(March 21, 2012)
We are switching up the experiments a little bit. We finished all of our sunflower seeds mixed with dry substrate and millet before spring break. So, we have moved on to sunflower seeds in inoculated liquid media! We will have to wait until next week to mix it with the substrate. To inoculate the liquid media we have to put sunflowers in the jar with the liquid for a little bit. Then, we put that liquid into a blender where we mix it with our mycelia. Inoculation is simply mixing our mycelia with the liquid media, which can have a jell-o like consistency. Though inoculating the dry millet from before was almost the same, inoculating with liquid is so much better!
The other major news of this week is that we have officially moved to the new building, which is actually just behind the original. So much more space to experiment. How exciting!
Hi Caroline!
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed hearing a bit more about your work over lunch Tuesday. It's great that you're using a type of seed in your work that your mentor hasn't done yet; I hope it turns out well, you'll have to let us know. I also hope you do well with your paper; I am sure you will! Just keep writing, and go back later to improve! I'm interested to hear more from you and to see the final results of your work!
Sari
Nice comment, Saria - very supportive.
DeleteCaroline, it's really cool how you are doing this experiment mostly independently. I like how you picked sunflower seeds out of personal preference and I'm glad your experiment is going so well :D. I was wondering about what you do when the mushrooms are done growing during your experiment?
ReplyDeleteGood questions, Kelsie.
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