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Weird Grow and Likely Contam? (pics) - Long time lurker/1st time grower
    #24250523 - 04/16/17 11:54 PM (7 years, 8 months ago)

Hello shroomery!  I have lurked on these forums for a long time and decided it was time to grow my own mushrooms.  I ordered Brazilian strain mushrooms because of their easy to grow reputation.  I used a grow kit consisting of rye berries then transferring to a bag with horse poop and other nutrients.  (growkit here http://www.shroomsupply.com/easiest-mushroom-grow-kit-instructions) ; Before you flame me I intended to use PF tek method but I cannot right now because I have to grow in secret and I am leaving in 1 month for awhile and didn't want to waste all of my equipment.

I followed the instructions on that site verbatim and I haven't had any issues until now.  My initial inculcation was a success and my bag of rye berries was completely snow white.  Now, I am 11 days into the mycelium being moved to the substrate and I think I may have a contamination.

Below I have included 4 pictures of my 2 grow bags.  First the surface of each and then the sites of possible contamination.  During the grow process my bags always seemed to be humid and have strange clumps of white ball mycelium in them.  I've looked for hours online and on shroomery and can't find anything similar to my situation.

The spots in the pictures below appear to be grayish black.  However, in person you can see a obvious blue tint to them, looking darker gray in the the middle and blueish on the outside. They are ONLY appearing on the rubbery spots of clumped of mycelium.  I touched them through the back and they feel a lot tougher than the rubber mycelium.

My initial speculation about these spots are shit it was so humid and I got some weird mold.  After looking around online I think it could be:
- Mold or weird contam
- Bruising because it only appears on side where bag tightly presses against
- A weird psilocybin spot because they appear blueish and on thick mycelium.

I honestly have no clue what this is because I can't find anything about it online.  I also cannot find anybody who has a similar growing pattern to me.  Even if it is infected by something I'm hoping to get a small patch of good shrooms to enjoy.

Thanks for any help :smile:

Here is my log I have kept of my growing:
3/6/27 - Inoculation started
3/27/17 - 3 weeks pass 40% colonized
4/4/17 - Broke up mycelium
4/6/17 - moved shrooms to final bag to being colonizing.
4/13/17 - started fruiting process (light and fan)
4/16/17 - First noticed these small blueish gray spots.

Edited by Washert (04/19/17 02:07 AM)

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Re: Weird Grow and Likely Contam? (pics) - Long time lurker/1st time grower [Re: Washert]
    #24250665 - 04/17/17 01:40 AM (7 years, 8 months ago)

welcome to the boards, look forward to seeing you progress

#1 no one cares what method you use enough to flame you over it. so dont take it personally when people explain the problems with grow kits, and how it does not meet your criteria of "secrecy" any better than a proper tek


#2 you should delete those tinypic links and upload your images to the the shroomery, and repost them. shroomery clears exif data from your images, for your protection, those other sites dont. then we wont be able to tell things like your address and the fact that you took those pics with your Galaxy S6 64GB (AT&T) :wink:

#3 its really hard to tell what we are looking at in those pics. maybe take some with better context?

#4 kits teach you all the wrong habits, and have you trying to follow "some sites instructions" rather than learning basic cultivation techniques. you will spend lots of your time unlearning whatever that kit "taught" you

#5 whatever we are looking at looks quite rough. im guessing you started from spores? you are better off starting over, memorizing bodhis signature links, and go spores > agar > grain > CVG monotub, and you will have more mushrooms, faster, and far more covertly than your kit (and you will be able to rinse and repeat any time you want)


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Edited by c10h12n2o (04/17/17 01:41 AM)

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