Hi there,
I’m building up a culture library which right now consist of about 20 different strains. Most of them are clones from the wild, which might or might not be good performers in respect to growth rate and building fruit bodies. I will post the list here in the next days.
Together we could share and exchange our strains and add comments about how they performed in the fruiting chamber or in any other experimental setup. Right now I try to figure out the best practice to keep them vital and how to back up cultures in an efficient but also practical way.
At the last meetup @Leo gave me the hint to store them in distilled water. I haven’t fully researched it but this sounds very interesting and I recently started experimenting with a distilled water agar technique described in the Radical Mycology book (p. 285). Here is some info about that as well from @glyph referring to a paper: culture preservation and revival
To sum up we could do the following:
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Elaborate a best practice about culture preservation and revival
We could share our experiences, discuss pros and cons and maybe evolve a general TEK out of it
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Manage an open directory for the available cultures to share and exchange. I work with open office on my computer, we could use a google doc to add and work on it together. Is there an open source alternative to google docs?
What are your thoughts on this?