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First time grower urgent help - need your advice on possible contamination (with pics)
#27084678 - 12/11/20 08:10 PM (3 years, 1 month ago) |
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I am a first time grower and a long term lurker in the forums. I might have a contaminated grow, would love your expert advice.
Background:
I growing Cube B+ for the first time in a kit. I've assisted a friend grow in a similar kit before, so I went into it with some basic practical experience. I followed the instructions on the kit and advice from these forums perfectly through the inoculation of the cakes and dunking phases.
About 10 days ago I set up the fruiting chamber to the textbook growth conditions: 77F, 95% humidity, 10 hours of light exposure (lights came with the kit), Air pump running twice a day for an hour. The kit said not to expect anything to happen for 10 days. I had to step away for a week, so I left it the kit running.
When I came back, I discovered to my great astonishment, that I had maybe 40 full grown mushrooms way past the stage where I could pick them. I also a LOT of black coating on the perlite and the mushrooms. I got rid of the mushrooms and cleaned up the perlite a little. I forgot to take a picture with the mushrooms, but I am attaching pictures after the basic cleanup. I left a few of the pins that seemed to be "clean".

I am not sure what the black stuff is. Mold? Or is because the caps tore away from the mushrooms and dropped all the black stuff. The black stuff is also on the lid of my kit and on the pipes running from the air pump.
Is my grow contaminated? Should I throw all the cakes out and start over? Can this be salvaged at all? Looking to learn what could I have done differently?
I discarded the mushrooms with the black stuff on it.
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Re: First time grower urgent help - need your advice on possible contamination (with pics) [Re: bigbrightdarwin]
#27084686 - 12/11/20 08:14 PM (3 years, 1 month ago) |
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Looks like spores, nothing wrong with the mushrooms and nothing wrong with the cakes.
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Re: First time grower urgent help - need your advice on possible contamination (with pics) [Re: bigbrightdarwin]
#27084688 - 12/11/20 08:17 PM (3 years, 1 month ago) |
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The black stuff should just be spores from the mushrooms. Not harmful to ingest.
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Re: First time grower urgent help - need your advice on possible contamination (with pics) [Re: bigbrightdarwin]
#27084690 - 12/11/20 08:18 PM (3 years, 1 month ago) |
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That black stuff on the cakes and on the mushrooms you tossed are spores, your mushrooms' spores... and it was quite the sporesplosion looks like.
So yea, mushrooms drop spores.
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Re: First time grower urgent help - need your advice on possible contamination (with pics) [Re: Lemgrub]
#27084695 - 12/11/20 08:21 PM (3 years, 1 month ago) |
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Thank you for the quick response. Is it safe to consume the mushrooms i already picked from this flush too? Just wash the black stuff off?
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Re: First time grower urgent help - need your advice on possible contamination (with pics) [Re: bigbrightdarwin]
#27084696 - 12/11/20 08:22 PM (3 years, 1 month ago) |
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The black stuff (spores) are not harmful at all, you can ingest them without fear. The ones you tossed were also edible.
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