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Farnaby1984
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Weird smell fresh shrooms
#26595668 - 04/12/20 12:24 PM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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Hi everyone!
I hope you're doing fine.
I just harvested my first flush of Mazatapec's from a grow kit today and I'm worried about the smell. Maybe I'm just being paranoid, but some mushrooms had a bit of an acid smell, kind of like urine/vinegar but not exactly.
Now that they have been drying for some hours, that smell is almost gone.
Here are a couple of pictures from the last day of fructification:

And here are pictures from the harvested shrooms:



I think this smell was more present in the shrooms I picked from the side of the substrate.
Do you think they're safe to eat or should I throw them away and hope for a second flush? I say hope, because I had to mistreat the kit a bit to get to the shrooms that had grown on the sides and bottom of the substrate.
Thank you
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Re: Weird smell fresh shrooms [Re: Farnaby1984]
#26595681 - 04/12/20 12:30 PM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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Look fine to me...don’t see why it wouldn’t flush again.
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Re: Weird smell fresh shrooms [Re: Thedenthead]
#26595694 - 04/12/20 12:36 PM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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Thedenthead said: Look fine to me...don’t see why it wouldn’t flush again.
Thanks for the quick reply!
The smell isn't something to worry about then? I'm kind of worried about getting a nasty bacterial infection like botulism xD
I don't remember a bad smell while they were growing, but on the sides there were definitely darker mushrooms that I smelled when I harvested them and they had that sour/acid smell.
I hope you're right about the second flush, I had to flip the substrate and cut the side pins with a knife, don't know if it got contaminated in the process. I guess if it's contaminated we will see signs sooner or later lol.
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Re: Weird smell fresh shrooms [Re: Farnaby1984]
#26595703 - 04/12/20 12:42 PM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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You won’t get sick from bacteria in grows, mold is what you want to worry about. And as for a second flush, that looks better than most of my current shoeboxes on their 3rd flush you should be good!!
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Re: Weird smell fresh shrooms [Re: Myc097]
#26595760 - 04/12/20 01:08 PM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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Myc097 said: You won’t get sick from bacteria in grows, mold is what you want to worry about. And as for a second flush, that looks better than most of my current shoeboxes on their 3rd flush you should be good!!
Thank you! I'm happy to hear that, because doing some research on the internet people advised not to eat anything that doesn't strictly smell like mushrooms.
We'll see how the second flush turns out, because the whole harvesting operation was a bit messy lol
You both haver really nice looking fruits in your signature
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Re: Weird smell fresh shrooms [Re: Farnaby1984]
#26595880 - 04/12/20 02:09 PM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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I forgot to post some other pictures I have taken when harvesting.
This picture is the one that concerns me more:

These looked more healthy as far as I can tell:

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Re: Weird smell fresh shrooms [Re: Farnaby1984]
#26596122 - 04/12/20 04:32 PM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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Bruised side pins. I have ate a absolute ton of “bacterial” mushrooms (I attribute to my poor oat prep). Never had a issue. But that doesn’t look bacterial just looks very bruised. You should be fine. Finish harvesting if you haven’t already and put back into fruiting condition, hydrate as needed.
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Ifkilbadluck said: Bruised side pins. I have ate a absolute ton of “bacterial” mushrooms (I attribute to my poor oat prep). Never had a issue. But that doesn’t look bacterial just looks very bruised. You should be fine. Finish harvesting if you haven’t already and put back into fruiting condition, hydrate as needed.
Than you! I'm happy to hear that. Did any of those "bacterial" shrooms have a weird smell like the one I described when they were fresh?
I dunked the cake and put it to colonize again.
I'll see if I can find some supplies in the grocery store (everything else is closed) so I can improvise a liner and avoud getting as mnay side-pins as I did in the previous flush.
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Re: Weird smell fresh shrooms [Re: Farnaby1984]
#26597867 - 04/13/20 12:00 PM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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This quarantaine situation is so annoying lol.
The only thing I could find is a big bag of desicant (250gr) so I put it in a big tupperware with lots of kitchen paper on top and the shrooms on the kitchen paper.
I hope this is enough to get them cracker dry. I smelled them this afternoon and some of them still have that weird smell, something amonia like, but not exactly.
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Re: Weird smell fresh shrooms [Re: Farnaby1984]
#26599524 - 04/14/20 04:22 AM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Hi everyone!
A little update from today:
The shrooms have been drying with the bag of desicant for 17 hours and some of them are starting to be cracker-dry but others still bend.
To see if it was me who was being paranoid about the smell, my girlfriend smelled one of the mushrooms that I suspected could be contaminated by bacteria and she instantly made a grimace and said the smell reminded her a bit of amonia.
Do you still think they're safe to eat?
Thank you!
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