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Strob Mcfloghflin
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Is this mycelium?
#22462876 - 11/01/15 03:33 PM (8 years, 2 months ago) |
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Hi, I smelled some sharp, sweet stink in one of two ps cyan tubs two days ago and it's now outdoors, getting rained on (but draining). It smelled like a mixture of the substrate, sort of mushroomy (only when it gets wet) and a subtly vomity smell. Just sweet, kind of... or bad dairy, or something.
The mycelium growing out from the 3/4 pint cake is a lot wispier than it was in the jars. Thin, gray-looking. It looks whiter in the photos, I'll get a comparison photo of jar myc next to this myc.
 The chunks that came out(the super white areas are the bottoms of the cakes)
   here's what was left in the bag. To me, it looks almost too thin to be what was growing in the jars. Or maybe cooking this sub for 1.5 hours removed most of the nutrition via straining afterwards?
The design is like this:
Woodchips (alder/aspen), past. dirt from outside, gypsum, verm (all boiled together, except dirt added separately)
Substrate was placed into garbage bag with holes punched in bottom
Bag was lowered into tub, suspended over the bottom and held in place by tape wrapped around the outside.
FAE achieved by leaving plastic tub lid loosely on top, very slightly askew (largest holes around sides ~2mm)
Misted daily
 I just posted this in the thread going about the grow.
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Edited by Strob Mcfloghflin (11/01/15 04:19 PM)
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Strob Mcfloghflin
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Is mycelium thicker and whiter when it has more air exchange? Would that explain the appearance of the mycelium emanating from the spawn jars?
Despite the considerably lower temperature outside the mycelium still appears to be spreading (and whitening). Many of the woodchips smell mostly fine, but some of them towards what used to be the bottom of the bag definitely stink like an old fruit juice, or sweet puke. I have just placed the clumps of mycelium on top of them in hopes it will beat back the contam.
As there are 3 jars left to use as spawn and another tub running fine, I am considering removing some of the smelly chips from this bag, mulching up the mycelium bunches and mixing it throughout what's left of the substrate, and placing it back into the tub (after adding a hole). Hopefully, given the aid of the outdoors, the mycelium will have time to recover, grow, and gain a positioning advantage over the contams.
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Edited by Strob Mcfloghflin (11/02/15 11:40 AM)
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TheEaglesGift
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Registered: 04/10/11
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Loc: Ixtlan, Mexico
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What species are you attempting to grow?
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Strob Mcfloghflin
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Ps. Cyanescens. If you have any input, I'm all ears/eyes.
I'm starting to think the nutritional content of the wood may be low since I boiled it for like two hours and then strained the amber-colored water. I wonder if it would colonize more effectively with healthier looking myc if provided new food?
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PsilocyBen17
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who cares if its outside? I can't tell what your setup is but if you are fruiting in a mono follow a proper tek. It needs air exchange holes as well as a lid. It also should be filled more densly with substrate. That shit isnt fully colonized and it probably never will be under those conditions.
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