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thelittlenemo
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cakes refuse to be fluffy - pic
#2916725 - 07/22/04 03:52 PM (19 years, 8 months ago) |
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I did the whole pftek pretty closely, let the jars sit for a month, and then birthed to find that they all looked pretty pathetic. Not a single one is fluffy. They're completely covered but they just look sickly. Every online pic I see the cake looks like a cottonball. They've been in my incubator for about a week but have no pins. Here's an example of one cake: It's the most yellow of all. Some are a bit more white, but they all share the same weird texture. You can see it's finally growing something fuzzy in patches. Is this thing stalled? What may have gone wrong?
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bennjiii
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Re: cakes refuse to be fluffy - pic [Re: thelittlenemo]
#2916827 - 07/22/04 04:18 PM (19 years, 8 months ago) |
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I cant tell completly but did you use vermiculite? if so it must have been a really fine type. your cakes also look like theres to much BRF if anyhting..
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Re: cakes refuse to be fluffy - pic [Re: thelittlenemo]
#2916848 - 07/22/04 04:25 PM (19 years, 8 months ago) |
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looks like there is some thing wrong with that cake the yellow stuff is bad. I would trash it. my 2 cents
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thelittlenemo
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Re: cakes refuse to be fluffy - pic [Re: caimen]
#2917288 - 07/22/04 07:02 PM (19 years, 8 months ago) |
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they looked like any other pf cake when it started. i was really careful with the mixture and stuff. i dunno. and yeah, i used vermiculite and brf in the standard proportion.
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Re: cakes refuse to be fluffy - pic [Re: thelittlenemo]
#2917300 - 07/22/04 07:07 PM (19 years, 8 months ago) |
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are they perhaps too dry? what iss the humidity level? what temperature are you at? are u fanning regularly? are u using any home-thought ideas?
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MAGnum
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Re: cakes refuse to be fluffy - pic [Re: thelittlenemo]
#2917365 - 07/22/04 07:29 PM (19 years, 8 months ago) |
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that cake looks fucked, can we see it from the other perspective? All that yellow is dead mycelium, I'm almost sure. I think you somehow killed your cake. Maybe, if you dunked it, did you put bleach in the water?
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thelittlenemo
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Re: cakes refuse to be fluffy - pic [Re: MAGnum]
#2917376 - 07/22/04 07:32 PM (19 years, 8 months ago) |
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no...i didn't do anything strange. seriously, i followed all the teks so closely. remember, the others don't look so bad. they're still white, but just not at all puffy. i could post a pic of another cake
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thelittlenemo
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Re: cakes refuse to be fluffy - pic [Re: thelittlenemo]
#2917414 - 07/22/04 07:42 PM (19 years, 8 months ago) |
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ok...a couple more cakes. these look a little healthier. but still, for having sat a month i'd think they'd just be going nuts. by the way, i decided to do some minis also, the store had some tiny canning jars in addition to the half pints.
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MAGnum
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Re: cakes refuse to be fluffy - pic [Re: thelittlenemo]
#2917431 - 07/22/04 07:46 PM (19 years, 8 months ago) |
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Damn,I am positive that the yellowing is all dead surface mycelium. I have no idea man. Good luck.
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MAGnum
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Re: cakes refuse to be fluffy - pic [Re: MAGnum]
#2917451 - 07/22/04 07:50 PM (19 years, 8 months ago) |
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the other cakes don't look too bad. Something is off though. Probably humidity?
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thelittlenemo
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Re: cakes refuse to be fluffy - pic [Re: MAGnum]
#2917467 - 07/22/04 07:53 PM (19 years, 8 months ago) |
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they're finally getting good (or at least decent) humidity: 95-99%. they looked exactly like this coming out of the jars, however. should i have put more moisture in the cake mix? i steamed them instead of PSing. i heard this dries them out slightly more.
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Re: cakes refuse to be fluffy - pic [Re: thelittlenemo]
#2917489 - 07/22/04 07:58 PM (19 years, 8 months ago) |
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Yeah, it looks like they are a little dry. Did they colonize at a decent speed??
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thelittlenemo
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Re: cakes refuse to be fluffy - pic [Re: QandA]
#2917502 - 07/22/04 08:02 PM (19 years, 8 months ago) |
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they colonized really slowly
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Re: cakes refuse to be fluffy - pic [Re: thelittlenemo]
#2917610 - 07/22/04 08:28 PM (19 years, 8 months ago) |
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Looks like the cakes are too dry and the mycelia died off in the first one. As magnum said, it doesnt look like a contam because its not a foriegn substance, just discolored mycelia. A common problem with the PF tek is getting a good texured substrate with the right water content. This is not so much a problem with grains because your casing will provide much of the water.
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