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ZombiWurm
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Is it normal for a popcorn to begin changing colors during colonization?
#26366005 - 12/06/19 10:36 PM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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I have some popcorn that I inoculated on the 22nd of November. I am just now noticing that some of the kernels are beginning to turn a reddish pink color. It's not something growing on the kernals and the ones turning this color are already colonized with mycelium. Could this be endospores germinating within the kernel or what could it be?

All of these jars have been shaken so the mycelium looks a little odd.
Edited by ZombiWurm (12/07/19 09:31 AM)
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feldman114
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Re: Is it normal for a popcorn to begin changing colors during colonization? [Re: ZombiWurm]
#26366008 - 12/06/19 10:38 PM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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Sounds like contams to me, but no one can say for sure without PICS!
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ZombiWurm
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Re: Is it normal for a popcorn to begin changing colors during colonization? [Re: feldman114]
#26366013 - 12/06/19 10:44 PM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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My camera wont catch details good enough for you to see it in a photo. I have never used corn before. I've always used rye berries.
Edited by ZombiWurm (12/06/19 10:45 PM)
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feldman114
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Re: Is it normal for a popcorn to begin changing colors during colonization? [Re: ZombiWurm]
#26366017 - 12/06/19 10:46 PM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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Reddish pink popcorn should be pretty easy to spot and there might be something else you’re not seeing
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Re: Is it normal for a popcorn to begin changing colors during colonization? [Re: feldman114]
#26366018 - 12/06/19 10:51 PM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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Not normal.
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Re: Is it normal for a popcorn to begin changing colors during colonization? [Re: Leon Forest]
#26366028 - 12/06/19 11:05 PM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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Sounds like fusarium or that other red contam I forget the name.
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ZombiWurm
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Re: Is it normal for a popcorn to begin changing colors during colonization? [Re: spiritlands]
#26366036 - 12/06/19 11:16 PM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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I've read that it can be normal for colonized kernels to turn a reddish color. That seems to be what's happening here. I'll try taking photos when my phone charges but I don't think it will pick up the details well. This red color does not seem to be growing on the kernal but instead inside the kernal or the kernal itself is changing color.
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ZombiWurm
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Re: Is it normal for a popcorn to begin changing colors during colonization? [Re: ZombiWurm]
#26366558 - 12/07/19 09:30 AM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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I edited the original post to include photos of the kernels.
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Failboat
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Re: Is it normal for a popcorn to begin changing colors during colonization? [Re: ZombiWurm]
#26366563 - 12/07/19 09:32 AM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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Did you just shake those? If not then that's not healthy. I see no red contams tho.
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ZombiWurm
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Re: Is it normal for a popcorn to begin changing colors during colonization? [Re: Failboat]
#26366568 - 12/07/19 09:34 AM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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I just shook them to better expose the red that I'm seeing. So the red kernals is normal in your opinion?
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Re: Is it normal for a popcorn to begin changing colors during colonization? [Re: ZombiWurm]
#26366648 - 12/07/19 10:19 AM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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In my experience they do change a little bit of hue here and there
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Re: Is it normal for a popcorn to begin changing colors during colonization? [Re: meaculpaUIO]
#26366655 - 12/07/19 10:21 AM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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Lol MEA, In your experience you cant even grow mushrooms off a cake
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Re: Is it normal for a popcorn to begin changing colors during colonization? [Re: bodhisatta]
#26366659 - 12/07/19 10:24 AM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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Got a cake in a bag fruiting in front of my desk
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Re: Is it normal for a popcorn to begin changing colors during colonization? [Re: meaculpaUIO]
#26367250 - 12/07/19 03:58 PM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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Zombi, no worries
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Re: Is it normal for a popcorn to begin changing colors during colonization? [Re: Failboat]
#26368221 - 12/08/19 02:04 AM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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So far looks normal, it's sucking the life(and moisture)out of those Kernels. Here is a couple current pics to compare. These are yellow kernels with just a few reds mixed it. It's whatever I had in the cabinet.
Don't hate on my Mnt Dew Mason jars, on sale cheaper then normal ones 

Edited by murderlabz (12/08/19 02:07 AM)
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