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The Murkalator
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White Mold or Mycelium? Diagnosis Please
#23373648 - 06/23/16 12:28 PM (7 years, 8 months ago) |
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Howdy, been a while since I posted on here but my pal's missus brought a premade cake back from Amsterdam with her and I'm concerned with the white fuzz that has started to jump up on the surface.
Disregarded the growing instructions because they were bullshit and I could already spot fuzz on the surface of the cake. I took it out of it's box, rinsed it, cut it in half and quickly knocked together a SGFC for it but two days later and the fuzz is back with a vengence.
I plan to rinse and dunk it for 24 hours in some distilled water and fully sterilise the SGFC unless anyone can assure me I have nothing to worry about?
Hope to hear from you soon!

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spacechildo
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Re: White Mold or Mycelium? Diagnosis Please [Re: The Murkalator]
#23373673 - 06/23/16 12:35 PM (7 years, 8 months ago) |
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WTF am I looking at? and where's the sgfc? dunk before fruiting if its one of those kits off the shelf. no distilled water and no point in disinfecting a FC.
and yeah that's mycelium.
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Re: White Mold or Mycelium? Diagnosis Please [Re: The Murkalator]
#23373685 - 06/23/16 12:40 PM (7 years, 8 months ago) |
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That white fuzz is just mycelium, dont worry.
BUT, its growing likely cause of Low FAE. Is the SGFC built to spec? Got a pic of the FC?
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The Murkalator
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Re: White Mold or Mycelium? Diagnosis Please [Re: LogicaL Chaos]
#23373780 - 06/23/16 01:07 PM (7 years, 8 months ago) |
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You guys 100%? If so that's a weight off my mind. I was concerned because I definitely didn't get this when I made my own from scratch and these are in a SGFC with plenty of holes and getting fanned four times a day. Photos below, the last one is the box it came in originally. They wanted you to just bust the top off and let it sit in a wet bag, bunch of jokers.


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Re: White Mold or Mycelium? Diagnosis Please [Re: The Murkalator]
#23373789 - 06/23/16 01:11 PM (7 years, 8 months ago) |
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Looks GREAT! Keep on Keepin' on!
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The Murkalator
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Re: White Mold or Mycelium? Diagnosis Please [Re: Cheeseus]
#23373795 - 06/23/16 01:14 PM (7 years, 8 months ago) |
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Cheers Cheeseus! I totally forgot to dunk it before sticking it in the chamber, reckon it's worth doing now?
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Re: White Mold or Mycelium? Diagnosis Please [Re: The Murkalator]
#23373801 - 06/23/16 01:17 PM (7 years, 8 months ago) |
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That FC looks small, and no perlite.
How is humidity bein created in there?
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#23373804 - 06/23/16 01:18 PM (7 years, 8 months ago) |
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The Murkalator
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Re: White Mold or Mycelium? Diagnosis Please [Re: CosmoKramer]
#23373829 - 06/23/16 01:27 PM (7 years, 8 months ago) |
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Humidity through vermiculite on the bottom which I used as a stop gap as I had it lying around for cacti cultivatiom. Got some perlite from my ma's though so I was thinking dunk tonight, reconfigure the FC with more holes in the base and perlite instead of verm. Would also give the tank a chance to air out, looks a bit sweaty. What do ya reckon?
Cheers for all the advice guys, Shroomery never fails to disappoint!
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Re: White Mold or Mycelium? Diagnosis Please [Re: The Murkalator] 1
#23373887 - 06/23/16 01:50 PM (7 years, 8 months ago) |
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that isnt a SGFC. just go buy a tub for $8-10 and make a proper SGFC, and you will do a lot better.
and yeah, i would dunk it for 24 hours since you did at birth, and then put it in the correct SGFC. this means 1/4in holes on ALL SIX sides, and 4-5in of damp perlite in the bottom, with the cake-thing resting on a piece of foil on the perlite. also, the SGFC needs to be elevated off the table by at least 4-6in, and at least a foot from all walls or other obstructions on the sides. then mist when dry, etc.
the link will explain it all.
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Re: White Mold or Mycelium? Diagnosis Please [Re: mupetmower]
#23374200 - 06/23/16 03:40 PM (7 years, 8 months ago) |
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The Murkalator
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Re: White Mold or Mycelium? Diagnosis Please [Re: spacechildo]
#23374292 - 06/23/16 04:11 PM (7 years, 8 months ago) |
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Right, already had holes in all six but have added more just for japes. Perlite in place, cakes dunking. Goodnight Vienna!
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Re: White Mold or Mycelium? Diagnosis Please [Re: mupetmower]
#23374340 - 06/23/16 04:34 PM (7 years, 8 months ago) |
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Quote:
mupetmower said: correct SGFC. this means 1/4in holes on ALL SIX sides, and 4-5in of damp perlite in the bottom, with the cake-thing resting on a piece of foil on the perlite. also, the SGFC needs to be elevated off the table by at least 4-6in, and at least a foot from all walls or other obstructions on the sides. then mist when dry, etc.
the link will explain it all.
just to reiterate.
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Re: White Mold or Mycelium? Diagnosis Please [Re: The Murkalator]
#23374523 - 06/23/16 05:36 PM (7 years, 8 months ago) |
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Quote:
The Murkalator said: Right, already had holes in all six but have added more just for japes. Perlite in place, cakes dunking. Goodnight Vienna!
Looks good to me
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The Murkalator
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Re: White Mold or Mycelium? Diagnosis Please [Re: spacechildo]
#23374546 - 06/23/16 05:41 PM (7 years, 8 months ago) |
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I'm working with what I have here guys, I'm pulling rabbits out the hat but their heads are falling off and frightening the kids. The tank's not getting any bigger, the perlite's not getting any deeper. Could use foil instead of the seed trays I'm using but I can't imagine it making much difference. Holes are the same size as my last set up which produced the phalic majesties in my DP and I've got no room to get the FC a foot from the wall.
I'm just going to cross my fingers and hope for the best!
If anything, this unexpected arrival of a Dutch tasty cake has rekindled my interest in mushroom cultivation so undoubtedly once this attempt has wrapped up I'm going to break out my four year old spore prints, colonise some BRF cakes and do the whole shebang from scratch, ha.
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Re: White Mold or Mycelium? Diagnosis Please [Re: The Murkalator]
#23374685 - 06/23/16 06:19 PM (7 years, 8 months ago) |
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well dont expect similar results, then. just having the same size holes, and then adding more, doesnt really mean much, unless its following the proven design. without that deep perlite layer, your cakes are going to dry out much easier with all those holes, now. the SGFC is made the exact way it's made for a specific reason. which you can rad about here.
i just dont see the point in "waiting until next time" like everyone always says. just do it now, and get better yields with happier fruits.
but do what you want. just trying to help.
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Re: White Mold or Mycelium? Diagnosis Please [Re: The Murkalator]
#23374881 - 06/23/16 07:10 PM (7 years, 8 months ago) |
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I respect what others are saying, using a built to spec SGFC is completely proven and would likely yield better but at the end of the day OP's FC is plenty good enough to produce a bunch of shrooms and sometimes that's enough.
Shit, my first grow was a single BRF cake in a small plant pot with a couple of chopsticks propping up a bag. You might say that's a terrible way to grow and in a technical sense you're right but for me at the time I didn't have transport or money to go buy tubs or perlite. My cake fruited though and I was fucking STOKED. So what if I yielded half as much as I could have, that wasn't of any importance to me at the time.
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