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ghostembodied
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First Grow--green mold in my dry verm layer?
#22438224 - 10/26/15 10:57 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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High! I've found some posts around here that touch on this but no definitive answers so I thought I'd go ahead and ask about my specific situation, as well as introduce myself.
I'm in the middle of my first grow right now. I've been following the "Let's Grow Mushrooms!" videos (which I think were made by the Shroomery's own RR?) pretty much to the letter. I noced up five half-pint jars about four weeks ago and everything seemed like it was going well.
Tonight I birthed them and two of the five had some green mold in the dry verm barrier right beneath the lid where I wasn't able to see it before taking the lid off. One of the two just had a speck right on top but the other one had several spots of mold and some of it had gotten down into the barrier and was close to the substrate. That one, which was the very first jar I opened, I washed off, cut the top inch or so of the substrate off with a clean knife and isolated it in its own bowl of water. It didn't appear that there was any mold in the substrate but I thought better safe than sorry. I don't know what cutting it like that will do to the mushrooms but since the alternative is throwing it away I figured it couldn't hurt. The other was so minor I just washed it off, dropped in the pot with the others and crossed my fingers. They're all currently soaking.
So my question is, are these cakes a loss or is this just how the dry verm barrier is supposed to work? Will I be risking contaminating my terrarium (PMP style) and losing all the cakes if I put them in with the three clean ones? From what I've been able to find around the forums I think I may be okay but I still wanted to ask. 
A follow-up question as well: if I do get contams in my terrarium can I still use the alcohol extraction technique to get the good stuff out? I grow cannabis and I know if you get mold in your buds you can still do an alcohol (or butane) extraction on them. Is it the same with mushrooms or no?
Thanks!
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perikleous
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Re: First Grow--green mold in my dry verm layer? [Re: ghostembodied]
#22438281 - 10/26/15 11:18 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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If your following that tek, then fully colonized cakes can/should be dunk/rolled so during the dunk/cleaning process if the mold was on the cakes and grew to the filter then its history, itll be throughout the cake, if the cakes are solid white/clean then you should be ok to continue with fruiting them but I would look carefully before moving forward because the filter layer is likely to be infected after the cake.. just my 2 cents
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ghostembodied
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Re: First Grow--green mold in my dry verm layer? [Re: perikleous]
#22439777 - 10/27/15 11:16 AM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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The mold was not on the cakes, just in the filter layer. The cakes appear to be fine. I was concerned that there may be spores or something around that will grow in my terrarium when I start fruiting. You think I can go ahead with them though and just keep a close eye on them?
Thanks!
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micro
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Re: First Grow--green mold in my dry verm layer? [Re: ghostembodied]
#22439856 - 10/27/15 11:34 AM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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If it were me, I'd probably move the contaminated ones to another room and fruit them in isolation from the rest. This should give you enough time to be sure it's still a problem, or if it isn't.
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ghostembodied
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Re: First Grow--green mold in my dry verm layer? [Re: micro]
#22440384 - 10/27/15 01:56 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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That's a good idea. I don't really want to build a second terrarium tho. Is there some way to store a colonized cake and fruit it later after the others are done? It's submerged right now for the 24 hour soak. Could I just keep it that way? Maybe put it in the fridge?
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Re: First Grow--green mold in my dry verm layer? [Re: ghostembodied]
#22440520 - 10/27/15 02:34 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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Not really, though you could put it in a plastic container or something. Once it is done soaking however, and the water is back to normal you probably *could* freeze it. I'd just worry about it rotting otherwise.
It doesn't take that much to make a terrarium or find something to case it in, though.
Plastic bin and saran wrap
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ghostembodied
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Re: First Grow--green mold in my dry verm layer? [Re: micro]
#22442195 - 10/27/15 09:07 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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I put it in a small plastic container that once held wonton soup to-go. I put some perlite underneath it and draped some cling wrap loosely over the top. I'll have to spray that one every day I guess but that's alright.
Thanks for the advice!
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