Mushroom Cultivation Petri Dishes

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Sterile Petri dishes are fundamental tools in both bacteriology & mycology. Whether you are at home or run a small business, they can provide a clean environment for mushroom cultivation while observing the development of mushroom fruiting bodies.

Use malt extract, potato dextrose or your own favorite agar recipe as a growth medium. If agar is unavailable, gelatin can be subsitituted & combined with nutrients including meat broth or yeast extract or malt to promote mycelial growth.

These plastic dishes are already sterilized & not recommended for use with pressure cookers. Home growers can use one to prepare the agar mixture in an autoclavable Erlenmeyer flask or glass mason jar.

Grow blue oyster mushrooms, Lions Mane (Hericium erinaceous) or fungal cultures with confidence. Use Petri dishes for your spore solutions whether you use potato dextrose agar, or black agar as your agar medium to grow a healthy mycelium. Experiment with new strains using rye grain in liquid culture media.

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Plastic petri dishes are by their nature, disposable. However, some types are extremely flimsy. Ours are 1.1-1.2mm thick & weigh ~16g each which can be as much as double as the cheaper ones.

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Reviews (7)
2022-05-06

Fantastic products!

— Jackson
2022-04-09

My purchase, the packaging, and delivery were great. This was my first attempt with germinating "old" seeds in the dishes. I had productive results. The dishes were well worth the cost and investment of my time.

— Pam
— Indigo:

Planting seeds & discovering too late they aren't viable. Glad this is a useful solution to prevent that. 

2021-12-25

Plates were sterile and well packaged. Shipment came within a week and was few dollars cheaper than Amazon even with shipping. Will definitely be back to buy more soon.

— Jeff
2019-07-30
Excellent product and great price! I use them for lab work and I have never had any problem with them. 100% success rate. Totally sterile.
— Ed
2019-07-24
Happy with the service and merchandise (Petri dishes). Will re-order again. Cheers, Tom
2019-03-22
Great quality, thicker plastic than anything on Amazon and never received broken cases nor punctured sleeves. Buying bulk elsewhere it is common for at least a couple sleeves to have manufacturing defects which renders them unusable. Will always be purchasing from Indigo Instruments.
— Andrew
2018-02-07
Was initially concerned about quality because price was so low, but I am glad I tried Indigo Instruments. Product arrived pretty quick and was packed well and fully intact.
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FAQ for Mushroom Cultivation Petri Dishes

You can a general culture medium that will should support common bacteria & molds using the following instructions: Homemade Microbial Media. Or, you can try some of these nutrient agar recipes.

 

A regular stove top pressure cooker or Instant Pot can be used as an autoclave to sterilize glass Petri dishes but not plastic petri dishes which are already sterilized & will melt if pressure cooked. However, if you wash & then rinse them with a mild disinfectant solution, you may be able to reuse them. We offer 0-200ppm chlorine test strips & 0-100ppm hydrogen peroxide test strips that can confirm rinse strength concentration after dilution.