Contamination

Learn how to prevent, recognize, and cope with contamination.

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How do I tell contamination from healthy mycelium?
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Most contaminants look very different than mushroom mycelium.
What is a contaminant?
The contaminants are so named solely because they are undesired.
My mushroom caps turned brown-violet over night, are they contaminated?
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When the cap opens, spores are released from the gills of a mushroom.
Proper hand washing procedure
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Hand washing is the single most important means of preventing the spread of infection.
The stems of my mushrooms are bluish-greenish. Is it contamination?
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Sometimes, we all get confused with bruised mycelium or green mold.
Mummy desease
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Peter Flegg Investigates: A mushroom mystery – Mummy This article is reprinted from the August edition of The Mushroom Journal, the journal of the MGA.
Dealing with Mushroom Flies
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‘Mushroom Flies’ Damn!