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Purple/Pink contamination can be DEADLY
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Heya Folks,
A little something my partner -Clyde- learned while spending some time with P. Stamets a while ago is there is a dealy form of purple contamination to watch out for. Their are 2 kinds we can see in in our hobby. One is an obviously harmless form of trichoderma since so many of us have seen it and been exposed to it without any danger. But their is another form wich can be deadly. -Clyde- seen a thread on this and asked me to post this.

The purple contam that shows up late in the colonization of grain spawn can be, and most likely is, Fusarium
sporothichiodes, the cause of spinal menningitis, which has a 98% fatality rate. Do not handle it! It can enter through
small cuts and breaks in the skin. It often heats up the jar/bag. On agar, seemingly fast growing mycelium looks like
blunt ended spikes, short but definately abnormal, but white. This nasty occurs naturaly on grain. It's presence in culture
indicates incomplete sterilization of the grain. Don't frick with it, reseal it in multiple layers, and pitch it. It is very possible
to accidently culture some serious nasties, so exercise caution and good sence. The general rule is to treat all brightly
colored contams, especially purple, pink, orange, and yellow as dangerous. Don't confuse yellowish mycelial
exudate/metabolite with nasties. It's normal and common to see them. Keep yourselves and your buddies safe, and
immediatly dispose of any questionable cultures, jars, lids and all.

I cant tell you how many times in the past I use to clean out contaminated jars not realizing I was playing with molds that were potentially deadly. These days we just pitch the jars etc... instead of worrying about recycling. Food for thought, be safe :)



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Re: Purple/Pink contamination can be DEADLY [Re: Ryche Hawk]
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Now you tell me!


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Re: Purple/Pink contamination can be DEADLY [Re: Ryche Hawk]
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Ryche,

I don't think the pink/purple contamination from my jars are coming from my grain. I believe they are coming from my my syringes. I left 2 rye jars sit there without innoculating them. They have not showed the pink/purple contamination, however, my jars that I have innoculated, they are turning pink and are producing a lot of heat and moisture. How would you know if you have contracted this forn of spinal menningitis?

- Celisus


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Re: Purple/Pink contamination can be DEADLY [Re: celsius]
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And I did not use rye grain and I got it as well.
Maybe it came from there grain??

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Re: Purple/Pink contamination can be DEADLY [Re: Ryche Hawk]
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meningitis!? that is very serious shit. if you throw the bottle away, couldn't it infect alot of other things?!?

My head is hurting..
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Re: Purple/Pink contamination can be DEADLY [Re: CACA]
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DAMN... if Ryche never told us about this, lots of us would be dead from eating damn shrooms that came from the Sporechicks. It's not like we could sue them if we came down with mennigitis. Fuck... what have the Sporechicks come to? Trying to poison us!! It's conspiracy I'm telling you. haha.. jk

- Celsius... still pissed @ sporechicks.. shady ladies...


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Re: Purple/Pink contamination can be DEADLY [Re: celsius]
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nasty nasty nasty *NASTY* shit... that actually scares me...

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Re: Purple/Pink contamination can be DEADLY [Re: auto59009]
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Hello Shamans
I wanted to add some information concerning meningitis:
The 3 most common types of bacterial meningitis is
1.Neisseria meningitis- Fatality rate of about 5%
2. Hemophilus influenzae-Fatality rate of about 6%
3.Streptococcus pneumoniae- fatlity rate of about 27-40%
Meningitis can be caused by differnt types of patogens such as bacteria, fungi, and protozoans.
A fungal disease of the nervous system(rare) is caused by Cryptococcus Neoformans can cause meningitis. It's found in the soil due to pigeon droppings.
People with comprimised immune system are more at risk than anyone in contracting meningitis.. I have more info later.


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Re: Purple/Pink contamination can be DEADLY [Re: celsius]
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Celisus,
Some of the symptoms of meningitis are headache,fever, stiff neck,light sensitivity, vomiting, cold like symptoms,red rash or red or purple areas on the skin.(almost like an indian burn or as severe as bruising). With some of the most severe types , people think they have a severe cold or flu, they go to bed and they never wake up o or wake up critically ill within 24hrs. Not to freak you out,but if you all the sudden feel aweful, I would get checked out.It's not worth waiting to find out if you feel better the next day when it comes to this. Specially if you know you've been exposed to a fungus of some kind.I've seen people die in 24hrs with some severe forms of meningitis.3M, one of the vendors, became severely ill and almost died after being expose to aspergillus niger.Different fungus, but just as deadly.


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Re: Purple/Pink contamination can be DEADLY [Re: Ryche Hawk]
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Fastlink--> http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/meningitis.html

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Re: Purple/Pink contamination can be DEADLY [Re: MAIA]
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i was wondering if its a problem on outdoor patches is there any way youd be able to tell by looking at a shroom if you didnt notice anything on the substrate

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Re: Purple/Pink contamination can be DEADLY [Re: isis]
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Thanks isis,
I wanted to add the symptoms of meningitis but I was unable to yesterday.


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Re: Purple/Pink contamination can be DEADLY [Re: Doc]
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Hey Doc, I have a question;

Bacterial meningitis is always touted as very contagious, thus the big media blitzes whenever a case is verified. Would this be true for a mycotic meningitis? My instinct would be NO, but I'm no Doc ;)

Personally, I think any fear of this Fusarium should be reserved for the immunocompromised; for the vast majority of people, the greatest risk from these various molds is anaphylaxis if predisposed to such. I'd be interested in reading the published articles about this Fusarium meningitis, will check out pubmed.

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Neuropediatrics 1991 May;22(2):110-2

Fusarium meningoencephalitis in a child with acute leukemia.

Agamanolis DP, Kalwinsky DK, Krill CE Jr, Dasu S, Halasa B, Galloway PG.

Department of Pathology and Pediatrics (Hematology-Oncology), Children's Hospital Medical Center, Akron, Ohio.

A 15-year-old boy with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) developed disseminated fusarium infection with meningoencephalitis following a contaminated skin wound. With antifungal therapy, the cutaneous lesions cleared but central nervous system (CNS) infection persisted causing a fibrosing meningitis and a brain granuloma. Fusaria are soil saprophytes that are more commonly associated with superficial eye and skin lesions, but may also cause severe systemic infections with CNS involvement in immuno-compromised patients. The organism may be confused with Aspergillus in tissue sections, and can only be diagnosed by culture.
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: J Neurosurg 1983 Apr;58(4):598-601 Related Articles, Books, LinkOut


Fusarium brain abscess. Case report.

Steinberg GK, Britt RH, Enzmann DR, Finlay JL, Arvin AM.

The common soil fungus, Fusarium, is rarely pathogenic in man but occasionally causes serious disease, particularly in immunocompromised hosts. A case is reported of Fusarium brain abscess and meningitis occurring in a patient with chronic infectious mononucleosis syndrome and immunodeficiency. The patient died despite aspiration of the abscess and treatment with amphotericin B. This case demonstrates the importance of identifying the offending pathological organism through abscess aspiration in immunocompromised patients.
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Every filamentous fungal meningitis case I could find involved immunocompromised patients.
I'd still wager that allergic reactions should be of more widespread concern.

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Re: Purple/Pink contamination can be DEADLY [Re: Ryche Hawk]
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Thanks for the info Ryche & Clyde.. Sounds like another good reason to be using filter patch bags.

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Content Removed.

Edited by Jared (04/01/04 01:12 AM)

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Re: Purple/Pink contamination can be DEADLY [Re: Jared]
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Don't laugh at it..took the following from a post I made in vendors section.

'Meningitis is the inflamation of the meninges which are the membranes that cover your brain and spinal cord. There are many different micro-organisms that can cause this...viral and bacterial. Viral meningitis is relatively harmless and is more like catching the flu for a week or so leaving no after effects. The micro-orgranisms that cause it must enter into your bloodstream somehow...usually from an infection you have elsewhere like sinuses or ears. Sometimes from head wounds such as a skull fracture. I suppose it 'could' transfer to you from a cut if you touched it to infected material and the cut gets infected. Viral meningitis is non-life threatening as I said and does not require treatment..but we aren't worried about the viral type eh. Bacterial meningitis is much much more serious. It can and most likely will kill you if left untreated. However if it is caught early massive doses of intravenous antibiotics can usually kill it...though sometimes causing brain damage...probably depends on how soon you notice it and get it treated also how well/fast the antibiotics wipe out the infection. As for symptoms... meningitis depending on the type can cause headaches,vomiting, high fever. A more telltale sign is a stiff/sore neck and an unusual sensitivity/dislike to light(like going out in the sun and it's too bright for you). I believe those 2 symptoms occur with all types of meningitis though I'm not a doctor myself...if anyone here is feel free to shoot in some facts. With meningococcal meningitis(most common bacterial type) the symptoms begin to appear within a few hours sometimes followed by sleepyness ..sometimes loss of consciousness. With other types the main symptoms can take longer to appear. That's about it...if I were anyone here on this board and got a bacterial contamination in ANY jars of ANY type I'd just throw it the hell out if I wasn't absolutely SURE what it was. It's my new rule for the future. There are lots of nasty bacteria... and there are many different types of bacteria that cause meningitis and other unpleasant illnesses. As is often said better safe than sorry.'

Note that there are many different organisms that can cause meningitis which makes vaccinations fairly ineffective unless your running into the 'particular' organism you were vaccinated for.

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Edited by Great_Cthulhu on 07/18/01 02:19 AM.



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Re: Purple/Pink contamination can be DEADLY [Re: Jared]
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Jared, the vaccination you got will only protect you from the specific bacteria you were vaccinated against. (Probably pneumococcal meningitis) It won't protect you against the other types. So, you are can still get other forms of menigitis.
Just thought you should know....
And Suntzu is probably right about immuno suppressed people being most suceptible, but one can never be too careful.

Edited by isis on 07/18/01 09:34 AM.


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Re: Purple/Pink contamination can be DEADLY [Re: Suntzu]
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Hello Shamans,
It seems everyone has good info about meningitis-some more of a personal experince. The orthopedic test for meningeal irritation is called Brudzinski- the person can be laying down on their back and you passively flex the head toward the chest. If both legs flex ( kness bend) this indicates meningeal irritation. Our immune system is very good at protecting us but the foods we eat, our lifestyles, stress etc.. can affect our immune system. As for your comment about allergic reaction- Autism has been linked to DPT shots/immunization. This causes an allergic reaction from the shot causing swelling in the brain but this is a whole new topic.

Edited by Doc on 07/18/01 12:37 PM.


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Re: Purple/Pink contamination can be DEADLY [Re: celsius]
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Now dont everybody get to freaked out by this but definatly throw caution to the wind. Myself and -Clyde- have seen and worked around this purple mold many times and we are still here, but now much wiser on how to handle it.
Like I said, there are 2 kinds of mold that produce this purple/pink color, one of them is merely a form of trichoderma, the green mold we all see so often.

Just everyone be safe and properly handle and dispose of nasty looking molds, especially purple ones.
Seal them in several ziplock bags when you throw them away, perhaps even put them in a box sealed real good so they dont break later and accidently infect anyone wandering around the dump dropping off their trash.

Many moons ago I got very sick from cleaning/recycling contaminated or stalled jars. Some sort of virus knocked my ass down for almost a month before the anti-biotics beat it. Nobody else where I worked then was sick so I'm pretty sure it was from sitting out back cleaning out those contaminated jars and I picked up some mold in my lungs that felt like death was knocking on my door. I rarily get sick for more then a couple of days so it was something beyond the common flu.
If you have contaminated jars or casings just pitch them carefully. You never know when your really playing with fire or a harmless mold. No sense in taking a chances when a new box of jars can be had for about $7 compared to hundereds of dollars in medical bills.

As for where it comes from, I've seen it many times start from a syringe, and 2 weeks later the grain is turning purple. That is the problem with this purple/pink mold, which I believe is the trichoderma kind, is it does not show up right away in test batches. Usually the mycelium is growing nice and healthy, then 2 weeks later the purple streaks show up.
So dont be to down on sporechicks right now for those syringes they sent out producing it, no doubt it was done on accident. There was an incident about 8 months ago here where ecuador syringes from sporechicks, thehawkseye, and one other vendor, were all producing this purple/pink contamination, more then likely trichoderma. All 3 vendors at once....many posts and pictures going on here about it. And I can assure you none of us planned it :) its just a tough mold to catch. We let our test batchs sit a minimum of 3 weeks now before pulling syringes just to make sure this pink/purple mold does not show up.
Anyway, just properly handle and dispose of contaminated cultures and their should not be any problems.



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Re: Purple/Pink contamination can be DEADLY [Re: Ryche Hawk]
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I respect your concern and comments Ryche.
This is one of the reasons I joined the forum. Thanks to you and others for your ideas and hard work. People on a mission to spread the truth.


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Re: Purple/Pink contamination can be DEADLY [Re: Ryche Hawk]
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Does anyone have PICTURES of this mold anywhere? If so, I think everyone would want to see that...


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Re: Purple/Pink contamination can be DEADLY [Re: Azure]
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Yes, if anyone has any pictures of this contam, please please post it. While we are freaking out over this, I could use a better description of this contam..
Is this contam both pink and purple? pinkish purple, purpley pinkish? Are they dull, bright, or what? Does it appear as it's own growth area, or does mycelium simply take on that color? Im concerned, because one of my cakes has some blues that could be purple, but the mycelium is simply that color in a few spots which leads me to think i may have just bruised the cake, or maybe my H2O2 solution was too strong. Any thoughts?
If someone has seen this contam, can you please make a color-sample image in photoshop or paintshot so we can see just what color this contam is. I think making a picture would be better than a color description.

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Re: Purple/Pink contamination can be DEADLY [Re: uniboner]
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Well, this is the best i could do in the form of an adobe color sample... and this is only what my jars looked like.  But for me, my mycelium grew fine and after a few days the first few jars became contaminated with little pink dots on top of the mycelium on the sides of the jar.  It seemed to envelop some small bits of BRF or vermiculite because it was all in little dots of different sizes and the colors ranged from light pink to dark pinkish/purple.  On two of my twelve jars it appeared as a pinkish haze over the mycelium but later formed the little dots. 



That's pretty much how the purple was dispersed throughout the mycelium's surface.  By the way, I also used the Sporechick's syringe and had let all my jars sit dormant for two weeks before innoculation to test for any would-be contams and no signs appeared.  O well, 1st time down the drain... but it wasn't really my fault right :wink:.  Bit dissapointed but not discouraged.  Only thing is... I can't bare to throw out the only other syringe I have (which is from sporechicks).

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Re: Purple/Pink contamination can be DEADLY [Re: Doc]
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hey doc, could the bacerial meningitis be spread if you didn't dispose of it correctly? I wouldn't want the stuff sitting in my house, but i wouldnt want someone else to contract it by NO fault of their own and with NO idea of how they'd gotten it.

My head is hurting..
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Edited by CACA on 07/20/01 05:46 AM.



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Re: Purple/Pink contamination can be DEADLY [Re: geokills]
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My thanks to you! well im a bit more at ease now.

I experimented with soaked wild rice in a few of my jars and noticed the cake has a slight, very very slight pinkish hue to it. I am assuming that this may have to do with colours leaching out of the wild rice husks (dark purple/black). I am also reassured by the appearance of primordia prior to birthing. Im hoping things stay ok. If any of you think that my assumptions are incorrect, PLEASE let me know.

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Re: Purple/Pink contamination can be DEADLY [Re: Ryche Hawk]
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i inoculated my jars 10 days ago (PF TEK). IN THE BEGINNING mycelium was white but after 5 days from inoculation it turned from white to white-pink (like a facial powder for women). (the same in each of my jars) - new mycelium grows white but after some time gets pink as well - what to do ? mycelium still grows


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Re: Purple/Pink contamination can be DEADLY [Re: vion]
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How old are your syringes and where did you order from? This pink contamination actually colors(pink/purple) the condensation in the jars and appears as little dots of pink on the mycelium\BRF itself. If you have the same contam from the SporeChicks fiasco then your jars are doomed. They may fully colonize but they will never fruit even when birthed. The evil pink will get progressively worse towards full colonization. If you have a digi-cam post a pic. I can tell you in a second from a decent pic if it's the same type of contam.

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Re: Purple/Pink contamination can be DEADLY [Re: Great_Cthulhu]
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Great_Cthulhu said:
How old are your syringes and where did you order from? This pink contamination actually colors(pink/purple) the condensation in the jars and appears as little dots of pink on the mycelium\BRF itself.  If you have the same contam from the SporeChicks fiasco then your jars are doomed. They may fully colonize but they will never fruit even when birthed. The evil pink will get progressively worse towards full colonization. If you have a digi-cam post a pic. I can tell you in a second from a decent pic if it's the same type of contam.<br><br>"That is not dead which may eternal lie..and with strange eons even death may die."


Ok, yes i am new here, first time posting but have visited many times... i got 'ringes from sporeworks, and my jars colonized fine, and now on the second flush or so i see this foookin crap that looks like whomever said powery-womens-makeup... its mostly just on the tops of a few cakes, but has begun to travel down the sides of some, and some of the fruits are getting coated in it... i knew that it wasn't good, so i am currently losing like 1 of 5 fruits... i flush them down the toilet (LOL DEAL W/THAT, SANITATION DEPARTMENT!!), so my question is this...
If i put on my full hazmat gear, and scrape the pink fluffy "mineral powder" pink makeup shiet off my cakes, then use my crem brulet torch and fry the fook outta the cakes where the pink stuff was at... will it come back??

PS--this stuff NEVER was in the jars, it showed up 6 months into my farming, on batch 2, and seems to love the puerto ricans but is also on a few B+ and hawaiian cakes.... i'll take a picture, but only if someone really knows their funGis... dun wana post digi pics w/out getting the metadata out of them first... PLEASE "PM" me or email me or post here if you can help a semi-rookie shaman that does not want his parents, cats, girlfriend, friends, UPS man, etc to DIE cause of me... i called my dr and said i found this shiet outside and am getting a Rx of anti-biotics tonight, so i want to dawn my hazmat gear and go to town on my precious closet kiddies with the torch, but want advise on that 1st.... Great_Cthulhu i will try to contact you via email in case you dont hang here anymore....

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Re: Purple/Pink contamination can be DEADLY [Re: ClayOtis]
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Oh also, was wondering... if i just said F-it and havested all the pink coated fruits, could i just make super hot tea and would that kill of the crap??

Thanks all for any insites... "play it safe, throw them out" not an option really im perdy much an addict...

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Re: Purple/Pink contamination can be DEADLY [Re: ClayOtis]
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No pictures, no ID. 

This thread has been dead for 7 years.  I'm sure if you search the contamination faq, you'll find similar pictures to what you're seeing.
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Re: Purple/Pink contamination can be DEADLY [Re: RogerRabbit]
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RogerRabbit said:
No pictures, no ID. 

This thread has been dead for 7 years.  I'm sure if you search the contamination faq, you'll find similar pictures to what you're seeing.
RR


honestly i have looked.. and there is nothing like this in there. RR, can you advise?  its pink, looks like my girl's "mineral powder" makeup (sept its not pink....) i will review the contamination faq AGAIN, maybe find the closest thing to this, but how to be sure when it's not 100% the same?? i realllllly LOVE life... dont wanna lose it, this is verry important to me.  Even worse, the innocents that visit me... if they got sick or God forbid DIE idk what i would do!!
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Re: Purple/Pink contamination can be DEADLY [Re: ClayOtis]
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ClayOtis said:
Thanks all for any insites... "play it safe, throw them out" not an option really im perdy much an addict...



Sounds like you have bigger problems than just the contams.

If you are so worried about your own safety and the safety of others then throw the shit out and start over.

Really hot tea may kill the contam but probably won't breakdown any toxins that may be present. You could still get sick.

Once again, throw the shit out.


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Re: Purple/Pink contamination can be DEADLY [Re: BlimeyGrimey]
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Allways getting this on my BRF cakes :/ (the contam)

well there is purple contam in the contams list.


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Re: Purple/Pink contamination can be DEADLY [Re: Doc]
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Re: Purple/Pink contamination can be DEADLY [Re: Azure]
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Hi there people!

I was looking for pictures of Neurospora on Agar; Because i have a "thing" on my homemade PDA-Agar that looks strange and wanted a confirmation.
It's mycelium from P.cubensis B+ on homemade PDA

Searched the forum for neurospora but didn't found any picture, except the ones here: What-are-common-contaminants-of-the-mushroom-culture

So, i'll post the pics from my contams that look similar to Neurospora, IMHO.
Can you confirm it's Neurospora?













*Sorry for replying to such and old post, but didn't found another topic that fitted better.

Edited by yogurin (06/01/11 04:25 AM)

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Re: Purple/Pink contamination can be DEADLY [Re: puscle]
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This sounds serious. I recently had brown rice vermicukite jars come up with a purple tint in small areas in my jars 6 days after inoculation. Does this sound like the safer purple mold to you?

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Re: Purple/Pink contamination can be DEADLY [Re: Doc]
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sorry i know this is a old thread, but i thought these pictures of my agar dishes were relevant to this discussion.

i have yet to have this contam identified.







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Re: Purple/Pink contamination can be DEADLY [Re: CannabisKid]
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That is bacteria, not a mold. Unfortunately IDK which specific type, but it is definitely bacteria. Fusarium, the mold which causes the issues in the OP is not bacteria.


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Re: Purple/Pink contamination can be DEADLY [Re: Ryche Hawk]
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I had spinal meningitis. Where does this 98 percent death rate come from? Im just curious? It totally sucked but I never heard anything like that

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Re: Purple/Pink contamination can be DEADLY [Re: quickmush] * 1
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E-Coli can show up pink on agar :uhoh:


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Re: Purple/Pink contamination can be DEADLY [Re: Tormato]
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mold sucks ass. also :oldthread:


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Re: Purple/Pink contamination can be DEADLY [Re: Ryche Hawk]
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This wildly incorrect post should have been deleted a long time ago.

Fusarium sporotrichioides (not "sporothichiodes") does not cause meningitis. If you EAT IT, it can cause an extremely dangerous gut infection. A simple search of Wikipedia, any medical website or PubMed would have revealed this. It is however a nasty thing to have in your grain jars or plates and yes, you should double bag and pitch anything with this description.


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Re: Purple/Pink contamination can be DEADLY [Re: Hongosamongus]
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I read various bad things about lavender growth. Being cheap yet cautious, I PC'd the contaminated jars then dumped and re-used them.

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