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mold vs mycelium
    #26797540 - 07/01/20 06:23 PM (3 years, 7 months ago)

Hello everyone. I am an amateur mushroom cultivator looking for some advice. It seems one of my PF Tek jars must have been contaminated through the air, and there is a slight amount of what seems to be slime mold growing at the top. The mycelium has begun to take off in multiple places under the vermiculite layer, but I am worried about the mold spreading. It seems to have stayed stagnant for the past few days while the mycelium has been spreading. What do you guys think? Should I risk opening the jar to kill the mold and maybe add more vermiculite or is that more risky that just leaving it?


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Re: mold vs mycelium [Re: mrmonkeyman]
    #26797891 - 07/01/20 09:33 PM (3 years, 7 months ago)

You have two choices.
Leave it and observe what happens - not recommended.
Or Retry.


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Re: mold vs mycelium [Re: mrmonkeyman]
    #26798013 - 07/01/20 10:41 PM (3 years, 7 months ago)

You need to read PF tek again. What you are doing certainly is not PF tek.


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Re: mold vs mycelium [Re: Tight Lunchbox]
    #26798037 - 07/01/20 10:53 PM (3 years, 7 months ago)

sorry i was only referring to the method of sterilization and the vermiculite on top. you are right it is not strictly pf tek, should have made that clear


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Re: mold vs mycelium [Re: mrmonkeyman]
    #26798040 - 07/01/20 10:56 PM (3 years, 7 months ago)

What exactly is in the jar?


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Re: mold vs mycelium [Re: mushhead]
    #26798043 - 07/01/20 10:56 PM (3 years, 7 months ago)

does opening jars briefly once mycelium has started growing really that risky? i can easily wipe away all the infected grains with a clean towel.


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Re: mold vs mycelium [Re: Tight Lunchbox]
    #26798045 - 07/01/20 10:57 PM (3 years, 7 months ago)

it is finch bird seed with vermiculite on top.


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    #26798049 - 07/01/20 11:00 PM (3 years, 7 months ago)

You can't open a jar unless it's in front of a flow hood, in a SAB, or it's 100% colonized.

Bird seed needs to be sterilized in a PC. You can't steam sterilize it like PF jars unless you do it for an entire day.


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