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Simple incubator setup, comprising of a small (60w) greenhouse heater and a room thermostat set to 24C (any opinions on temperature?). At the moment it's inside a small cabinet and a towel chucked over the top to keep the heat in but I now have an old fridge to convert into a bigger incubator with more stable temperature where I can keep my homebrew as well to keep it humid and at high co2 levels.
2, 3) Liquid culture jars, it's a bit difficult at this stage to tell whether they are growing much due to the proteins that settled out during pressure cooking. The liquid was two teaspoons of malt extract to a jar full but it boiled over a bit during pressure cooking so I was left with a lot less!
4, 5)Oyster rye grain jar, colonising very rapidly and healthy mycelium! When is a good point to give it a good shake?
6) This was the pot from the 'grow kit' with cubensis mycelium, it's really disappointing me a bit really, there's only one pot colonised and very slowly at that. I think the lack of fresh air exchange in these little sealed pots makes it not work very well.
It was good to get started with though and I got a free oyster spore syringe with it!
7) Cubensis rye grain jars, all showing some colonisation but the middle one only a few spots at the tops. Opinions on when to shake them?
8) T. versicolor stem butts with visible mycelium growing onto the cardboard.
9) Some beer! This was linden flower and mugwort, I think it might be a bit too sweet and not quite bitter enough but it'll make a nice sweet sleepy ale.
10) After harvesting the stem butts all the t. versicolor was dried out for tea. I tried collecting spores off them but they were too mature to get any decent prints of.

<blockquote data-quote="hummus" data-source="post: 3685046" data-attributes="member: 4527">Pictures ..1)Simple incubator setup, comprising of a small (60w) greenhouse heater and a room thermostat set to 24C (any opinions on temperature?). At the moment it&#039;s inside a small cabinet and a towel chucked over the top to keep the heat in but I now have an old fridge to convert into a bigger incubator with more stable temperature where I can keep my homebrew as well to keep it humid and at high co2 levels.2, 3) Liquid culture jars, it&#039;s a bit difficult at this stage to tell whether they are growing much due to the proteins that settled out during pressure cooking. The liquid was two teaspoons of malt extract to a jar full but it boiled over a bit during pressure cooking so I was left with a lot less!4, 5)Oyster rye grain jar, colonising very rapidly and healthy mycelium! When is a good point to give it a good shake?6) This was the pot from the &#039;grow kit&#039; with cubensis mycelium, it&#039;s really disappointing me a bit really, there&#039;s only one pot colonised and very slowly at that. I think the lack of fresh air exchange in these little sealed pots makes it not work very well.It was good to get started with though and I got a free oyster spore syringe with it!7) Cubensis rye grain jars, all showing some colonisation but the middle one only a few spots at the tops. Opinions on when to shake them?8) T. versicolor stem butts with visible mycelium growing onto the cardboard.9) Some beer! This was linden flower and mugwort, I think it might be a bit too sweet and not quite bitter enough but it&#039;ll make a nice sweet sleepy ale.10) After harvesting the stem butts all the t. versicolor was dried out for tea. I tried collecting spores off them but they were too mature to get any decent prints of.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="hummus, post: 3685046, member: 4527"] Pictures .. 1) Simple incubator setup, comprising of a small (60w) greenhouse heater and a room thermostat set to 24C (any opinions on temperature?). At the moment it's inside a small cabinet and a towel chucked over the top to keep the heat in but I now have an old fridge to convert into a bigger incubator with more stable temperature where I can keep my homebrew as well to keep it humid and at high co2 levels. 2, 3) Liquid culture jars, it's a bit difficult at this stage to tell whether they are growing much due to the proteins that settled out during pressure cooking. The liquid was two teaspoons of malt extract to a jar full but it boiled over a bit during pressure cooking so I was left with a lot less! 4, 5)Oyster rye grain jar, colonising very rapidly and healthy mycelium! When is a good point to give it a good shake? 6) This was the pot from the 'grow kit' with cubensis mycelium, it's really disappointing me a bit really, there's only one pot colonised and very slowly at that. I think the lack of fresh air exchange in these little sealed pots makes it not work very well. It was good to get started with though and I got a free oyster spore syringe with it! 7) Cubensis rye grain jars, all showing some colonisation but the middle one only a few spots at the tops. Opinions on when to shake them? 8) T. versicolor stem butts with visible mycelium growing onto the cardboard. 9) Some beer! This was linden flower and mugwort, I think it might be a bit too sweet and not quite bitter enough but it'll make a nice sweet sleepy ale. 10) After harvesting the stem butts all the t. versicolor was dried out for tea. I tried collecting spores off them but they were too mature to get any decent prints of. [/QUOTE]