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Headacherelief



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Re: First timer here, getting set up and have a few questions. [Re: BoomerJakk]
#17480554 - 01/01/13 11:29 AM (11 years, 1 month ago) |
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BoomerJakk said: Still curious about the filters, but my main concern as of now is that I've got 4 cakes in my FC, and just moved them all to smaller pieces of foil(discovered that the foil should be just big enough for the cakes to sit on). When doing so, I checked the bottom(top when colonizing) of the cakes, and have fluffy growth on all four of them where the cake meets the foil. Is this just cube myc or could it be cobweb mold? Thought I was safe from contams once the cakes were 100%.
Uploading pics isn't an option currently, so I'm going to go dig through Tmethyl's thread, but if it is cobweb mold, what should I do?
Waiting to see how folks answer your question about filters getting wet as I have wondered the same thing.
Thanks!
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BoomerJakk
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Re: First timer here, getting set up and have a few questions. [Re: Headacherelief]
#17480610 - 01/01/13 11:45 AM (11 years, 1 month ago) |
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Yea, I've read you don't even need foil when you PC if you use tyvek/sfd/whatever the other disc thing is, but I've also read that getting your filter wet is the same as not having one.
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PussyFart
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Re: First timer here, getting set up and have a few questions. [Re: BoomerJakk]
#17480617 - 01/01/13 11:47 AM (11 years, 1 month ago) |
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BoomerJakk said: Yea, I've read you don't even need foil when you PC if you use tyvek/sfd/whatever the other disc thing is, but I've also read that getting your filter wet is the same as not having one.
When using either tyvek or synthetic filter discs foil is not needed during sterilization as they are both moisture barriers.
Even if they get wet this does not make them less effective, they still filter.
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zMan
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Re: First timer here, getting set up and have a few questions. [Re: Headacherelief]
#17480678 - 01/01/13 12:03 PM (11 years, 1 month ago) |
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Cobweb mold basically melts to diluted hydrogen peroxide where as myc won't like it but will live. So a q tip with some diluted h2o2 and wipe it near the "cobweb" and if it starts instant disappearing you know what you have there.
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BoomerJakk
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Re: First timer here, getting set up and have a few questions. [Re: zMan]
#17480698 - 01/01/13 12:08 PM (11 years, 1 month ago) |
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Notahacker420 said: When using either tyvek or synthetic filter discs foil is not needed during sterilization as they are both moisture barriers.
Even if they get wet this does not make them less effective, they still filter.
Beautiful, glad to hear it. Will pick up some tyvek while I'm out today then.
Also, change it to my first TWO contams. >.> I just checked on my most recent batch of cakes, 3 in 14 oz plastic containers, 3 in half pint jars, all made with RTV self-healing ports, and a 1/4" hole covered in micropore for GE... 5 look healthy, and pretty quickly growing too. The 6th, however, in one of the plastic containers was completely covered in what I believe to have been trich. Whatever it is, it certainly wasn't cube myc, and it skeeved me out just looking at it, so it went directly in the trash.
Oh, and the pint jars I noc'd up with my second batch of jars are almost done. One's just got a little sliver of the bottom left to colonize, and the other's got most of the bottom left. I'm thinking of trying to spawn them to coir in a tray, but may just dunk n roll, fruit as is.
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zMan said: Cobweb mold basically melts to diluted hydrogen peroxide where as myc won't like it but will live. So a q tip with some diluted h2o2 and wipe it near the "cobweb" and if it starts instant disappearing you know what you have there.
I'll give it a shot.
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MoGrow
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Re: First timer here, getting set up and have a few questions. [Re: BoomerJakk]
#17480800 - 01/01/13 12:39 PM (11 years, 1 month ago) |
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When doing so, I checked the bottom(top when colonizing) of the cakes, and have fluffy growth on all four of them where the cake meets the foil. Is this just cube myc or could it be cobweb mold? Thought I was safe from contams once the cakes were 100%.
Uploading pics isn't an option currently, so I'm going to go dig through Tmethyl's thread, but if it is cobweb mold, what should I do?
I see this on my cakes... at first i thought cobweb, but i let it be and i think this comes from a high Co2 low light environment. None of mine turned out to be cobweb. Chances are cobweb will start on an exposed side of your cake (dont quote me on this) If it is cobweb (ive gotten it in grain jars) you will know without a doubt 24 hours after you suspect it (shit grows crazy fast). I left my grain jar alone just so i could watch it in a controlled environment, and the growth characteristics of cobweb is different than mycelium.
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BoomerJakk
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Re: Think my SGFC isn't working correctly... [Re: BoomerJakk]
#17492129 - 01/03/13 03:24 PM (11 years, 1 month ago) |
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Alright, so my pins are growing quite slowly, and not forming very quickly either. My largest pin also appears to have some fuzzy feet. I've noticed that after misting, 2-3 hours later, a bit of wetness will still be on the side of the FC.
I haven't been having great results, but up until today I figured that was due to poor humidity(it's very cold here, and I'm now on my THIRD humidifier, hoping this one doesn't break like the first two). I got a hygrometer/thermometer and have it sitting in the room, it's reading 40% Rh and 73 degrees.
All I can think of that could be causing the issue here now is the fact that I've got heat coming into the room from a vent about 4ish feet away from the tub. I've no way of turning it off unless I want to stop heating the entire house. I could move it into a closet, but I don't see that fixing what I perceive to be an FAE problem.
I still have no way to take a decent picture, my cell phone takes grainy crap pics, I hope I've described my problem enough to render the pics unnecessary. If I've left out details that would help, lemme know.
Don't plan to noc up any more cakes, think I'll be moving to monos after the ones I've got going are finished. They seem to be a lot less trouble.
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