No-Tek · One bag · Zero work

Set it down.
Forget about it.

The No-Tek Set And Forget Bag is a microscopy kit that arrives already made. No mixing, no sterilising, no procedure, no equipment. You put it on a shelf and leave it alone — that is the entire instruction manual.

Fully colonised on arrival Ships from Michigan
The Telly Monster Myco seal: the monster standing among mushrooms in a swirl of colour

The difference

Everything that is normally your job
is finished before it ships.

Most kits sell you a head start and leave the technique to you. This one has no technique left in it. Here is the honest comparison, counted in the only unit that matters.

Steps you follow 0
Tools you buy 0
Sterile work none
Daily checks none
Things already done all
The No-Tek Set And Forget Bag: a sealed bag with a filter patch, port and label

The only thing we sell

No-Tek Set And Forget Bag

$32one bag, everything included

Sealed, breathing through a 0.2 micron patch, and fully colonised before it leaves us. There is one product on this site on purpose — no wall of options to read through, no decisions to get wrong.

What arrivesOne sealed bag, made up and ready
What you doPut it down, out of direct sun
Equipment neededNone
Filtration0.2 micron patch
Ships fromMichigan, USA

What you actually do

Three things, and two of them are waiting.

Open the box

Lift the bag out and stand it upright. Leave the seal alone — it is not a step you have missed, it is the product working.

Put it somewhere

Room temperature, out of direct sunlight, wherever you will actually see it. A shelf is perfect. It does not need a tent or a humidifier.

Forget about it

This is the whole product name and it is meant literally. No checking, no misting, no opening, no adjusting. Walk past it now and then.

A dense flush stood up on a fully colonised block
The finish line, with nothing asked of you

You did not do this.

That is not a criticism, it is the selling point. Every procedure that would normally sit between you and this photograph has already been carried out, under conditions you do not have at home, before the bag was sealed.

What is left on your side is a shelf and some patience.

The full breakdown

Questions

The ones everybody asks.

That is the whole product. The bag arrives already made up and already fully colonised. You take it out of the box, put it somewhere out of direct sun, and leave it alone. There is nothing to mix, nothing to inject, nothing to sterilise and nothing to keep checking.

“Tek” is the word this hobby uses for a technique or procedure — the steps you would normally have to follow yourself. No-Tek means those steps are already done for you before the bag is sealed. There is no procedure left on your side.

No. No still air box, no pressure cooker, no flow hood, no scales, no syringes and no thermometer. If you own none of that, this bag was built for you.

Indoors, out of direct sunlight, somewhere with normal room temperature that you walk past often enough to enjoy looking at it. A shelf, a worktop or a spare table is perfect. It does not need a tent, a cupboard or a humidifier.

It varies with the temperature of your room. Somewhere warm moves faster, somewhere cool moves slower. Either way the waiting is passive — you are not doing anything during it.

All questions

One bag

Ready when you are.

$32, shipped from Michigan, with nothing left for you to do when it lands.