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resurrected this baby after leaving it 14 months on agar (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by SkippingRelax to c/[email protected]

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King oyster cloned to agar in July 2022 from store bought mushrooms. Did a second transfer shortly after to a number of plates and also put some on WBS so I successfully grew some fruits back then.

Then life took over and the agar plates were forgotten for 14 months. As I have some spare time to go back to that hobby now I thought why not? I put some of that myc that I thought was dead on agar, and some on two WBS jars. This one seems to have come back to life, pic is from 7 days ago, it is all fuzzy now so almost time to put it in a bucket with straw or cardboard.

First post on lemmy, and quite new to the whole cloning to agar so I guess this was just luck. I also have another jar and agar plates that seem infected if someone is interested or wants to give me a second opinion.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

This looks like a shelf, and you stored it at room temperature this whole time? I would have thought it needed to go into the fridge, but that is pure speculation. Could someone with experience comment, please?