PuffM4gicDr4gon said:

I confess that I'm going home Friday to throw out 99% of all my cultures and about half of my equipment.

Now I need to decide if I want to put good money after bad in order to build back up or just give up cult all together.

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Giving up?



That's not really an option now is it
I get it though, banging your head against a brick wall is so discouraging and the timelines in this hobby is not for the faint hearted.

My guess is that you can turn this around, but I agree it will cost both money and time if you want to give yourself the best chance of success. Hit me with a if you need anything including genetics Puff

Gilmour Hendrix said:

This shit's tough as hell!

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You've made my morning, man. And my neighbors' too.

I love it.

PuffM4gicDr4gon said:

I confess that I'm going home Friday to throw out 99% of all my cultures and about half of my equipment.

Now I need to decide if I want to put good money after bad in order to build back up or just give up cult all together.

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I haven't had the chance to connect with you on the forum before, but don't let yourself be carried away by impulse.

Every obstacle that shows up in life is an "uninvited teacher" — make the most of it.

Hugs

PuffM4gicDr4gon said:

Thanks for the support guys. I'm sorry for crashing out.

Very likely every surface of my grow is infected with an airborne bacteria that can go through SFDs and aged PP5. Which means all of my lids and agar cups are a contamination vector. My entire room is a vector.

All the agar work in the world is meaningless if the contaminant can just waltz through your defenses.

I'm in a daunting position.

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Pseudomonas is something every grower will need to deal with to some extent. Resuable agar dishes is a thing that has come up recently and it makes sense to go over to glass or disposable plates as some biofilm can be very resilient even at 121°C, but they ain't surviving radiation

Being airborne a FFU or a flow hood makes sense and will most likely help to some degree as well. The industrial mushroom farmers deal with this on a daily basis and still managed to keep it at an acceptable level, I'm sure our small scale growing is even easier to keep clean enough.

Again, I understand the frustration and at some point one have to make a choice if all this money, time and struggle is really worth it and I will respect whatever decisions you make, but I am wondering if Nichrome's post might have sounded like you're totally fucked, but what I read was an answer to what could be the reason your grows are failing even though there isn't any visual cues on plates or grains.

He also said every grower deals with this to some extent, dude we're talking about a guy that surrounds himself with molds and still grows mushrooms successfully. You may have to deal with this problem more then the average grower, but I refuse to believe it is futile

PuffM4gicDr4gon said:

Very likely every surface of my grow is infected with an airborne bacteria that can go through SFDs

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All the agar work in the world is meaningless if the contaminant can just waltz through your defenses.

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bloodssonnew said:

Think I'd be happy with this?

Edit. I confess I legit thought I was in ask quick questions 💀

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Take it to the FFU thread, oh and read it if you haven't, good stuff

Rasmodius said:

PuffM4gicDr4gon said:

Very likely every surface of my grow is infected with an airborne bacteria that can go through SFDs

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All the agar work in the world is meaningless if the contaminant can just waltz through your defenses.

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Is that true? Most SFDs are 0.22 micron and while edge failures etc are possible (but a different thing), the smallest psuedomona size I've read so far is 0.5 micron

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bloodssonnew said:

Think I'd be happy with this?

Edit. I confess I legit thought I was in ask quick questions 💀

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PuffM4gicDr4gon said:

Thanks for the support guys. I'm sorry for crashing out.

Very likely every surface of my grow is infected with an airborne bacteria that can go through SFDs and aged PP5. Which means all of my lids and agar cups are a contamination vector. My entire room is a vector.

All the agar work in the world is meaningless if the contaminant can just waltz through your defenses.

I'm in a daunting position.

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bloodssonnew said:

Think I'd be happy with this?

Edit. I confess I legit thought I was in ask quick questions 💀

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