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MikeSelium
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Grey mycelium spot?
#26917983 - 09/04/20 06:46 PM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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Hi,
I've been colonizing three separate large mason jars full of white millet for grain colonization. I just noticed this grey spot in jar #3, ironically as I was getting ready to spawn it to bulk. These were all inculcated with multi-spore agar wedges.
At first I thought it might just be bruising, but it appears to be more grey than blue. It's the only spot in all three jars that looks questionable.
If I decided to go ahead and spawn this to bulk anyways, would the mycelium overcome this "contamination?". Furthermore, if this is indeed contamination, would the resulting mushrooms be obviously deformed, or am I opening up the door to possibly eat something toxic, yet looks healthy and normal?
I'm not able to smell anything through the polyfill filter, but will shake / smell this jar (and the other two) before dumping them into the substrate to double check. But for now, no foul smell is coming out (or really any smell at all)
The spot in question is right on the "Ball" text of the mason jar, so it's hard to see, but hopefully these pictures are good enough to get a consensus.
"Wide shot" picture of the discolored area:

Close up picture of the spot, with the most apparently discolored area pointed to by the green arrow:
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1kldude
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Re: Grey mycelium spot? [Re: MikeSelium] 1
#26918006 - 09/04/20 06:54 PM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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To me i don't see what your are talking about. It looks healthy to me.
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MikeSelium
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Re: Grey mycelium spot? [Re: 1kldude]
#26918048 - 09/04/20 07:16 PM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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The camera admittedly doesn't pick it up super well; it's only slightly discolored and hard to tell even with my own eyes. Compare it to the surrounding white mycelium; the area pointed to by the green arrow is not in a shadow.
A person on another thread showed pictures of drying-out mycelium, and it resembled this color pretty spot on. Is it safe to assume that area might just be slightly dry? The grains have been in the jar for 13 days at this point.
Edited by MikeSelium (09/04/20 07:18 PM)
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CocaineBuffet
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If its fully colonized and you got the substrate to spare I would spawn it personally. If you want to be really conservative you could top fruit in the jar or throw it away if you dont think its worth a shot.
Edit: if it was REALLY me I would stare at it on the shelf for weeks wondering if I should spawn it (not recommended). If I could listen to my own advice it would be either spawn it or get the jar back in rotation for another round.
Edited by CocaineBuffet (09/04/20 07:37 PM)
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MikeSelium
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After looking at more pictures of dried out mycelium, I've decided to just go ahead and spawn it to bulk with the rest of the jars. The grey area has no droplets of water on the glass of the jar, where other areas do. This further points towards dried out mycelium, not contam.
We'll see if I'm wrong in a couple weeks!
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