Black Agar Pre-Mix — MYA with Activated Charcoal
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description: See every hypha. Black agar makes your mycelium impossible to miss. White mycelium on pale amber agar is a squinting exercise. Sectoring, rhizomorphic edges, the first faint bloom of a contaminant — all of it disappears into the background. This is a full malt yeast agar (MYA) formula with activated black charcoal blended through it, so the medium pours a deep matte black and every strand of growth reads in high contrast. Weighed, blended and packed on our organic farm on Tamborine Mountain, dispatched from Queensland. As far as we can find, it’s the first black agar pre-mix made in Australia — until now you were importing pre-poured plates or blending charcoal into your own mix by hand. What’s in the bag Agar AgarGelling Agent Extracted from red seaweeds (Gracilaria and Gelidium). Sets firm at room temperature, holds its shape under a scalpel, and contains no animal ingredients. Blended at 2% w/v — firm enough to cut clean wedges for transfer without tearing. Light Malt Extract (LME)Carbon Source High in maltose, plus the proteins and nitrogenous compounds fungi draw on for energy. Light malt rather than dark keeps the base medium from muddying the charcoal black and avoids the caramelised notes that can slow some species. Organic Activated Charcoal PowderContrast + Adsorbent A fine, highly porous carbon. Two jobs: it turns the plate matte black for contrast, and its enormous internal surface area adsorbs phenolics and inhibitory metabolites released into the medium — the same reason plant tissue culture labs have used charcoal media for decades. Blended at 0.3% w/v: fully opaque without going gritty. Non-GMO Nutritional YeastVitamins + Amino Acids Deactivated Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Supplies free amino acids and the B-complex vitamins (thiamine, riboflavin, niacin, biotin, B6) that malt extract alone doesn’t cover. This is the “Y” in MYA, and it’s why recovery from a slow or stressed culture is noticeably quicker than on plain MEA. What you’ll notice Sectors jum…
brand: Kai Kai Farm
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  value: 20 Plate Mix (29g), 40 Plate Mix (58g), 80 Plate Mix (116g)
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