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OfflineDj_karma_magnet
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Re: Recognizing and dealing with contamination [Re: Luminous7] * 1
    #27760789 - 05/02/22 11:36 PM (1 year, 8 months ago)

This is on the side though, not the top. I honestly think it may be myc piss that got trapped in between the bag and cake, but I have no clue. There is a substance very similar in the other bags that is loose and I can pour down the sink.


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Re: Recognizing and dealing with contamination [Re: Dj_karma_magnet] * 1
    #27760894 - 05/03/22 04:01 AM (1 year, 8 months ago)

Ugh stop using the term myc piss it's metabolites and they're not even analogous to urination :smile:


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Re: Recognizing and dealing with contamination [Re: Forrester] * 1
    #27761068 - 05/03/22 07:52 AM (1 year, 8 months ago)

So is it metbolytes? And are they bad? How can I prevent it next time? Can I simply scrape it off the side and keep fruiting? Lol


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Re: Recognizing and dealing with contamination [Re: Dj_karma_magnet] * 1
    #27761201 - 05/03/22 10:05 AM (1 year, 8 months ago)

Metabolites are in response to a contaminate. They are an immune response from mycelium to an infection. Likely bacterial in this case. Making sure your grain is properly sterilized, and not inoculating it with dirty spore solution, but rather with a clean culture will eliminate the issue.


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Re: Recognizing and dealing with contamination [Re: MysticMycologist] * 1
    #27761211 - 05/03/22 10:10 AM (1 year, 8 months ago)

So I can still fruit these? The metabolites are on the side of the cake. can I leave them with my good cakes?


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Re: Recognizing and dealing with contamination [Re: Dj_karma_magnet] * 2
    #27761213 - 05/03/22 10:11 AM (1 year, 8 months ago)

Yes, you can fruit them if they're bacterial.


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Re: Recognizing and dealing with contamination [Re: DERRAYLD] * 1
    #27761526 - 05/03/22 02:28 PM (1 year, 8 months ago)

Think this is bacterial? Wanted opinions. I have jars where the grain at the top is too dry to colonize that look like this but not as bad, wondering if they were knotting on the jar or bacterial, or both?




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Re: Recognizing and dealing with contamination [Re: lollerskeeball] * 1
    #27762329 - 05/04/22 03:07 AM (1 year, 8 months ago)

I'd say yes slightly but it's so hard to tell with corn it always looks bacterial to me. Is that even corn? Im on my phone and hard to see


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Re: Recognizing and dealing with contamination [Re: Forrester] * 1
    #27762954 - 05/04/22 01:59 PM (1 year, 8 months ago)

Yeah it's corn. Just the chunky look had me thinking something was off.


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Re: Recognizing and dealing with contamination [Re: lollerskeeball] * 1
    #27765208 - 05/05/22 10:23 PM (1 year, 8 months ago)

These are T4 agar on WBS at 18 days at a steady 72-74F.  They've had 2 shakes and lately seem to be moving slow.  How do they look?  It's the same jars, two sides.

First time transferring agar to grain, and first time with grain jars. 

Appreciate any advice.



Edit: Oh and I let a few jars fresh from an overnight PC run cool next to these.  They were still warm and caused some condensation in the top of one jar. :facepalm:


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Re: Recognizing and dealing with contamination [Re: RisingTide] * 1
    #27765359 - 05/06/22 01:07 AM (1 year, 8 months ago)

Looks pretty good to me. Isn’t watching them recover and go crazy after a shake so fun?


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Re: Recognizing and dealing with contamination [Re: MysticMycologist] * 1
    #27766001 - 05/06/22 01:31 PM (1 year, 8 months ago)

Fun like watching grass grow or water boil, it definitely goes faster the more times I check lol.

No noticable movement overnight.  If it stays like that for another day or two, do those pics look like bacteria, under hydration of grains, or something else?  Genetics should be okay because the agar was from a clone.  And the clone was from mss on brf.


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Re: Recognizing and dealing with contamination [Re: RisingTide] * 1
    #27766739 - 05/06/22 11:30 PM (1 year, 8 months ago)




What are those black specs on this cake? Also, what is this insect!? Never seen anything like this….


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Re: Recognizing and dealing with contamination [Re: Dj_karma_magnet]
    #27766874 - 05/07/22 04:12 AM (1 year, 8 months ago)

Insect looks like a grain weevil. Not sure about black specks but could be insect poop. Those weevils will bring contams into your grow. They usually come into your house in bags of dry grain. WBS seems to have the highest issue with it but I had a bunch ride in on a bag of milo once. Best treatment plan is to get some airtight insect proof grain storage containers and then add a couple cups of diatomaceous earth to the grain and mix it up. Next spray your floors and walls with an insecticide that also has an IGR (insect growth regulator). I really like precor. Oh and before you spray, vacuum and mop floors under ALL furniture like couches etc. I had a horrible infestation five or six months ago and after following the above steps I’ve never seen a weevil since.


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Re: Recognizing and dealing with contamination [Re: lollerskeeball]
    #27766966 - 05/07/22 07:28 AM (1 year, 8 months ago)

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Think this is bacterial? Wanted opinions. I have jars where the grain at the top is too dry to colonize that look like this but not as bad, wondering if they were knotting on the jar or bacterial, or both?







Corn master here, this too wet and bacterial.


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Re: Recognizing and dealing with contamination [Re: RisingTide]
    #27767300 - 05/07/22 12:06 PM (1 year, 8 months ago)

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RisingTide said:
These are T4 agar on WBS at 18 days at a steady 72-74F.  They've had 2 shakes and lately seem to be moving slow.  How do they look?  It's the same jars, two sides.

First time transferring agar to grain, and first time with grain jars. 

Appreciate any advice.



Edit: Oh and I let a few jars fresh from an overnight PC run cool next to these.  They were still warm and caused some condensation in the top of one jar. :facepalm:



It dosnt look to bad to me, but 18 days is pretty long.


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Re: Recognizing and dealing with contamination [Re: Kizzle]
    #27769428 - 05/09/22 05:09 AM (1 year, 8 months ago)

First time on agar....  I can't tell what's going on here.  The mycelium is for the most part, clear.  Is this a contam?  Thanks!



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Re: Recognizing and dealing with contamination [Re: BleuMojeaux] * 1
    #27769470 - 05/09/22 06:39 AM (1 year, 8 months ago)

Looks pretty good. The first pic is hard to see but you can just make out that the mycelium is organized into outward reaching lines, like spokes in a wheel. That’s a good thing.

Second plate has very obvious rhizo growth which is great, but the tomentose growth between those sectors looks iffy. Tomentose is ok but you ideally want to see linear organization to it which is usually most visible at the outer edges. Possibly too early to tell on that plate but regardless I would take transfers from the very edges at 12:00, 2:00, 3:00 and 6:00.


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Re: Recognizing and dealing with contamination [Re: Kizzle]
    #27771062 - 05/10/22 11:48 AM (1 year, 8 months ago)

This looks burnt but it was only half the batch that looks like this. Anyone know what it is OR anyone know if ok to proceed and inoculate if burnt it is?  If not I may try using it and see.



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Re: Recognizing and dealing with contamination [Re: Carebear]
    #27771281 - 05/10/22 02:16 PM (1 year, 8 months ago)

Definitely burnt..did your PC run dry?


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