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Some help regarding growth and inoculation please!

Started this discussion. Last reply by Ronnie Aug 2, 2023. 3 Replies

Hey physarumnators! I am a year 12 student who is experimenting with physarum polycephalum to make optimised networks (similar to the famous tokyo railway experiment) to solve urban design issues as…Continue

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Ronnie replied to Ronnie's discussion Some help regarding growth and inoculation please!
"Hey Ian, This was heaps of help! The growth of the physarum has been a lot better when I followed your advice, but I was wondering if the networks it makes are influenced by the size of the oat flakes I place on the dish? ofcource, it would but I…"
Aug 2, 2023
ian replied to Ronnie's discussion Some help regarding growth and inoculation please!
"Hi I think you're not using a large enough innoculum - slimes essentially burn biomass to move around, if you're getting white trails, they're abandoned branches which suggests there's not enough plasmodium there to get it to the…"
Jul 19, 2023
Ronnie replied to Ronnie's discussion Some help regarding growth and inoculation please!
"cube inoculation, as you can see, its leaving a white ish trail and not acting the best! (day 2 of innoculation) and here is the innoculation from an oat flake, sort of linear growth? (day 4 of innoculation)"
Jul 18, 2023
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Some help regarding growth and inoculation please!

Hey physarumnators! I am a year 12 student who is experimenting with physarum polycephalum to make optimised networks (similar to the famous tokyo railway experiment) to solve urban design issues as a part of a design folio. However, I have had some trouble actually inoculating the physarum onto my design. If someone could tell me what I am doing wrong, or could improve that will be great! This is how I am going about this:  I place oat flakes on a 2% agar petri dish (non nutrient based)…See More
Jul 18, 2023
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love the ability for slime mould, physarum polycephalum to solve complex problems regarding urban design. I have a huge passion for microbiology and architecture/design.
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