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buttastick
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two weeks and this is what i have
#18898260 - 09/27/13 11:28 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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So i have been colonizing for a little over 2 weeks now and only 1 of the jars has the actual white fuzz starting to grow very slowly however all the rest look like what the picture has. it looks like a white/grey specimen and it keeps growing anyone know what this is?
i really hope this isnt contamination as i inoculated quite a few jars. i dont get if this is just a slow process or what

let me know what you guys think
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nn-IlliniSpiralDMT
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Re: two weeks and this is what i have [Re: buttastick]
#18898267 - 09/27/13 11:30 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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I don't see any white mycelium in there, looks contaminated bro...
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buttastick
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Re: two weeks and this is what i have [Re: buttastick]
#18898272 - 09/27/13 11:30 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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one of them has a slight white mycelium growth coming in. keep in mind i have the syringe stored for about a year. could it just take a while for them to activate?
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Re: two weeks and this is what i have [Re: buttastick]
#18898306 - 09/27/13 11:39 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Quote:
buttastick said: one of them has a slight white mycelium growth coming in. keep in mind i have the syringe stored for about a year. could it just take a while for them to activate?
Hmm I'm not sure if it takes longer 2 weeks for (cubensis?) to germinate. I could be wrong though What temperature are you letting them grow at?
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Re: two weeks and this is what i have [Re: Esmash]
#18898340 - 09/27/13 11:48 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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It just looks far too wet. On my first grow, like many others, I thought I could play with the the tried and true pf tek recipe. I found that the jars with extra water didn't colonize or took like 2-3 months to colonize. RR said "if your gonna play with water content it's better to go on the dry side and hydrate on the dunk." That's paraphrased but it's the main idea.
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Re: two weeks and this is what i have [Re: RocKerWasH]
#18898386 - 09/27/13 12:01 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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I have had jars take up to 2 weeks before but I still never had my jars look like that... Sorry man but they are probably contaminated. It isnt the syringe, syringes take years to degenerate. But I could be wrong, I have some wheat berries that I knocked up on the 15th and it still shows no signs of growth. But usually grain takes awhile to germinate as compared to BRF. IN which I typically have full growth by week 3. I hate MS though, sometimes it takes forever but I guess thats what everyone starts with.
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Deckard_Cain
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I also had a long germination time on some jars from very old spores. But the substrate in that picture looks like it will not allow for growth. It is more the consistency of wet clay than of crumbling black soil. May or may not be contaminated as well. Try to be anally retentive with sterile technique - it's key. Start some more jars with less water. I found that mixing the dry ingredients before adding water also helped the substrate consistency to be more desirable for growth. Adding water to verm first followed by flour also worked. Adding flour then water then verm resulted in a bit of a disaster  Good luck on your next try - tis a learning process.
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buttastick
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Re: two weeks and this is what i have [Re: Deckard_Cain]
#18898848 - 09/27/13 01:58 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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i followed the pf tek recipe but i think that water may have gotten in the jars during pressure cooking. this jar isnt the one with the mycelium starting to grow. I have a total of 6 jars and they all have this greyish material but two of them have the actual white spider web type mycelium. the white mycelium looks perfectly fine so i think that it has to do with water concentration.
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Re: two weeks and this is what i have [Re: buttastick]
#18898929 - 09/27/13 02:19 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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That jar is either to wet or contamed. Either way it's fucked. Why is there tin foil on the jar right now? If the foil were on when you sterilized your water content shouldn't have got thrown off. I don't think the mycellium is going to colonize the whole jar if they look like that unfortunately
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Re: two weeks and this is what i have [Re: bodhisatta]
#18899264 - 09/27/13 03:40 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Dump them. Re-sterilize and start over. You need to check your recipe and watch "lets grow mushrooms". That may be contaminated, but I can FOR SURE tell you that your either packed it too tight, screwed up the measurements, or used the wrong ingredients for your jars.
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loki44
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looks fucked up with contams,also next time when your handling the jars dont flip it over like that , it may disturb the dry verm layer and can let contams in
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buttastick
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Re: two weeks and this is what i have [Re: loki44]
#18926354 - 10/03/13 03:19 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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for other people wondering this is NOT contamination. its the substrate being to moist. I was able to discover this by accidently making a to moist substrate and then putting it in the jar and it looks identical to this one and all the others. good thing is all my others are showing good signs of growth and we are doing good. just thought i would let you know.
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Re: two weeks and this is what i have [Re: buttastick]
#18926687 - 10/03/13 04:46 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Did it look like that before you inoculated? If not bacteria can produce the appearance of overly wet substrate. The two will often go together as well if you're making a pf jar and water gets during sterilization since it ruins the protective dry verm layer.
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