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 okonek83
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 Looks like contamination? Cobweb mould? 
#28159411 - 01/27/23 07:14 AM (1 year, 2 months ago) |
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Hi,
Recently I started my second flush from a growkit. The first one went fine, but I left some small aborts and pins for the second flush. A few days ago mushrooms started growing from it, but I'm worried about some strange looking spots. There is a lot of blue/green spots which I think are just the bruises on mycelium from the first harvest. Also I noticed one spot that seems darker than the mycelium and has small hair growing from it, but I don't have any experience in identifying what it is.
It looked like cobweb, so I poured a small amount od H2O2 on it and it made some bubbles but didn't seem to disappear immediately. I'm attaching photos of the kit
     
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 Re: Looks like contamination? Cobweb mould? [Re: okonek83]
#28159417 - 01/27/23 07:19 AM (1 year, 2 months ago) |
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The vermiculite is super moldy.
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Re: Looks like contamination? Cobweb mould? [Re: DERRAYLD]
#28159425 - 01/27/23 07:29 AM (1 year, 2 months ago) |
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So is it possible to save this or should I throw it out?
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Re: Looks like contamination? Cobweb mould? [Re: okonek83]
#28159429 - 01/27/23 07:31 AM (1 year, 2 months ago) |
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Let the mush grow and see what you can harvest.
Edited by DERRAYLD (01/27/23 07:40 AM)
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Re: Looks like contamination? Cobweb mould? [Re: DERRAYLD]
#28159485 - 01/27/23 08:18 AM (1 year, 2 months ago) |
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But won't the mushrooms that grow out be contaminated?
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Re: Looks like contamination? Cobweb mould? *DELETED* [Re: okonek83]
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Re: Looks like contamination? Cobweb mould? [Re: Phaedra]
#28162409 - 01/29/23 06:10 AM (1 year, 2 months ago) |
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Ok, thanks for the clarification. Also, is it possible to identify what kind of mold it is? Is it dangerous to breathe it in?
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Re: Looks like contamination? Cobweb mould? [Re: okonek83]
#28172828 - 02/04/23 10:44 PM (1 year, 2 months ago) |
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Quote:
okonek83 said:
Ok, thanks for the clarification. Also, is it possible to identify what kind of mold it is? Is it dangerous to breathe it in?
Isn't cobweb. It's common to think cobweb, but Bod said it's almost never cobweb, and he'd only seen real cobweb twice in years. Actual cobweb mold looks like kind of like smoke:
https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/25808209#25808209
Yours looks like normal "mean green", or similar, I wouldn't worry about accidentally breathing it. I wouldn't go out of my way to breathe it in deep, but it's not like "toxic mold" you hear about that destroys houses.
Personally I'd toss it.
But if it's your first grow and you don't want to do that, I'd spoon out the mold, toss that, then move kit to an outbuilding or garage out of your living space, let it grow out. Do NOT add heat. If it's cool (but above freezing), shrooms will grow slowly, but mold will also grow slowly.
Then spore print the shrooms, then toss the kit.
If you must eat the shrooms, chop them up, boil them ten min, steep 10 min, strain, and make tea.
I won't eat moldy shrooms, but some people will.
Grow kits usually produce mold or bacteria. It's the exception when grow kits procedure non-moldy shrooms.
But if you make spore prints, you won't have to buy a kit or spores. You'll have spores to learn agar with.
You'll have to do a few transfers away to get away from mold most likely, but that's good practice.
Read the "Things I wish I'd known when I started here" link in my sig line. If I'd read that my first week it would have saved me about 9 months of mistakes. It includes the recommendation "Don't buy grow kits."
Welcome.
Edited by nektar61 (02/04/23 10:53 PM)
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