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DOJOLOACH
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Please tell me this isn't a contam.
#18397197 - 06/10/13 12:51 PM (11 years, 7 months ago) |
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Is this? It basically formed in a matter of 5 hours or so. I was trying to initiate pinning. There is a potential pin in the bottom of the discolorment however I don't know what the discolorment is.
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Re: Please tell me this isn't a contam. [Re: DOJOLOACH]
#18397281 - 06/10/13 01:07 PM (11 years, 7 months ago) |
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I can't see anything.
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DOJOLOACH
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Re: Please tell me this isn't a contam. [Re: Stropharis]
#18397300 - 06/10/13 01:13 PM (11 years, 7 months ago) |
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You can't see the picture? Or need a better one?
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Re: Please tell me this isn't a contam. [Re: DOJOLOACH]
#18397304 - 06/10/13 01:15 PM (11 years, 7 months ago) |
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need a better one
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Re: Please tell me this isn't a contam. [Re: cronicr]
#18397309 - 06/10/13 01:16 PM (11 years, 7 months ago) |
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looks nasty, but bad picture
you can smell the jar on the outside, if it smells sweet/sour/rotten/moldy outside the jar it is bad/contamed
if no smell, we need a better pic to decide
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Re: Please tell me this isn't a contam. [Re: lessismore]
#18397349 - 06/10/13 01:26 PM (11 years, 7 months ago) |
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Not really a smell, smells the same as the other jars, like a verm. fresh smell. Some of my other jars have some offwhite blotches on outside edge of the jars but maybe it is just mycelium growth. Here is a better picture, I hope. This is my first time so I am unsure about how it should smell.

Edit: if it isn't quality enough I can take a better pic later tonight.
Edited by DOJOLOACH (06/10/13 01:27 PM)
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Re: Please tell me this isn't a contam. [Re: DOJOLOACH]
#18397599 - 06/10/13 02:26 PM (11 years, 7 months ago) |
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still bad picture
could be uncolonized, or could be contam
give it another week, if it still looks like that it is probably contamed
you want 100% colonization before birthing
else toss the jars if they don't colonize 100%
Edited by lessismore (06/10/13 02:31 PM)
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Re: Please tell me this isn't a contam. [Re: lessismore]
#18399739 - 06/10/13 09:35 PM (11 years, 7 months ago) |
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Dang alright. I would've figured contams would've poked there heads out earlier in the colonization than after the jar is fully colonized. I'll keep track of it and if that darker spot turns out to be a pin i'll probably keep the jar.
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Re: Please tell me this isn't a contam. [Re: DOJOLOACH]
#18399750 - 06/10/13 09:37 PM (11 years, 7 months ago) |
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The picture is pretty unclear, but it looks like it could be a pinner trying to form and squishing up against the glass or myc piss(metabolites).
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Re: Please tell me this isn't a contam. [Re: CaptainFantasy]
#18400219 - 06/10/13 10:39 PM (11 years, 7 months ago) |
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like everyone else has said, those pictures are terribly unfocused.
Could just be metabolites, though, how long has the jar been fully colonized?
And what do you mean by saying you were trying to initiate pinning? It's still in the jar, you need to fruit that bad boy before initiating pinning.
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Re: Please tell me this isn't a contam. [Re: ganjfather]
#18401815 - 06/11/13 07:42 AM (11 years, 7 months ago) |
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It's been fully colonized for probably a week. On the forums I was reading about people having pinning in their jars before birthing. So I put a few of my fully colonized jars in a little bit of light.
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Re: Please tell me this isn't a contam. [Re: DOJOLOACH]
#18402127 - 06/11/13 09:27 AM (11 years, 7 months ago) |
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I've had some fucked up looking shit that looked literally exactly like that & was very easily mistaken for contams, but once I birthed them & put them in the FC they took off & started growing like crazy. Looks like a combo of a squished pinner, metabolites, and most likely a little blue/green bruising from the pinner getting squished. I'd birth it & put it in the FC. At the very least expose them to light & loosen your jar lids a bit.
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Re: Please tell me this isn't a contam. [Re: CaptainFantasy]
#18402147 - 06/11/13 09:33 AM (11 years, 7 months ago) |
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I had a jar that clearly had brown mold on it, but let it colonize and I fruited it in a PMP and got a few nice fruits, I tossed it after harvest.. Whatever that is, it WILL fruit, just cut off that contam.
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Re: Please tell me this isn't a contam. [Re: Deathcore]
#18402185 - 06/11/13 09:43 AM (11 years, 7 months ago) |
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I wouldn't pull it out & start cutting away until you make sure it's not a contam. Maybe birth it and post another clearer pic of the supposedly contaminated area. It'd suck to cut away at & damage a perfectly normal cake for no reason. If it starts spreading or is identified as a contam I agree, but identify the problem area first.
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Re: Please tell me this isn't a contam. [Re: DOJOLOACH]
#18402191 - 06/11/13 09:45 AM (11 years, 7 months ago) |
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DOJOLOACH said: It's been fully colonized for probably a week. On the forums I was reading about people having pinning in their jars before birthing. So I put a few of my fully colonized jars in a little bit of light.
Mycelium benefits, at all stages of growth, from ambient lighting. You shouldn't ever keep your jars in complete darkness, ever.
If they have been fully colonized for a week, I'd say it's time you cracked em open, give them a good smell, if they smell earthy/like mushrooms, dunk and roll then birth them into your fruiting chamber. Odds are, you just have some metabolites/bruising
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Re: Please tell me this isn't a contam. [Re: Deathcore]
#18402195 - 06/11/13 09:46 AM (11 years, 7 months ago) |
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Deathcore said: Whatever that is, it WILL fruit, just cut off that contam.
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Re: Please tell me this isn't a contam. [Re: PussyFart]
#18402237 - 06/11/13 09:59 AM (11 years, 7 months ago) |
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I'm telling you that shit is a brown contam, I have dealth with it before, its above the mycelium, look closely... its not uncolonized sub..
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Re: Please tell me this isn't a contam. [Re: Deathcore]
#18402244 - 06/11/13 10:02 AM (11 years, 7 months ago) |
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If they are BRF jars, that is probably just the verm layer above the myc.
It's hard to tell what anything is in those jenky ass picture, though.
If OP could take a decent pic, a decent assessment would be in order.
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Re: Please tell me this isn't a contam. [Re: ganjfather]
#18402306 - 06/11/13 10:21 AM (11 years, 7 months ago) |
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It even has black darker areas, that shit is contamed but will fruit, thats my bet.
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Re: Please tell me this isn't a contam. [Re: Deathcore]
#18402346 - 06/11/13 10:32 AM (11 years, 7 months ago) |
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Deathcore said: It even has black darker areas, that shit is contamed but will fruit, thats my bet.
Are you seeing pics that the rest of us are not?
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