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Under the instructions of Azuzena i inoculated my first medium with spores. It was 15 minutes boiled cardboard. The container we used to store it, was ironically a blue supermarket Champignon box. After the Inoculation, wich in this case only means, to put a peace of wood with spores in it, between two or three sheets of hot cardboard. And then leave it in the oven, that is not called oven.

4. Day 31.10. Halloween. Motivated by the experiences in the last lesson, i started doing something at home. This time i wanted to experiment with growing mycelium in coffee mold. I already had collected some for a time, because on my travels during the summer i had learned to use it instead of dish-soap. In addition i had plucked some fungi caps out of my garden, put them on a piece of paper and waited for them to drop their spores, facing their dead by drying out in my room.

So i took put on my new rollerskates (3) and desinfected the whole kitchen with Korn (4), a typical thuringian alcohol. Then I boiled the coffee mold (5) for 15 minutes, maybe longer and put it in a bowl to let it cool down (6). Then i desinfected an old paprika sauce glass with Korn and put the boiled mold inside (7) rotatory with pieces of the dropped spores (8&9-11) and tapped it with kitchen paper. In the end i heated my oven to 50 degrees, let it cool down and then stored the glass in it with circulating air (12). Later that day i went to the lab to put in in the real machine.