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dionysiandame
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Is this possible contamination?
#18977283 - 10/14/13 03:57 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Evening all. I'll go ahead and thank you ahead of time if you've popped in to help a newbie out. This is my first grow and I followed the PF tek method almost obsessively to lower my chances of contamination.
Jar 1 has a spot of blue-ish substance I cannot rightly identify. The substance doesn't seem to have grown in size over the past 2 days.

Jar 2 contains a wettish clump that's fairly obvious (to me anyway) when compared to the rest of the mycelia. Part of me thinks it's just looks this way due to it being the dry vermiculite layer but I'm not too sure.

This is two jars out of an initial batch of 5 started about 2 1/2 weeks ago.
Once again, thanks.
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Re: Is this possible contamination? [Re: dionysiandame]
#18977332 - 10/14/13 04:12 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Yes. Contaminated
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dionysiandame
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Re: Is this possible contamination? [Re: azur]
#18977351 - 10/14/13 04:17 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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azur said: Yes. Contaminated
Both of them?
-------------------- He (Dionysos) keeps me with all of his other pretty things for I am just another pretty thing in a long list of acquisitions. Yes! And their brains are releasing adrenaline, dopamine, even dimethyltryptamine from the pineal gland! This has serious educational value! Thanatophobia and this N.D.E. is giving us euphoric altered awareness! Don't you see, Princess? We were all born to die! – Finn the Human Pay me what you owe me. Don't act like you forgot. BBHMM.
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azur
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Re: Is this possible contamination? [Re: dionysiandame]
#18977539 - 10/14/13 05:14 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Bottom one looks fine from the pics. You didn't follow the of tek obsessively though as there should not be all that empty space in the top of the jar. How much spore solution did you put in? After 2 ½ weeks you should have a lot more growth
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dionysiandame
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Re: Is this possible contamination? [Re: azur]
#18977637 - 10/14/13 05:38 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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azur said: Bottom one looks fine from the pics. You didn't follow the of tek obsessively though as there should not be all that empty space in the top of the jar. How much spore solution did you put in? After 2 ½ weeks you should have a lot more growth
Those were the only jars available to me aside from ordering them from Amazon and since I was feeling kind of sketch about the whole process, I resisted ordering everything online. The jars are from Kmart while the other things are from Home Depot and My Organic Market respectively.
I used the same measurements (with the one tablespoon of Gypsum), including 1/4 cc solution per hole in the top. To be fair, our condo is normally below room temp and our heat will not be turned on until November, so the only reason our place even heats up is a)heat rising from below us or b) running the oven during baking. I don't know if that matters or not.
-------------------- He (Dionysos) keeps me with all of his other pretty things for I am just another pretty thing in a long list of acquisitions. Yes! And their brains are releasing adrenaline, dopamine, even dimethyltryptamine from the pineal gland! This has serious educational value! Thanatophobia and this N.D.E. is giving us euphoric altered awareness! Don't you see, Princess? We were all born to die! – Finn the Human Pay me what you owe me. Don't act like you forgot. BBHMM.
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Re: Is this possible contamination? [Re: azur]
#18977900 - 10/14/13 06:43 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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azur said: Bottom one looks fine from the pics. You didn't follow the of tek obsessively though as there should not be all that empty space in the top of the jar. How much spore solution did you put in? After 2 ½ weeks you should have a lot more growth
How much spore solution you use is irreverent to how fast it grows. That's based off genetics, which vary by grow if you do a multi-spore.
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azur
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More inoculation points does not ultimately mean faster growth?
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dionysiandame
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Re: Is this possible contamination? [Re: azur]
#18986912 - 10/16/13 04:18 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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azur said: More inoculation points does not ultimately mean faster growth?
I haven't seen that attribution anywhere but I could be mistaken. So quick update, I did a bit more reading and have decided to just throw the contam jar into a pot with some compost, straw, and potting soil on my balcony. If something happens, it happens. If not? C'est la vie.
I moved the other jars from the completely dark pantry to my office since I read here that indirect/diffused light is good for the fungi no matter what the stage. Checked on them this afternoon and they definitely appear to be moving on quite a bit quicker. I'll, hopefully, have full colonization within the next two days and can move onto the next step.
Thanks for all of the help so far y'all.
-------------------- He (Dionysos) keeps me with all of his other pretty things for I am just another pretty thing in a long list of acquisitions. Yes! And their brains are releasing adrenaline, dopamine, even dimethyltryptamine from the pineal gland! This has serious educational value! Thanatophobia and this N.D.E. is giving us euphoric altered awareness! Don't you see, Princess? We were all born to die! – Finn the Human Pay me what you owe me. Don't act like you forgot. BBHMM.
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Re: Is this possible contamination? [Re: azur]
#18987970 - 10/16/13 08:06 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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azur said: More inoculation points does not ultimately mean faster growth?
Using more spore solution doesn't mean more inoculation points. It doesn't even necessarily more spores. The amount of spores in a syringe varies between syringes.
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Re: Is this possible contamination? [Re: Kizzle]
#18988058 - 10/16/13 08:25 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Kizzle said:
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azur said: More inoculation points does not ultimately mean faster growth?
Using more spore solution doesn't mean more inoculation points. It doesn't even necessarily more spores. The amount of spores in a syringe varies between syringes.
I would add that "inoculation points" refer to the spots on the cake where you squirt the syringe. More inoculations points doesn't improve mycelium growth but might improve overall colonization speed, although is debatable. Bottom line, there's a balance between the amount of substrate and the amount of inoculation points you should use. IMHO, best bet is to follow proven tek's to the letter.
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