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cne9999
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It was my fault but I killed my Cubes! (Accidental Contamination Story)
#10809104 - 08/06/09 12:17 AM (15 years, 5 months ago) |
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I had posted this on anothr site a couple weeks ago. I thought I would share it here too.
A lesson for all to remember; a sad story of misplaced organization. Kind of funny too if you really think about it.
This is a lesson for all to remember. It’s a sad story of misplaced organization. Have you ever been preoccupied with something to the point of distraction? Well read on. But grab a tissue and a chair. You’re going to need it.
The other day I was tending to my baby cubes, B-plus and Hawaiian, as well as some not so baby cubes of those same strains when I realized it was time to package up several spore prints that were quietly drying in my drying terrarium off in the corner. As in the past I had asked my wife to help. You see, I take my spore prints and scrape them into small air tight sterile glass vials and label them and store them for when needed. When I need a syringe or two, I simply grab a vial and within 15 minutes or so, not including the hour it takes to sterilize and cool the water in preparation, I have several viable syringes ready to begin a new generation of my favorite cubes. But I digress…
So there I was, my big fat clumsy hands and my delicate but large and very deep dark spore prints, a very nice haul this time, and some tiny vials ready to scrape them into. But since I am so darn clumsy I have in the past and still do ask my wife to do the honors for me. She and her dainty little fingers along with her infinite patience are so perfectly suited for scraping my treasure trove of Pre-Cubes into the tiny little air-tight vials. She misses nary a spore due to her patience, tiny little fingers, and her own mild interest in my mycology hobby. So there is the stage.
Here is her process; open the vials, swab down the insides and thier twist on air-tight lids with 91% alcohol, flame them, swab them again and allow them to dry thoroughly, scrape a print into a little pile on the glass I use to take the prints, slowly transfer the spores into the vials, close them seal them with some tape and then hand them off to me to label. It works well. She uses the same spray bottle of 91% isopropyl alcohol I use to spray my gloves down, clean the glass plates down prior to printing, and a myriad of other little tasks that require at least some semblance of sterility. No problems so far, right? Yes. No problems so far.
So she hands off about a half dozen tiny vials to me to start labeling and she cleans her desk and puts the alcohol sprayer away and continues watching her Anime, in Japanese with Chinese sub-titles while I carefully label and file my new prints.
So I finish labeling, take a moment to admire my growing collection of prints nicely stored in air-tight vials all labeled and dated and put into a very nice storage container all of which I purchased at the Container store and then the fun begins.
I just remembered I was taking care of my baby Cubes and some not so baby cubes before I got all distracted with the print processing process so I went back to my shroom-room. I opened one of my small test terrariums that had a partial cake of Orissa India P. Cubensis working on its first flush. This was a test cake. It was part of a crumbled cake I used in a casing. So about two thirds of the cake was in a small casing mix in my shotgun terrarium in another room and one third as a tiny little cake using the simple but wonderful PF Tek. This was the first time I had tried the Orissa’s. I heard they produce huge fruits and wanted to see my self. I also had a full sized Allen P. Cubensis cake and a partial crumbled B+. I often, with great success grow more then one cake in one terrarium.
I grabbed the mister from the sink. This is where I store my water mister so it is always at arms length. I put the mister in the sink and my H2O2 mix (20/1) under the sink in the cabinet and the alcohol sprayer under the sink as well. But I digress again; I grabbed my mister and started misting away. After about six or seven mists I noticed a strong smell that was overpowering me. I stopped misting immediately. For some reason, as if instinct took over, I looked at my mister and nearly screamed. It was the alcohol sprayer, of which I use the exact same brand and size spray bottle I use for the mister. I wrote all over it ‘NOT WATER” “ALCOHOL” in big old El-Marko permanent black marker. It was sitting in the sink in place of my mister! Where was my mister? Why was the alcohol where my mister usually sits? Was this a conspiracy? (TIC) I was so mad at myself I can’t begin to tell you. Then it hit me. My mister was in another room where I have two nice shotgun terrariums where half of one is taken up by an aluminum pan cased up with Hawaiian Cubes and half taken up with various cakes growing on tiny foil patches sitting directly on the wet perlite. It works wonderfully. That is unless you mist with alcohol. I highly suggest you don’t try it (TIC).
I gassed and sterilized my test subjects in less then 5 seconds. In less then 5 seconds a month or more of work was down the drain. The process had broken down! My wife put the alcohol sprayer in the sink. I grabbed it without a second thought and started misting away! All the time my tiny new baby cubes screaming in pain and accepting their last rights! Alcohol; a simple byproduct of life. Water; the de facto sustenance of all life on earth.
The Cubes, you ask? What about the Cubes? Almost immediately they started turning a deep dark purple. I’ve never seen such a color in nature. Not even in a good bouquet of flowers. I’ve attached a few bad pictures for you to enjoy.
The lesson? PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT YOU ARE DOING!

Edited by cne9999 (08/06/09 12:18 AM)
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Re: It was my fault but I killed my Cubes! (Accidental Contamination Story) [Re: cne9999]
#10811574 - 08/06/09 01:54 PM (15 years, 5 months ago) |
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Good story. That's too bad, but it does indeed have a cool shade of blue.
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kayabear
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Re: It was my fault but I killed my Cubes! (Accidental Contamination Story) [Re: gzuf]
#10888893 - 08/19/09 10:51 AM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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wow dude that really sucks ass.
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xapathyx
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Re: It was my fault but I killed my Cubes! (Accidental Contamination Story) [Re: cne9999]
#11473578 - 11/17/09 12:42 PM (15 years, 2 months ago) |
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haha, don't feel bad i did the same thing once! i have 2 sprayers 1 for alcohol and one for water, i grabbed the wrong one and bam messed everything up!! oh well live and learn i guess. at least i wasnt the only one to make this sad mistake!
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Sinoc
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Re: It was my fault but I killed my Cubes! (Accidental Contamination Story) [Re: xapathyx]
#11476157 - 11/17/09 07:17 PM (15 years, 2 months ago) |
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Hahaha those things look gnarly!
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beatnicknick
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Re: It was my fault but I killed my Cubes! (Accidental Contamination Story) [Re: Sinoc]
#11560282 - 12/01/09 02:42 AM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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This is a great story... Where was my popcorn when I needed it.
And it's even got a sad ending. I feel so sorry for those purple cubes... It's the same color a person chokes when they're deprived of air...
I'm sorry for your loss. May they live on in your heart.
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