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Help me save my poor cakes! The got hit with green mold :(
    #14530980 - 05/29/11 02:18 PM (12 years, 9 months ago)

This is my first grow.  I've had some cakes incubated for about two weeks now.  About a week ago, I lost two cakes to green mold, which I assumed was due to birthing them too soon (they had no pins). I tossed them, cleaned out my fruiting chamber and everything seemed fine. Until yesterday.  All of the rest of the cakes had pinning or fruiting except one.  That one had a ton of green mold.  I tossed it.  To be safe, I closely examined every cake and found two of the fruiting cakes had some mold on them. I didn't want to get rid of them since they were fruiting, so I put them in a little rigged up fruiting chamber that I made using a large freezer ziplock-type bag and put some perlite at the bottom, cut holes, etc.  I cut off all of the visible green mold, making sure to go even deeper than it appeared.  I then put drops of alcohol on the areas that I cut out (in hopes to kill the green mold and salvage the areas that were fruiting)

Today, I harvested two nice sized mushrooms and one abort from one of those cakes, though more green has appeared.  On the other cake that I am attempting to save, there is no visible sign of the mold.

Unfortunately, there is mold growing on another cake inside the original chamber.  What can I do to prevent the rest of my cakes from getting contaminated? Should I rewash the perlite and sanitize the FC?? Or should I get new perlite entirely?

Please help! I sprayed everything, including the air and walls with lysol and have been constantly rinsing my hands with alcohol.  Does putting salt on the mold really kill it??

Any advice would be vastly appreciated.

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Re: Help me save my poor cakes! The got hit with green mold :( [Re: Sporulation]
    #14531087 - 05/29/11 02:42 PM (12 years, 9 months ago)

I can't really give any good advice on saving what you have now, but on your next grow, you might consider letting your jars colonize without using an incubator. I have no experience with them, but several people from these forums say that incubators will greatly increase your chances of growing mold.
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Re: Help me save my poor cakes! The got hit with green mold :( [Re: fungivore]
    #14531250 - 05/29/11 03:21 PM (12 years, 9 months ago)

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fungivore said:
I can't really give any good advice on saving what you have now, but on your next grow, you might consider letting your jars colonize without using an incubator. I have no experience with them, but several people from these forums say that incubators will greatly increase your chances of growing mold.
Good luck.




Sorry, I meant to say fruiting chamber, not incubator

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Re: Help me save my poor cakes! The got hit with green mold :( (moved) [Re: Sporulation]
    #14531281 - 05/29/11 03:29 PM (12 years, 9 months ago)

This thread was moved from Mushroom Cultivation.

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Toss anything and everything with mold.  All you did was pollute your house for future grows in order to get 2 mushrooms.  Never attempt to cut off mold.  All that does is spread it.  Your sterile procedure or lack thereof is to blame.
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Re: Help me save my poor cakes! The got hit with green mold :( (moved) [Re: RogerRabbit]
    #14531963 - 05/29/11 05:46 PM (12 years, 9 months ago)

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<img src='http://www.shroomery.org/forums/images/moved.gif'> This thread was moved from Mushroom Cultivation.

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Toss anything and everything with mold.  All you did was pollute your house for future grows in order to get 2 mushrooms.  Never attempt to cut off mold.  All that does is spread it.  Your sterile procedure or lack thereof is to blame.
RR




Well, I am going to throw all the infected ones out.  I'm going to let the few cakes that are still left continue and hope they aren't already/going to be infected.`After their first flush is done, I'm going to deep-clean the entire room. This will happen while they are being dunked in preparation for their second flush. I'll sterilize the perlite by washing with soap and water, then putting it in the oven.  I'll wash with soap and water and then spray with some type of disinfectant(lysol probably)

I will wipe my walls down with disinfectant and shampoo my carpet.  I'll wipe everything down, wash all sheets/clothes and whatnot.  I'm also going to try to fan my cakes more and lower the temperature of the room (~85 now, will be ~70 once I put my air conditioner in)

I'm really not sure what else I could do to rid this room of green mold.

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