4. Growing Your Samples
CARING FOR YOUR MICROORGANISMS
This step is both easy and important. All you have to do is leave the plates to grow endophytes on their surface.
Process:
1) Find a cool, dark environment to let the plates grow in.
2) Check them once a day each day until you start to see growth, you should start to see movement on the plate surface after about 2 to 3 days.
3) Once growth become visible, take a photograph each day to compare.
4) You should track the colours and shapes that the microbes form, this will help with the next step: Identification.