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Hello, I have recently been trying to collect some more species for my ever growing slimey obsession. I just wanted to ask, does anyone have any tips on growing from wild sporocarps? I have a hemitrichia sp. (i think) that I put on an agar plate a few months ago. It's covered in amoebae, but that's it. They refuse to fuse into a plasmodium. I've seen that you need different mating types, but i think i also saw that spores from the same sporangium will produce amoebae of different mating types?…See More

Hello, i joined SLIMOCO earlier today, and got my first slime mould a week ago (i descovered them a few weeks before that though). I just have a couple of beginer questions.Firstly, what is the best material to grow slime mould on? I am currently growing all of them on a few layers of moist toilet paper, although my original one did come on agar, and was wondering what the best (and preferably cheapest) substance to grow it on is.Also, I was wondering what the best way to make sclerotiums is. I…See More

Hello to everyone who joins, this group is for people and slime moulds who live in and around Dorset, UK. We will have discussions and possably do local slime mold trades.See More

A group for slime mould keepers that live near Dorset, England.See More