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TVcasualty66
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Are these cakes contaminated?
#18748118 - 08/23/13 05:02 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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I'm fairly certain that these cakes are contaminated with some type of green mold. I have taken them out of the fruiting chamber already and have them stored in a ziploc bag. I did my best to keep them from touching the remaining uncontaminated cakes. Do they look contaminated to you guys?
This happened right around time to harvest some of the cakes. A few of the contaminated cakes had full grown mushrooms on them, so I picked them as well. They all look fine except for one, the biggest one... When I snapped it in half, the inside is a dark blue color. I have included a picture of it as well.
Is there anything that I can do to ensure that the remaining cakes stay uncontaminated?
This is my first grow. It is a Golden Teacher strain. Everything seemed to be going fine until this happened. Humidity levels and temperature exactly where they should be. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
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TasteTheSound
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Re: Are these cakes contaminated? [Re: TVcasualty66]
#18748124 - 08/23/13 05:05 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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holy fucking hell they are
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lessismore
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Get them out of the house quickly
Looks like The Green...
did they smell bad?
Never birth cakes that don't smell pleasant
Good cakes smell so good you almost want to smell them again (fresh mushroom smell, pleasant) Bad cakes smell mild/very sour/rotten/moldy (don't feel like smelling again, hurt nose)
Never smell cakes that don't look 100% colonized, that's a health hazard (you can get very sick from it)
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lessismore
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Re: Are these cakes contaminated? [Re: lessismore]
#18748144 - 08/23/13 05:11 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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I had contamed mushrooms from contamed cakes that looked not as bad as yours (cakes didn't look very contamed, but had green on them too)
Mushrooms had green on the base, and around the caps
Also I got very sick from eating them, ate them fresh
Wouldn't recommend, even when I dried them the trip was unpleasant / very different from usual trips
Turned out I had bacteria + mold inside cakes it seems (smelled moldy+sour)
I would never eat mushrooms from contamed cakes again.... got very sick as mentioned It's not worth the risk... they fruited poorly those cakes 2g dry vs your health? , I chose being healthy
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TVcasualty66
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Re: Are these cakes contaminated? [Re: lessismore]
#18748162 - 08/23/13 05:16 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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They didn't really smell bad to me. Smelled about like the other cakes do. Do you think they are contaminated as well and I just cannot see it yet?
Not all of the mushrooms are blueish. Should they be ok to eat, or should I throw them out as well?
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Re: Are these cakes contaminated? [Re: TVcasualty66]
#18748190 - 08/23/13 05:24 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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I wouldn't eat any thing that came from that. Would you eat cheese or bread I it looked like that?
Don't do it man.
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TVcasualty66
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Re: Are these cakes contaminated? [Re: DCart]
#18748198 - 08/23/13 05:28 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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I agree, thanks for the heads up. Just sucks that after all this time, I have to throw em all away.
Thanks for your help!
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Kizzle
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Re: Are these cakes contaminated? [Re: DCart]
#18748242 - 08/23/13 05:42 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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DCart said: I wouldn't eat any thing that came from that. Would you eat cheese or bread I it looked like that?
Don't do it man.
You can actually eat the mushroom from contaminated substrate safely assuming there's no mold on them, which there usually isn't. Few molds grow on mushroom, just on substrate.
That's not to say you should do anything short of tossing those horribly contaminated cakes.
There may be mold on the others. If you start seeing green spores like that appear toss them right away, don't let them get that bad first.
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TVcasualty66
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Re: Are these cakes contaminated? [Re: Kizzle]
#18748306 - 08/23/13 06:01 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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I broke apart all the mushrooms and separated the really blue ones from the ones that look ok. Here are some photos. I want them to be ok, but feel a little leery about it.
Has anyone eaten mushrooms of this color or mushrooms as a result of this situation before?
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Kizzle
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Re: Are these cakes contaminated? [Re: TVcasualty66]
#18748326 - 08/23/13 06:07 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Yes it's bruising. Those mushroom all look fine.
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TVcasualty66
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Re: Are these cakes contaminated? [Re: Kizzle]
#18748339 - 08/23/13 06:10 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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awesome, thank you Kizzle!
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lessismore
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Re: Are these cakes contaminated? [Re: TVcasualty66]
#18748344 - 08/23/13 06:12 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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TVcasualty66 said: They didn't really smell bad to me. Smelled about like the other cakes do. Do you think they are contaminated as well and I just cannot see it yet?
Not all of the mushrooms are blueish. Should they be ok to eat, or should I throw them out as well?
I didnt notice bacteria in my jars either
They smelled a bit unpleasant, very slight almost unnoticeable
But the smell did sting in the nose or such, not pleasant
With normal jars I want to smell again because they smell so good, not so with those jars, when I smelled them again my nose hurt , and it smelled a bit weird I noticed (yet I still birthed them , then the whole SGFC smelled moldy/weird - not fresh smell) If one cake is contamed, you spread its spores all over the SGFC, so get it out ASAP
Always give cakes a good sniff if they look 100% colonized, if it's pleasant to smell them, birth them (bacteria can be very hard to spot visually, but with smelling cakes it is easy to spot... smells sour/sweet/rotten usually - sometimes mildly sometimes intensely)
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DCart
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Re: Are these cakes contaminated? [Re: Kizzle]
#18748360 - 08/23/13 06:16 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Kizzle said:
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DCart said: I wouldn't eat any thing that came from that. Would you eat cheese or bread I it looked like that?
Don't do it man.
You can actually eat the mushroom from contaminated substrate safely assuming there's no mold on them, which there usually isn't. Few molds grow on mushroom, just on substrate.
That's not to say you should do anything short of tossing those horribly contaminated cakes.
There may be mold on the others. If you start seeing green spores like that appear toss them right away, don't let them get that bad first.
Good to know that they can still be eaten, but I probably would just wait and grow more, personally. I recently started messing around with growing some oysters. If I see anything funky, I don't even open the jar. I take it outside, dig a hole and bury it. I hear that that stuff can really fuck up a grow area if you open the jars inside.
Speaking of which, I have a contamination question that I need to post...
In order to not jack this thread, I'll start my own.
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Edited by DCart (08/23/13 06:18 PM)
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TVcasualty66
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Re: Are these cakes contaminated? [Re: lessismore]
#18748380 - 08/23/13 06:23 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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There doesn't appear to be mold on the mushrooms, just a dark blue color to them. The mold on the cakes is a bright forest green color.
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Re: Are these cakes contaminated? [Re: TVcasualty66]
#18751852 - 08/24/13 02:41 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Cringe just to see that! Ugh! Keep a close eye on the rest of them.
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Re: Are these cakes contaminated? [Re: budkatz]
#18751962 - 08/24/13 03:09 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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dude, seriously! that has got to be one of the most contaminated cakes I've ever seen!
The shrooms look fine though, as Kizzle said. Shame you broke them up like that.
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malvinadny
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Re: Are these cakes contaminated? [Re: TVcasualty66]
#19601645 - 02/21/14 08:58 PM (9 years, 11 months ago) |
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Yes..When the cake is not treated properly like defects in baking process or when it get expired..The cakes are contaminated by coliform which is a type of bacteria.So, when cake is made in bakeries they nedd to take proper care so that the cake lasts longer..
sponge cake
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Re: Are these cakes contaminated? [Re: malvinadny]
#19601674 - 02/21/14 09:06 PM (9 years, 11 months ago) |
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bakeries and coliform...
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