You can play with agar transfers out as far as you like AND use clean "plates" for grain and other spawn type expansions, milking plates and grain jars works, blending agar and sterile water, various slurry making, even large fermenting vats of liquid inoculents can be created and used on chip beds and things like hugelkultur, which I'm starting to experiment with. I want to plant long term food growing plots on my property.....so when the world finishes going completely to shit I can still eat and have medicines......AND BEER! Beer will always be needed...even if we're in caves.......Hopefully I manage to get my glassware to the cave with me.....my prize right now is a two liter screw top Erlenmeyer flask for my first fairly large, relatively speaking, LI fermentation vat. I will have cultivated morels SOONER OR LATER...... ......among many others in fact. Turning logs into dirt is fun and yummy......
Sterile and aseptic technique is an extremely valuable skill set to develop and maintain.....so too is the acquisition/creation of the tools used to accomplish it....IMHO paramount to LC and LI work.......
There are many ways to skin that cat......once we find a workable solution then consistency is the watchword......
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