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What happened to my grow bags? Weird slime and smell
#26732867 - 06/09/20 10:18 PM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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Hi
I’m a noob to mushroom growing but something has definitely gone wrong with some grow bags I started. I started the first two on April 4th and the second two on April 24th. None of them have any growth.
The first 2 out of the 4 have a yellowish watery slime on the bottom https://imgur.com/gallery/T0qFiem They’re also giving off an odour. Hard to describe as it’s not pleasant or unpleasant, but it’s definitely noticeable. I injected each bag with 6ccs which may have been too much moisture from what I’ve read.
The second two I did 4ccs and they don’t have the watery slime but have tiny white dots, they don’t look like myc growth and those bags are doing nothing also.
The bags are from Midwest organics and the spores were from MicroTech.
I’ve started another new set of bags that Midwest replaced for me with spores from spore works and one of the two is showing myc growth after 7 days which is cool, the other bag isn’t.
I noticed the spores from spore works were chock full of black particles vs the ones from micro tech what you really have to look hard to see any spores.
Can anyone advise me on what went wrong? I’m guessing either dud spores or bacteria.
Thanks
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Re: What happened to my grow bags? Weird slime and smell [Re: uketernity]
#26732926 - 06/09/20 10:50 PM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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Edited by The Fresh Prints (06/09/20 10:54 PM)
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Re: What happened to my grow bags? Weird slime and smell [Re: The Fresh Prints]
#26734734 - 06/10/20 03:44 PM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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I assume you bought pre-sterilized bags, is that correct? Impossible to know if it was bad sterilization or the syringe was contaminated. Either way, those bags are trash, they are incredibly contaminated. The amount of visible spores in the syringe has no bearing on how clean the syringe is, you could have zero visible spores and it be healthy or totally contam'd! Syringe directly to grain is a crapshoot. Sometimes it works out, sometimes it doesn't.
Also please edit out all names of vendors!
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Re: What happened to my grow bags? Weird slime and smell [Re: MLPismyOPSEC]
#26734756 - 06/10/20 03:58 PM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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They’re extremely bacterial.
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Re: What happened to my grow bags? Weird slime and smell [Re: MLPismyOPSEC]
#26734822 - 06/10/20 04:25 PM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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yup..could've been poorly sterilized bags or a contaminated syringe (which is not rare or strange at all)
You can go straight to grains using a spore syringe but it will always be a shot in the dark and you hope to end up with mushrooms. If you germinate spores on agar first, then achieve a clean culture to take to grains, you will end up with mushrooms as long as you follow a bulk tek until you know what to do.
BRF cakes seem to handle the random bad stuff in syringes fairly well so if you really wanna use spore syringes thats the way to go.
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Re: What happened to my grow bags? Weird slime and smell [Re: Roger Clemency]
#26737565 - 06/11/20 06:48 PM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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Thanks for the feedback.
I assumed they’d gotten contaminated as they don’t look good and as mentioned the smell is a bit odd.
Regarding the syringe, I wasn’t commenting on it’s sterilisation but more the ability to produce mycelium due to the visible spores.
In any case, of the 6 bags I’ve inoculated, 2 have the brown sludge, two did nothing but no sludge, one has mycelium growth and I’m waiting on the other.
I did the 6 bags in 3 separate attempts, with the first 2 attempts using spores from the same supplier that seem to have gotten bacteria or done nothing.
The last attempt seems more promising with spores from a different and I think more reputable vendor.
Will keep you posted with results.
Thanks for the help so far.
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Re: What happened to my grow bags? Weird slime and smell [Re: uketernity]
#26749477 - 06/16/20 04:27 PM (3 years, 7 months ago) |
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Well here are the results for 1 of the 2 newest bags

Unfortunately the other bag seems to have stalled.
Have gone ahead and inoculated 2 more bags with PF Classic so will see how they turn out.
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