Bacterial Contam in PF Jars? Looking for pics to compare - Mushroom Cultivation

Home | Community | Message Board

You are not signed in.
New Account

Forum Index Search Posts Trusted Vendors Highlights Galleries FAQ User List Chat Store Random Growery

This site includes paid links. Please support our sponsors.

Mushrooms, Mycology and Psychedelics > Mushroom Cultivation

Welcome to the Shroomery Message Board! You are experiencing a small sample of what the site has to offer. Please or register to post messages and view our exclusive members-only content. You'll gain access to additional forums, file attachments, board customizations, encrypted private messages, and much more!

Shop:

Red Vein Kratom

All-In-One Bags That Don't Suck, Certified Organic All-In-One Grow Bags by Magic Bag

Jump to first unread post

Pages: 1

Some of these posts are very old and might contain outdated information. You may wish to search for newer posts instead.

havatampa
South CoastPsychedelia

Registered: 10/07/03
Posts: 206
Loc: at Home with the Kids
Last seen: 19 years, 10 months

Bacterial Contam in PF Jars? Looking for pics to compare

#2065596 - 11/02/03 04:23 PM (20 years, 11 months ago)

OK, first of all, I have read every contam related FAQ and looked at all the contam pics in the info section. I have 21 jars incubating right now. A few of them are starting to show what I suspect may be bacterial contamination. However, I am new to this and am unsure of what such a contamination actually looks like. None of the pictures I could find on this site were clear enough for me to tell if what I have is the same thing. I do not want to open my jars to smell them, b/c then I'd surely get contams.

The top 1/4 of the jars in question are starting to look a tad mushy. There is no discoloration, the area actually looks kind of like I injected glue or corn starch and water mixed together or something. Should I remove these jars from my incubator immediately? Does anyone have good pics of bacterial contamination so that I can compare?

I would greatly appreciate any assistance.

-J

--------------------
There he goes, one of God's own prototypes--some kind of high powered mutant never even considered for mass production. Too wierd to live, too rare to die.

Extras:

Top

Paid
Pict

Registered: 03/12/03
Posts: 5,376
Loc: Zone ate
Last seen: 20 years, 7 months

Re: Bacterial Contam in PF Jars? Looking for pics to compare

[Re: havatampa]
#2066918 - 11/03/03 01:12 AM (20 years, 11 months ago)

So you have a sort of milky liquid forming
in the jar? That sounds like a bacterial contam to me.

One way to check the smell without opening the jars is
to place them in a plastic bag and semi s seal it, then leave
for a few hours, open and smell the air in the bag. This is asuming your jars have some sort of air exchange vents (i.e holes or
filters in the lid)

You will be able to get an idea of the smell that way,and bacteria
never seems to smell good :tongue:

so anything realy funky, and none shroomy
is a sign of contamination.

good luck.

--------------------

Extras:

Top

MAIA
World-BridgerKartikeya (DftS)

Registered: 04/27/01
Posts: 7,399
Loc: Erra - 20 Tauri - M45 Sta...
Last seen: 2 months, 12 hours

Re: Bacterial Contam in PF Jars? Looking for pics to compare

[Re: Paid]
#2067923 - 11/03/03 12:04 PM (20 years, 11 months ago)

Bacterial contamination smell is very nasty.
An advice, don't try smelling the jars after eating a meal.

MAIA

--------------------
Spiritual being, living a human experience ... The Shroomery Mandala

Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.
Voltaire

Extras:

Top

havatampa
South CoastPsychedelia

Registered: 10/07/03
Posts: 206
Loc: at Home with the Kids
Last seen: 19 years, 10 months

Re: Bacterial Contam in PF Jars? Looking for pics to compare

[Re: MAIA]
#2068026 - 11/03/03 01:12 PM (20 years, 11 months ago)

The jars don't look too bad today, actually. The area is not so much "milky" it just looks wet and the mycellum is not growing well there. I took the lid off one of the jars in question and took a sniff but I didn't notice any nasty aromas. I put the jars that looked questionable in a seperate incubator and will just wait and see how they turn out. Thanks for the advice though. Again, if anyone has any pics or links to pics of bacterial infection I'd appreciate it.

-J

--------------------
There he goes, one of God's own prototypes--some kind of high powered mutant never even considered for mass production. Too wierd to live, too rare to die.

Extras:

Top

Jump to top

Pages: 1

Shop:

Red Vein Kratom

All-In-One Bags That Don't Suck, Certified Organic All-In-One Grow Bags by Magic Bag

Mushrooms, Mycology and Psychedelics > Mushroom Cultivation

Similar Threads	Poster	Views	Replies	Last post
Bacterial Contam in MEA	upupup	2,810	7	11/23/02 11:38 AM by Seuss
Removing bacterial contam from cake? (kinda urgent)	ykk	2,494	2	07/25/02 05:31 AM by Killa420
bacterial contam??	flein	1,684	1	06/16/02 09:23 AM by Karen
PF jar contams twice (now 3) in a row.	upupup	5,926	18	05/30/19 02:12 PM by Yowtzie
Cobweb on my PF jars?	tekramrepus	2,736	14	09/13/02 09:53 AM by Doublethink
Hawiian Contam. in Jars	DOONEY	777	1	02/08/02 03:47 PM by fresh357
Contam or mycellium (PICS)	mushman76	1,389	2	09/11/02 07:09 AM by DreaMaTrix
rusty colored contam in jars?	headtrip	1,623	1	04/09/03 04:24 PM by MAIA

Extra information

You cannot start new topics / You cannot reply to topics
HTML is disabled / BBCode is enabled
Moderator: Shroomism, george castanza, RogerRabbit, veggie, mushboy, fahtster, LogicaL Chaos, 13shrooms, hamloaf, cronicr, Stipe-n Cap, Pastywhyte, bodhisatta, Tormato, Land Trout, A.k.a
2,245 topic views. 16 members, 84 guests and 34 web crawlers are browsing this forum.
[ Show Images Only | Sort by Score | Print Topic ]