Cordyceps militaris grows here in a controlled tent and a camera films every box. Frames, sensor data and culture records are stored so they can be recomputed and checked later.
propose a collaborationA culture bank with strain, batch and passage codes. QR labels and the history of every culture on record.
A tent with racks, white and red light (630 nm) on a schedule, temperature, humidity and CO₂ sensors with history.
A Raspberry Pi HQ camera on every box, frame quality control and time-lapse videos.
Image analysis: colour and height of fruiting bodies with confidence intervals, rule-based stages. A library of papers with extracts.
Four strains from the culture bank in five boxes. Every box has a culture and a batch code.
A box is a clear container with brown rice and nutrient broth, closed with a lid. The mycelium grows through the rice, turns orange in the light and forms fruiting bodies.
With one or two boxes per strain, differences between strains are pilot observations, not proven differences.
| box | culture | rack | inoculated | day today | fruiting from day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 CAM-1 | KC025-S13 | 3 | 16 Aug | 49 | 30.0 (27.4–31.4) |
| 2 CAM-2 | KC023-S15 | 3 | 16 Aug | 49 | 31.6 (30.9–32.2) |
| 3 CAM-3 | KC024-S14 | 3 | 18 Aug | 47 | 32.5 (31.7–32.9) |
| 4 CAM-4 | KC022-S13 | 3 | 18 Aug | 47 | 35.6 (34.7–36.4) |
| 5 CAM-5 | KC023-S19 | 3 | 19 Aug | 46 | 30.4 (29.6–31.1) |
A tent with racks, white and red light (630 nm) 14 hours a day, sensors for temperature, humidity and CO₂.
4 Oct, 21:00, hourly mean at rack 3. The sensors measure the tent air, not the boxes: inside, the air is saturated (droplets on the walls) and CO₂ is not measured yet.
CO₂ climbs to 537 ppm overnight and falls to 423 ppm during the day.
Eight stages from the lab’s vocabulary, with the day box 3 reached each one.
stages from the image analysis as of 26 Sep 2026 (MMF-PHASE-1.0 rules, height growth from the growth curve)
library: 489 papers in 12 topics
During elongation, height grew faster at night in 4 of 5 boxes; the 95% interval excludes zero in 2 of them (box 3: by 0.21 px/h, 0.12–0.33). Night also differs in temperature, humidity and morning condensation, so darkness cannot be separated yet. No such measurement turned up in the available literature.
own data · 5 boxesTwo KC023 boxes reached half orange cover on day 7.1 and 19.2, yet fruited at the same time (day 31.6 and 30.4) and grew equally fast. Colour shows the response to light, not fertility or cordycepin content.
own data · Wang 2018Primordia formed on day 27–31 and fruiting bodies emerged on day 30.0–35.6. In studies, primordia usually form around day 14–20, at the latest 25.5. The best-supported suspects: 17–19 °C instead of the usual 20–22 °C, unmeasured air exchange under the lids and strain genetics (the supplier itself expects harvest on day 55–65).
Chao 2019 · Zhou 2026 · Shrikhandia 2026With one or two boxes per strain, differences between strains are pilot observations, not proven differences. The experimental unit is the box, not the frame.
fresh, by prior arrangement
Roughly every two months, cultures travel from the USA to Europe. Get in touch in advance and a fresh culture can come for you too.
Cultures for growing and research only, not food. Only what EU import rules allow is brought in; what is possible is clarified when arranging.
price per culture, on requestBreeder prices are indicative as of 28 Sep 2026, excluding shipping and the work of carrying it. MycoMuse Factory does not represent them and follows their terms: where they do not allow resale, you order the culture yourself and MycoMuse Factory only carries it.
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