Ignore the chaos in the background. 😅 My dog came through and knocked everything over with the wiggles.

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    Nice ! Are you certain the cat has nothing to do with the chaos ? They’re well versed in the art of framing the dog.

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      Haha, he’s a bit more like a piece of furniture at 15, but I wouldn’t put it past him. 😅

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          Haha good luck! I do tissue culture for a living. You definitely can do it at home but you have a lot of work cut out for you

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            Haha, thanks! I have a few years of experience with home mycology (agar work/sterile technique) and I also keep lots of houseplants, so I’m thinking some of these skills might transfer when I do get into it. A reason why I’m interested in this is because some of the work I’ve read about fungi-root interactions was performed on fungi grown on root tissue cultures - which makes sense - but I don’t really know how one would practically achieve that. So I’m very curious about it…

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              Gotcha. While never having cultured fungus (on purpose) plants definitely pose unique challenges. Such as hormone application. I also think, though I don’t have extensive knowledge and fungal media composition, that the media for plants can need quite a lot more sugar which makes bacteria and fungi even more a problem.

              Really cool you’ve already done it at home though. Did you do pressure cooker method

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                Such as hormone application.

                Oh, I haven’t worked with hormones before. That would be interesting.

                Did you do pressure cooker method

                Yeah, my pressure cookers are basically my autoclaves. And I use a still-air box (30L transparent plastic tub with holes) for pouring plates and transfers.

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      A Pixel 6! I always shell out for a good camera phone. It’s the only thing I really care about when looking for a phone. :) In another life, I was almost a photographer.