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Got myself a new wild slime!

Started this discussion. Last reply by Patrick Barry Sep 15, 2020. 6 Replies

was thinking about Ian's post on biosecurity and not spreading Carolina worldwide, and the easiest option I could think of was to find my own local slime.The moist chamber method of Myxomycetes,…Continue

Convex hull and going beyond oats

Started Aug 27, 2020 0 Replies

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13683377Herbal sleeping tablets - extract of valerian root to be specific.This has…Continue

Slime moulds in digital form

Started Aug 13, 2020 0 Replies

Quite a few projects going on to replicate their behaviour in the grasshopper community:…Continue

Big Bang Fair 2018

Started this discussion. Last reply by ian Mar 14, 2018. 1 Reply

Got an email from Ian as follows:"Hello everyone,We’ve had a bit of a surge in membership recently which is fantastic but makes me wonder if I’ve missed something on TV about our liquid yellow chums.…Continue

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Patrick Barry replied to ian's discussion How to get a physarum culture
"Hi Ian, First request of 2023 - would it be possible to have some daywalker?"
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Patrick Barry replied to ian's discussion Genesis of the mutants - or shuffle my base pairs please!
"How did this go? Anything interesting emerge?"
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Patrick Barry replied to Patrick Barry's discussion Got myself a new wild slime!
"stranger and stranger -  A second white slime has appeared, on oats scattered in the tray for one of the scelerotia.  It looks like my porridge oats must be contaminated with spores. Anyone else trying this might need to do a tray or two…"
Sep 15, 2020
ian replied to Patrick Barry's discussion Got myself a new wild slime!
"What do they smell like? I've gotten hints of wintergreen of some, and butyric acid :( off another. I moved my white slime to unbleached sugar paper - it's rough and grey, I think it's more transparent than white but it's easier…"
Sep 15, 2020
Patrick Barry replied to Patrick Barry's discussion Got myself a new wild slime!
"The white oat eater accidentally dried out and formed sclerotia. I am not sure why it dired out faster than the other trays - I can only assume there was less water!Photo taken before dissection. I've split the scelortium into 4 by cutting and…"
Sep 13, 2020
Patrick Barry replied to Patrick Barry's discussion Got myself a new wild slime!
"Seven days later:the compost scraping tray shows evidence of a very small, brown slime, possibly a fungus. The origional dark grey one is going great guns, is possibly duplicated in the tray, and seems to not care about oats.Any other suggestions to…"
Sep 9, 2020
Patrick Barry replied to Patrick Barry's discussion Got myself a new wild slime!
"links updated, and I am cringing so hard over oyster mushrooms. The thought never even occurred to me!"
Sep 3, 2020
ian replied to Patrick Barry's discussion Got myself a new wild slime!
"Interesting choice on the mushroom tub pic from the biosecurity point - oysters make huge numbers of spores and are now loose worldwide because of supermarkets! The last three images are just the peachstone for me. Nice find.  I'd…"
Sep 3, 2020
Patrick Barry replied to ian's discussion Colourimetry
"I do hope it proves useful and successful. And applicable to oats :)"
Sep 2, 2020
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Got myself a new wild slime!

was thinking about Ian's post on biosecurity and not spreading Carolina worldwide, and the easiest option I could think of was to find my own local slime.The moist chamber method of Myxomycetes, Stephenson and Stempen was adapted, and Ian's guidance that absolutely nothing needs to be sterile was adopted.Three sampling locations were used - woodchip+bark in my flowerbed, a scraping from the bottom of the compost heap, and 4 postage stamp sized pieces of bark prised off the London Plane tree…See More
Sep 2, 2020

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