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more4u2c
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Strange blobs growing along sides during pinning (contam? Or mutation? Or rogue fungus?)
#23378833 - 06/24/16 09:45 PM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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Just like the title says I have strange blobs growing along with the pins is this a contam and mutation or a different type of fungus?
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Inocuole
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Re: Strange blobs growing along sides during pinning (contam? Or mutation? Or rogue fungus?) [Re: more4u2c]
#23378856 - 06/24/16 09:52 PM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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Looks pretty bacterial... is that Penis Envy? That would make the blobs make sense.
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more4u2c
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Re: Strange blobs growing along sides during pinning (contam? Or mutation? Or rogue fungus?) [Re: Inocuole]
#23378866 - 06/24/16 09:58 PM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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Naw it's Cambodian so should I still harvest these fruits or did this contam ruin the fruits too?
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Inocuole
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Re: Strange blobs growing along sides during pinning (contam? Or mutation? Or rogue fungus?) [Re: more4u2c]
#23378869 - 06/24/16 09:59 PM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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I don't see any reason not to let them keep growing at this rate, I see a bunch of bacteria but those blobs are probably active and the mushrooms have plenty of growing to do still.
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Re: Strange blobs growing along sides during pinning (contam? Or mutation? Or rogue fungus?) [Re: Inocuole]
#23379301 - 06/25/16 01:08 AM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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That looks like mycogone.... a parasite mold that eats fungi. I would isolate that immediately, it is a nasty contamination. It's difficult to spot on agar, if you have that same culture running I would suggest making a few rapid transfers to try to clean it up.
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Inocuole
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Re: Strange blobs growing along sides during pinning (contam? Or mutation? Or rogue fungus?) [Re: PirateSwazey]
#23379409 - 06/25/16 01:59 AM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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That looks like wet bubble to you? Looks an awful lot like spotted mutant blobs too.. I couldn't say for sure.
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Re: Strange blobs growing along sides during pinning (contam? Or mutation? Or rogue fungus?) [Re: Inocuole]
#23379414 - 06/25/16 02:01 AM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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Inocuole said: but those blobs are probably active

I have made tea with blobs before in the past... They definitely can be quite active.
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Re: Strange blobs growing along sides during pinning (contam? Or mutation? Or rogue fungus?) [Re: TheChief]
#23379562 - 06/25/16 03:37 AM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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that tub looks unhealthy. how big are your holes? they should be about 1.25" in diameter. from the pic they look a lot smaller than that. where is it positioned? in a closet? or does it have room to breathe? i don't think it's mycogone though. could be active blobs but i didn't know that variety would grow blobs. pick one and cut it open. see if it smells like cubensis. 
this is mycogone perniciosa i grew on agar for reference:

the fruits will be fine to eat by the way.
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Re: Strange blobs growing along sides during pinning (contam? Or mutation? Or rogue fungus?) [Re: FriedEgg]
#23380547 - 06/25/16 11:42 AM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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It can have different shades of color, from my phone on some of the pics there seem to be some wet spots. If they are visible with your eye OP, that is the tell tell. Hoping you just have blobing going on.. Either way the tub is pretty unhealthy. 

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Re: Strange blobs growing along sides during pinning (contam? Or mutation? Or rogue fungus?) [Re: PirateSwazey]
#23381266 - 06/25/16 04:00 PM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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Yeah that's what mycogone usually looks like to me, but to me OP's pic looks like blobs for sure.. I definitely agree if there isn't wet bubble now it's not very far off with the tub looking as bacterial as it does.
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more4u2c
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Re: Strange blobs growing along sides during pinning (contam? Or mutation? Or rogue fungus?) [Re: Inocuole]
#23387674 - 06/27/16 01:02 PM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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Update:
So now that 2 days have passed the most blobs are gone and the ones remaining are shrinking in size or myc is growing over them and consuming them I think idk the pins although growing very slow compared to my other tub are in fact still growing and I'm impressed how resilient these babies have been.

Any wetness you see in pic is from me misting the tub
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Re: Strange blobs growing along sides during pinning (contam? Or mutation? Or rogue fungus?) [Re: more4u2c]
#23388195 - 06/27/16 04:17 PM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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Sweet!
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