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Trying to ID Contam
    #23103852 - 04/10/16 03:26 PM (8 years, 9 months ago)

MY last two batches of jars had lipstick mold looking red coloring. I suspect contaminated spore syringes. After the first batch, I paid extra detail to sterile techniques on the second batch and no red so far but there jars have a flowery smell. Like roses. Obviously, there is something causing this smell but never came across this. Anyone know what causes it? I'm trying to isolate the possibilities of contams and knowing what it is might help.
Using WBS jars. Have had dozens of very successful grows, but this one has me stumped.
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Re: Trying to ID Contam [Re: LlamaLicker]
    #23105401 - 04/11/16 12:02 AM (8 years, 9 months ago)

It's probably bacteria. Although if it's a coconut like smell it could be Trichoderma.


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Re: Trying to ID Contam [Re: Kizzle]
    #23106711 - 04/11/16 01:12 PM (8 years, 9 months ago)

Like most cultivators, I have had far too much experience with trich. I have grown to loathe that earthy aroma. However, this is almost certainly not the green monster, unless there are multiple varieties. Thanks for the comment though.
The smell is pleasant. It is just like a rose. If it wasn't in my jars I'd be like oooohh that smells purrrty.

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Re: Trying to ID Contam [Re: LlamaLicker]
    #23119179 - 04/14/16 11:45 PM (8 years, 8 months ago)

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Re: Trying to ID Contam [Re: LlamaLicker]
    #23120860 - 04/15/16 01:40 PM (8 years, 8 months ago)

Without a pic I doubt even the mighty kizzle is gonna be able to make a guess. The real point is that it's mold, it's no good, the solution is better sterile tek/procedure/inoculate.

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Re: Trying to ID Contam [Re: Pastywhyte]
    #23125439 - 04/16/16 08:44 PM (8 years, 8 months ago)

Here are some pics of the rose smelling jars. Myc looks off. No rhizomorphic style growth and more fuzzy than is typical.



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Re: Trying to ID Contam [Re: LlamaLicker]
    #23167446 - 04/28/16 11:56 PM (8 years, 8 months ago)

No one has seen this before?

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Re: Trying to ID Contam [Re: LlamaLicker]
    #23168124 - 04/29/16 06:36 AM (8 years, 8 months ago)

Looks like bacteria. Pic is rather poor however. Hard to say exactly.

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Re: Trying to ID Contam [Re: Pastywhyte]
    #23169421 - 04/29/16 02:30 PM (8 years, 8 months ago)

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Looks like bacteria.



Agreed. Sometimes when you have bacteria the myc will grow faintly as it struggles.

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Re: Trying to ID Contam [Re: TheEaglesGift]
    #23170727 - 04/29/16 08:54 PM (8 years, 8 months ago)

I agree that it is very likely bacteria. My curiosity is what bacteria smells like roses? It is a very pleasant and sweet if it wasn't ruining my precious jars.

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Re: Trying to ID Contam [Re: LlamaLicker]
    #23170855 - 04/29/16 09:33 PM (8 years, 8 months ago)

I've smelled bacteria like that before as well. It's no surprise, some bacteria is delicious and we eat it like the bacterias in kefir, yogurt, kimchi, kombucha, etc.

Wish I could tell you exactly what kind of bacteria you have, but I just don't know.

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Re: Trying to ID Contam [Re: TheEaglesGift]
    #23171323 - 04/29/16 11:48 PM (8 years, 8 months ago)

It's no big issue. I isolated the problem to a contaminated syringe from a supplier I don't usually use and have since had a very successful wbs colonization. (Sporeworks has never let me down. Support our sponsors) But, like any homegrown mycologist, I like to understand and know exactly what is going on at every step of the process and my curiosity is killing me. Thank you all for your input.

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Re: Trying to ID Contam [Re: LlamaLicker]
    #23171470 - 04/30/16 01:09 AM (8 years, 8 months ago)

Take your spores to agar. It's not hard to learn and will allow you to clean up dirty syringes.

The one thing I wish I did early on was get into agar sooner. I fucked around with ms solution straight to grains for far too long.

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Re: Trying to ID Contam [Re: TheEaglesGift]
    #23171568 - 04/30/16 02:39 AM (8 years, 8 months ago)

I'm lucky that I ran into a streak of the dirtiest syringes I ever saw from vendors. I became convinced i could never trust a syringe ever and forced myself to learn agar before I was even done my first cakes.

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Re: Trying to ID Contam [Re: Pastywhyte]
    #23171616 - 04/30/16 03:19 AM (8 years, 8 months ago)

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I'm lucky that I ran into a streak of the dirtiest syringes I ever saw from vendors.



This is what also spurred me to learn agar.

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