Advanced Fungi Culturing Course

Culturing mushroom mycelium is not a difficult task, especially if you know where and how it all begins.

​Our intention is to teach and train individuals in a convenient online offering, how to grow their own edible and medicinal mushrooms - from culturing to cultivation. This mushroom course is called the "Advanced Fungi Culturing Course" as you will learn, in great detail, the methods and processes used to culture mycelium. Once you've applied your newly acquired knowledge from this mushroom course, you will come to realise that it is not as difficult as you thought and you will understand why we use the slogan "fear not the fungi".

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To understand the full scope of mushroom cultivation, you will need to:

• know how to make your own agar nutrient plates
• know how to culture i.e. clone, transfer and isolate good mycelium from contamination
• know how to work in a glove box
• know how to make grain spawn and multiply it to save you money
• know how to grow different species using multiple techniques of substrate preparation i.e. make mushroom grow bags
• tips and tricks about harvesting
• understand the concept of Aeroponics.

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Course Outline

1. Introduction: What is mycelium? The Life Cycle of a Mushroom, Types of mushrooms, contamination and sterility -  FREE 
2. Making agar nutrient plates - R650
3. Culturing: cloning, transfers using tissue cultures & spore prints, isolating good mycelium from bad contamination using a glove box - R650
4. Making your own master spawn and multiplying spawn using a Laminar Flow Hood and glove box - R650
5. Growing edible and medicinal mushrooms - R875 (to launch June 2022)

Included in the Course

• 120+ minute of video lessons
• Downloadable training materials
• Questions to be answered to advance to each new video
• Certificate of Participation
• Qualification as a Fungkifriend (South Africa only)​ ​

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After the course
As a NEW Advanced Fungi Course graduate, we invite you to become a Fungkifriend and get 10% discount off future spawn and cultivation supplies. We would like you to be in a position, where you can take your learning and duplicate the course procedures in your own home or place of business. Take a look at our offering of dowels, cultures, spawn and cultivation supplies.

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