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janky1237
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Cakes on inside of chamber turning blue [pics]
#22165303 - 08/30/15 03:55 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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Hi everyone, been following PF TEK thanks to this site for a while now. I'm now in the fruiting phase and am stumped, as the cakes on the interior of my SGFC are turning blue and not showing the same amount of growth. From what I understand, it seems to be bruising, not contamination, but I can't figure out why it's happening.
Any ideas how I can fix this? Thanks in advance
details: -Incubated for 2 weeks and allowed to consolidate for a week -dunked for 24 hours and rolled in vermiculite -i spray/fan at least 3x/day -they've been in the SGFC for a week now, in a room which fluctuates between 65*F at night and 80*F day (est.)
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Re: Cakes on inside of chamber turning blue [Re: janky1237]
#22165315 - 08/30/15 03:57 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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janky1237 said: Hi everyone, been following PF TEK thanks to this site for a while now. I'm now in the fruiting phase and am stumped, as the cakes on the interior of my SGFC are turning blue and not showing the same amount of growth. From what I understand, it seems to be bruising, not contamination, but I can't figure out why it's happening.
Any ideas how I can fix this? Thanks in advance
details: -Incubated for 2 weeks and allowed to consolidate for a week -dunked for 24 hours and rolled in vermiculite -i spray/fan at least 3x/day -they've been in the SGFC for a week now, in a room which fluctuates between 65*F at night and 80*F day (est.)

They are pinning....keep doing what ur doing.
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Re: Cakes on inside of chamber turning blue [Re: PussyFart]
#22165333 - 08/30/15 04:02 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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i would get them off the perlite
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Re: Cakes on inside of chamber turning blue [Re: cronicr]
#22165339 - 08/30/15 04:04 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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Yea, that too....
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Re: Cakes on inside of chamber turning blue [Re: cronicr]
#22165432 - 08/30/15 04:32 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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Thanks, why do you say that? Too much humidity?
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Re: Cakes on inside of chamber turning blue [Re: janky1237]
#22165439 - 08/30/15 04:33 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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'Cause they'll colonize the perlite. Put them on aluminum foil cut to the size of the cake.
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Re: Cakes on inside of chamber turning blue [Re: janky1237]
#22165445 - 08/30/15 04:34 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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janky1237 said: Too much humidity?
No such thing....
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Re: Cakes on inside of chamber turning blue [Re: PussyFart]
#22169855 - 08/31/15 04:11 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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Is it possible that the blue(ish) ones are dehydrated? Not that I'm trying to question the "stay the course" advice, but would it be a dumb idea to dunk them for 24 hours or so?
Here's an updated pic from today. As you can see, 2/3 near the edge of the chamber have much more growth than the "interior" cakes
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Re: Cakes on inside of chamber turning blue [Re: janky1237]
#22170181 - 08/31/15 05:28 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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I would be embarrassed to show pictures of my dying FC. They have shrunk, turned blue, and still putting out production. We simply cannot keep it from drying out. The cakes are like styrofoam now. alas. Nice colors, tho.
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Re: Cakes on inside of chamber turning blue [Re: Ajahn Don]
#22170277 - 08/31/15 05:47 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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Where do you have your fruiting chamber? Is it elevated to allow air flow from the bottom through the perlite? Give them a good heavy misting for the time being. (To clarify, a light mist, but a lot of it.)
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Re: Cakes on inside of chamber turning blue [Re: janky1237]
#22170300 - 08/31/15 05:50 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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janky1237 said: Is it possible that the blue(ish) ones are dehydrated? Not that I'm trying to question the "stay the course" advice, but would it be a dumb idea to dunk them for 24 hours or so?
Here's an updated pic from today. As you can see, 2/3 near the edge of the chamber have much more growth than the "interior" cakes

Just keep doing what you're doing and check out this thread about misting your cakes. Make sure they're glistening when you mist but not pooling with water
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Re: Cakes on inside of chamber turning blue [Re: YaMoonSun]
#22170386 - 08/31/15 06:07 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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It's in the middle of a small (12ftx12ft maybe), relatively empty room. I keep a window cracked. Another thought I've had is that I have a window fan in the next room over, and there may be too much of a cross-breeze? Or maybe now I'm just overthinking it...
It's about 4 inches off the ground. I guess a few more wouldn't hurt? Although I don't think it would make that much of a difference.
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Re: Cakes on inside of chamber turning blue [Re: janky1237]
#22170393 - 08/31/15 06:09 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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Cut the foil so it's a disc around your cake. Honestly, I wouldn't fuck with anything. They're producing 100x better then 90% of the cakes I've seen. I'd just keep them misted well.
Clear that perlite around the base of that cake. Myc colonizes perlite and you don't want it to divert it's energy.
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Re: Cakes on inside of chamber turning blue [Re: taGyo]
#22170583 - 08/31/15 06:48 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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taGyo said: Clear that perlite around the base of that cake. Myc colonizes perlite and you don't want it to divert it's energy.
You could have told me sooner.
 
That wasn't in the tek, either. Hmmm, lots of stuff isn't in the tek, like keeping the humidity up in the dryest environment imaginable.
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Re: Cakes on inside of chamber turning blue [Re: Ajahn Don]
#22170592 - 08/31/15 06:49 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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Re: Cakes on inside of chamber turning blue [Re: taGyo]
#22170653 - 08/31/15 07:00 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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You gotta admit, something is making the shit grow. I have the Sahara Strain and the Mojave Strain. Just wait until I get the GOBY strain, baby. It'll be HOT!
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Re: Cakes on inside of chamber turning blue [Re: Ajahn Don]
#22170659 - 08/31/15 07:00 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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Your cakes look better then any of mine ever did so to that
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Re: Cakes on inside of chamber turning blue [Re: taGyo]
#22170683 - 08/31/15 07:03 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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Re: Cakes on inside of chamber turning blue [Re: janky1237]
#22170723 - 08/31/15 07:10 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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No such thing as over thinking it. I had bruising from an opened air vent in my room once upon a time. I closed it and upped my misting and it went away over time.
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Re: Cakes on inside of chamber turning blue [Re: taGyo]
#22173252 - 09/01/15 09:44 AM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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taGyo said: Your cakes look better then any of mine ever did so to that 
Thank you sir, even if you don't mean it. 
 
This is it. The last pictures of my soon-to-be-shuttered SGFC. I know a lot more now than I did when I started it. Hell, I bet I could actually grow enough out of an FC to satisfy our needs, but it won't be as much fun as finding the sacred culture. That's my holy grail. Maybe it would be best to do single cakes for testing, but that's going to go unanswered for now.
If, however, this is success, then I'll still recommend PF-tek for beginners, but understand if others suggest skipping it. Best learning device, but can be frustrating.
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