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Concern with my Liquid Cultures...
    #14149531 - 03/19/11 05:18 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

kinda bumpin this from the contam form.. cuz technically, I don't even know if its a contam or not!

Insight anyone?

Anyone ever come across this with there LCs??

It looks like mycelium growth on the top of the water... it seems to grow onto the sides a lot, and then there's like little islands of white on top...

Tek used: Dextrose and Extra Light Malt Extract (both dry) its goin on 3 weeks or so now...

sorry for the blurry-ish pics... but LCs are IMPOSSIBLE to get good pics of!! haha :P



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Re: Concern with my Liquid Cultures... [Re: ThisIsPathetic]
    #14149535 - 03/19/11 05:19 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

only one way to find out


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Re: Concern with my Liquid Cultures... [Re: ThisIsPathetic]
    #14149546 - 03/19/11 05:20 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

haha! True that bro :laugh:

Which I plan on finding out within a week when I can find some DAN VERMICULITE. Its like treasure hunting out here... EVERYWHERE is always sold out!

but yeah... just wondering if maybe Its too much FAE or like, not enough heat, or light or anything i dunno


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Re: Concern with my Liquid Cultures... [Re: ThisIsPathetic]
    #14149562 - 03/19/11 05:22 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

not FAE

GE,

fae is fresh air exchange , and ge is gas exchange,

usually you got floaters with mycelium or contams,
you dont need light, and heat just room temp

dont make it complicated , its easy


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Re: Concern with my Liquid Cultures... [Re: jokefox]
    #14149595 - 03/19/11 05:27 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

Floating fuzzy myc is almost always bad. Leave it alone and it'll turn green.


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Re: Concern with my Liquid Cultures... [Re: Doc_T]
    #14149599 - 03/19/11 05:28 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

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Floating fuzzy myc is almost always bad. Leave it alone and it'll turn green.




wrong

all my cultures have a little floaters,
its the mycelium growing over the surface tension


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Re: Concern with my Liquid Cultures... [Re: jokefox]
    #14149620 - 03/19/11 05:32 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

'little' floaters. Not brilliantly white patches of fuzz. That turn green in three days.


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Re: Concern with my Liquid Cultures... [Re: Doc_T]
    #14149629 - 03/19/11 05:33 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

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'little' floaters. Not brilliantly white patches of fuzz. That turn green in three days.




ya it does look really white,
guess we will see

really no other way to tell


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Re: Concern with my Liquid Cultures... [Re: jokefox]
    #14149636 - 03/19/11 05:34 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

True enough.

Got pics of fuzzy floaters in healthy LC?

Because mine tend to settle:



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Re: Concern with my Liquid Cultures... [Re: ThisIsPathetic]
    #14149640 - 03/19/11 05:36 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

Shake it like a Polaroid Picture! :cool:


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Re: Concern with my Liquid Cultures... [Re: Wallpapereater]
    #14149666 - 03/19/11 05:43 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

ahh, i meant GE, but yeah... it is simple... i just got REALLY lazy in typing haha sorry about that. totally unacceptable on my part!!

@doc - yeah, the white patches on top are connected to the huge bottom cloud... its like an upside down lookin tornado... where the white island is the point of the tornado... so while its stiring, the whole bottom is rotating and spiraling to a point where it meets the white stuff on top of the water... so should I use these LCs asap? before it turns green? or just wait it out... jars are like 30% cloud...


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Shake it like a Polaroid Picture! :cool:




ahh, i cant shake, otherwise I would... I have stir rods in all the jars! and its soooo thick on the bottom that i cant even vortex them :\ just stir um... I've been stirring ALL day tho trying to get them to go back in that water haha


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Re: Concern with my Liquid Cultures... [Re: Doc_T]
    #14149752 - 03/19/11 06:03 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

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Doc_T said:
True enough.

Got pics of fuzzy floaters in healthy LC?

Because mine tend to settle:






Yay!! My first LC's look like this. =)  I was worried that it was some sort of contaminant as it didn't look like the mycelium that grew in my jars!  Thanks for the pic.  :thumbup:


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Re: Concern with my Liquid Cultures... [Re: Cynosure]
    #14149903 - 03/19/11 06:32 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

Yay! Did you use malt? I wonder if that makes a difference.


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Re: Concern with my Liquid Cultures... [Re: Doc_T]
    #14149957 - 03/19/11 06:41 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

I use honey LC, and that's what mine look like too..


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Re: Concern with my Liquid Cultures... [Re: Matty_Rulez]
    #14150081 - 03/19/11 07:05 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

IMO: Its a contamination.

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ThisIsPathetic said: It looks like mycelium growth on the top of the water... it seems to grow onto the sides a lot, and then there's like little islands of white on top...



it looks like the 'mold' that grows if you leave a flat beer in a cup on the shelf for too long. This 'mold' specially stays on the surface and attaches to the walls and if you try to poke it and submerge it, it will come back to float.

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ThisIsPathetic said: Tek used: Dextrose and Extra Light Malt Extract (both dry) its goin on 3 weeks or so now...



I prefer to use Honey-Water and personally I'm quite happy with results (and pictures).
I recommend giving it a go...  :2cents:

:stirthepot:  Good luck with future LC's!


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Re: Concern with my Liquid Cultures... [Re: Doc_T]
    #14150443 - 03/19/11 08:13 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

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Yay! Did you use malt? I wonder if that makes a difference.




I used the beginner's tek.  Honey and water.


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Re: Concern with my Liquid Cultures... [Re: Doc_T]
    #14180245 - 03/25/11 03:04 AM (12 years, 10 months ago)

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***UPDATE***


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Doc_T said:
'little' floaters. Not brilliantly white patches of fuzz. That turn green in three days.




Quoting you Doc, because you made me scared that they were gonna turn green haha

anywho... its been almost a week and a half since the islands appeared...

Here's the current update of pics I took 10 minutes ago

(LC must be one of the HARDEST things to take good pictures of...)








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Re: Concern with my Liquid Cultures... [Re: ThisIsPathetic]
    #14180264 - 03/25/11 03:10 AM (12 years, 10 months ago)

I use malt with my LC's and I've yet to see growth on the surface. Did read about it happening on malt though :shrug:


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Re: Concern with my Liquid Cultures... [Re: jokefox]
    #14180304 - 03/25/11 03:23 AM (12 years, 10 months ago)

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jokefox said:
only one way to find out



:whathesaid:

I think you gotta just try to colonize something with it...you'll know right quick if it is contam or not but it doesn't look like any healthy LC I've seen but :goodluck:


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Re: Concern with my Liquid Cultures... [Re: virus1824]
    #14182564 - 03/25/11 02:40 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

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I use malt with my LC's and I've yet to see growth on the surface. Did read about it happening on malt though :shrug:





I made these with Extra Light Malt Extract and Dextrose


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