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Contam or bruising?
    #18422695 - 06/15/13 10:16 AM (11 years, 7 months ago)

Hello fellow Shroomies! First time poster, long time lurker.
Four days ago I birthed my first cake (after an excruciatingly long grow period), and when I was transferring the cake into the perlite it toppled over. with clean hands I picked it up and set it back on the lid i placed it on.
I was wondering if one of the more experienced users could tell me if this is bruising, or some sort of contam?


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Re: Contam or bruising? [Re: Massimo]
    #18423150 - 06/15/13 12:56 PM (11 years, 7 months ago)

looks more like bruising rather than anything else. bruising occurs much easier than you would imagine. when you first begin dealing with pf cakes, you will be very paranoid that bruising is contamination but pf cakes are relatively resilient to contamination as long as your conditions are very sterile.

a cake falling over into perlite won't much.

you dunked your cake, right? why didn't you roll it in vermiculite?

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Re: Contam or bruising? [Re: blthirteenre]
    #18424329 - 06/15/13 05:42 PM (11 years, 7 months ago)

I actually did not dunk. I have read from different sources that it wasnt nescisary to dunk and roll on the first flush. Will this cause any problems?

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Re: Contam or bruising? [Re: Massimo]
    #18424509 - 06/15/13 06:57 PM (11 years, 7 months ago)

If we are talking about brown rice flour, vermiculite and water, you won't get a sgnificant yield without dunking for 12-24 hours. Maybe I am crazy but I have never heard of not dunking pf cakes. They are pretty resilient to contaminants; I've gotten away with doing some crazy things with cakes so you shouldn't worry about taking it out of its environment to dunk it. That's kinda amazing you have that little mushroom growing out of that cake already!

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Re: Contam or bruising? [Re: blthirteenre]
    #18424553 - 06/15/13 07:14 PM (11 years, 7 months ago)

Thank you 13 for the responses. So if i was to leave it in water over night, should I pick the mushys off first or would it be ok to leave them on?

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Re: Contam or bruising? [Re: Massimo]
    #18426437 - 06/16/13 06:34 AM (11 years, 6 months ago)

take the mushroom off

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