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A/C Window Unit Smells Like Shrooms
    #26954709 - 09/25/20 03:52 PM (3 years, 4 months ago)

So this sucks, and I don't know how or why it happened. This has never happened to me once in my life while growing in the same room that I use an A/C in.  Now I know I also dehydrated the shrooms in the same room as the A/C

I took the thing apart and wiped it all down with Clorox wipes not bleach since I didn't have any and this needed to be done ASAP, there was a good bit of mold just growing on under the wheel of the fan. It was extremely hard to get to as I don't have all of the tools I need to tear it completely apart.

However, I took off the casing obviously to clean out what I could, put it back together, and tried it...still there. I can't tell if it's actually just mildew/mold or if it somehow absorbed the dry shroom scent. It's just very odd because not only has it never happened to me before, it also just randomly started all of a sudden one day while I was tripping too and I got hot and turned on the A/C and the smell hit just like dry shrooms or mildew???BOOOM! and my stomach just dropped since I live in a fairly public area, although my building is entirely detached from anyone else I didn't need to be pushing out the mushroom smell from my place, or am I just being paranoid about that?

My biggest concern over just the smell is obviously the possibility of shooting thousands of spores of whatever the fuck is in there, into the room. I am getting another A/C regardless, but I don't know that's such a good idea either because what if it happens to this one too. This happened not long after harvesting which is why I wondered if it somehow absorbed the dry mushroom scent from the dehydrator, or if that's just a coincidence. Smell's not going anywhere anytime soon unless somehow bleach is the solution.

It got so hot today for some odd reason, my room temp is getting like 87 88ish it's unbearable. So that's when I said fuck it and took the thing apart in an attempt to fix the problem. Didn't really fix it but still am currently running it, sprayed some odor remover into it, it's just masking the smell really at this point and I'm terrified of spores getting into my closet that's separated from the room with a simple sheet hanging over the door frame. However, if I don't run it now and it gets too hot, the jars I'm currently germinating will most likely contam if they haven't started already:confused:

One good thing to note is that the smell dissipates by almost 70% I would say once it gets nice and cold.

Please, if anybody has any idea why this would happen, or if it's common and for some reason just didn't ever happen to me until now, I would really like to know how to avoid it besides stopping growing because I don't want to do that, but my place is probably barely 800Sqft in all.

I know it won't get everything, but I also have a very large HEPA filter in the room not far from the A/C which I now aimed the face of the filter towards the A/C. Hopefully, I'm just overthinking all of this. I just know it's extremely easy for the wrong spore to land in the wrong place..and that makes me nervous, of course along with the smell too. I don't need to draw attention to myself.


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Re: A/C Window Unit Smells Like Shrooms [Re: MisterKush]
    #26954854 - 09/25/20 05:43 PM (3 years, 4 months ago)

You're just being paranoid man, anything that gets all mildewy inside will have a mushroomy smell.  Happens all the time with AC units.


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Re: A/C Window Unit Smells Like Shrooms [Re: Forrester]
    #26954863 - 09/25/20 05:52 PM (3 years, 4 months ago)

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Forrester said:
You're just being paranoid man, anything that gets all mildewy inside will have a mushroomy smell.  Happens all the time with AC units.



Lol thank god.


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Re: A/C Window Unit Smells Like Shrooms [Re: MisterKush]
    #26954869 - 09/25/20 05:59 PM (3 years, 4 months ago)

As far as getting it clean, ugh good luck... :smile:


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Re: A/C Window Unit Smells Like Shrooms [Re: Forrester]
    #26954911 - 09/25/20 06:32 PM (3 years, 4 months ago)

lol yeah really..


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