Here you can find my research and what I experimented with for making mycelium more flexible.
Starting from liquid bases to solid bases. I followed the recipe of @Elise for making mycelium leather but changed some ingredients to test things out.
Now I figured how to make a solid base more flexible. Which ingrediënts can provide this.
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Following is talking about PH levels that might have effect on flexibility. Therefore I wanted to try it on my own if it’s true that a certain amount of PH leveling will make a difference.
Following batches were made:
Liquid batches
A specific mixture was made to serve as the nutrients for the mycelium:
- 500 ml distilled water
- 2 tsp crystal sugar
- 1 tsp proteïne powder
- 1 and a half beer yeast pill
Cook the mixture for more than 30 minutes at 100°C. Let cool off.
Batch 1:
- Mixture
- Add some pieces of mycelium.
Batch 2:
- Mixture + juice of 1 whole lemon (cook it together with the mixture)
- Add some pieces of mycelium.
Result when cooled off.
Solid batches
Batch 1:
- hemp (sterilised before using)
- juice of half a lemon (cooked before using)
- Add some pieces of mycelium.
Batch 2:
- hemp (sterilised before using)
- juice of 1 whole lemon (cooked before using)
Batch 3:
- hemp (sterilised before using)
- 50 ml of concentrated lemon juice (cooked before using)
- Add some pieces of mycelium.
Batch 4:
- hemp (sterilised before using)
- 75 ml of concentrated lemon juice (cooked before using)
- Add some pieces of mycelium.
Update from one week later:
End results
Because fresh products were inserted like the lemon juice, some parts started rotting and the batches went bad. Only two batches still were growing in a good way. These are batch 1 of the liquid base and batch 3 of the solid base:
solid base batch 3
Bad results:
I’m gonna let liquid batch 1 and solid base batch 3 grow further for now.
