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rudy_failed
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Concerned about black fungus
#19149650 - 11/17/13 12:56 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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So I'm working on my first ever grow. My cakes have sprouted nicely, but in the last two days, a substantial black coloration has spread. I don't really know how to identify if things are unsafe to consume, but my strong inclination is to just chalk this batch up to contamination and start over. Can someone take a look at the picture attached and let me know what they think?
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Re: Concerned about black fungus [Re: rudy_failed]
#19149661 - 11/17/13 12:59 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Looks like spores. That's what happens when the caps open, veils break, and the mushrooms higher sporulate on the ones below them. Sometimes the ones with spores on their caps outgrow the ones that have previously sporulated on them.
Here's the trick: if you can wipe the black shit off and there's just a regular old mushroom cap underneath it--it's spores. Psilocybes have a dark-purple-brown spores that can often appear black under lighting.
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rudy_failed
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Re: Concerned about black fungus [Re: mylfgur]
#19149690 - 11/17/13 01:06 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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First of all, thanks for the insanely fast reply!
Second, would you mind clarifying a little bit what you mean by spores? As in, it's just the same spores that I would get if I tried to make a spore print? Does this mean that I should have harvested them earlier and are they still safe to consume?
Thanks again, this is all new to me so I'm trying to learn as much as I can along the way.
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Re: Concerned about black fungus [Re: rudy_failed]
#19149725 - 11/17/13 01:15 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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rudy_failed said: First of all, thanks for the insanely fast reply!
Second, would you mind clarifying a little bit what you mean by spores? As in, it's just the same spores that I would get if I tried to make a spore print? Does this mean that I should have harvested them earlier and are they still safe to consume?
Thanks again, this is all new to me so I'm trying to learn as much as I can along the way.
Sure
They are the same spores that you would get in a spore print, but they just dropped on other mushroom caps instead. It's not a terribly bad thing.
A lot of growers tend to harvest the ones that are about to sporulate before they do, just because spores can be kind of ugly on full-grown mushrooms and they can have a little bit of a bitter taste. But they're not poisonous or anything. You can harvest the more mature ones and let the smaller ones on the cakes continue to grow no problem.
I don't really grow mushrooms, but I find them in the wild a lot and they often have spores all over them. I just rub them off with a wet paper towel and throw the paper towels out into my garden's wood chips (because I hunt for wood-lovers ) Generally, if you wanted to take a spore print, you'd do it on foil and try to be as sterile as possible at about the time the mushroom started to sporulate.
I left you a user rating, that grow is looking pretty dang nice for cakes--you're doing a great job.
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