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 Cobweb mold? 
#15939398 - 03/12/12 09:41 PM (1 year, 2 months ago) |
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Hey, guys!
I will be needing you're help on this one.
I have this cubensis cake, and some white stuff has started forming on it.
Is it cobweb mold, or is it just mycelium? And otherwise, does the cake look healthy or infected?
Here is the picture of my cake:
Good day
Edited by nboos (03/12/12 09:43 PM)
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Re: Cobweb mold? [Re: nboos]
#15939799 - 03/12/12 10:54 PM (1 year, 2 months ago) |
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I can't see any cobweb that looks obvious. Where are you concerned about? If you think there is cobweb mold just spray the area of concern with hydrogen peroxide. If it is, it will melt. If not it won't hurt the mycelium. That cake does look pretty funky, what is the substrate? It doesn't seem to be contams but I've only really dealt with a tiny bit of black mold and some cobweb. Cobweb is a lot more grey and whispy than anything I can see there but I'm looking at it on an iPod screen
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My area of concearn is the white puffy thing on the surface of medium.
Medium is wild bird seeds 
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Re: Cobweb mold? [Re: nboos]
#15939876 - 03/12/12 11:06 PM (1 year, 2 months ago) |
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If it is what is all over it that is definitely mycelium. If it's white white it's almost guaranteed to be mycelium, puffy is fine, whispy is what you don't want. Cobweb looks exactly how it is named, like cobwebs. I don't see any obvious contams
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Did you already spray them with hydrogen peroxide or something? The my cake lOoks really yellow, but not like contams, likeyou sprayed it with a shit ton of h2o2
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Excellent. Thank you for your help and opinion, spiritinthesky.
Have a nice one
edit: i only sprayed it with water, no h2o2.
Edited by nboos (03/12/12 11:09 PM)
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Re: Cobweb mold? [Re: nboos]
#15939888 - 03/12/12 11:08 PM (1 year, 2 months ago) |
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If it is what is all over it that is definitely mycelium. If it's white white it's almost guaranteed to be mycelium, puffy is fine, whispy is what you don't want. Cobweb looks exactly how it is named, like cobwebs. I don't see any obvious contams
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Re: Cobweb mold? [Re: nboos]
#15940528 - 03/13/12 02:11 AM (1 year, 2 months ago) |
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Im fairly new here myself but it looks like myc to me, sometimes it tends to go a little fluffy depending on strain,,keep an eye on it and see how fast it grows,Ive had it fill a jar of wheat in 3 days
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Also now that Ive read the other posts I tend to agree with spiritinthesky it looks as if you have a bacterial contam,,A friend likes to dunk his cakes in chinese containers each one seperate, you can tell straight away by the colour of the water (yellow if contam,,clear is ok)
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Quote:
WestAussie said:
A friend likes to dunk his cakes in chinese containers each one seperate, you can tell straight away by the colour of the water (yellow if contam,,clear is ok)
Chinese cointainers? Could you elaborate? 
also, thanks for help
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Quote:
WestAussie said:
Also now that Ive read the other posts I tend to agree with spiritinthesky it looks as if you have a bacterial contam,,A friend likes to dunk his cakes in chinese containers each one seperate, you can tell straight away by the colour of the water (yellow if contam,,clear is ok)
Ya if you didn't like dunk them in straight peroxide then you've definitely got some sort of contams, bacteria seems appropriate, but not the only option. The fact that it still pinned and grew some off of it is very interesting though with that amount of contams
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So the best thing here is not to eat them? Or should i make another pic, just for you to be sure?
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Re: Cobweb mold? [Re: nboos]
#15951046 - 03/15/12 03:49 PM (1 year, 2 months ago) |
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The fluffiness at the base of the stems (which I assume you're talking about) is just fluffy aerial mycelium reaching out. I don''t see cobweb anywhere. Leave your cakes alone but DO increase fresh air exchange/fanning and these will settle back.
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OK, guys..
Im back with more photos.
Here is how mu harvested shrooms look like:
Notice the way stems are curly? Is this a problem/indicator of contamination?
This is how the cake looks like:
What is that grey/greenish stuff? Is it mold, or just micelium bruising?
Thanx for all ur help!
have a nice one 
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Re: Cobweb mold? [Re: nboos]
#15965286 - 03/19/12 12:16 AM (1 year, 1 month ago) |
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Wow, those mushrooms look pretty mangled. I don't know if it could be verticillium or something. They are probably ok to eat though. I would toss that cake. I'm kind of surprised you got anything off it in the first place with all those metabolites. I'm not sure what those other formation are on it, kind of looks like really old squished invitro mushrooms.
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Re: Cobweb mold? [Re: Kizzle]
#15965651 - 03/19/12 01:54 AM (1 year, 1 month ago) |
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Yeah i kind of forgot about this cake, i left it in my locker for mycelium to spread, then, when i remembered about it, i took it out and it already had formed mushrooms on the side (the cake was in a jar). So that is, i suppose, what you described as ''really old squished invitro mushrooms''.
Thanks for responding Kizzle. So i dump the medium, and shrooms are OK to eat? I really dont want to get a bacterial stomach infection or sth like that.
Thank you,
with regards, nboos.
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Re: Cobweb mold? [Re: nboos]
#15965918 - 03/19/12 03:30 AM (1 year, 1 month ago) |
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Yeah they're fine to eat.
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