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OneBulletOneGun
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Registered: 06/27/12
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Saving other cakes from green mold!!!
#16503180 - 07/09/12 09:42 AM (11 years, 9 months ago) |
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Set Up: I have 3 separate SGFC with cakes that have been dunked and rolled. 2 smaller SGFC have 6 cakes in them and the larger one has 15 cakes. I use one light above all of them. I spray in the morning and fan about 5-6 times a day, removing one lid at a time.
This morning I woke up to find GREEN MOLD on the sides of 3 cakes in one of my smaller SGFC. I promptly removed the 3 cakes and set them outside until I can bury them in the back yard. I'm calling those a loss and am not worried about those 3. I'm pretty sure the other 3 in the same chamber are going to develop green mold spots in the near future.
Im not positive that the green mold spores have not transferred to my other 2 SGFC's and that is what this post is about. Im going to move my big SGFC out of the contaminated room, but is there anything I can spray or do to the cakes in the SGFC's that have not seen any green mold.
Im worried because the SGFC with the green mold cakes in it is the first chamber I spray and fan. Then I move to my big chamber and fan that one. Then the last smaller one. I fear that I have spread the spores to all chambers by fanning the contaminated one first and then the other 2.
I did not fan the cambers when I found the green mold. Just removed the cakes and put the lid back on. But I was fanning the night before when I could not see any green.
I have read that a hydrogen peroxide solution will do nothing to green mold, but will it help prevent the spores from colonizing on the other cakes?
I have also read that straight vinegar will kill green mold. Is vinegar safe to spray on mycelium? And will it stop spores from taking a hold on the non contaminated cakes?
Any other ideas would be great. Thanks
Concusion: 3 SGFC, 1 SGFC is contaminated, trying to save the other 2 SGFC and the 21 cakes that "MIGHT" have green mold spores from the contaminated SGFC. What can I do to help prevent the mold spores from growing?
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OneBulletOneGun
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Picture of the green mold coming in about 2 hours. When I take lunch...
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OneBulletOneGun
OneBullet
Registered: 06/27/12
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Here is a pic of the green mold. I broke it up onto the compost pile before I took the pic. But you get the idea.
Another cake that was in a diffrent fruiting chamber is starting to get a green/blue spot on it. Can anyone tell me what it could be. Mold or bruising.
MOLD!!!
Could be mold?
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Ganzig
It's for the street cred
Registered: 11/29/06
Posts: 8,206
Loc: Oregon
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Try again. And again. And then again. Don't spray anything just do it again.
And that second pic that is labeled "could be mold" does not look like mold. yet.
You will have success.
But sterilize your sgfc.
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OneBulletOneGun
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Re: Saving other cakes from green mold!!! [Re: Ganzig]
#16503949 - 07/09/12 01:13 PM (11 years, 9 months ago) |
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Oh!!! Im going to try again!!! I have 34 more jars colonizing that im going to still do. Im just trying to save the 15 in the big fruiting chamber and the 6 in the smaller one. And by save I mean prevent mold from growing. The 5 that grew mold were in a diffrent chamber, but I know green mold spores are transferred by air flow. And I think fanning the contaminated chamber might have spread spores to the other good ones. So im spraying them with a bleach solution first and then going to a H202 solution to try and prevent the mold spores that "might" have gotten into the chamber from taking a hold on the good cakes.
The contaminated chamber is getting cleaned and brand new perlite added tonight. Im also cleaning the crap out of my closet and putting my SGFC's back in.
Guess all I can do now is wait and hope the mold spores did not spread to my other chambers.
Ill keep you all posted.
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OneBulletOneGun
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Registered: 06/27/12
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So spraying the cakes with a bleach solution was a bad idea. Go figure... Should of taken the advice everyone gave me. The maggoty of them were just fine, but 5 out of the 21 started to (what I think) bruise. I did the q-tip test on the spots to see if it was green mold, but it came out clean. So I isolated the 5 and am going to see what happens. The others look fine, but only time will tell.
What do you guys think? Heres a pic of the bleach sprayed cakes that are bruising.
Im pretty sure its just brusing and I will no longer be spraying them with bleach/water. I will however be using h202/water to spray. And cross my fingers they dont get green mold.
P.S. I cleaned everything with lysol and bleach and I mean everything...
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TheEaglesGift
The Nagual
Registered: 04/10/11
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Loc: Ixtlan, Mexico
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Spraying your cake with bleach will not kill the mold, but it will certainly damage and weaken the mycelium to the point contamination can take over.
Spraying trich with h2o2 will not kill or prevent it. The only mold that can be beaten successfully is cobweb mold. Cobweb mold can be treated with h2o2, but trich can not.
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