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OfflineGuystokesau
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Ovoid contamination cleanup help * 1
    #28376044 - 06/27/23 02:13 AM (1 year, 6 months ago)

So three months ago I had this disgusting mess of ovoid spawn.



In a last ditch effort before I steralised the jar I got one of the grains that was whiter then the others and put in in a Chinese takeaway container with wet cardboard and some woodchips thinking it's never going to work but rolling the dice anyway and I just left it outside and forgot about it.

I went to check on it today and found that the mushroom gods saw my pain and gave me a second chance, I know there is a very long way to go if it's even possible,  but I am now the proud owner of this monstrosity.



I need help now that I see there is a possibility of saving this from the brink.

My thoughts are currently there still just so much contaminated crap on the cardboard I could never put a slice to agar, would I be best to get a jar of lots of cardboard and try to expand it out that way before putting it back to agar? As restarting is no longer an option there's no more spore swab to work with - what is your approach to revive this guy.

Ultimately I want to get a clean jar of grainspawn to put in a planter of woodchips outside and I'm aware this is a year long project as it's currently winter here.

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Re: Ovoid contamination cleanup help [Re: Guystokesau] * 1
    #28376050 - 06/27/23 02:32 AM (1 year, 6 months ago)

Still learning myself, so take this advice with a grain of salt..

I think it would be a lot of work and possibly frustration trying to get that to work. Definitely would take it to agar and try with transfers to get it cleaned up. I don't think adding more cardboard will do much. And even on agar can be that you won't succeed. Can look into water agar or tea agar to try and clean it up

There's always an option of starting again. Even if it may be hard to get new spores, I'm pretty sure it's possible :regularshroom:


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Re: Ovoid contamination cleanup help [Re: tittlez] * 1
    #28376069 - 06/27/23 03:32 AM (1 year, 6 months ago)

I mean. You could try putting it to water agar and see if the mycelium can out pace the contamination, but its unlikely to work imo.

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Re: Ovoid contamination cleanup help [Re: Pandaskis]
    #28376104 - 06/27/23 04:58 AM (1 year, 6 months ago)

I hadn't thought about that, I usually  mix my agar powder with malt powder and put that in a pantry flour container  because malt extract by itself absorbs water and just turns into a lump in the bag.

I'll defo save some agar by itself and make some water agar plates though, it's time for me to go shopping tomorrow.

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