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Overlay or contamination?
    #18931076 - 10/04/13 12:42 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

The box below (straw cased with a vermiculite/peat moss mix) has been exposed to pinning conditions for approx. 3 weeks with little success (only 2 mushrooms!) and this weird, hard looking fungi type stuff is growing in one corner. Is this overlay or contamination by something else?  Should I remove it?




I am still pretty new at this but have never run into problems pinning before and have definitely never seen this.  Any input is much appreciate!


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Re: Overlay or something stranger? [Re: FuriousT]
    #18931101 - 10/04/13 12:52 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

Oh shit... I'm afraid this bubbly white is gonna turn green over the course of the next few days.


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Re: Overlay or something stranger? [Re: sof4r0ckeRs1984]
    #18931142 - 10/04/13 01:05 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

That's definitely mold. If you want to try to fruit that I would bury it outside and let nature do it for you. There's no way to effectively remove mold and it's not good to have mold sitting your home when you're planning to grow mushroom or even when you're not.


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Re: Overlay or something stranger? [Re: Kizzle]
    #18931164 - 10/04/13 01:12 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

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RogerRabbit said:
Overlay is bullshit and most of it relates to a picture of a normal casing layer in TMC that is incorrectly labeled as overlay.

A few months ago, I 'jokingly' said I'd ban the next person who asked an overlay question and it worked . . .until now. :lol:

What happens is one person asks about overlay, and for the next six months, every new grower thinks he has overlay.

I can guarantee you don't have it, since I've only seen it a handful of times, and I've been known to have grown a few projects in my day.




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That's definitely mold. If you want to try to fruit that I would bury it outside and let nature do it for you. There's no way to effectively remove mold and it's not good to have mold sitting your home when you're planning to grow mushroom or even when you're not.




:whathesaid: definite mold.


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Re: Overlay or something stranger? [Re: K1ngSp4de]
    #18944615 - 10/07/13 12:24 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

Thanks for replies!  And sorry, I did actually read RRs post, I should have named the post something else I suppose, I didn't really think it was overlay.

I just have a hard time believing this is your standard mold.  It has been growing in that corner since the beginning (so 3 weeks and counting) and has yet to sporulate and turn green as normal white mold would upon exposure to oxygen.  Furthermore it is not your standard fluffy looking mold rather hard and porous like coral.  It also seems to bruise and turn a sort of blue colour like cubes do which is not normal for white mold.  Could it not be something else?

Just out of curiosity I would really like to know if anyone else has come across this type of growth before?  I cannot find anything online that is similar.

Should I toss the mushrooms that have grown off it so far?  Would there be any chance they could have been "infected" by it in some way?

Thanks!


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Re: Overlay or something stranger? [Re: FuriousT]
    #18944667 - 10/07/13 12:34 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

I've never seen it before. Lipstick is the only contam that comes to mind. But I've only seen it once and it didn't look anything like that. It's a contamination anyway you look at it.


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Re: Overlay or something stranger? [Re: FuriousT]
    #18944807 - 10/07/13 01:12 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

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I just have a hard time believing this is your standard mold.




There is no such thing as 'standard mold'.  We have many thousands of molds which can and sometimes do take advantage of our substrates.

I see nothing of use in your picture.  Toss it into a compost pile or flower bed and start over.  Sometimes when weather conditions are right, the mushroom mycelium if present, can recover and grow in a natural environment.
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