How to get a physarum culture

[ian]

So you want slime? 

I can give you slime. I'll post physarum to anyone anywhere free of charge. 

"Free?" you say, surely that's too good to be true? 

Indeed it is, I said free of charge, not actually free. This is the slime mould collective, lone oat flakes do not get visited by physarum fairy. You must prove your worth if you want to join and engage with the network. Assimilation doesn't hurt, we promise and you might like it. 

Tell us why you want the slime, what are your hopes and fears for slimekind? Where do you you see your slime in five years time?

A paragraph, a short story, maybe a few lines of verse, how about an expressive dance? We don't mind we just want you to communicate.

In return we will let you have your very own slime sent discreetly in a plain envelope - your friends and family need never know! 

[Jonkers]

Jos,

Ik stuur je dit weekend wel een wat uitgebreidere mail op je rechtstreekse mailadres..

ik weet niet helemaal welke beperkingen dit Collective qua omvang voor reacties heeft.

Besef wel dat ik zelf ook nog maar net ben begonnen maar ik zal mijn eerste ervaringen graag met je delen.

Groet,

Jan

[Jos Richters]

Ik ben ook maar een beginner in het verzorgen van physarium..... Maar het is mijn mening dat samenwerking en uitwisseling van ervaringen en kennis de beste manier is om gezamenlijk vooruitgang te boeken. (En het maakt de hobby ook leuker wanneer dingen gedeeld worden)

Groet,

Jos.

[Dominik Einfalt]

Hey, 

I am an artist from Vienna and i already did a project with living slime-molds years ago and i really enjoyed working with it. Time passed on and I wanted to revisit my old art-work but make it better. Also one museum in Germany and one musuem in Switzerland contacted me recently to show this work. So I was very hyped to get my old cultures going but sadly I didn't store it correctly and it got wet over the last years. So I would looooove to get new cultures to work with them once again! :D

thanks in advance,

Dominik

[john]

ok
long story

having had a long interest in math and science
i sm somewhat ( understatement ) nerdy

half a century ago, in highschool biology class, i found slime mold to be quite fascinating

skip forward to about 15 years ago

it was a wet christmas eve in portland
one of my sons came to visit
going out to the back of the house
lifting up pieces of pine bark

we discovered some physarum

we each cultured some
and
enjoyed it

it has since been returned to nature

unable to find any more
i would like to enjoy another culture

just a minor pleasure of and old guy

thank you

john

who else celebrates christmas eve with a slime mold hunt and capture ???

[Spencer B]

Greetings to Ian the Slime Fairy (fairies are definitely cooler than Santa) and the rest of the Slime Mold Collective!

My name is Spencer, and I'm a life-long nature lover and scientist by trade. I've been interested in slimes ever since I saw some "dog vomit" as a kid and watched it over the course of a couple days. My interest in myxomycetes was revamped when I took a plant pathology course a couple years back. However, life pulled me in all kinds of different directions, and I've since been only a casual observer of slimes I find hiking or in my garden.

As a hobby, I raise several types of springtails, isopods, millipedes, and beetles. Some varieties of springtails like to eat slime molds, and I hope to raise Physarum polycephalum to offer to them. If I'm successful keeping slime mold, I want to introduce more people in my community to the world of slimes. Ultimately, I would love to develop techniques for collecting and rearing other types of slime molds. I'd especially love to raise Tubifera ferruginosa or Physarum roseum, but those are definitely a pipe dream.

Happy to be here and part of the slime community!

[Ben Gruver]

I'm not sure if Ian is still sending out slimes, I haven't seen any activity from him in a while, unfortunately. But if you're in the US, I'm happy to share some. I also culture it to feed to my slime-eating springtails and beetles :). Feel free to PM