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BiGF0007
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Yellow Oyster cakes - brown dot in my jar
#26810877 - 07/08/20 11:50 AM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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Hi everyone, I started yellow oysters while waiting for my regular oysters to fruit. The jars are now nearly fully colonized and I plan to spawn them to bulk tomorrow or the day after tomorrow.
When I had a look at the jars, I noticed a brown part within the mycelium.


I think I had a very small such dot in my jars for the normal oyster and removed it before crumbling the cake into my bulk sub. Everything colonized fine. This time, it is bigger and I wonder what I should do: a) crumble the whole cake into the sub because the brown dot is nothing to worry about b) remove all the brown parts and use the rest c) discard the whole jar and not use its contents
I'm worried to waste a whole bucket just because I want to use everything. Three jars would also be enough for my bulk substrate so I could discard one without losing a whole bucket.
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bogdancev
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Re: Yellow Oyster cakes - brown dot in my jar [Re: BiGF0007]
#26811899 - 07/09/20 12:20 AM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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Second picture definitely looks like it is ready to be used as spawn.
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BiGF0007
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Re: Yellow Oyster cakes - brown dot in my jar [Re: bogdancev]
#26811992 - 07/09/20 02:39 AM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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Thanks, I'll spawn today or tomorrow depending on how fast I can pasteurize my sub and how fast it will cool down.
What do you think of the brownish spot in the jar on the first image? Should I use this jar or just use the other three? More spawn would be nice but I fear that I might ruin everything if I use this jar.
Can I soak my cakes in the same pot or should I be careful not to contaminate all of them by bathing them in the same liquid as the one that looks different?
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bogdancev
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Re: Yellow Oyster cakes - brown dot in my jar [Re: BiGF0007]
#26812028 - 07/09/20 03:56 AM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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I cannot understand what is on the first picture. Also under that spot you have narrow non-white region that looks like not fully colonized area with very thin mycelium.
Were those bottles conceived at the same time?
I usually break up the spawn with my hands and mix it with whatever materials for substrate I have, at this time I can smell it nicely. So when you spawn, try to smell it first.
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BiGF0007
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Re: Yellow Oyster cakes - brown dot in my jar [Re: bogdancev]
#26812103 - 07/09/20 05:10 AM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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Quote:
bogdancev said: Were those bottles conceived at the same time?
Yes, they were. But I have the feeling that I didn't mix the rice flour very evenly this time and that there are clumps sticking to my jar.
Also, I had experimented with the amount of liquid I injected from the syringe. One of the jars got a huge piece of mycelium from the syringe while others only got liquid without any visible mycelium. And into the last jar, I injected what was left of the syringe (more than into the others). So the one with the visible mycelium and the one with more liquid were faster than the others (my experiment confirmed my expectations) and the others took a bit longer to fully colonize. Now I am here with two slower and two quicker jars. But except for the one not very colonized spot and the brown spots (which I suspect to be brown rice flour clumps) they seem to be more of less fully colonized.
I'd like to spawn them into bulk and because I have too little for three buckets, I'd just throw the two slower jars in as well, even if they were only colonized 95% because the spawn is more than enough.
I'll smell my jars and decide if I should use it from what I smell. Maybe I'll also throw away the material around the spot. Thanks.
Edited by BiGF0007 (07/09/20 05:13 AM)
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