click the appropriate picture.
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| Portobello | Button |
We will be starting with these two varieties for now but...we will quickly expand to others in the very near future.
And away we go......
Phase I
Cloning
You are to follow common sanitary procedures when following these steps.
| Items needed for Phase I |
| Glove Box Hobby Razor 91% Alcohol Petri Dishes with Agar - 4 dishes for each mushroom. Sandwich Size Ziploc Baggies Torch or Lighter |
Do this outside of the Glove Box!
Wipe your razor carefully with 91% Rubbing Alcohol. Flame torch (or use a lighter) to get the razor red hot and to burn off any alcohol that is remaining on the razor. Place razor in the Glove Box.
You should have within the Glove Box the
following items:
Rubbing Alcohol, Lighter, A Few Cotton Balls, Petri Dishes
and 1 Zip Loc Baggie for Each Petri Dish. WIPE EACH ITEM CLEAN BEFORE PLACING
IT INTO THE GLOVE BOX.
Tear in half your mushroom in order to expose the clean 'flesh'.
Quickly cut out a small piece of flesh that has just been exposed for the first time.
Lift the lid off of a petri dish and place the flesh of the mushroom onto the center of the agar.
You can also scrape a small amount of the mushroom 'gills' (the hold the spores) into the dish ONLY if it has NEVER been exposed to the environment prior to twisting off the stem (if applicable) within your Glove Box.
Label your dish with the strain and date.
Place the dish within a Ziploc baggie.
Set your Water Incubator to the correct temperature for the mushrooms strains and close the lid.
Portobello between 70-77F
Button between 70-77F
These particular strains like the PDYA (Potato, Dextrose, Yeast Agar).
If you would like more information about Agar and are serious about growing
edible mushrooms with your MGK Kit then the purchase of the Growing
Gourmet and Medicinal Mushroom is a MUST for the new hobbyist.
This is a mushrooms growers worse
nightmare...contamination!
Sometime even the best can get this growing in petri dish. I strongly
suggest throwing this out of the house and NOT even open the dish to get a
better look. More about contamination and ways to fight back in upcoming
techniques.
Last date edited
May 30, 2012
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