Blue Oyster Mycelium – Colonised Agar

Description

Blue Oyster Mycelium – Pre-Colonised Agar petri Dishes

Blue Oyster Mycelium – Pre-Colonised agar petri dishes ready for you to use or clone. Blue Oyster mushrooms are well known as being among the easiest of mushrooms to grow at home, not least because they can be grown on a wide range of substrates. Obviously, they also taste great, which is the main reason for growing them. Before you can grow mushrooms of any sort you need to start with live mycelium, either in the form of Mycelium Liquid Culture or, in this case, agar petri dishes already colonised with live mycelium.

This listing is for one colonised 90mm agar plate with live Blue Oyster mycelium, sealed with parafilm to keep the contents sterile. Our colonised agar plates are ideal for use either for cloning (using snippets of colonised agar to inoculate fresh agar) or for inoculating your suitable spawn/substrate materials.

Colonised agar should be kept in a cool dark place until ready to be used, at which time leave it at room temperature for 24 hours prior to use. Blue Oyster Mycelium should never be allowed to reach temperatures below 3 Celcius as this can kill it.  Once the mycelium has covered the whole surface of the petri dish it is ready for immediate use.

Agar petri dishes should only be unsealed and opened in sterile air (still air as a minimum) and so should be handled only in a protective environment such as a still air box or, ideally, in front of a laminar flow hood. Never touch the agar/mycelium with anything that has not been properly sterilised. Blades used to slice or extract the agar should be flame sterilised before use. If not fully used, and assuming the contents were not exposed to floating contaminants, fresh parafilm should be used to reseal the petri dish (the original parafilm cannot be re-used). Regardless, we recommend using your colonised agar within a week if possible, to avoid it drying out or over-growing.

To reduce the chance of a heavy build-up of condensation inside petri dishes, they are best stored upside down. Condensation in itself is inevitable, and won’t damage the mycelium, but puddles of water inside the petri dish can increase the risk of contamination when opened.

When working with agar, either while doing agar to grain inoculation or agar to agar transfers be sure that you are familiar with and follow strict sterile working techniques.

Note: The product image used is generic and for display purposes only. Appearance of mycelium varies from species to species.