alternative substrate

[druglessdouglas]

an alternative grow medium to grain, straw etc can be made using agar and malt extract. calculate how much medium you need and boil that much water for at least 20mins. for every litre add 30-40 grams agar and 20g malt extract. while stil hot pour into sterile containers (of your preference) and allow to cool (covered). when cool inoculate with starter or spores. i recomend making starter cultures in petri dishes or small jars so an uncotaminated starter can be used. saves having to sterilise substrate

 

[GOD]

High Drugless ,

Welcome to the forum .

No offence ment , BUT , You have been looking at confused web sites full of confused people with confused ideas . No good grower uses agar agar or malt extract or petri dishes unless they have VERY special reasons . They are for people who have understood NOTHING and like playing post offices . If you dont understand what i have said , or why i said it , or you have any questions please ask me and i will explain .

= One could mix human shit with agar agar and mushrooms would grow on it !!!! BUT , is there a sensible reason why ?????

 

[druglessdouglas]

just something i learned in university. no offence taken im only a biologist after all

 

[GOD]

High Drugless ,

University !!! WOW !!! I have a metalwork O level . And it was nice of you to apologise but please dont be ashamed about being a biologist !?!?!?

So bad childish humor aside , why should anyone use agar agar for anything ? its very unspecific = EVRYTHING grows on it and we dont want to grow everything ? What are the disadvantages = EVERYTHING grows on it + its a totaly unnesecery step + its another chance to grow crap because its less sterile than using just grain jars just because of transfering it to ALL the jars , and what are the advantages = 0 or its nice playing post offices ?

What you said in your first post is true but as i said its out of date , something from 30 years ago from Oss and Oeric who just put all the lab mushroom growing info into one book . BUT they hadnt got much experience of growing and time moves on , people experiment and find better , shorter , cheeper , safer , easyer and cleaner methods .

This is not ment to be a steam roller , i apreciate your input , knowledge and education and i`m into a dialoge . If you think i`m wrong , or have questions , or can explain to me why anyone should do it please do .

Maybe the site royalty can change my Hofmann picture and replace it with a stop sign with "Dangerous rabid homicidal maniac" written on it ?

 

[druglessdouglas]

are you sure? im not a grower. i pick a couple of years worth every year within a mile of my house. but i do have a well developed sense of humour so i dont mind your ranting. i would, given the choice use agar as im familliar with it and yes you can grow almost anything in it. ive grown botula sp. e. coli and other nasties. its very user friendly. do you want me to get out of your forum? i came to it via a link discussing how to make lsd from fosters lager. perhaps i should trawl through all previous postings to avoid offending you God. i wont ill just say this: :butthead: i look forward to more of your enlightening, balanced input

 

[Guest]

are you sure?

Trust me, he his