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JT95
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Contamination? Please help
#23777534 - 10/27/16 05:20 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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This is my first grow, I've done large amounts of research but can't wrap my head around this one, someone please give me any insight. I secluded 3 of 12 jars in a container because they looked questionable. Now on has Trichet, most certainly , but I'm not sure what these other 2 have. I will send the best pictures I can, please help.
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Re: Contamination? Please help [Re: JT95]
#23777543 - 10/27/16 05:23 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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those have quite the melange of molds, friend. Did you inoculate in a SAB? Did you use proper sterile technique? Did you properly sterilize your jars? What are we looking at here? It doesn't look to me like you had a proper dry verm layer in place…
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JT95
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Re: Contamination? Please help [Re: dankington]
#23777552 - 10/27/16 05:26 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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Moisture built up within the the dry vermiculite and my tin foil lid, as soon as a noticed I pulled the lids to find this. The trick cake needs to go asap but what's the white stuff on the other two cakes?
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JT95
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Re: Contamination? Please help [Re: JT95]
#23777561 - 10/27/16 05:29 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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These cakes you see are about 10 days after inoculation. I followed the Tek exactly bUT I think I had too much moisture in the substrate and not enough airflow, the lids were on with only pin prick holes for 10 days and I noticed the moisture buildup so I went to take the lids off to let a better air exchange happen when I came across that white stuff. It's really fluffy, should I be worried?
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Tmethyl
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Re: Contamination? Please help [Re: JT95]
#23777588 - 10/27/16 05:37 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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Dactylium, Neurospora, Trichoderma, none of these are desirable fungi.  Restart button. You learned some important things with this failed grow, thus it's never a fail.
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Re: Contamination? Please help [Re: JT95]
#23777718 - 10/27/16 06:07 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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This sounds mean, but it comes from love. I've been told a useful assessment should make you feel bad.
You dun fucked up. Like tremendously, as Bankington said.
How do you have contaminants on both above and below the dry vermiculite layer?
You are probably right that you added too much moisture. Things need to a dryer than you think. Field capacity is a good term to have a practical grip on. This is like not even close to your first problem. If there is a bit too much moisture, if it is sterile, you shouldn't have a contam problem so much as the mycelium just wont grow.
Seriously, did you sterilize anything? Also, I really have my doubts you followed a tek to the T. If cubes were unbelievably resilient then they would grow in your home normally and we wouldn't special methods to cultivate them versus the useless shit in your home that is resilient and taking over your jars. Taking off the top of the jars for air exchange is a terrible idea. You perhaps need to read more. PF jars are crazy hard to screw up in such a spectacular fashion.
Once again, this is out of love. I'll be happy to answer any of your questions to the best of my ability.
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bummer man, be careful with water and remember to steralize, maybe lower temp a little haha
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JT95
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I appreciate the honesty:) So the sides of the jars are showing mold and now colonization? How can you tell under the Vermont layer is mold?
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JT95
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Re: Contamination? Please help [Re: JT95]
#23777768 - 10/27/16 06:20 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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I appreciate the honesty:) So the sides of the jars aren't showing colonization? It's mold?
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IAMNOTALLAMA
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Re: Contamination? Please help [Re: JT95]
#23777823 - 10/27/16 06:34 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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This is a massively helpful post you should check out and use as a reference:
https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=2&Number=17231150&fpart=&PHPSESSID=
Contams and mycelium can compete. Sure you have mycelium in there, but it is not winning.
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Edited by IAMNOTALLAMA (10/27/16 06:36 PM)
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Tmethyl
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Quote:
IAMNOTALLAMA said: This is a massively helpful post you should check out and use as a reference:
https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=2&Number=17231150&fpart=&PHPSESSID=
Contams and mycelium can compete. Sure you have mycelium in there, but it is not winning.
I recognize that thread from somewhere...
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Re: Contamination? Please help [Re: Tmethyl]
#23778698 - 10/27/16 10:41 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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Hahaha. It is one of the only posts I have saved. Shit is golden. Really appreciate the work you put into it.
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