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Mike12000
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Black/purple mold in greenhouse/HELP!!
#19149356 - 11/17/13 11:46 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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I need some advice with this, I tried researching and I'm not finding what I need. Everything I've found deals with this inside jars or on agar; my problem is in the humidification tubes on my GH. I just got back in town after being gone for about 4 days. The GH are fully automated and someone manually misted and fanned twice a day. I noticed that one of the tubes connecting my bucket fogger to a GH has molded and turned purple with a few colonies of black mold.
I know the purple could be fusarium or whatever it's called, or something harmless. I don't know which I have and I'm concerned it could be the dangerous purple. This is currently only in one tube that's pictured below. Of the 10 or so trays inside at various stages, all are ok. No signs of any contaminates and the ones fruiting are doing so normally.
How concerned do I need to be over this? The bucket fogger has a decent fan that moves enough air/humidity through the tubes that I can feel the airflow at the end of the tube if I take the cap off so if this could get airborne it will have likely hit everything in the GH. For that matter if it got airborne it could likely get out of the GH.
I suited up and put a surgical mask on to remove this. Then bagged it immediately. Are there any other precautions I should take for my safety or the remaining trays?
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Kizzle
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Re: Black/purple mold in greenhouse/HELP!! [Re: Mike12000]
#19150672 - 11/17/13 04:51 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Soak it in some bleach and clean it out. From a health perspective for someone with a healthy immune system, no allgergies or asthma I wouldn't worry too much if there's no long term exposure to it.
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Mike12000
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Re: Black/purple mold in greenhouse/HELP!! [Re: Kizzle]
#19150872 - 11/17/13 05:31 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Thanks Kizzle, much appreciated as usual. I'm actually trashing that system and replacing these vinyl tubes with a mix of flex vinyl and rigid PVC. The pictured one in the bag won't be reopened; straight to the trash. I don't have any health issues so that's reassuring what you said.
Have you ever seen lipstick outside a jar or petri? Could this be lipstick or am I overreacting?
Last thing: Is there anything I should/could do to protect the other trays?
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Kizzle
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Re: Black/purple mold in greenhouse/HELP!! [Re: Mike12000]
#19151381 - 11/17/13 07:20 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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There's no way to tell what it is just by the color but actual lipstick mold is present most soil.
Getting rid of the mold is the main thing you can do to protect them and you've already done it. Fully colonized substrate are pretty resistant to most molds so there's a good chance they'll be fine.
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