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wyatteb


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Smelly cakes, what to do
#19262742 - 12/11/13 08:59 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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Alright,
So I dunked a couple of cakes for too long a few days ago (about 36 hrs). I slowly started to notice an off smell coming from my sgfc whenever I open it. Then today when I got off work, the smell in the fc was very strong. I found one cake covered with some strange white mold or something and immediately trashed it thinking I had found the culprit. I was wrong. The fc still smelled of mildew. I located the two cakes that had been over dunked and had a good wiff. They certainly were giving off that mildewy smell and they weren't pinning. I removed them from the fc to dry out a bit assuming they were just water-logged. After a couple hours again, I went to fan and smelled the mildew again! The culprit this time was a single cake with the fattest pins and fruits on it! What should I do about this? Should I toss all of the stinky ones? Or should I just say fuck it and put em all back in, considering how well the single smelly cake still in the fc is doing? Thanks for the opinions
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strawkat
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Re: Smelly cakes, what to do [Re: wyatteb]
#19262760 - 12/11/13 09:02 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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Throw them all out. Mold and bacteria spread really fast in FCs. It sounds like you aren't getting enough fresh air exchange. What's your setup like? Can we get pics? What's your routine?
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wyatteb


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Re: Smelly cakes, what to do [Re: strawkat]
#19262772 - 12/11/13 09:05 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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Its a sgfc built to t and I fan an mist regularly. I am almost certain that the cause is dunking because the only cakes that stink are the only ones that have been dunked. Are my beautiful pins salvagable? I just read from Doc that smelly cakes after dunking is normal, so I don't want to be too hasty and toss perfectly good fruits
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strawkat
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Re: Smelly cakes, what to do [Re: wyatteb]
#19262794 - 12/11/13 09:09 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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True. Maybe lighten up on the misting and increase fanning? Maybe we can get another cultivator more experienced with cakes in here.
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wyatteb


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Re: Smelly cakes, what to do [Re: strawkat]
#19262825 - 12/11/13 09:15 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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Yeah, that is what I'm hoping for. Thanks in advance to whoever decides to help
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Bigbadwooof
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Re: Smelly cakes, what to do [Re: wyatteb]
#19264258 - 12/12/13 04:21 AM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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Chuck the bad cakes, or throw them in a different FC... and add 5% bleach to your spray water... That's my 2 cents, but I'm not an expert. Bleach is safe in small amounts, but it kills bacteria. I believe it can even be beneficial to mycellium, because it provides oxygen, just don't use laundry bleach.
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Jimmyhunter1000
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Re: Smelly cakes, what to do [Re: wyatteb]
#19266456 - 12/12/13 03:40 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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Quote:
Bigbadwooof said: Chuck the bad cakes, or throw them in a different FC... and add 5% bleach to your spray water... That's my 2 cents, but I'm not an expert. Bleach is safe in small amounts, but it kills bacteria. I believe it can even be beneficial to mycellium, because it provides oxygen, just don't use laundry bleach.
What you're suggesting is NOT a good idea. Bleach will kill Myc, and has NO place outside of cleaning when it comes to Mycology. More importantly, why would you feed a living creature poison to provide it O2 (Which it doesn't) when we fan (Which does give)?
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wyatteb said: Its a sgfc built to t and I fan an mist regularly. I am almost certain that the cause is dunking because the only cakes that stink are the only ones that have been dunked. Are my beautiful pins salvagable? I just read from Doc that smelly cakes after dunking is normal, so I don't want to be too hasty and toss perfectly good fruits
Sounds like there's a bit of bacteria lingering from the dunk. Did you rinse the cakes after taking them out of the water? I've done that a couple times and it's removed the smell for me.
Pictures of the cakes in question would really give us a hand in figuring out a good course of action.
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