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nrgfx
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Should I toss out my jars with pink mold or boil it? I read that pink mold may be highly dangerous.
#18926880 - 10/03/13 05:39 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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I just noticed that 3 of my jars have pink contamination in the vermiculite surrounding the mycelium. I read that pink mold may be very toxic and may harbor meningitis. I'm assuming that the pink mold is from my bathroom, I have pink mold growing on my bathtub. Been trying to fix it but it keeps coming back.
Should I pressure cook the jars for an hour to kill the pink mold so I can reuse the jars or should I toss them out just in case it's the dangerous type. Would the boiling kill off the dangerous type of pink contamination? It sounds silly but I'm just concerned that live spores or bacteria will escape from the steam from the initial boiling.
Thank you for your advice!
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SupaThaRipper
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Re: Should I toss out my jars with pink mold or boil it? I read that pink mold may be highly dangerous. [Re: nrgfx]
#18926933 - 10/03/13 05:48 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Pressure cook the jars. Toss the shit out and the wash with soap and water.. tossing a jar out is never needed unless it is cracked or chipped. Youll be fine
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SupaThaRipper
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Re: Should I toss out my jars with pink mold or boil it? I read that pink mold may be highly dangerous. [Re: SupaThaRipper]
#18926944 - 10/03/13 05:50 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Btw use bleach oh ur bathtub. If its on the paint, use bleach and then there is a special paint for mold and mildew
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nrgfx
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Re: Should I toss out my jars with pink mold or boil it? I read that pink mold may be highly dangerous. [Re: SupaThaRipper]
#18927726 - 10/03/13 07:55 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Thank you so much for the tips. I've kept disinfecting my bathroom with bleach and changing my shower curtain to new ones but it keeps coming back:P I haven't tried using bleach on the painted walls. Maybe that's the problem. I'll see if I can find that special paint.
I realized that it might be the towel that I used to cover my incubator that caused the contamination. I do have the towels hanging in the bathroom but I used one fresh from the laundry. Does anyone know if the pink mold could have traveled through the inoculation holes? I did have a layer of dry vermiculite as a filter on top.
Edited by nrgfx (10/03/13 07:59 PM)
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Kizzle
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Re: Should I toss out my jars with pink mold or boil it? I read that pink mold may be highly dangerous. [Re: nrgfx]
#18929592 - 10/04/13 03:45 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Does anyone know if the pink mold could have traveled through the inoculation holes?
Probably on your needle or in the spores during the inoculation.
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SupaThaRipper
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Re: Should I toss out my jars with pink mold or boil it? I read that pink mold may be highly dangerous. [Re: Kizzle]
#18929692 - 10/04/13 04:56 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Please tell me youre not growing in your bathroom...
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nrgfx
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Re: Should I toss out my jars with pink mold or boil it? I read that pink mold may be highly dangerous. [Re: SupaThaRipper]
#18930479 - 10/04/13 10:03 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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SupaThaRipper said: Please tell me youre not growing in your bathroom...
Don't worry, they were growing in my living room in an incubator. I've since ditched the incubator due to higher possibilities of conatminations. Now they are colonizing in cleaned high cupboards in the kitchen. I've been inoculating them in my glove box in the kitchen after I wiped every surface down with 10%bleach water mixture. I've tried to be as clean as possible. Even inoculated them after I showered and put on fresh clothing. Possibly that the mold got on me after I showered. I only recently found out that the pink in my bathroom was mold. I always thought it was mineral deposits:P
It only happened to a few jars so I think the problem was that I had to open my glove box each time I flame sterilized the needle. Maybe some pink mold spores got into my box/jars/needle from disturbing the air. I've been using my glove box because initially I was inoculating just one large rye jar, not using the pf tek method. I'm going to use a still air box for my next batch without attaching gloves to the holes so I can easily move the needle in and out of the box.
Edited by nrgfx (10/04/13 10:07 AM)
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SupaThaRipper
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Re: Should I toss out my jars with pink mold or boil it? I read that pink mold may be highly dangerous. [Re: nrgfx]
#18931702 - 10/04/13 03:17 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Good boy
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nrgfx
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Re: Should I toss out my jars with pink mold or boil it? I read that pink mold may be highly dangerous. [Re: SupaThaRipper]
#18931849 - 10/04/13 03:52 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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SupaThaRipper said: Good boy 
You mean 'Good girl'
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SupaThaRipper
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Re: Should I toss out my jars with pink mold or boil it? I read that pink mold may be highly dangerous. [Re: nrgfx]
#18934829 - 10/05/13 05:33 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Lmao. That is what i said
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