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Offlineformula_raider
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Black soot looking caps possible contam
    #19009735 - 10/21/13 06:00 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

This is my second effort using BRF cakes and RR methods and using a shotgun growing chamber.  1st go around turned out fine this second go around I have something that I haven't seen.

These are standard Gulf coast cube's, no sign of contamination and everything looked good during the colonization stage and I waited a full week after 100% colonization to birth. 

Got good pins and off they went.  Harvested some very good looking rather large ones the other day then I just went to pick a cluster of them today from a few cakes and they seem to have black soot marks on the caps and stems in a crazy artistic pattern.  You can see from the pictures that it also looks like it might be on the top of the cake as well. 

It does rub off easily with a q-tip. 

Is this a contamination?  Do I need to remove these cakes from all my other ones so they don't get it as well or is it something all together different. 

Thanks for any and all help.



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Re: Black soot looking caps possible contam [Re: formula_raider]
    #19009744 - 10/21/13 06:02 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

Those are the spores dropping. They are perfectly fine, next time you can pick a little earlier and the spores wont drop. :seriousthumbsup:


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Re: Black soot looking caps possible contam [Re: formula_raider]
    #19009798 - 10/21/13 06:12 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

Yup. Spores and nothing more, often times an entire mono will be that colour. Definitely nothing to worry about.

If you want your shrooms to look more purdy, pick them just after the veil breaks, before the cap spreads.


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Re: Black soot looking caps possible contam [Re: egodeathflux]
    #19010148 - 10/21/13 07:07 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

Thanks guys.....I didn't even realize that!  They opened so fast, I try and pick them right before the veil breaks but they got the jump on me. 

Feel much better now...Ha!


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