Harlow Robinson Green, ESJ, 2028
Project Overview
I decided to try to make a small mycelium box. This was the primary goal of the project and as I made it I thought about a couple different things. I thought about boxes in general and why one might be made out of living or temporary material. I thought about glory boxes and coffins. I decided if I found a dead bird before critique I would have a burial but I didn’t. I also didn’t get a good picture after it was baked.
Process
First, I made the box out of scrap wood. I brad nailed it together. Then I coated it in tapioca starch and made a plastic heat mold of it. This mold was difficult to remove from the plastic, but ultimately me and Rachel got it out. Then, with Mantis, we inoculated a large bag of wood chip substrate which we had hydrated and autoclaved. We had also added a starch solution for faster growth. We added 20% of the weight of the substrate of a culture of reishi. After two days, I filled the molds in the flow-hood, after UV sterilizing them. I sealed them in bags to grow over Thanksgiving break. After 12 days, I unmolded them under the flow-hood. Mantis and I had to destructively remove the molds, careful as not to break the undergrown mycelium. I resealed them in bags and they grew an additional 4 days. The pictures below are after 9 days of growth. After which, I baked them overnight in the incubator.
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