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# Always a Risk of Contamination
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Contamination occurs when other microorganisms take advantage of the gratuity you provide for your mycelium.
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There is always a risk of bacteria and mold contamination when it comes to mycelium.
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There is always a risk that bacteria and mold will invade, competing with your precious mushroom makers.
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Many guides do everything they can to reduce this risk.
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My approach is to give you methods that are still effective but easier to recover from contaminated spawn.
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My approach gives you methods that are still effective but easy and cheap to recover from contaminated spawn.
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# Do It Thrice
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- Make one extra of the above as a control for testing your sanitation.
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It is OK.
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Seed spawn, agar, and sugar water are inexpensive.
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Bird seed, agar powder, and sugar water are inexpensive.
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All other equipment can be reused.
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Saving a [control](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_control) will help you test for contamination introduced through your technique.
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If all fares well you can always end up using it.
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Spawn medium refers to any growing surface, such as grain spawn or culture mediums.
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Spawn medium refers to any nutrient rich growing surface, such as grain spawn or culture mediums.
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# Finding Samples
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Newbies should start with grocery store mushrooms.
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This will allow you to walk through the methods without fear of wasting a sample.
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Getting other samples should not be difficult but it is quite frustrating to discover all the precautions were made in vain when a contaminated sample was the source.
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Of course there is always the risk of contaminated grocery store mushrooms.
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Finding other kinds of mycelium samples is not particularly difficult but it is frustrating to discover all the sanitary precautions were made in vain when a contaminated sample was the source.
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There remains the risk that grocery store mushrooms are contaminated.
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Online shopping can get you all sorts of sample types ranging from spawn grains and liquid culture to spores and dried mushrooms.
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Online shopping can get you all sorts of mycelium sample types, ranging from spawn grains and liquid culture to spores and dried mushrooms.
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When paying good money for a sample try to find liquid culture as they have a pretty good colonization rate.
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Eventually you will want to make your own cultures from your harvested mushrooms.
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- [ ] empty spray bottles, chemical resistant
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- [ ] star san, sanitizer
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The critical time to practice good sanitation is when opening any of your containers and interacting with the spawn medium inside.
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Clean yourself and work area before working with a mycelium sample or spawn medium.
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All surfaces and tools should be wiped clean then sprayed with a sanitizing solution to soak for at least 2 minute prior to working.
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