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chucks
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Red/Orange contamination? (RUST ON LIDS) (pics)
#22386952 - 10/16/15 04:10 AM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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Hello, i'm a complete newbie on my first time. Using PF Tek BRF jars. They are about half or little more filled with substrate. Used a HP cooker, everything as sterile as possible. Inoculated 3 weeks ago.
Day ago I noticed these red/orange or even brownish spots in two jars. One jar is like 95% and another is ~90% colinized. Today i checked again and i didnt notice growth of those spots or any differences. Both jars have these red things only at a single spot and doesnt seem to spread. Googled it and the most similar i could find is lipstick mold or maybe myc piss, but I cant say.
Shot few photos as bright and quality as I could, hope it clear enough.
Hoping for answers and opinions!





Edited by chucks (10/19/15 03:12 AM)
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chucks
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What I forgot to mention is that those things grow (if they grow at all) only on the jar glass itself, at some points its maybe 2cm above the substrate. It also appeared on another jar now. Spots dont look alive at all, but i cant find nothing more similar than lipstick mold which i dont think is my case...
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BL4Z3D247
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Re: update [Re: chucks]
#22390590 - 10/16/15 09:05 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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First thing I see is you have foil still on your jars. Take that off, the holes should be exposed for gas exchange. Second, why didn't you fill the jar to where the threads start and put dry verm on top to protect it from contaminants?
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chucks
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Thank you for answer. First thing is because 50% of instructions says to leave the foil to the full colonization and the other 50% say to take off. I was confused and decided to do everything as it said here: Second, I filled only half of jars with substrate because of form of the jars i have, it looked like cake wouldnt come off if it was full. The verm layer is my mistake, I made it but too thin I think...
But what about the red dots? Should I be worried?
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Handslikehouses
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Well it's definitely not myc piss. If it were it would be on your cake and it would be a dark yellow to dark brown squiggly line running down the side of it. Myc piss would be a good thing in your case because that usually means the mycelium is fighting off a contam and winning. I have never seen what you have on that jar before. You're best bet is to separate that jar from the others, let it fully colonize, let in consolidate, and then when your ready to start fruiting give it a smell and see if it smells like earthy mushrooms or if it smells funky. If it has a sour or sweet smell, or anything of the sort toss it. If it doesn't, fruit that one by itself just incase. You don't want that one bad apple spoiling the rest of your crop. Definitely keep us posted, I'm interested to know what that is.
-------------------- Considering spores can survive the vacuum of space, I would assume it's safe to say that mushrooms are on every planet waiting for the right conditions to present themselves. What it all boils down to, is aliens are on shrooms.

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chucks
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Ok, so this was nothing else than RUST FROM HOLED ON THE LID I was injecting a bit more water in some jars after week or so from inoculation. This is how syringe needle dropped some rust from around the holes and some rust pieces stuck on the glass. I birthed one cake today, smelled delicious Going to upload some pics and change the thread name in case someone else is getting in this situation. Thanks for trying to help anyways
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Handslikehouses
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Haha cool. I actually was thinking it might be rust, but then I was like nahhh
-------------------- Considering spores can survive the vacuum of space, I would assume it's safe to say that mushrooms are on every planet waiting for the right conditions to present themselves. What it all boils down to, is aliens are on shrooms.

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