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FruitingBuddy
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A short story about partially colonised and contaminated brf cakes
#26867650 - 08/07/20 05:02 AM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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"If your cakes are contaminated, toss and try again. rip" These are words which I heard more times than the amount of times I checked on colonisation progress during the day.
I am a noob. Around a month ago I inoculated my first ever brf jars. Three long weeks passed as my impatience grew and grew. Two jars stalled at around 40%, and I felt that something is wrong. I opened them up, gave em a big old sniff and smelled a bakery. No, not the smell of fresh baked bread, I smelled yeast and fermentation. "Toss it", they said. I refused.
First, I took off everything uncolonised from the outside, dunked them, went to bed, contemplated my life choices and fell asleep.
In the morning, I buried a small hole in some soil in the garden and placed the cakes just so the top part of the cakes is visible. I figured they will fruit faster because of this (on the 1% chance they will even fruit, I still liked those odds), due to them being exposed to air, rain and light. Two days later I check on my little mistakes and I saw snails! First the radish, then my poor yeast fermented brown rice flour babies?! Where does it end, you god damn snails? I decide to dig them out, and place them in a small pot with normal soil and keep it indoors, far away from the vicious snails.
Three days passed. I have nothing else to do so I intimidate the pot on a regular basis with intense observation. I forced the cakes into submission and they became less of a massacre then they were, since I noticed small mycelium growth in the soil.
Of course I don't leave them to grow, I take another pot, poke some holes in it and make a disaster of a sgfc with a mentality of why the hell not. I take the cakes out of the soil, give em a good bath and place them into the small pot sgfc. At this point they look pretty disgusting, with soil stuck hard into the cakes at some areas, another areas blue with bruising, and probably a fair amount of trich from the soil.
I mist and fan for three days and woah! I see what possibly is a pin! This was very amusing as the only thing I expected from these happy little accidents is that they would infect my house and the neighbourhood. Into a real sgfc they go! Yaddi yaddi yadda, five days later, boom:

The moral of the story for me is, I don't think I will ever toss a contaminated cake in my life. Peace
Edited by FruitingBuddy (08/07/20 05:45 AM)
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Jatzan
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Re: A short story about partially colonised and contaminated brf cakes [Re: FruitingBuddy]
#26867679 - 08/07/20 06:04 AM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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Jatzan
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Re: A short story about partially colonised and contaminated brf cakes [Re: Jatzan]
#26867683 - 08/07/20 06:05 AM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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Joke aside, I am happy for you 
This will encourage people to grow a lot of weird stuff xD
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redhandmat
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Re: A short story about partially colonised and contaminated brf cakes [Re: Jatzan]
#26867686 - 08/07/20 06:07 AM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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Its nothing new that when cakes or subs stall due to contamination, burying them in soil may help them fruit. You happened to bring yours in again after a while. But if you left them outside they would have fruited just fine too. I dont get whats new here.
BUT Im happy you got fruits!
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FruitingBuddy
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Re: A short story about partially colonised and contaminated brf cakes [Re: redhandmat]
#26867703 - 08/07/20 06:18 AM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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I see a lot of posts on reddit where if there is sign of any contamination they say toss it immediately, maybe bury it and forget about it for a while. Also, I'm happy to discover that I can bury cakes in soil to revive them. I didn't read that up anywhere Mycelium is a resilient beast it seems.
You say if I left them outside they would fruit anyway. However after a couple of days snails ate up a bit of the cakes, so I imagine they would either eat the whole thing before it produces anything, or eat the fruits if it produces. I wonder if they can trip and if they tripped off the mycelium...
Edited by FruitingBuddy (08/07/20 06:27 AM)
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Roger Clemency
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Re: A short story about partially colonised and contaminated brf cakes [Re: FruitingBuddy]
#26867876 - 08/07/20 08:31 AM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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Sometimes you can salvage stuff and sometimes not. It just depends on the levels of colonization between cube myc and other stuff.
If you’re running cycles of tubs there’s not much need to mess with contaminated stuff but if it’s your only grow or you just have a few things I’d try to save something. There are few absolutes in this hobby and the world in general.
-------------------- Sour grapes, sweet revenge Heaven starts right where hell ends
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