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Only 2 shrooms, slow growing, potential contamination? (with photos)
#19225777 - 12/04/13 08:53 AM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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Hello all!
EDIT: Sorry if this would be more suited to cultivation forum due to the questions about cultivation as well as contamination queries.
First timer grower getting a little worried. I've searched the contaminations forum and other posts of people only having 2 shrooms and fuzz, but just can't be sure on what my best steps to take are, hence asking.
I inocculated 4 jars of substrate bought pre-sterilised on 1st October and 3 of them had to be thrown out due to green mould, with mycellium growth not quite covering the whole of the final whilst the rest of it had been covered for quite some time. I looked up potential causes and think the substrate may have been prepared too moist as there was high levels of condensation even when temperature was lowered. It was at least 5 weeks in, sometime early November when I birthed the cake.
 The birthing is in a little plastic tray of vermiculite which came with the jar and appears to be the hobo method. I've fanned it sporadically as it doesn't say on the instructions I was given with this that it would be needed - presumably because of the white patch of something at the top of the bag allowing for gases to be exchanged, preventing risk of contamination from open exposure?
 After the first few weeks it seemed to get fluffier and I hoped pins would be forming under the mycellium ready to come out, but this is all that's happened. From searching other posts I figure I should pick this big one as it may have even grown a bit too big and be wasting resources other mushies could have, potentially helping promote growth of other pins? Also worried about the white spots on the shrooms themselves - contamination or metabolites?
Should I then wait a day or 2 to pick the smaller one, then dunk in cold water for 12-24 hours to try and get a second "flush" or just leave it be? The instructions which came with the jar I got said to add a little water to the vermiculite when doing so - would that be unnecessary if dunking?
 Also there's a fair bit of water at the bottom of the bag and some crystals of water seem to have not stayed on the side of the bag, or have developed from the moisture in the vermiculite directly onto the bottom of the cake in places. I'm also a bit worried that I did not leave enough time for the top of the cake to get a thick enough layer of mycellium before I birthed it due to the condensation which was present in the jar.
Thanks in advance for any help!
Edited by ashers2ashers (12/04/13 08:55 AM)
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Re: Only 2 shrooms, slow growing, potential contamination? (with photos) [Re: ashers2ashers]
#19226547 - 12/04/13 12:49 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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It doesn't seem contaminated. You can pick the mushrooms and try to re-flush it.
I would worry about important parameters such as temperature and Rh inside your FC. You need to know those numbers always. Without any of those readings it's hard to tell what you're doing wrong. My bet is low Rh.
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