
06/05/2025
I am very happy to have crossed a HUGE milestone here at Elysian Mushrooms! For us mushroom cultivators it's very important to keep something we call our "mushroom library". A single petri dish of mycelium (culture) contains its own genetics. That same culture can produce more genetics (offspring if you will) through the production of spores that come from the mushrooms. The purpose of our "mushroom library" is to accumulate different mushroom cultures with strong genetics. These genetics can pertain to things such as growth rate, fruit size, flavor and many others. In order for us to keep these genetics they must be properly stored. Agar slants are used for long term storage for the average mushroom cultivator. Agar slants are typically stored for up to 12 months or longer. I recently pulled out twelve agar slants from 10-30-22 and transferred them to clean petri dishes and all twelve cultures are growing well!! That's about 2 years and 7 months or so in storage!! I love working with mushrooms!!