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dracaena_lisa
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Re: Recognizing and dealing with contamination [Re: cozmyc]
#27859818 - 07/12/22 10:56 AM (1 year, 6 months ago) |
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Are these contaminated? They were supposed to be Super Strain Koh Samui from PremiumSpores.com but they look quite a bit fatter and shorter than I thought they would...
Edited by dracaena_lisa (07/12/22 11:21 AM)
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Re: Recognizing and dealing with contamination [Re: dracaena_lisa]
#27859822 - 07/12/22 11:00 AM (1 year, 6 months ago) |
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The mushrooms look ok.What did you roll your cakes in? Is that bark, or super coarse verm? They look like nice KSSS UFOs to me.
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Thank you so much!!! Super corse verm . Next time we'll buy finer verm!
Edited by dracaena_lisa (07/12/22 11:31 AM)
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Re: Recognizing and dealing with contamination [Re: dracaena_lisa]
#27859846 - 07/12/22 11:35 AM (1 year, 6 months ago) |
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dracaena_lisa said: Thank you so much!!! Super corse verm . Next time we'll buy finer verm!
The verm I got is like this too. No need to buy a diff kind (if you can even find that in a b&m anymore). I just spin mine a few times in the blender, works great!
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Re: Recognizing and dealing with contamination [Re: Kizzle]
#27860954 - 07/13/22 09:09 AM (1 year, 6 months ago) |
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I noticed some green spots in my jars about 2 days after shaking. Didn't see those before the shake. But the green spots really don't seem to be growing much...
Might this be trichoderma?
Here are some pictures, taken soon after a shake, and then two days later:
Jar 1
Jar 2

Jar 3

Jar 4

Jar 5

And there here are some more jars with some funky green stuff.

Is this a show-stopper for these jars?
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Re: Recognizing and dealing with contamination [Re: Kizzle]
#27860958 - 07/13/22 09:12 AM (1 year, 6 months ago) |
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I’ll let someone keener than I confirm, but that looks like bruising to me. Looks more blue than green.
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Re: Recognizing and dealing with contamination [Re: Smellyhobbit]
#27860975 - 07/13/22 09:31 AM (1 year, 6 months ago) |
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@baldur* Keep your eyes on whatever u suspect If it expands it's mold
Edited by Culliganman360 (07/13/22 09:32 AM)
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Re: Recognizing and dealing with contamination [Re: Culliganman360]
#27861173 - 07/13/22 12:41 PM (1 year, 6 months ago) |
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This is surely not expanding, so yeah hopefully not mold.
But I'm not familiar with the concept of bruising. What is that exactly in this context?
I did shake the jars quite vigorously, by banging them on a rubber slipper quite hard. 3-4 bangs resulted in all the grains being loose. Did I maybe overdo it?
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Re: Recognizing and dealing with contamination [Re: baldur]
#27861183 - 07/13/22 12:46 PM (1 year, 6 months ago) |
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baldur said: This is surely not expanding, so yeah hopefully not mold.
But I'm not familiar with the concept of bruising. What is that exactly in this context?
I did shake the jars quite vigorously, by banging them on a rubber slipper quite hard. 3-4 bangs resulted in all the grains being loose. Did I maybe overdo it?
You know how mushrooms bruise blue? Mycelium also bruises blue. And you did shake it, so there would be bruising
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Re: Recognizing and dealing with contamination [Re: Smellyhobbit]
#27861187 - 07/13/22 12:48 PM (1 year, 6 months ago) |
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Ahhh mushroom bruising! I was thinking it was the grains that were bruising.
Yes I do know that kind of bruising, my brain is just not working at full speed today 
So would this indicate that I am shaking them to hard?
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Re: Recognizing and dealing with contamination [Re: baldur]
#27861252 - 07/13/22 01:42 PM (1 year, 6 months ago) |
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baldur said:
So would this indicate that I am shaking them to hard?
Nope, you can shake as hard as you need. Too many shakes after full colonization and you might start getting diminishing returns.
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Edited by cozmyc (07/13/22 01:48 PM)
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Re: Recognizing and dealing with contamination [Re: cozmyc]
#27862218 - 07/14/22 08:58 AM (1 year, 6 months ago) |
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so I s2b some shoeboxes on 6/29 and last night I noticed a weird spot on one of them. the surface conditions look great, no signs of dense white anywhere. smells super healthy too
so im just wondering if this is contamination starting or just some bruising and me overthinking it lol
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Re: Recognizing and dealing with contamination [Re: thetryptkeeper] 1
#27862284 - 07/14/22 09:55 AM (1 year, 6 months ago) |
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I don't see anything
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Re: Recognizing and dealing with contamination [Re: Culliganman360]
#27862299 - 07/14/22 10:09 AM (1 year, 6 months ago) |
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This is the first time I have seen this in my LC, though I do VERY little LC so am not that skilled in it.

I am going to guess this is some sort of mold (the bright white growth) like penicillin or trich or something? When I dropped the tiny agar bit into the jar in front of my flow hood, it sank (50/50 some sink some float). The mycelium grew as normal from the bottom of the jar and suddenly one day I noticed this little floater here growing. It floated on the surface for 5 or so days before sinking and now living below the surface.
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Re: Recognizing and dealing with contamination [Re: Culliganman360]
#27862305 - 07/14/22 10:13 AM (1 year, 6 months ago) |
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I hope im just overanalyzing. its got some color in person but I guess ill find out over the next day or so
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Re: Recognizing and dealing with contamination [Re: Hindsight] 1
#27862316 - 07/14/22 10:19 AM (1 year, 6 months ago) |
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Hindsight that is weird. What if that white ball is the only mycelium and the rest is mold  Flame u up a needle and go poke it lol @keeper ya bro if u think it's something just keep them eyes on it watch to c if it grows in size
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Re: Recognizing and dealing with contamination [Re: thetryptkeeper]
#27862354 - 07/14/22 10:51 AM (1 year, 6 months ago) |
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thetryptkeeper said:

so I s2b some shoeboxes on 6/29 and last night I noticed a weird spot on one of them. the surface conditions look great, no signs of dense white anywhere. smells super healthy too
so im just wondering if this is contamination starting or just some bruising and me overthinking it lol
I see a little blueing but nothing that looks bad, at least in my opinion. Trich would be more green and when I had a tub with it on the side like that it was a lighter green, kind of hard to see. Ok the surface there was no mistaking it.
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Re: Recognizing and dealing with contamination [Re: Bigworm]
#27862411 - 07/14/22 11:54 AM (1 year, 6 months ago) |
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Bigworm said:
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thetryptkeeper said:

so I s2b some shoeboxes on 6/29 and last night I noticed a weird spot on one of them. the surface conditions look great, no signs of dense white anywhere. smells super healthy too
so im just wondering if this is contamination starting or just some bruising and me overthinking it lol
I see a little blueing but nothing that looks bad, at least in my opinion. Trich would be more green and when I had a tub with it on the side like that it was a lighter green, kind of hard to see. Ok the surface there was no mistaking it.
yeah the surface is looking fantastic I was just feeling a bit nervous lol
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Re: Recognizing and dealing with contamination [Re: thetryptkeeper]
#27862585 - 07/14/22 02:34 PM (1 year, 6 months ago) |
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Keep an eye on it though.
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Re: Recognizing and dealing with contamination [Re: Bigworm]
#27863336 - 07/15/22 06:35 AM (1 year, 6 months ago) |
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this is roughly a 24 hr update. the bluing has spread a bit but the white dot in the middle is making me very nervous
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