What is liquid culture?
Liquid culture or LC is made up of water and sugar, making it a perfect medium that provides a sterile and nurtuting environment for mycelium to grow.
Advantages of LC
Basic steps to inoculate with LC
Recommended Use
This product contains:
*For inoculating grain or for liquid culture expansion
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Liquid culture or LC is made up of water and sugar, making it a perfect medium that provides a sterile and nurtuting environment for mycelium to grow.
Advantages of LC
- Easy to keep sterile, contamination probability is low
- No intensive maintenance
- Fast growing
- Near-unlimited supply of mycelium
- Pure mycelium
- Can last up to 12 months if kept refrigerated
- Does not take up lots of space
Basic steps to inoculate with LC
- Sterilize substrate in bag with healing injection port
- Cool down substrate
- Inject LC through healing port into substrate bag
- Colonize at 70F
- Substrate should be 70% colonized within 4 weeks
- Shake bag after 4 weeks, it should be fully colonized within the following week
Recommended Use
- 1-2ml will inoculate a grain jar
- 1-3ml will inoculate 450g or 1lb bag of grain
- 3-5ml will inoculate 1kg or 2.2 lb of grain
This product contains:
- 10ml syringe of commercial grade cultures in supplemented liquid form
- Directions
*For inoculating grain or for liquid culture expansion
*BUY 4, get $25 OFF