814 Month: November 2020 (page 24 of 28)
I isolated a small piece of this cool moss which I found in the forest near my house and plated it as plant tissue. I chose this as…
There was some mould that looks furry growing in my compost bin so I decided to sample it. There wasn’t too much mould in the whole compost bin….
Found some green spots on my wooden gate. The gate is not that damaged and there are only a few spots where it’s present. I expect to see…
Had a clove of garlic that was rotting. It looks very damaged and unhealthy. I expect to see high fungal growth because it has some mould spots on…
My friend brought over some lemon guava. One of them tasted sour and seemed to have started going bad. The flesh looks mushier than the other healthy ones….
I found this leaf that was browning on the hedge my neighbor’s house. It looked like it had some fungal infection near the bottom of the stem. Expect…
I sampled some water from a very dirty looking creek. I noticed some ducks in and around the water so I was curious if there are fungal spores…
I sampled some of the coconut fibre bedding I use for my tarantula. I chose to do this because I once saw some mould growing on a bit…
I am isolating from the air on my balcony. It was a pretty windy day and I figured some spores are probably out and about in the air,…
I isolated the soil in my potted houseplant. My plant is looking unhealthy, so I’m curious about what’s in the soil. Perhaps something competing for nutrients with my…
My family had halibut for dinner, and I normally leave the skin off. I decided to sample the leftover skin to see what would grow. This is clearly…
I chose to isolate try and isolate fungi from soil from a jade plant in my house. I chose to sample this because I wonder how much fungi…
I found this yellow/green leaf with dark spots while walking through a park in my neighborhood. The leaf looks unhealthy due to the changes in coloration and dark…
This tiny tomato had fallen from my tomato plant in my backyard. The plant had healthy tomatoes growing on it but this one looked very unhealthy. I decided…
I have a concrete slab in my backyard and it allowed for some murky water to accumulate. I could see a lot of dark green mossy organisms at…
One of the many herbs I grow is chives, and this one sits on my windowsill beneath a grow lamp. They fell over a bit like the picture…
I grow a lot of herbs. This is one of them. This one, unlike the rest of their siblings (just other Thai basil that I planted in different…
This is a dying leaf from my peace lily plant. It’s covered in white fuzz and it’s not doing so well. The rest of the plant seems relatively…
This is a bundle of dried lavender buds that I got as a closing night gift from my director. This was a year and a half ago. She…
I found this really old and moldy flower in my backyard. The flower is very unhealthy as there are already organisms growing on the stem and the flowers…
I know. There might not be a ton of fungi here, but I asked a question. If the cold environment of the fridge prevents fungi from growing, then…
During my walk through Burns Bog I came across this fallen tree and I was able to take a soil sample from the dirt around its roots. I…
From this plant I have along my kitchen windowsill I took 2 samples. I took a piece from a leaf that was starting to go brown and did…
These are 3 week old apples I had laying around in my house that I used for a sample. I am curious to see if there is fungus…
I decided to swab the inside of my compost bin, because sometimes I see mold growing in there if I don’t wash it for too long (and it…
For my next sample I took some water out of this stagnant puddle I found in Burns Bog. It definitely did not look very clean and had a…
For my first sample I collected a leaf from this plant I found in Burns Bog. The leaf that I took definitely did not look very healthy especially…
Don’t be fooled by that cute muzzle, this Guinea pig is one of the messiest animals you’ll ever meet. Considering how messy my Guinea pigs are, I thought…
I really wanted to try growing mold from a water sample and thought that the Scott Creek river water would be interesting to test. I’m uncertain about how…
I found this old lemon in the back of my fridge and decided to sample the tissue since it had dark spots. I sampled the dark spots as…