Spalters Inc. #5: Second attempt preliminary results: win

Congratulations on your success thus far. I admire your tenacity.

-- Dr. Ken, Florida - Durch harte arbeit werden Träume wahr.

Sodabowski, you’ve done it. You’ve finally completed the entire circle for me. I’m an industrial microbiologist by training, and MD to pay the bills. I’ve worked as a brewer (yeast bank director) and cell culturer. What you’re doing right now completes some obscure circle for me. :) Thank you for this.

-- My dad and I built a 65 chev pick up.I killed trannys in that thing for some reason-Hog

@ Ken: I promised you some of this green-sytained wood and I will keep my promise whatever it takes ;)

@Al: I feel very honored by your comment mate :) I want to and will harness this lil’ fella!

-- Thomas - There is no such thing as a problem, there only are solutions.

Thomas,
Congratulations on the birth of your numerous children !

-- Fabrice - "On est bien bête mais on sent bien quand on se fait mal" - my grandfather

We’ve done it Igor, we’ve done it !!! Can we call it Spaltenstein?

-- "there aren’t many hand tools as awe-inspiring as the #8 jointer. I mean, it just reeks of cast iron heft and hubris" - Smitty

Bwahaha ^^

-- Thomas - There is no such thing as a problem, there only are solutions.

As an MD with a microbiology background, and having spent a few years working with cell cultures, this series fulfills my inner nerd. As Al put it, it completes some sort of strange circle. Seriously, this is one of the most interesting things I’ve read on LJ’s. Not sure how much malt agar extract you’d need but you may want to check out sigmaaldrich.com
A lot of their products are shipped from Europe anyways, you may be able to pick up the agar medium for cheaper than Ebay.

-- Rob, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario

Thanks for the nice words Rob, and also for the link! I’m pretty sure I will spend some cash there, hehehe.
I just saw that the guys at Sigma also have everything needed for chromatography, which is perfect for me as I also plan to do some hardcore dissociation of everything I can extract off of greened wood (I actually made a first attempt but I need my chems which are at the parents’ ).

As I stated earlier on the series, on my first culture experiment I got a yellow fungus running like crazy alongside Chlorociboria, and here a chromatography could bring very interesting results as to exactly what color components are present in the colored wood. My specimens are emerald green, but I know of franckly blue ones, so why not give it a try and see what comes out :)

-- Thomas - There is no such thing as a problem, there only are solutions.

Chromatography! You certainly have some interesting hobbies. I haven’t thought about chromatography since undergrad chemistry. If I ever make it to Paris, I’ll have to pay you a visit and check out some of these projects.

-- Rob, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario

Trade maple syrup for spalting fungi? ;)

BTW I actually used maple syrup in this growing attempt: so far, so good.

I’ll have to build a decent chromatography system then! my first attempt was made of two nutella lids with a aper tissue in between, all in a japanese takeaway food container lid, hahaha, not quite worthy of being shown off to the world ^^

-- Thomas - There is no such thing as a problem, there only are solutions.

Thomas you did it, gave birth to a little blue.
Congrat I can’t wait to see where this will go.
Best thoughts,
Mads

-- Mad F, the fanatical rhykenologist and vintage architect. Democraticwoodworking.

Cool

-- Leonard H.

Alright!! This also excites me.. how odd that is. I haven’t checked in a while but after your posts I fortified my spalting efforts with beer.. if I have no improvement … I will add honey to the plastic bin.

-- ~ Eric P Jorgenson: Jorgenson Design