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flyontoast
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White puffy/bead contam on straw
#23559397 - 08/20/16 08:56 AM (7 years, 5 months ago) |
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Experimenting with very low tech cultivation of oysters. If have noticed this white puffy-ball or bead like contam on the surface all my straw substrates (perhaps there is more throughout the substrate?). Also experimenting with amaranth stalk+chaff and garlic leaves+stalk, which colonized way faster than the straw (yeah, basically using free biomass/ag waste from around the farm). I only "pasteurized" my fruiting substrates with an anti-bacterial soap, which seems to have done the trick for both the amaranth and garlic trials. Was really trying to see how low tech you could go with oysters.
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tump
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Re: White puffy/bead contam on straw [Re: flyontoast]
#23578637 - 08/26/16 05:48 AM (7 years, 5 months ago) |
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That was foolish to use garlic plant matter. Other than that hard to tell might be a contam form bugs. What kind of fruiting chamber are you using. I have that same problem with garlic stalks before and straw to open air sources
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flyontoast
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Re: White puffy/bead contam on straw [Re: tump]
#23607972 - 09/03/16 12:51 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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That contam in only on straw and doesn't seem to have caused any problems yet. My garlic stalks colonized very fast and looks healthy. What's wrong with garlic stalks? Should find out in the next week or two if they fruit. I'm fruiting in a recycled hoophouse that I placed in the wood lot.
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flyontoast
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Re: White puffy/bead contam on straw [Re: tump]
#23662707 - 09/20/16 06:54 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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tump said: That was foolish to use garlic plant matter. Other than that hard to tell might be a contam form bugs. What kind of fruiting chamber are you using. I have that same problem with garlic stalks before and straw to open air sources
Sorry to revive this thread, but my garlic batches fruited nicely. They've been resting for a little over a week and I'm going to try to flush them again next week. I didn't take weights to calculate BE, but free ag waste is free. Either way the myc block will either go into the compost or feed the chickens, so not an entire waste. Care to elaborate on the problems with garlic matter?
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Re: White puffy/bead contam on straw [Re: flyontoast]
#23663603 - 09/20/16 11:09 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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The reason i have problems with garlic stalks is the small amount of antibiotic slow down my myc speed. But free is free cant argue with that.
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