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Re: Recognizing and dealing with contamination [Re: Snarky]
#27781300 - 05/17/22 08:28 AM (1 year, 8 months ago) |
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Snarky said: First grow, put to bulk a few days ago. I have blue spots that are spreading... I know usually blue is ok, green is bad, but it's bugging me - does this look like an okay/healthy grow with bruising or is it contam?



Looks like bruising to me, but I'm no expert. Could be from being on the dry side?
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Re: Recognizing and dealing with contamination [Re: Bigworm]
#27785554 - 05/20/22 11:11 AM (1 year, 8 months ago) |
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Hey experts, I need feedback on this. I suffer from colorblindness which makes it hard for me to identify possible contamination. I’ve had this spot on my kit that has doubled in size the past 2 days. I can’t tell what this could be but it seems to be growing fast. I have been tweaking humidity and temps during these 2 days moving my kit to a SG configuration.
Whatever it is it seems to have liked the tweaks.. any ideas?
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Re: Recognizing and dealing with contamination [Re: LaLaG] 1
#27788810 - 05/22/22 10:01 PM (1 year, 8 months ago) |
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It doesn't look "normal, but I can't say for sure that it is bad. Sometimes you get weird fluffy patches or blobs or other growths. Keep an eye on it but it's likely you'll see fruits soon.
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Re: Recognizing and dealing with contamination [Re: Nichrome] 1
#27789280 - 05/23/22 10:06 AM (1 year, 8 months ago) |
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LaLaG
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Re: Recognizing and dealing with contamination [Re: Bigworm] 1
#27789329 - 05/23/22 10:59 AM (1 year, 8 months ago) |
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Much thanks guys! I’ll keep it and watch it carefully. Hopefully just mycelium being funny
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Re: Recognizing and dealing with contamination [Re: LaLaG]
#27790691 - 05/24/22 01:32 PM (1 year, 8 months ago) |
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Total noob. First attempt with shotgun tub. Is it recommended to post pics to see if any vets have an opinion on the health of my experiment?
Thanks
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Re: Recognizing and dealing with contamination [Re: samohth]
#27790815 - 05/24/22 03:53 PM (1 year, 8 months ago) |
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Ya if you're having any questions it's best to post pictures. This site strips exif data on the pictures so as long as there's no personal info in your pic it's generally pretty safe. You can describe what the problem is and sometimes that works but a picture is always better if possible.
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Re: Recognizing and dealing with contamination [Re: samohth]
#27792040 - 05/25/22 09:14 AM (1 year, 7 months ago) |
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samohth said: Total noob. First attempt with shotgun tub. Is it recommended to post pics to see if any vets have an opinion on the health of my experiment?
Thanks
Id personally ditch shotgun fc and just go with shoebox to make things way simpler.
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Re: Recognizing and dealing with contamination [Re: pablokabute]
#27792359 - 05/25/22 01:35 PM (1 year, 7 months ago) |
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I will check out the shoebox method. Thanks. I have 4 casings in my tub. One not doing much of anything. 1 has pins but Lindsay slow growing or stopped. 2 have a couple of large ones growing it I think they cloud mold. I will post pic of one. Why don’t the grow out top?
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Re: Recognizing and dealing with contamination [Re: samohth]
#27792932 - 05/25/22 08:43 PM (1 year, 7 months ago) |
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[url=https://files.shroomery.org/files/22-21/353282774-IMG_0516.jpg I will check out the shoebox method. Thanks. I have 4 casings in my tub. One not doing much of anything. 1 has pins but Lindsay slow growing or stopped. 2 have a couple of large ones growing it I think they have cloud mold. I will post pic of one. Why don’t the grow out top? Can’t figure out how to post pic
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Re: Recognizing and dealing with contamination [Re: samohth]
#27793465 - 05/26/22 09:05 AM (1 year, 7 months ago) |
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For cubensis cakes, humidity chambers or a water tub is much > than a SGFC. Spawning to a shoebox of coir works well, so long as your cakes are not too bacterial.
Shredding dirty cakes into bulk can cause a lot of troubles. Clean, vigorous growing cakes are great to spawn to bulk, but if they are even a little sketchy, I recommend just fruiting as cakes in a water tub
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Is this purpleish color bad? This is my second grow and the 1st one didn't have this. The only thing in the 1st post here that it kind of looks like is Fusarium. It been 26 days since inoculation.

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Re: Recognizing and dealing with contamination [Re: seekercc]
#27795392 - 05/27/22 04:56 PM (1 year, 7 months ago) |
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seekercc said: Is this purpleish color bad? This is my second grow and the 1st one didn't have this. The only thing in the 1st post here that it kind of looks like is Fusarium. It been 26 days since inoculation.


That's bad alright. Hard to say if it was the syringe or technique since idk the details there, but trying again could tell you. Personally, I'd give agar a try (more like 11 days) and if you still want to do the BRF cakes, you can make a LC syringe off a clean agar plate for inoculation.
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Re: Recognizing and dealing with contamination [Re: lollerskeeball]
#27796007 - 05/28/22 02:52 AM (1 year, 7 months ago) |
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This tub is pretty much a goner, but is it worth saving these upcoming shrooms? It started to turn green like week after it was almost fully colonized also tried to slow it down with salt. Dont know where this contam came from and what is it? Spawned grains to cvg if it matters, after 2 years of this hobby, this is my first green. Guess Im doing something right atleast 
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Re: Recognizing and dealing with contamination [Re: lollerskeeball]
#27796021 - 05/28/22 03:28 AM (1 year, 7 months ago) |
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first of all take a look at this shit lol. cant really smell anything through the bag but so much excess moisture, no serious discolorations besides yellowing. these bags have been at 100% for a while now
now why im really posting is to see what you guys think of these bags below. i dont want to waste my resources, but besides yellowing and excess moisture are there any reasons you guys wouldnt spawn these?
  
at 70-80% i shook them up and this is where they are at now. The spots that look darker are not so dark in person. the grains exposed to air in the bag as apposed to up against the bag are always darker for me. also no slimy shit, if it looks like that it it isnt.
side note: i have a like 4 or 5 of these weird watery spawn bags, if its not worth spawning and wasting sub is there a way to try to get some fruit out of them as is?
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Re: Recognizing and dealing with contamination [Re: lollerskeeball]
#27796529 - 05/28/22 02:52 PM (1 year, 7 months ago) |
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lollerskeeball said:
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seekercc said: Is this purpleish color bad? This is my second grow and the 1st one didn't have this. The only thing in the 1st post here that it kind of looks like is Fusarium. It been 26 days since inoculation.


That's bad alright. Hard to say if it was the syringe or technique since idk the details there, but trying again could tell you. Personally, I'd give agar a try (more like 11 days) and if you still want to do the BRF cakes, you can make a LC syringe off a clean agar plate for inoculation.
Does that mean it won't grow, or it will be toxic?
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Re: Recognizing and dealing with contamination [Re: moshe1]
#27796546 - 05/28/22 03:08 PM (1 year, 7 months ago) |
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@seeker that jar is ass maybe u will get pins but I doubt it . If u do get fruits tho u can make a tea to safely ingest .but like I said I doubt it . Start over
@moshe Ime spawning those will piss you off in a week or so and waste a lot of coir/verm and time
I would try top fruiting
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Re: Recognizing and dealing with contamination [Re: W1llyWonka]
#27796760 - 05/28/22 06:55 PM (1 year, 7 months ago) |
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W1llyWonka said: This tub is pretty much a goner, but is it worth saving these upcoming shrooms? It started to turn green like week after it was almost fully colonized also tried to slow it down with salt. Dont know where this contam came from and what is it? Spawned grains to cvg if it matters, after 2 years of this hobby, this is my first green. Guess Im doing something right atleast  
Yea, those fruits are worth saving. Just make sure you separate/isolate that tub from the other tubs if you have any going. Wow, 2 yrs and 1st time getting that mean green, u lucky bastard.
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Re: Recognizing and dealing with contamination [Re: pablokabute]
#27796878 - 05/28/22 08:21 PM (1 year, 7 months ago) |
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This is only my second large block grow so I'm unsure if what I am seeing is mold. This is Ajax and it seems to be localized to the top of the block.
Is this mold/trichoderma and if so is this salvageable? Can I chop off the top of this block to save the rest if it is? Or is this just bruising/dehydration/normal?
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Re: Recognizing and dealing with contamination [Re: Aus404]
#27797756 - 05/29/22 01:15 PM (1 year, 7 months ago) |
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This is my first time germinating spores on agar. I am using some a fairly old print that I made a syringe out of.
I used 1 drop in the center on relatively soft BRF agar (6g BRF / 7 agar / 400ml Water)
I'm not sure whether I am looking a mycelium or some kind of cobweb. The reason I am suspecting contamination is because only this out of 20 plates have shown any growth. This is after 9 days since inoculation.
Any help would be greatly appreciated


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