Basics: Easy AF Agar Pots 4pk

This might be one of the coolest products we've added in a while.

We asked our Discord community what we should call these so out of respect for our unhinged customer base I'll include the names they suggested at the bottom.

The product itself isn't anything particularly new. It's basically a modified pp5 pot with high nutrient agar. It has a Microppose injection port and filter to allow gas exchange.

Why is it cool?

Germinating spores

Firstly it gets you using agar if you've never tried it, you can inject a few drops of spore solution through the port and watch it grow out on the agar, the high nutrient mix shows contamination.

Liquid Culture

This is where it gets really cool. The typical process for liquid creation is to create sterile liquid culture media and transfer your mycelium from agar to the LC once the plate has colonised nicely. This requires some aseptic technique. At a bare minimum a still air box.

I thought recently, why not do it the other way around?

So we added 20ml of sterile LC media to the pot after the mycelium had established. Sure enough, 2 days later we had mycelium growing in the liquid on the surface of the agar. We shook it up, then drew up the liquid in a syringe and transferred it back into sterile jar of media. 

Without any aseptic technique we'd made a liquid culture from spores using the correct(ish) method using agar.

I'm sure someone will tell me ShitBum_2000 on the Shroomery did this first in '99, but until then I'm claiming this as MYCOPUNKS LC KETCHUP POT TEK ^tm.

It doesn't stop there...

Needle Biopsy Cloning

We've successfully cloned mushrooms using a large gauge needle to biopsy mycelium from a mushroom and put it directly through the injection port onto agar.

This could be especially cool for collecting mycelium in the field for cleaning up later.

So now we've cloned, germinated and created liquid culture with no still air box.

Customer name suggestions (mental) - sorry in advance:

• Mushwombs (actually quite clever)
• Cumpots
• PotsMyco
• Cum Chalice
• donor dumps
• Punkplates
• s(PunkPots)
• Pots of Glory - With Holes
• Fractal Fuel
• Splooge Pots
• Punk Holes - "ready for a quick prick"
• EZ-Clean plates
• Sporegasms
• Growgurt
• Pot luck
• Mycobrew
• Petit Agars
• Sperm Sample Pot
• Spunknoculation Pots
• Cum Buckets
• Lil Chubs
• CM pots
• Uncle Chris’s gelatinous prick vessel.
• Sporeplay
• Shank-n-wank tanks
• Kumpot
• MycoMuffs
• stab and squirt pot