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artfulbodger
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bruising or blue mold.....?
#26833685 - 07/20/20 06:15 AM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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after having to abandon a GT during colonization i am now suspicious of the B+ cake i have - it was dunked & rolled 3 days ago, was pure white, but has now developed blue patches.
they are patches of colour rather than furry (so far), and i don't know whether to put it down to bruising from being handled when rolling or if its the start of blue mold.
i've done the best i can with the pix...



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artfulbodger
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on ckecking the perlite i found it has dried out a lot, so i've added some more damp perlite, lowered the temp slightly to 23*C/75*F, and am misting more regularly in the hope it has just dried out a bit rather than gone moldy.
i'll keep an eye on it & see if it spreads farther, tho' any advice would be welcome if i'm heading the wrong direction or it is just buggered...
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artfulbodger
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turned out to be bruising...
as it happened my old fruiting chamber had cracked so i made a new one, but got the hole size & distribution wrong so the cake dried out too quickly.
i resoaked it for 24hrs in the fridge, adjusted the temp. & lighting and it fruited within 3 days - not a huge quantity, but what i would normally have expected from a 2nd or 3rd flush. I was even able to soak it again and get another small quantity, giving a total of apx. 25 dried grams - not what i would have liked from a normal grow, but far more than i expected from a cake i thought was basically buggered...
the basic issue is that i live in a north-facing flat on the north-west of Ireland, and the ambient temp. in the flat barely breaks 20*C/68*F even in the summer. the upshot of this is that i need to use a heater, controller & a lamp to maintain a sufficient & regular environment for them, and it can be a bit of a balancing act.
set-up seems to be correct & stable now, so i currently have a B+ cake colonising nicely, plus a liquid culture each of B+ and Golden Teacher underway. I'm recording the progress of these with the view of creating a brief grow-diary, if anyone should happen to be interested...
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