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Mycodot
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Grayish Greenish mold on nearly colonized cake
#21231930 - 02/05/15 06:10 PM (9 years, 19 days ago) |
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FIRST POST EVER -- HELLO SHROOMERY! ok had to get that out.. anyway
Been doing this for a while but I have a new issue, I did my research but I'm not fully satisfied yet.
Issue: I have 2 cakes in aluminum baking pans, both made with the spawn from the same filter bag, substrate is half manure half coir. One cake didn't colonize fully, the other one is done. This one cake has one spot I noticed as soon as I took the foil off the top, about a golfball sized, with a mold that is grayish from afar and just slightly greenish up close. It also on a spot in one other corner but not as large. I scraped out the large spot, seems to be myc right underneath. I moved the tub/tray into another room in a cold spot to hopefully slow it down until I decide if its safe to case and continue. 24hrs has passed and I don't see any sign of it coming back. The smaller spot hasn't gotten larger, nothing has colonized further.
I've had some luck mitigating mold on cakes in the past but most times its trich and it goes to shipoopie pretty fast. I've never seen this exact mold.. I came across this RR quote,
"One thing that's very important is to make sure you shut your furnace or AC off before doing any sterile work. The last thing you want is a fan pushing air through nasty ductwork." RR
and it had me thinking..
I figure I can scrape off the surface and throw on a bit of casing and see if the myc outruns the competitor. Or I can leave uncased and keep it in the low temp room and let it try to get its bearings while monitoring it.
Whatever happens I'll be sure to post my progress or failure. Any insight would sure be helpful.
Godspeed fellow farmers!
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stevey512
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Re: Grayish Greenish mold on nearly colonized cake [Re: Mycodot]
#21232792 - 02/05/15 08:59 PM (9 years, 19 days ago) |
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Pics would help
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Mycodot
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Re: Grayish Greenish mold on nearly colonized cake [Re: stevey512]
#21234751 - 02/06/15 11:05 AM (9 years, 18 days ago) |
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Requested Pics:
 Close up of the removal

 This is the good one
So it's been 48hrs and I don't see sign of the gray/green mold coming back after scraping it off. It has been a corner of a cold room and now I'm moving it back into a warmer area. The cake looks slightly more colonized than a few days ago but its not trying too hard. I think I'm going to wait one more day, but I'm going to case my good one now since I can slightly see bumps developing.
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TheMultiverse44
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Re: Grayish Greenish mold on nearly colonized cake [Re: Mycodot]
#21234809 - 02/06/15 11:19 AM (9 years, 18 days ago) |
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Quote:
Mycodot said: Requested Pics:
 Close up of the removal

 This is the good one
So it's been 48hrs and I don't see sign of the gray/green mold coming back after scraping it off. It has been a corner of a cold room and now I'm moving it back into a warmer area. The cake looks slightly more colonized than a few days ago but its not trying too hard. I think I'm going to wait one more day, but I'm going to case my good one now since I can slightly see bumps developing.
Welcome myco!!
,But my god.. If it was mold why would you continĂșe to keep that shit in your house? I dont understand you already have another healthy casing, why waste time on a failed project. You didnt even us h2o2.. Your like those people that are balding but refuse to accept the fact, so you try to cover it up. Even though your still balding nontheless. Your fighting a losing battle when it comes to mold spores. Yeah expect it to come back.... Harddd. Trust. & if your other casing is in the same room/area it will be compromised aswell.
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TheMultiverse44
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Re: Grayish Greenish mold on nearly colonized cake [Re: TheMultiverse44]
#21234822 - 02/06/15 11:22 AM (9 years, 18 days ago) |
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Mold spores are always white at first...
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Mycodot
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Re: Grayish Greenish mold on nearly colonized cake [Re: TheMultiverse44]
#21234903 - 02/06/15 11:43 AM (9 years, 18 days ago) |
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I appreciate the concern Multiverse. But I feel like it isn't a lost cause yet. I've seen much worse and I am careful with my health. If I notice anything getting out of hand I don't hesitate to throw it out.
I havn't had the good cake and the not so good cake in the same room since the moment I noticed it.. and I do have Hepa air filters running.
I didn't want to waste time taking a picture of the mold, I removed what I could see asap, but it didn't show any obvious signs of sporulation. It was a fuzzy gray patch that stood twice as high as the mycelium.
I don't like to be stubborn but I don't feel like it's a health risk yet. But if more replies come in telling me to ditch it then I will.
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Mycodot
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Re: Grayish Greenish mold on nearly colonized cake [Re: Mycodot]
#21244729 - 02/08/15 05:08 PM (9 years, 16 days ago) |
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Well I couldn't keep the gray fluffies away and so I decided to Hell with it. But before tossing it, I decided to break up the cake and investigate a little bit. It seems like the organism just stopped trying at some point because there are big spots of uncolonized substrate. Some spots in the middle but a lot on the very bottom never got colonized. So now I'm just curious what could be the contributing factors to this? The second tray made exactly the same way with the same spawn and substrate colonized and is doing fine. Could it just be weak genetics? Or possibly at some point a competitor was introduced and it just stropped trying altogether? I typically use 100% horse manure but my supply ran out so I went with coir which I'm not very familiar with. Now I'm hesitant to use coir anymore. Not too worried about it, I always learn something new every run. Hoping for better luck next time.
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MikeBearPig
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Re: Grayish Greenish mold on nearly colonized cake [Re: Mycodot]
#21245387 - 02/08/15 07:50 PM (9 years, 16 days ago) |
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Usually uncolonized spots mean a contamination is already inhabiting it.
Its very rare that your mycelium just stalls out, usually other conditions have to be met for that to happen.
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