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mushroombeetle
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Funky Smells in FC
#16816086 - 09/09/12 09:08 AM (12 years, 4 months ago) |
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I've got some weird smells in my fruiting chamber, and there has been some yellowish stuff (I'm assuming mold) on two of my cakes, I tossed those two cakes just in case, but there's some of that yellow-ness on a few pieces of perlite. I'm wondering if I can just use a h2o2 solution to help kill the unwanted spores and not harm my cubes. I'm trying to avoid dumping the perlite if at all possible. I'm using brf cakes in a shotgun terrarium if that helps. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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August grass
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That blows.. I lost a mono last millenium to bacteria.. entire room smelled like rotten eggs. -.- Funky scents are a dead give away that something has been contaminated. *Remember this for future reference.
Did you rinse your perlite in a strainer before using it? I would mix 3% hydrogen peroxide topical solution with some distilled water in a water bottle and would begin lightly misting and fanning that sgfc. Your other 2 options are lightly salting your cakes and the perlite with salt, or you can start a small outdoor patch.
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GoldenArrow
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I was thinking of 'cleaning' my SGFC by putting it in the bath with as hot water as possible and a fair amount of bleach, this would work wouldn't it?
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mushroombeetle
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Yeah I scrubbed the tub with dawn prior to, and strained the perlite. So what kind of ratio should this peroxide solution be? I've read a few different things, for example how's 10 parts water :1 part peroxide? And how does an outdoor setup help? Is it just harder for competing "things"?
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August grass
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Actually you can use the hydrogen peroxide right out of the bottle, since its already diluted (3% hydrogen peroxide 97% H20) Hydrogen is used to treat cobweb molds. The best treatment for all types of mold Is FAE.
Nah my friend said outdoor growing Easy as Mac. Dig a 6inch hole. Put in inch layer of manure down. Get your crumbled spawn, put some in the bottom about 2 inches if possible. (Nothing less than an inch) Thn get some more manure and put it on top of that layer. About an inch. Next step is important... Get some spawn and place a thin layer on top. (This helps start of colonization/neutralizing process of the contam'd spawn from what a friend told me) Next get some manure and soil. Mix it up together. And place a inch layer on top. Finally super soak your patch. Once its nice and saturated. Cover it to keep it from drying out.
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Kizzle
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How would you describe the smell? Mold has a dirt/earthy type smell, most other odd odors would be from bacteria. I'm a bit hesitant to believe that yellow is mold. Yellow mold is uncommon and mycelium can take on a yellowish color from other things like metabolites or environment conditions. If the substrate was in direct contact with perlite that could some of the discolored mycelium behind on it.
You can clean the perlite by boiling it in water. The chamber itself can be effectively cleaned with soap and water but wiping it down with some bleach is fine too.
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mushroombeetle
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Re: Funky Smells in FC [Re: Kizzle]
#16817834 - 09/09/12 02:57 PM (12 years, 4 months ago) |
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well it's hard to describe it... it definitely doesn't smell like a fresh birthed cake or like mycelium. It's kinda more sour and just funkier than it should be, maybe like a gross bread kind of smell, yeasty perhaps, idk. I'm gunna spray it with the h2o2 and see if that helps, if it starts developing on a cake again I'll throw some pictures up
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August grass
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Cool beanss.
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