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Mindtripper
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Nasty contamination. Is it coweb?
#19375010 - 01/05/14 09:56 PM (10 years, 25 days ago) |
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Hi everyone
This is my first post on the forums. I gotta say that I've been reading many posts and I love the oommunity that has grown here.
I've been growing mushrooms for almost a year but just on the last months it started to show some results. It seems summer has sped up the colonization times but sadly also the mold contamination got more frequent.
My biggest problem has been a grayish, hairy like mold that has grown over the cakes. I don't know if it's coweb or if it's something else. It gets really thick and once it's grown is resistant to both hydrogen peroxide or fresh air and lack of humidity. I'm sorry of the quality of the picture isn't the best. My camera is a bit crappy I had to throw the cakes away as soon as possible to save other jars. I tried putting one of the cakes in diluted bleach to see if it killed the mold but it seemed to recover quite soon. Does anyone recognize it? is there a way to kill it without losing the cakes?
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cronicr



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Re: Nasty contamination. Is it coweb? [Re: Mindtripper]
#19375018 - 01/05/14 09:59 PM (10 years, 25 days ago) |
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not cobweb and no way of fixing it, burry it or burn with fire(or pc it)
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itsaconspiracy
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Re: Nasty contamination. Is it coweb? [Re: cronicr]
#19375101 - 01/05/14 10:20 PM (10 years, 25 days ago) |
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holy crap man that looks nasty what did you do?
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Pastywhyte
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Looks like a pinmold. Get that shit outta your grow area
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MudaFuka
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god. looking at that shit kinda hurts my feelings.
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cronicr



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Re: Nasty contamination. Is it coweb? [Re: MudaFuka]
#19375156 - 01/05/14 10:35 PM (10 years, 25 days ago) |
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MudaFuka said: god. looking at that shit kinda hurts my feelings.
one of those nights on here, half the board is contaminated lol
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Re: Nasty contamination. Is it coweb? [Re: Pastywhyte]
#19375162 - 01/05/14 10:39 PM (10 years, 25 days ago) |
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ahhhh what the hell ... i hope you removed that the moment you saw it ... and burn it burn it all
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itsaconspiracy
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Re: Nasty contamination. Is it coweb? [Re: Gr13nMushDude]
#19375179 - 01/05/14 10:44 PM (10 years, 25 days ago) |
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damn i don't think burning it is enough he might have to nuke it
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Re: Nasty contamination. Is it coweb? [Re: cronicr]
#19375188 - 01/05/14 10:49 PM (10 years, 25 days ago) |
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cronicr said:
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MudaFuka said: god. looking at that shit kinda hurts my feelings.
one of those nights on here, half the board is contaminated lol
Don't say that! Lol.
OP, you may want to review your sterile procedure. How are you sterilizing the jars?
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PussyFart
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Re: Nasty contamination. Is it coweb? [Re: MarcusFreeman]
#19375193 - 01/05/14 10:50 PM (10 years, 25 days ago) |
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MarcusFreeman said:
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cronicr said:
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MudaFuka said: god. looking at that shit kinda hurts my feelings.
one of those nights on here, half the board is contaminated lol
Don't say that! Lol.
Seriously......got me checkin all my jars now lol.
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cronicr



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Re: Nasty contamination. Is it coweb? [Re: PussyFart]
#19375199 - 01/05/14 10:51 PM (10 years, 25 days ago) |
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ahhh fuck i'll be right back
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MarcusFreeman



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Re: Nasty contamination. Is it coweb? [Re: cronicr]
#19375229 - 01/05/14 11:00 PM (10 years, 25 days ago) |
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Everything looks good over here... for now
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cronicr



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Re: Nasty contamination. Is it coweb? [Re: MarcusFreeman]
#19375231 - 01/05/14 11:01 PM (10 years, 25 days ago) |
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i'm good!
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CMOS
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Re: Nasty contamination. Is it coweb? [Re: cronicr]
#19375342 - 01/05/14 11:52 PM (10 years, 25 days ago) |
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one of those nights on here, half the board is contaminated lol
man after reading all these posts I went to harvest and saw a small greenish discolored area on my mono. Got freaked out, harvested half and scraped off the rest of the pins that were just taking off. Got the trash bag out and decided to check the spot out again. Put a spot light on it and poked it with my scapel...
It was just some leathery old mycilium from the first flush stumps.
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Re: Nasty contamination. Is it coweb? [Re: CMOS]
#19375348 - 01/05/14 11:55 PM (10 years, 25 days ago) |
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Rhizopus?... Does it have these?
Edited by Nakor420 (01/05/14 11:57 PM)
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AllegedCultivator
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Re: Nasty contamination. Is it coweb? [Re: Nakor420]
#19375538 - 01/06/14 01:36 AM (10 years, 25 days ago) |
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cronicr said: holy fuck are we in the contam forum tonight?
My jars are fine, but I'm pissing razors!
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Mindtripper
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Re: Nasty contamination. Is it coweb? [Re: Nakor420]
#19375857 - 01/06/14 05:10 AM (10 years, 25 days ago) |
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Thanks everyone for helping!
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Nakor420 said: Rhizopus?... Does it have these?

yeah, it had that when I threw it away. It seems the contamination happened right after harvesting, when I put the cakes on water to hydrate them.
funny thing is that neither diluted bleach nor fire seemed to kill it. Nuking it did not look like a bad idea at the time. It spread so fast that I had to do a deep wash of the fructification box. My current cakes are contaminant free but I've lost 6 jars to that crap last month
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Re: Nasty contamination. Is it coweb? [Re: Mindtripper]
#19375948 - 01/06/14 06:10 AM (10 years, 25 days ago) |
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Nah, that contamination happened long before that. Probably when you first inoculated the jars. You just didn't see it until then.
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