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Overlay? Need your help guys
    #25948668 - 04/22/19 06:33 AM (5 years, 8 months ago)

Hi everybody! These containers have been in a terrarium (so to speak, I use a plastic wash basin) for a couple of weeks now. Two of them are doing ok, but others are not so well. I suspect an overlay (hope this isn't contamination after all). What should I do? Scrape it off with a fork or something?
My main concern is that some areas of mycelium have pale grey colouring. What is causing this? Dead mycelium? Mould?


To avoid some questions - I used sterilized soil instead of perlite for the casing. Never had any issues with it whatsoever.

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Re: Overlay? Need your help guys [Re: Pickled_koala]
    #25948682 - 04/22/19 06:53 AM (5 years, 8 months ago)

That looks like mold.


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Re: Overlay? Need your help guys [Re: BigSurMoon]
    #25948705 - 04/22/19 07:12 AM (5 years, 8 months ago)

Throw out both of those containers. Looks like trichoderma or some kind of mold.

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Re: Overlay? Need your help guys [Re: WhoKnowsYouKnows]
    #25948727 - 04/22/19 07:44 AM (5 years, 8 months ago)

yeah that looks like it's going to turn green soon.


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Re: Overlay? Need your help guys [Re: Joeyddr]
    #25948749 - 04/22/19 08:09 AM (5 years, 8 months ago)

Thanks, guys. I guess I don't have any other options apart from throwing them away then.:sad:

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Re: Overlay? Need your help guys [Re: Pickled_koala]
    #25948803 - 04/22/19 09:15 AM (5 years, 8 months ago)

You could burry them outside if its not very cold where you live right now, but even that could be a waste of time.

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Re: Overlay? Need your help guys [Re: Pickled_koala]
    #25948841 - 04/22/19 09:54 AM (5 years, 8 months ago)

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To avoid some questions - I used sterilized soil instead of perlite for the casing. Never had any issues with it whatsoever.




:facepalm3:

throw out everything and follow a real tek.

sterilized dirt as a casing is a hard fail. is that a peanut shell i see?

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Re: Overlay? Need your help guys [Re: mushboy]
    #25948851 - 04/22/19 10:07 AM (5 years, 8 months ago)

I see peanut shell lol

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Re: Overlay? Need your help guys [Re: bodhisatta]
    #25949158 - 04/22/19 01:39 PM (5 years, 8 months ago)

What? That isn't a peanut shell lol. It's a piece of expanded clay. I bought the soil in a store btw and sterilised it by myself. Maybe you don't know but you can successfully use soil as a casing. Finished a decent amount of cycles using this method.

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Re: Overlay? Need your help guys [Re: Pickled_koala]
    #25949160 - 04/22/19 01:42 PM (5 years, 8 months ago)

"can" and what's reliable are very different things

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Re: Overlay? Need your help guys [Re: Pickled_koala]
    #25949161 - 04/22/19 01:42 PM (5 years, 8 months ago)

I've used dirt in container/bottle style grows but that was sterile during colonization inside the containers.

When using soil as a casing you need to pasteurize the soil. Sterilizing the soil like you did leads to mold:oldman:

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Re: Overlay? Need your help guys [Re: mushboy]
    #25949280 - 04/22/19 03:06 PM (5 years, 8 months ago)

Alright, maybe I used the wrong term. What I meant by 'sterilized soil' was that I put a jar with moist soil in it in a pressure cooker for an hour.

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Re: Overlay? Need your help guys [Re: Pickled_koala]
    #25949283 - 04/22/19 03:07 PM (5 years, 8 months ago)

So sterilized soil.

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Re: Overlay? Need your help guys [Re: bodhisatta]
    #25949341 - 04/22/19 03:41 PM (5 years, 8 months ago)

It's a bit outdated method, but it's been reliable for me and many other people for years. Sometimes you get contamination but usually, it works like charm.
Check this video out.
Fundamentally it doesn't matter what you put on top of mycelium - sterilized/pasteurized soil, perlite, or a mixture of perlite and peat moss.

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