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Is this penecillium / aspergillius? help identifying this contam (pics)
    #28655010 - 02/11/24 05:27 AM (10 months, 30 days ago)

I appreciate that whole brown rice isn't a popular choice for numerous reasons, but it's what I can easily source.

Lids are metal mason jars with 2 holes drilled, one with an unused SHIP on one side and 3 layers of 3m micropore on the other.

Golden Teacher LMEA plates made with Josex's no pour, plates are clean and the strongest plates were used for the grain.
I do all my work inside a SAB, spray liberally with 70% iso, wear a mask whilst working, and things still keep going wrong..

I cook my rice for 9 minutes, strain and dry on a tub lid.

The grain felt a tiny bit damp and it was late when I did this batch, so I chucked in a small handful of fine verm into each jar before PC'ing

I vent my PC for 10 minutes, then I run it at ~17 PSI for 90 minutes (presto with some extra weight added to the jiggler).

Jars are cooled for >24 hours and inoculated with wedges from my plates with the strongest growth.

Jars are kept between 70-75F to colonise.

My jars start by colonising quite nicely and look like this:


At around 50% I colonisation I did a break and shake and this blue dot appeared (top right of photo), then a light white growth covers some of the grain below it after what I assume is the contam sporulating


Whatever this is, it's taking out about 50% of my jars at the moment, help identifying and any suggestions on what I can do to reduce this contam would be hugely appreciated.

I know the jar is a bit full but I was planning on using this run as g2g masters from my plates with strongest growth.

Another jar with the same contam

Edited by potus (02/11/24 05:39 AM)

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