That sour smell is bad. Usually such happens to my friend when he has cut a cake for casing but then the mycellium doesn't recover at the cut points. There is never any visible mold, but it smells so sweet/fruity he's sure that something is rotting.

You visible growth may be mycellium, but then some areas may be in the situation where the mycellium isn't recovering. In this case the mycellium is fucked and recasing won't help.

Dump (not scrap) off the casing surface,. Look across the top of your mycellium. If there are areas where cut/crumbled regions are exposed and have not regrown over with mycellium, I think you have the same thing my friend gets.

If so, dump the casing and next time grow cakes or case in individual dixie cups. The cups will keep you from having to dump all your casing when this happens.

This seems to happen when he cases stalled jars, after first cutting away the uncolonized region. Perhaps whatever smelly/invisible rot the stopped the casing from recovering also stopped the colonization.

The first thing i would try is misting the shit out of the casing with a 3% peroxide solution (straight out of the bottle). mist it until the casing is somewhat wet but defintely not muddy, you want to leave the casing porous and open.

If the cobweb recovers, scrap the casing layer and take a look at your substrate. if it looks healthy and covered in mycellium, mist it with a peroxide solution and reapply a sterilized casing.

If the casing looks unhealthy, or you see contamination, its probably time to scrap it entirely.

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Originally posted by djcarcass:
well there could be a couple things going on..

That sour smell is bad. Usually such happens to my friend when he has cut a cake for casing but then the mycellium doesn't recover at the cut points. There is never any visible mold, but it smells so sweet/fruity he's sure that something is rotting.

You visible growth may be mycellium, but then some areas may be in the situation where the mycellium isn't recovering. In this case the mycellium is fucked and recasing won't help.

Dump (not scrap) off the casing surface,. Look across the top of your mycellium. If there are areas where cut/crumbled regions are exposed and have not regrown over with mycellium, I think you have the same thing my friend gets.

If so, dump the casing and next time grow cakes or case in individual dixie cups. The cups will keep you from having to dump all your casing when this happens.

This seems to happen when he cases stalled jars, after first cutting away the uncolonized region. Perhaps whatever smelly/invisible rot the stopped the casing from recovering also stopped the colonization.

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