Liquid Culture Kits & Supplies

A standard liquid culture jar breathes passively through a filter disc, and oxygen runs short just as the mycelium needs it most. That's when cultures harden into dense clumps that clog the needle and inoculate unevenly. Active Air fixes that by pushing sterile, filtered air into the jar on a timer, so the mycelium stays fine, fluid and suspended. It's a shippable version of the bubbling setup we've run in our own lab for years, built from high-temperature parts that sterilize and reuse. 28...

A single spore syringe only reaches so far on its own. Put 3-5 cc of it into this jar of sterile nutrient broth, and within days you have a jar of living mycelium big enough to inoculate up to 20 spawn bags or 84 half-pint jars, colonizing grain faster than spores alone. 10 ozCulture broth 3-5 ccTo inoculate 4-5 daysTo visible growth 20+Spawn bags 50 ccSyringe included Why run liquid culture Spores have to germinate before they do anything, and inside a bag of grain that delay gives...

Same system as our Premium kit, almost three times the volume. 28 oz of pressure-sterilized broth in a 32 oz glass jar turns one spore syringe into enough living mycelium for 40+ spawn bags or 160 half-pint jars. It is the size to move up to when a pint jar can no longer keep pace with your grows. 28 ozCulture broth 3-5 ccTo inoculate 4-5 daysTo visible growth 40+Spawn bags 60 ccSyringe included Why growers size up to the XL One syringe, a whole run: a single spore syringe covers 40 or more...

Give your spores a small, sterile place to wake up before they ever touch grain. Each QuickCulture Mini jar holds 30 ml of nutrient broth behind a medical-style injection port. Inject a few cc of spores, let the mycelium grow out, and you will know within days whether you have a clean, healthy culture to work with. Start spores in a jar, not in your grain. Three pre-filled, sterilized 30 ml jars with self-healing ports, plus a 20 cc syringe, a draw needle, a vent needle and alcohol pads....

Five PTFE-coated magnetic stir bars, each 30 x 7 mm, with a raised center pivot ring. The ring lets the bar spin on a small contact point instead of dragging its whole length across the bottom of your jar. Put one in each liquid culture jar before you sterilize it, then spin the culture on a stir plate or with an external magnet. The PTFE coating is non-stick, non-reactive and rated from -196°C to 250°C, comfortably above pressure cooker temperatures. 5-packPTFE coatedCenter pivot...

This magnetic stir plate spins liquid culture and lab solutions anywhere from 350 to 4000 RPM on a brushless DC motor, with a stepless dial so you can set exactly the speed you want. It stirs up to 2000 ml and comes with a stir bar, so it is ready to run out of the box. Keeping liquid culture moving breaks up the mycelium and keeps it evenly suspended, which means every syringe you draw carries about the same amount of culture. 350-4000 RPMUp to 2000 mlBrushless motorStir bar included 4000Max...

The Myco Lid Pro is our reusable liquid culture lid for standard wide-mouth mason jars. Instead of punching a needle through the same self-healing port over and over, you draw culture through a dedicated Luer Lock port, while a 0.45 micron syringe filter handles gas exchange. The lid stays on the jar from sterilization to the last syringe. The body is autoclavable Delrin (POM), the gasket rotates independently so the seal seats without twisting, and a raised pad on top gives you a clean place...

Culture Blend is the formula behind every jar of liquid culture we've produced at Myco Labs for the last 15 years, pre-blended as a dry mix. Extra light malt extract, dextrose, soy peptone and our nutritional supplement and mineral blend come measured and mixed in one resealable pouch. Weigh it, dissolve it in hot water, pressure cook, and you have sterile broth ready for spores, liquid culture or an agar wedge. One 250 g pouch makes more than 3 US gallons. Our lab's liquid culture recipe,...

The Microppose Deep Draw is a 5 in, 16-gauge sterile needle made for mycology. It reaches the bottom of a liquid culture jar and deep into grain jars and spawn bags, and the 16G bore lets thick culture flow without clogging. Standard needles are about 1.5 in long, so you end up tipping jars to chase the last of your culture. Each needle is individually wrapped and fits any Luer lock syringe. 5 inNeedle length 16GGauge SterileIndividually wrapped Luer lockFitting 5Per pack Why use the Deep Draw...

The basics for a clean injection in one small pack, so you do not have to buy needles, pads and gloves in bulk. You get five 16G Luer lock needles, ten alcohol prep pads, a pair of nitrile gloves and a face mask, enough for several inoculations of grain bags, jars or other substrates. The needles fit most spore and liquid culture syringes. 516G needles 10Alcohol prep pads 1 pairNitrile gloves 1Face mask Luer lockFitting Why grab a pack All in oneNeedles, pads, gloves and a mask for clean...