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SingingSquash
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worried about contam, newbie here....please help!
#14720178 - 07/05/11 11:55 AM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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this is my first grow ever. i used the pf tek, with brown rice. i've been worried since the beginning about contamination, as most first timers are im sure. i even had the quite popular "yellow contam" thought, only to learn it was "myco piss". anyway, needless to say, i've picked a few fruits and have been worried to experience them. here are all the facts. colonization of my cakes went well, started slow but made its way. i had a couple cakes actually stop colonizing so i'm not sure those will fruit or what to do with them. after birth i dunked, didn't roll cuz i have no verm left. 2 cakes started to fruit nicely while the other 2 have yet to give signs of pins, but i noticed after the fruits were almost ready they were turning a bluish green color at the bottoms of the stems. when i picked them, i noticed the whole underside had a lot of this bluish green color. when i looked closer i could notice just a ton of aborts. is this contam or just bruising? previous to my harvesting my fruiting chamber also had a strong odor. it was like the earthy mushroom smell, mixed with like a dirty sock smell. is this all normal? added info, i also tore open the cakes in question and i was all healthy mycelium inside everywhere, the color was only on the outside, by the mushroom growth. needless to say i'm gonna be restarting my grow with all new cakes, im a newb, learning and trying to perfect my hobby.






sorry i didn't take any pics of the underside of the cake before i broke it up to check the inside for signs of contam. anywho, my other cakes never started fruiting. don't know why so out of this first attempt i got the 4 mushies you see in the pic.
Edited by SingingSquash (07/12/11 09:52 AM)
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Re: worried about contam, newbie here.... [Re: SingingSquash]
#14723138 - 07/05/11 10:47 PM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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did you wait a week after 100% colonisation before birthing the cake? Your cakes look contam free to me.. And im pretty sure you are looking for that earthy mushroom smell and too me, mushrooms just smell like feet in general... more so when dried hha
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