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Weird Goo on BRF Cakes - Help!
    #14228323 - 04/02/11 09:07 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

So this is my 2nd grow, and a while back I made a mistake in jar choice, and bought some 1/2 pint jars with shoulders.  Decided to go ahead anyway with the plan of crumbling and casing the cakes when they time came... well, the time came and 2/3 jars had invitro pins, so I decided to birth them as cakes (as I've heard cakes are best as cakes), so I cracked the jars to get them out.  Then dunked the cakes for ~12hrs but didn't roll the ones with pins.

These cakes were put into my SGFC on 3/24, and most of the invitro pins aborted.  Pins have been growing reallyyy slowly, so yesterday I decided to check on them and lifted the cakes up to look underneath and I found this weird, clear goo!  I don't know what it is - maybe a bacterial contam?

CAKE 1
is by far the most bizarre of the cakes.  It's been growing clusters of thick pin-heads but either the stems are really deep in the cake or are tiny - 2 of the pinheads broke their veils (?!?!) right on the surface of the cake... There's also a weird mutant blob on it.

Took the best pics I could... you can kind of see the clear goo I'm talking about in the last 2 pics by the pins on the top right corner and on the bottom..

CAKE 2

I circled the goo in the 2nd picture.  It's pretty clear, thick but not that sticky, doesn't have any smell I can detect.

CAKE 3
might be the only cake I can save.  It doesn't seem to have any goo on it.  (This is the one I rolled since it didn't have invitro pins)

It does have pins on the bottom, though, which I'm not sure what to do about... but even on cake 3, I think a lot of the pins are aborting.

So, there's my weird grow.  Definitely won't be using shouldered jars for cakes ever again - well, I can't anyway, since I cracked em all. :tongue2:  Any help identifying what is causing that goo and where I should go from here would be helpful.  If it ends up that I gotta toss all the cakes, then I guess I gotta toss all the cakes.  Thanks!


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Re: Weird Goo on BRF Cakes - Help! [Re: Teemo]
    #14228831 - 04/02/11 10:57 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

I had this weird goo on a couple of my cakes when I took them out of the jar-not near as much as is on yours.  It seemed to only appear on the top of the cake (after I flipped it) where the cake had shrunk, the mycelium started to grow upwards into the free space, and the moisture in the jar met.  However, I don't actually know what the hell it is. :confused:  I assumed it couldn't have been a contaminant because the cakes were perfectly healthy the whole way through.

After dunking, rolling, and placing them in the chamber the goo cleared itself within a day or two.  It's very icky to touch, but I played around with it for quite a while trying to figure out what it could be!

I'm assuming some sort of metabolites?


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Re: Weird Goo on BRF Cakes - Help! [Re: Cynosure]
    #14228984 - 04/02/11 11:26 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

Hmm, my most recent cake grow (with the right type of jars!) had an unusual amount of 'sweat' in the jars (from what I understand, it's the liquid secreted by myc as it consumes the sub in the jar), but this goo on my cakes posted here seems a lot different than that. :sad:  It wasn't present in the jars at the time of birth - I'm pretty sure it developed after being put in the fruiting chamber.

Weird, eh?  Anyway, I hope your cakes do okay and that it was just metabolites for you! :goodluck:


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