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GardenGnome
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Yet Another Post Talking About A Weird Banana-like Smell From Casings
#10119768 - 04/06/09 09:26 PM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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So I have recently spawned my WBS (Costa Ricans) to nutri-boom substrate. This was yesterday and I already have a smell similar to overly ripe bananas (kinda rotten with a TAD of sweet). I pasteurized at 180 for 2 hours in the oven and I feel this may be a cause for failure. I saw in a previous post that RR explained this could be good bacteria but nothing more was said/elaborated. Has anyone else experienced this so quickly and what was the aftermath? IT'S ONLY BEEN A DAY!!! SOOO FRUSTRATED!!!! 
BTW, all 4 of my trays smell like this. 
GG
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Killa420
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Re: Yet Another Post Talking About A Weird Banana-like Smell From Casings [Re: GardenGnome]
#10119853 - 04/06/09 09:38 PM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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Sweet is more than likely bacteria. Its pretty much ruined. You can toss it outside in a flower pot and try to fruit it from there if you have good temps around where you live.
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Frequency
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Re: Yet Another Post Talking About A Weird Banana-like Smell From Casings [Re: Killa420]
#10119972 - 04/06/09 09:54 PM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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The smell of bananas is a sign that unwanted bacteria in your casings are now fermenting the nutrients in your substrate. Follow Killa420's advice and chuck them in your garden. Any luck you saved some of your unadulterated spawn?
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GardenGnome
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Re: Yet Another Post Talking About A Weird Banana-like Smell From Casings [Re: Frequency]
#10119999 - 04/06/09 09:58 PM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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I spawned another 6 quarts to a monotub today so we will see what happens with that.
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Frequency
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Re: Yet Another Post Talking About A Weird Banana-like Smell From Casings [Re: Frequency]
#10120017 - 04/06/09 10:05 PM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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Good luck my friend. Can you give us some more information on your spawn substrate preparation?
-------------------- McKenna: I think that I am always, from the very first psychedelic experience, had the uncanny intuition that "Yes this has been around for 50,000 years" but it somehow going to be critically important in our lifetime. That we will need it for something. Maybe just to think our way out of the mess that we're getting into. Shulgin: If it's needed, we have it. That's the beauty. The tool is there. For the time when the need is obvious. And this may be our lifetime...
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Re: Yet Another Post Talking About A Weird Banana-like Smell From Casings [Re: Frequency]
#10120378 - 04/06/09 11:02 PM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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Frequency said: Good luck my friend. Can you give us some more information on your spawn substrate preparation?
I purchased nutri-boom substrate from WTS and pasteurized (oven tek) for 2 hours at 180. The spawn is costa rican on WBS. Spawn looked beautiful and was fully colonized. After pasteurization od sub, I waited overnight (placed substrate in a sterile sterilite container) and spawned to it using 4 deep disposable lasagna trays. No casing has been applied as of yet. I am just upset cuz it's only been 1 day.
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Frequency
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Re: Yet Another Post Talking About A Weird Banana-like Smell From Casings [Re: GardenGnome]
#10120484 - 04/06/09 11:23 PM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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Sounds like your oven tek fell short. 2 hours just doesn't seem like enough for that amount of substrate, especially if you've got that fermenting-smell at only 1 day.
-------------------- McKenna: I think that I am always, from the very first psychedelic experience, had the uncanny intuition that "Yes this has been around for 50,000 years" but it somehow going to be critically important in our lifetime. That we will need it for something. Maybe just to think our way out of the mess that we're getting into. Shulgin: If it's needed, we have it. That's the beauty. The tool is there. For the time when the need is obvious. And this may be our lifetime...
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Re: Yet Another Post Talking About A Weird Banana-like Smell From Casings [Re: Frequency]
#10120490 - 04/06/09 11:25 PM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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You should buy the already pasteurized subs from WTS. Work amazing no problem yet.
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GardenGnome
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Re: Yet Another Post Talking About A Weird Banana-like Smell From Casings [Re: gnarfbuckle]
#10120500 - 04/06/09 11:27 PM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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gnarfbuckle said: You should buy the already pasteurized subs from WTS. Work amazing no problem yet.
I am definitely doing that next time.
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gnarfbuckle
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Re: Yet Another Post Talking About A Weird Banana-like Smell From Casings [Re: gnarfbuckle]
#10120524 - 04/06/09 11:31 PM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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Check this out.
http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/8373005#Post8373005
Not sure if youve seen it but its a review with pictures of WTS products. Good shit..... no pun intended
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GardenGnome
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Re: Yet Another Post Talking About A Weird Banana-like Smell From Casings [Re: gnarfbuckle]
#10120656 - 04/06/09 11:57 PM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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I saw that which influenced my decision. I guess my pasteurization just wasn't long enough. I am trying to keep my first bulk grow as covert as possible so next time it'll be WTS pre-pasteurized FTW! 
Live and learn...live and learn
GG
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Re: Yet Another Post Talking About A Weird Banana-like Smell From Casings [Re: GardenGnome]
#10128993 - 04/08/09 10:03 AM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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The smell seems to be getting better. I had the foil almost airtight around each tray and since I have loosened it, the smell seems to be dissipating. There are still two trays per Rubbermaid container (I did not want to just leave them out in my room). I am going to stick it out a week more to see where the trays head. I know a few of you said to toss them but I figure I might as well wait it out...especially since the smell seems to be going away. I peeked in the tray and mycelium is still growing happily. 
GG
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