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 prospectiveshrooma
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 Small green dot contam removed with a sterile spoon. Foolhardy idea? 
#12376437 - 04/12/10 07:46 AM (3 years, 2 months ago) |
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Hey, guys. First time grower here.
I've had 7 jars going for a few weeks now. 3 made with white rice flour and verm, and the other 4 with brown rice flour and verm.
The white rice flour cakes have had no problems, but the 4 brown rice cakes have all started growing green mold. I tossed the first two, like a good mycologist, but when the other two brown rice jars started developing green dots, I took a sterile spoon, and scooped out the contam. This doesn't mean I'm going to try and fruit these babies if they keep going green, but if I got the whole contam, then why can't they go on to become successful fruiters?
Everything I've read or heard in regards to jar contamination tells me to just toss the substrate and start over. I know it might sound like a crazy idea to try and save rooted substrates, but come on!
This stage of the process is such a pain in the arse!
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Re: Small green dot contam removed with a sterile spoon. Foolhardy idea? [Re: prospectiveshrooma]
#12376450 - 04/12/10 07:58 AM (3 years, 2 months ago) |
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You need a better inoculant.
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Re: Small green dot contam removed with a sterile spoon. Foolhardy idea? [Re: prospectiveshrooma]
#12376462 - 04/12/10 08:05 AM (3 years, 2 months ago) |
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Patience is the key, good sir.
You do realize that the time you are wasting with what more than likely will turn out terrible/inediable/smelly mess/etc, you could be starting something new?
I'm sure there will be a couple of rogue individuals trying to contest it, so go ahead and post pics of the contam spots, etc.
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Re: Small green dot contam removed with a sterile spoon. Foolhardy idea? [Re: joshua_5]
#12376468 - 04/12/10 08:11 AM (3 years, 2 months ago) |
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Removing mold from substrate is something that most of the time cause more damage than it does good.
When you handle mold, the spores of it will become air born and can cause later grows to fail.
Contaminated substrate can be fruited outdoors, but I wouldn't bother with molds indoors at all.
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Re: Small green dot contam removed with a sterile spoon. Foolhardy idea? [Re: Fahkface]
#12376987 - 04/12/10 11:21 AM (3 years, 2 months ago) |
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the small green dot was just the spores
the mold myc has spread happily threw your sub
and we do have a contamination forum.
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Re: Small green dot contam removed with a sterile spoon. Foolhardy idea? [Re: bw86]
#12377044 - 04/12/10 11:32 AM (3 years, 2 months ago) |
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might work. Probably not though. By the time you see that green its already spread.
Id throw em outside, or at least keep them in seperate 2l fruiting chambers
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Re: Small green dot contam removed with a sterile spoon. Foolhardy idea? [Re: Kevin_X2]
#12377174 - 04/12/10 12:06 PM (3 years, 2 months ago) |
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It wont work.
I've done it a few dozen times, with bulk. It always comes back. Always.
Are you sure you were seeing green and not bluish bruising? It can look greenish.
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Re: Small green dot contam removed with a sterile spoon. Foolhardy idea? (moved) [Re: prospectiveshrooma]
#12377244 - 04/12/10 12:21 PM (3 years, 2 months ago) |
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 This thread was moved from Mushroom Cultivation.
Reason:
Wrong forum.
NEVER attempt to remove mold spores from a colonizing jar or cake, substrate, etc. doing so spreads it worse and releases billions of spores into the air. Mold mycelium is white and there's no way you can cut it out. All you did was spread the spores and make the problem worse for your future grows.
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Re: Small green dot contam removed with a sterile spoon. Foolhardy idea? (moved) [Re: prospectiveshrooma]
#12377254 - 04/12/10 12:23 PM (3 years, 2 months ago) |
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This thread was moved from Mushroom Cultivation.
Reason:
Strange. It didn't go the first time.
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Re: Small green dot contam removed with a sterile spoon. Foolhardy idea? (moved) [Re: prospectiveshrooma]
#12377289 - 04/12/10 12:35 PM (3 years, 2 months ago) |
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ok, so basically removing a contam doesn't work. If I toss the myc outside, will it grow in the soil? Do I need to put down some fertilizer or dung, then throw the myc on that?
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Mushrooms after 4 months of waiting! You guys weren't kidding, patience is key. lol [Re: prospectiveshrooma]
#12377597 - 04/12/10 01:24 PM (3 years, 2 months ago) |
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I am a newb and did pretty much the same thing early this year.
I had a GT cake that was 90% colonized and noticed some green mold (not sure what it was exactly) forming on the top. I took the jar out of my house and into the shed. I there opened it under running water and carefully removed any non-colonized areas. The mold was only on the non-colonized areas. After weeks of tending to the cake in it's own isolated fruiting chamber I gave up hope and actually forgot about it.
I noticed it on the top shelf of my laundry room. It had been nearly 4 months since it was birthed. It had mushrooms growing on it. After being in a very low FAE and practically no light it still flourished. I am afraid they will abort though they look healthy.
A funny thing, maybe someone more experienced can comment on this, there were very thin and relatively long (when compared to the other fruit bodies) "mushrooms" growing. They appeared healthy but it looked like they had tiny spines growing out of the stems. What is this and what of the many problems could have caused them to form this way?
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Re: Mushrooms after 4 months of waiting! You guys weren't kidding, patience is key. lol [Re: silvanadelucci]
#12378802 - 04/12/10 04:52 PM (3 years, 2 months ago) |
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whats this about white rice flour? i saw a thread around here of someone trying that, grew huge mushrooms, but they didnt get him high
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