MEA Agar Slants - Pack of 10

MEA Agar Slants — Pack of 10

Ten pre-poured MEA (Malt Extract Agar) slant tubes ready for your culture work. These are blank slants — no culture included — giving you a clean, compact format for long-term strain banking, transfers, and expansion. Slants offer superior shelf life compared to plates thanks to the deeper media column and sealed tube format.

What They're For

• Long-term culture storage: Bank your best strains in refrigerated slants — cultures stay viable for 6-12 months.
• Expansion: Transfer cultures from plates, LC, or grain to slants for backup and future grows.
• Strain banking: Build a compact, organized library of your working cultures that fits in a fridge door.

Who Needs Them

Serious cultivators building a culture bank, anyone doing long-term strain storage, and growers who want the security of backed-up genetics. If you've ever lost a great culture and wished you'd stored it properly, these slants are the solution.

Specifications

• Media: MEA (Malt Extract Agar)
• Format: Slant tubes with angled agar
• Quantity: 10 blank slants
• Status: Pre-poured, sterile, ready to use

How to Use

• Work in front of a flow hood or inside a still-air box.
• Open slant and inoculate with spore solution, LC drop, tissue transfer, or agar wedge.
• Re-cap and incubate at species-appropriate temperature until growth is visible.
• Refrigerate for long-term storage once colonized.

Storage

Store capped slants refrigerated at 35-45°F until ready to use. Blank slants are stable for 60-90 days under refrigeration. Inoculated slants can remain viable for 6-12 months under refrigeration. Let warm to room temperature before opening to prevent condensation.

Quality & COA

Each slant is poured under sterile conditions and visually inspected for contamination before packaging. Representative slants from each batch are tested for sterility.

How to Use This Agar / Slant Culture

1. Work in a sterile environment — use a still air box or laminar flow hood. Sanitize all surfaces and tools.
2. Transfer a wedge of colonized agar to a new agar plate or grain bag using a sterile scalpel or loop.
3. Seal the plate with parafilm or tape to prevent contamination.
4. Incubate at 70-75°F and watch for mycelial growth spreading across the new medium.

Uses: Agar plates and slants are ideal for strain isolation, expansion, and long-term storage. Slants are especially useful for preserving genetics in a compact, long-lasting format.

What's in the Box

• 5-pack of inoculated agar plates or slant tubes
• Sealed and sterilized for safe transport