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Stargate
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Protection From Water?
#23753757 - 10/20/16 12:52 AM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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So, I had a few XL bags of grain that were fully colonized today. When I opened them to mix the spawn into a series of monotubs, I noticed that there was a ton of clear, odorless goo in a bad that had too much moisture. The height of the colonized mass was probably about 9" tall, and the water came up to about the 7" point. The goo formed up to about the 8" height, starting on the bottom.
I've seen it before, and it doesn't effect my grows one bit, but I would still like to know what it really is. Anyone know what its made up of? What its called? I don't remember stumbling across it in my mycology books. It makes me wonder if that stuff has any medical use. Perhaps it could be cultured and wrapped around implantable chips, able to be placed in the cavity of the right hand? One part of it was like a thick membrane. I could wrap it around something easily.
It also appears to be in one of my mason jars. I left some mycelium with nutrients in a jar, and the top of the water is colonized like a petri dish. Its some nice thick mycelium. The mycelium seems to be floating on that same kind of clear gel.
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bodhisatta 
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Re: Protection From Water? [Re: Stargate]
#23756059 - 10/20/16 08:35 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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only ever happened in bacterial jars for me. buy a microscope chances are it's metabolites. sometimes it's very like a gel
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Stargate
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Re: Protection From Water? [Re: bodhisatta]
#23756092 - 10/20/16 08:45 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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I have a microscope, I'll take a look. I've seen metabolites plenty of times before, and it looks nothing like that to me.
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Edited by Stargate (10/20/16 08:47 PM)
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bodhisatta 
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Re: Protection From Water? [Re: Stargate]
#23756138 - 10/20/16 08:56 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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Put more water (sterile) in the bag. Shake then make a slide with that. Dont use a boatload of water. Or if there's enough non gel liquid you can make a slide with that after shaking it around
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Re: Protection From Water? [Re: bodhisatta]
#23756370 - 10/20/16 10:19 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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Could be water with a shitload of starch in it, too. Not good, but not the end of the world. A microscope will tell you for sure.
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