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Offlineknightyknight
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Is this trichoderma/other contam?
    #26434510 - 01/15/20 08:26 AM (4 years, 1 month ago)

Hello,

This is my first post here, and so far have been using this site as main source of information for my first grow.
Thank you very much!
I hope someone can help me.

A month ago I inoculated BRF jars and on 12.01. placed the colonized and consolidated cakes (1 week) into SGFC.
They started pinning right after and I've misted them 3-4 times a day until they are glistening with moisture.

Yesterday some weird snow white growth started appearing (or I only noticed it yesterday). It is kinda fuzzyish. Today it has gotten quite bigger.
Can someone tell me what might it be? I suppose it kind of looks like trichoderma (based on my findings using search), but I would still like to confirm before I toss these 4 cakes.

SGFC smells very mushroomy during misting but after that there is some slight funny smell or I am just being paranoid.

I will watch any signs of changing color during following days.
If it is trichoderma do I have any options besides tossing them?

It is kind of hard to get a good picture as the room is not the brightest.

Thank you!






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Re: Is this trichoderma/other contam? [Re: knightyknight]
    #26434513 - 01/15/20 08:30 AM (4 years, 1 month ago)

This is day 4 after the dunk for 24 hours and rolling them in verm.
On some cakes the verm didn't stick too well and fell off after misting.


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Re: Is this trichoderma/other contam? [Re: knightyknight]
    #26434538 - 01/15/20 08:50 AM (4 years, 1 month ago)

I believe you have nothing to worry about. Looks like myc poking through the verm layer which is normal.


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Re: Is this trichoderma/other contam? [Re: knightyknight]
    #26434542 - 01/15/20 08:54 AM (4 years, 1 month ago)

Cakes are looking good! Mines always looked like that in the SGFC due to seemingly inadequate FAE (that's why I switched to the humidity chamber). When I started I threw out cakes because they bruised, others because they had aerial mycelium. Now I know better!

I see no discoloration and no sign of contams (but I'm not an expert on contams. I've yet to have a visible contam on any of my cakes).

(The "funky" after smell is probably just paranoia. I've had the same issues, smelling things that weren't there because my mind was freaking out as a noob. Obviously if the "funky" smell gets stronger, keep an eye on them. But it sounds like they're doing well).


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Re: Is this trichoderma/other contam? [Re: StrohngBahd]
    #26434581 - 01/15/20 09:36 AM (4 years, 1 month ago)

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StrohngBahd said:
I believe you have nothing to worry about. Looks like myc poking through the verm layer which is normal.




Correct.  :whathesaid:

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Re: Is this trichoderma/other contam? [Re: BLINKfan420]
    #26434599 - 01/15/20 09:49 AM (4 years, 1 month ago)

I took them out to smell closer after they dried from misting and I'm completely positive they smell very different than in the beginning.
They were smelling like mushrooms when i placed them in and now the smell is overpowered by another.

Some of those white growths are blueish now, which might be just bruising, but the smell worries me.

Starting to get worried, I think it's still supposed to smell like mushrooms.

Eh, guess I will have to wait a bit and see what happens.
No idea what went wrong as they were perfect before fruiting.


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Re: Is this trichoderma/other contam? [Re: knightyknight]
    #26434670 - 01/15/20 10:55 AM (4 years, 1 month ago)

I rubbed some of the areas and they turned dark blue after a few minutes and smelled like mushrooms.
But still don't know what is the stronger smell and whether they are contaminated.


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Re: Is this trichoderma/other contam? [Re: knightyknight]
    #26434730 - 01/15/20 11:38 AM (4 years, 1 month ago)

I had some funky mold, possibly Trich, a month ago in a tub. When opening the monotub, it smelled like rotting bananas, but no green yet. The next day and it was green everywhere.  Just keep an eye on it.


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Re: Is this trichoderma/other contam? [Re: Jester_Mode]
    #26434743 - 01/15/20 11:45 AM (4 years, 1 month ago)

look a bot on the wet side tho


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Re: Is this trichoderma/other contam? [Re: knightyknight]
    #26434813 - 01/15/20 12:21 PM (4 years, 1 month ago)

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knightyknight said:
I rubbed some of the areas and they turned dark blue after a few minutes and smelled like mushrooms.
But still don't know what is the stronger smell and whether they are contaminated.




Well if you rub them they will bruise. When I was completely new to cakes I would pick them up too much and they would always turn dark blue where I handled them.

Also you seem to be doing what I did when I started, and that is finding problems where there are none. It should generally smell like mushrooms but other things give off smells too. I once washed my SGFC with way too much alcohol and forgot. Then when I put my cakes into it I thought they had fermented badly even though they looked fine. I took them out and no smell! Then I realized the SGFC was stinking of the alcohol but the cakes were fine.

Read and study this if you are worried.

https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/23130868

From those pictures, I think your cakes are fine.


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