Pre Poured “Rocket” Agar – Ultra Nutrient x 8

Description

Rocket Agar: The Ultra-Nutrient Solution

• Ultra-Nutrient Formulation: Packed with a highly enriched nutrient profile, it provides the perfect foundation for robust cellular development.

• Accelerates Slow Cultures: It acts as a powerful catalyst for sluggish or struggling cultures, giving slow-growing mycelium the vital boost it needs to colonise successfully.

• Super Fast Growing: True to its name, Rocket Agar promotes explosive, rapid growth, significantly reducing your waiting time.

• Broad-Spectrum Appeal: Mould and bacteria absolutely love it. While this means you need good sterile technique, it also makes it an incredibly sensitive medium for capturing all types of growth.

• Perfect for Room Checks: Because it is so highly hospitable to microorganisms, it is the ultimate tool for environmental monitoring. Leave a plate open to check your room’s air quality—if there are airborne contaminants present, Rocket Agar will catch them fast.

The Aussie Mushrooms Difference

Contamination in cheap plates often starts before you even open them. We don’t cut corners.

• True Sterilisation: Every single batch of our agar is strictly monitored LIVE while it cooks. It is properly sterilised in our commercial autoclaves above the required 121°C for the exact minimum time needed to destroy all bacterial and fungal cells. We can provide sterilisation certificates if required.

• Class 100 Cleanroom Poured: The plates are poured and cooled inside Australia’s largest, one-of-a-kind, state-of-the-art Class 100 commercial laboratory. This guarantees that when your plates arrive, they are 100% clean, sterile, and ready to use right out of the package.

What to Do When You Receive Your Plates

Unbox them right away—do not leave them sitting in the shipping box for over a month! Store them at room temperature (10–20 °C).

Our Guarantee

If you experience any shipping-related issues (which will show up within a week of arrival), please send us photos within 2 weeks, and we will happily replace them.

Please note our strict policy:

• Order When You Need Them: If you are not ready to use the plates within a few weeks of arriving, please wait and only order them when you need them.

• Send Photos Unopened: You must send photos of the unopened bag. If you open the bag in an unsterile area, you are on your own, as we cannot cover contamination mistakes made outside a clean environment.

• The 2-Week Window: If you contact us outside of the 2-week window—for example, if you leave the plates in the closed box and only check on them a month later—we will not be able to offer a replacement or refund, as they have not been checked or cared for properly upon arrival.

Pro-Tips for Success

• Work Clean: While our sterile plates give you a perfect blank canvas, mould spores and bacteria are still floating everywhere in your house! To ensure your inoculations and transfers stay perfectly clean, we highly recommend working inside a Still Air Box (SAB) or under a laminar flow hood at an absolute minimum.

• Seal Your Plates: Once you have used the plates for your transfers or inoculations, always close and seal the edges with Parafilm or micropore tape. This keeps the moisture locked in and airborne contaminants locked out.

• Store Unused Plates: Always store your unused plates in ziplock sandwich bags to keep them protected and prevent the agar from drying out.

These pre-poured agar plates are highly sensitive biological growth media. They are designed exclusively for advanced users operating in a strictly controlled sterile environment (such as under a certified laminar flow hood or inside a properly sanitised Still Air Box).

Opening these plates in open room air will cause instant exposure to airborne spores and bacteria, leading to contamination. Do not unseal until ready to use in a sterile work area.