Cordyceps Gunnii culture

[El Presidente Hillbillios]

Hey all, just spotted this on ebay. No idea how you would grow em, but i thought one of the experts round here might be intrested.

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Cordyceps-gunnii-mu...id=p3286.c0.m14

Inoculated into a sterilized dead meal worm, that seem interesting just on its own.

[watertrade]

cool thanks for posting that. I would love to give it a go... but maybe not just yet

[BlackDragon]

Found these freeze dried mealworms http://www.gardenexpress.com.au/mealworm/. Would be good to start some of these....

Recon it would grow out on mealworm agar watertrade? Ive yet to look into culture of cordyceps.

Found some nice examples though:

http://biokenlab.com/cordyceps.html

Edited August 17, 2009 by BlackDragon

[gecko]

I've often thought of growing it on silkworm.

Maybe even Bardi grubs.

[BlackDragon]

Silkworms are a go'er.

http://www.unicornbag.com/cultivation/comi.shtml

Also found this: looks like they will run on most agar mixes, i spose it requires some experimenting though. Powdered Mealy worm agar sounds good to me.

http://www.cordyceps.com.tw/English/cordyc...g/culturing.htm

[incognito]

profitable crop by the looks of it!!

sucks to be a mealworm though.

[MORG]

Hmmmm.... I'd love to have a go at this. Meal worms are certainly not hard to obtain and culture. Could even try feeding lightly innoculated grain to cultured meal worms and see what happens.

But I wonder if there is any evidence to suggest that C. gunnii might have the goodies that C. sinensis and C. militaris are reputed to have.

We all well know that fungal metabolites such as alkaloids can vary widely between species within genera.

$60 is expensive for a culture. Makes me wish I'd collected the specimen we found at Jenolan State Forest on the camping trip.

[tripsis]

Interesting...but I still don't like the idea of selling cultures. They should be shared in my opinion.

[indigo264nm]

$60 is expensive for a culture. Makes me wish I'd collected the specimen we found at Jenolan State Forest on the camping trip.

Yeah you definitely shoulda... I was stoked when you found that baby.

[devance]

Cordyceps is easy to grow on any type standard agar.

The fun is that there are many types of Cordyceps, lets say within lets japan, puerto rico, brazil or other rain forest areas hot or cold.

Or Aus.

So the same bad ass parasite fungous for insects.

But has steroid efffects on people.

And every different type of corp has a slightly different steroid molecule configuratation the pharm science would find to expensive to sythneszize.