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The Hive => Tryptamine Chemistry => Topic started by: chilly_willy on July 03, 2000, 06:57:00 AM

Title: Claviceps growth medium
Post by: chilly_willy on July 03, 2000, 06:57:00 AM

Has anyone tried inoculating sterilized rye berries with a claviceps culture??  This would seem like the ideal medium to SWIM...  Or better yet..just growing it out in a jar full of agar??  Would the fungus even colonize a jar full of agar?  MVS's method looks alright..but the preparation of his "liquid medium" seems like a pain in the ass.  Can anyone give any basic cultivation info besides MVS?  Ideas?  Refs. maybe??  Send Private if desired..

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Title: Re: Claviceps growth medium
Post by: obituary on July 08, 2000, 06:11:00 AM

look up hoffman's works and then follow any related trails you find.  BTW, try rice patties.

Title: Re: Claviceps growth medium
Post by: Ecstasium on August 11, 2000, 11:35:00 PM

Actually Claviceps is fairly easy to work with. Its much more agressive that P. Cubensis. Just collect the fungi from a rye field. (Go collect NOW, its the best time right now). Search the rye in the vicinity of the field, as the fungicides usually dont get to these crops. Use the growth medium described at this link.

http://www.dsmz.de/species/gn301392.htm (http://www.dsmz.de/species/gn301392.htm)

and cultivate, isolate, etc....

Title: Re: Claviceps growth medium
Post by: uemura on August 29, 2000, 12:02:00 PM

your link

http://www.dsmz.de/species/gn301392.htm (http://www.dsmz.de/species/gn301392.htm)

doesn't work. Typo? Any idea?

Title: Re: Claviceps growth medium
Post by: uemura on August 29, 2000, 07:17:00 PM

OOPS... Sorry, now it did. Must have been there the wrong time.
Hey, its cool. In case Uemura could get the spores, he would re-activate his hood....