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Mold removal
    #16120371 - 04/21/12 01:50 PM (12 years, 8 months ago)

So I'm using a standard PF tek and started on 4/2.  about 9 days in, when i checked, one of the faster colonizing jars started too look like it was taking on mold.  it was about the size of a quarter near one of the inoculation sites.  I moved it to another room, completely sterilized a work space, boiled a paring knife and rubbed it with alcohol and proceeded to cut 1/4 of the cake out, cutting into clean mycelium almost an inch each way from the mold.  Then i got a new fresh sterile jar, and place the 3/4 cake in, and left it isolated in its own incubator sealed in a ziplock bag at 84º.  It stalled with no growth for a couple of days but then resumed spreading and fast on day 15.

I've read alot about how i should have tossed it or buried it outside, but I felt like i wanted to try and pull this off successfully.  This is the cake, growing beautifully and mold free. Here's what it looks like as of today - Day 19.





EDIT - it didnt work :frown:

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Re: Mold removal [Re: xDUBSx]
    #16120448 - 04/21/12 02:16 PM (12 years, 8 months ago)

I'd be willing to bet your fast new growth is mold.

Keep this updated.

I'll believe it when I see fruits and no green.

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Re: Mold removal [Re: Beefy1]
    #16120456 - 04/21/12 02:18 PM (12 years, 8 months ago)

i will indeed keep this updated.  This is only my 2nd grow, the first ended with me tossing 3 of 12 when i saw mold.  This time i wanted to see if they could be saved.

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Re: Mold removal [Re: xDUBSx]
    #16120551 - 04/21/12 02:48 PM (12 years, 8 months ago)

You know molds are usually white right? When you see a color change that's only the surface of the mold producing spores. It's practically impossible to remove it because it looks like the mushroom mycelium, it spreads throughout the cake even around areas previously colonized, and it's microscopic so you can only see it in areas it has grown large amounts. Also, unless you used a glovebox even a sterile cake would likely end up contaminated with that procedure.


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Re: Mold removal [Re: Kizzle]
    #16136855 - 04/25/12 04:36 AM (12 years, 8 months ago)

holy crap i didnt know that the green was just the surface of the mold.  i stopped green on a cake and i have it in its own mini FC.  i might have gotten lucky cause its blue (from lots of h202 probably) and no more green...  anyway, the cake was mostly colonized when it started to get patches of green, and i cut away under running water to help keep the mold spores down and the green stopped.  in my case, the green was not only superficial by the way, it went into the cake. (which was rice and brf only)

my only concern is that its super unhealthy to mess around with this mold crap.  i'm in a sublet with very bad air, which is where the mean green came from in the first place. so...


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Re: Mold removal [Re: thinkyou]
    #16138416 - 04/25/12 03:29 PM (12 years, 8 months ago)

The main thing is that there's a very high chance the mold will reutrn and return in larger amounts. A cake that was contaminated at that stage unlikely to produce any mushrooms and even if it did the mold would like reappear early and the yields would be low. Most people have found that it's not worth messing with contaminated cakes for those reasons and focus on protecting the healthy cakes growing now and in the future from contamination by removing the mold from their home as soon as possible to reduce the amount of spores being released. Those spores build up in carpets and furniture and aren't easy to remove.


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Re: Mold removal [Re: Kizzle]
    #16208146 - 05/10/12 12:52 AM (12 years, 8 months ago)

the mold came back 2 weeks later while fruiting in its own container in a different room.

DAMN TRICH

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