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reebs742
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Cobweb Mold
#28637311 - 01/27/24 06:53 PM (3 months, 19 days ago) |
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I've been trying to grow Gold Member Cubensis on coir for about a month now in a shoebox. I was told by the vendor that this strain colonizes slowly. The smaller white growth looks similar mycelium from other successful grows in the past. The larger white growth is about two weeks old and looks totally different. I am suspecting Cobweb mold? The coir is starting to have a thin cloudy layer of it starting to show up but it's not in a circular pattern. It looks like there is a thin white dusting of powder on the coir, as seen in the picture. Any idea as to what I am dealing with? The tub doesn't have a smell and there is no sign of any green contamination so far. I have read the cobweb mold has an odor and my tub does not.
Thanks in advance, Tim
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Goatrider
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Please give more info. You inoculated coir or what? The large growth in the pic isn't cobweb. I don't know about a single slow colonizing cubensis strain. You possibly mean "Golden Mammoth", not "Gold Member"? I really don't know what you did there, but you want to read this, all of it 
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reebs742
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Thanks so much for your reply. Yes, I inoculated coir from rice grain jars. The strain is in fact GoldMember as in Austin Powers lol. It is a PE and Golden Teacher hybrid and as I was told by the genetic lab, PE is supposedly a slow colonizer which makes the GM a slow colonizer. I am not an expert here but have had several successful grows using this method. This is the first time I've had a tub look like this one so I figured it's time to get the experts opinion on it. I didn't think it was Cobweb mold but have never dealt with it before. I just wait it out to see what happens. Thanks again for your response. With your confirmation I feel that it's not a loss.... yet.
Thanks, Tim
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Goatrider
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reebs742 said: The strain is in fact GoldMember as in Austin Powers lol.
Ok didn´t know about 
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reebs742 said: Yes, I inoculated coir from rice grain jars.
You inoculate grains and mix your spawn with coir. Better call it that way to avoid confusion 
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reebs742 said: I was told by the genetic lab, PE is supposedly a slow colonizer which makes the GM a slow colonizer.
Not in my experience. PE colonizes same speed rate as regular cubensis. They even tend to fruit too early, which results in unfinished fruiting body formation = blobs. But that´s just my opinion and really isn´t important here.
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reebs742 said: Thanks again for your response. With your confirmation I feel that it's not a loss.... yet.
Well, we didn´t talk about that powdery fuzz yet  Could you give a good quality pic from the whole surface? And how are your rice grain jars prepeared?
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reebs742
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First let me thank you for taking the time to ponder this matter. This hobby is so much fun for many reasons and the rewards are like a gift from heaven. Thanks so very much.
My rice jars were inoculated with agar from the vendor. Prior to that the jars had been in a pressure cooker (15 psi) for an 1.45 hrs. The jars were opened in the safest and most sterile environment available to me (small bathroom with no circulating air, all surfaces and tools cleaned with 70% alcohol... including me😊 The rice grain was spawned to coir in the same room following the same practices.
The white powdery stuff. If you look at the large growth on the coir you will see that around it the coir is turning a faint white.
So would your advice be to wait it out? Do you feel that the white circular growth is a contam or is it possibly mycelium?
I do hope that I have given you enough information to make an educated guess because I certainly don't know. 😊
Thanks again, man. I appreciate you. Cheers
PS.. There is nothing like putting in this effort to successfully see it turn to a tub of fruits. It's addicting in the most positive way. 😊🙏🏽
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elasticaltiger
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I don't see cobweb. The big spot is definitely cubensis mycelium. It looks like the grains didn't get evenly mixed and the spot it's growing from looks like it got a big clump of grain or several grains not mixed in well.
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reebs742
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Man, thanks so much for your reply. I kinda thought the spot growth looked just like the agar plate. And you're probably right that the grain wasn't mixed thoroughly. I might be getting a lil over confident with my success rate. Again, thanks so much. I'll put it away and let it do it's thing.
Cheers, Tim
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