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Is this good Mycelium?
#27299478 - 05/07/21 11:31 PM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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Hi, I'm new and I bought liquid culture for Amazon strain. I used rye grain berries in 1L jars. These jars are about 3 weeks old. I understand that psilocybin mycelium should look "stringy" but this looks "puffy" even though it is pure white. Is this OK? & if not, What is wrong? I tried to post direct links to the pictures but they came out really huge. Also, my camera isn't great  PS. I used self healing injection port with a 1/4" hole covered in micropore tape for the gas exchange. https://imgur.com/o4x9dIH https://imgur.com/RlWvvaZ https://imgur.com/qBTUNRY
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Re: Is this good Mycelium? [Re: Cokefish]
#27299497 - 05/08/21 12:05 AM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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Did you buy a spore syringe or was it actually liquid culture? I'm gonna guess it was a spore syringe which if so you don't want to take directly to grain as it is really really realllllly hard to make a 100% clean spore syringe. It looks like your jars are bacterial. If they finish colonizing you could spawn them in a shoebox to try to get fruits.
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Re: Is this good Mycelium? [Re: WyoMX]
#27299506 - 05/08/21 12:13 AM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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I bought an actual Liquid Culture syringe. Two of the jars appeared to colonize to over 90%(still looked puffy) so I mixed them to 50/50 verm & coco 4 days ago in a 30 liter tub. Looking through the clear lid it's the same thing, looks like tiny marshmallows but the tub looks likes it's colonizing, I just don't know if it's mycelium because I'm new & it doesn't look "rhizomorphic".
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Re: Is this good Mycelium? [Re: Cokefish]
#27299785 - 05/08/21 07:27 AM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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You should check this out; https://www.shroomery.org/5276/What-are-common-contaminants-of-the-mushroom-culture
I'm also a newbie but from what I've read so far; - Any color besides white is not a good sign*, - Wet spots on jars on grain a great vector for contamination, - Any smell other than earthly mushroom smell is not a good sign (especially sweat and bitter),
* There are 2 exceptions; psilocybin bruising which is blue, mushroom metabolites its a little trickier since their color could change between faint yellow to dark red but in liquid form.
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Cokefish said: I bought an actual Liquid Culture syringe. Two of the jars appeared to colonize to over 90%(still looked puffy) so I mixed them to 50/50 verm & coco 4 days ago in a 30 liter tub. Looking through the clear lid it's the same thing, looks like tiny marshmallows but the tub looks likes it's colonizing, I just don't know if it's mycelium because I'm new & it doesn't look "rhizomorphic".
Newly unearthing mycelium doesn't look rhizomorphic at first but more like little fingers poking out soil. Finally people around here do-not suggest non-fully colonized jars to be spawned on substrate.
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Curious.One said: You should check this out; https://www.shroomery.org/5276/What-are-common-contaminants-of-the-mushroom-culture
I'm also a newbie but from what I've read so far; - Any color besides white is not a good sign*, - Wet spots on jars on grain a great vector for contamination, - Any smell other than earthly mushroom smell is not a good sign (especially sweat and bitter),
* There are 2 exceptions; psilocybin bruising which is blue, mushroom metabolites its a little trickier since their color could change between faint yellow to dark red but in liquid form.
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Cokefish said: I bought an actual Liquid Culture syringe. Two of the jars appeared to colonize to over 90%(still looked puffy) so I mixed them to 50/50 verm & coco 4 days ago in a 30 liter tub. Looking through the clear lid it's the same thing, looks like tiny marshmallows but the tub looks likes it's colonizing, I just don't know if it's mycelium because I'm new & it doesn't look "rhizomorphic".
Newly unearthing mycelium doesn't look rhizomorphic at first but more like little fingers poking out soil. Finally people around here do-not suggest non-fully colonized jars to be spawned on substrate.
"* There are 2 exceptions; psilocybin bruising which is blue, mushroom metabolites its a little trickier since their color could change between faint yellow to dark red but in liquid form."
I just tossed 3 Liquid Culture jars I had because the was a Red layer on top of the liquid......Did I toss good culture?
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Re: Is this good Mycelium? [Re: Cokefish]
#27301436 - 05/09/21 10:20 AM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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No, the metabolites are water soluble they shouldn't create a "layer" on liquid culture. And red metabolites are relatively rare -if not extremely rare as I understand it (never seen one in anywhere in forum but seen a Trusted Cultivator mentioning it)
Metabolites are generally formed while mycelium network works on digesting any nutritious substrate or grain. Think of it as stomach acid of the fungus, since they don't have a stomach they secrete it to their environment. Also they help fungus to fight with the competition.
By the way some people call metabolites "mycelium piss" yet it is a horrible misnomer and veteran mushroom cultivators are seriously pissed of by that.
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