Home | Community | Message Board
You are not signed in.
Sign In New Account
Forum Index Search Posts Trusted Vendors Highlights Galleries FAQ User List Chat Store Random Growery


This site includes paid links. Please support our sponsors.

Mushrooms, Mycology and Psychedelics > Mushroom Cultivation
Threaded Mode Threaded  Previous topic Previous  View all topics Index  Next topic Next 

Welcome to the Shroomery Message Board! You are experiencing a small sample of what the site has to offer. Please login or register to post messages and view our exclusive members-only content. You'll gain access to additional forums, file attachments, board customizations, encrypted private messages, and much more!

Shop: Unfolding Nature Unfolding Nature: Being in the Implicate Order   Original Sensible Seeds High THC Strains   Mushroom-Hut Substrate Mix

Jump to first unread post Pages: 1
Some of these posts are very old and might contain outdated information. You may wish to search for newer posts instead.
mycelium or contamination?
    #513858 -

Here's a close up of my first casing attempt. This is a 50/50+ casing of colonized brown rice (strain is Mex #3).

Any ideas about the two white feathery patches? Mycelium or contamination? H2O2 doesn't really bother it, just wets it down for a few hours. It's been cased for 3 days at about 84F.

So, if that's just mycelial growth, I probably should put more casing mix over those spots in order to even out the colonization, right?

The pic isn't the greatest in terms of color or lighting, sorry. The casing is moist but not soaking. Those are water droplets on the walls of the bowl, so maybe the humidity is too high? The white growths are really bright white, brighter than they look.

Thanks for the help....



--------------------
"You do know how to whistle, don't you, Steve?  You just put your lips together and.....blow"

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: mycelium or contamination? [Re: henryp]
    #513883 -

mycelium has a whispy stage which looks alot like that, its most likely mycelium. if you lay off the h202 it will pass this stage much quicker.


--------------------
http://www.fanaticus.com/pf-tek.htm
ShroomeryFAQ

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: mycelium or contamination? [Re: henryp]
    #513995 -

That picture is great actually.. looks like mycelia to me! nice job.

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: mycelium or contamination? [Re: henryp]
    #514061 -

That's micellium forming rhizos. Do what you intended, cover it with some layer material. You're going good, keep it up!!!

Peace,
MAIA


--------------------
Spiritual being, living a human experience ... The Shroomery Mandala



Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.
Voltaire

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: mycelium or contamination? [Re: henryp]
    #514086 -

Nice mycelium you've got there! It looks like your casing layer is a little loose. I would pat it down a bit next time. The mycelium will come through the loose spots first. You may get more even penetration if your casing layer is compacted slightly and evenly.

Joshua


--------------------
The Shroomery Bookstore

Great books for inquiring minds!

"Life After Death is Saprophytic!"

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: mycelium or contamination? [Re: Joshua]
    #514370 -

Thanks for the input!

The H2O2 I was spraying on the casing was only to keep the contams away....I haven't been spraying the mycelium directly for the last couple of days. I ran out of casing before I could cover the entire bowl well (and our microwave just gave up the ghost, would't you know), so I'll sterilize some more and finish the job. This was an attempt to case some jars that looked a little odd, anyway, so anything out of it will be a bonus.

Another question: when making the 50/50 mix, the pH before adding the hydrated lime was around 11! Does this sound right, or is it way too high? Adding the lime didn't materially affect the pH.....

Thanks again!!


--------------------
"You do know how to whistle, don't you, Steve?  You just put your lips together and.....blow"

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Jump to top Pages: 1

Shop: Unfolding Nature Unfolding Nature: Being in the Implicate Order   Original Sensible Seeds High THC Strains   Mushroom-Hut Substrate Mix

Mushrooms, Mycology and Psychedelics > Mushroom Cultivation
Threaded Mode Threaded  Previous topic Previous  View all topics Index  Next topic Next 

Similar ThreadsPosterViewsRepliesLast post
* Is my mycelium COntaMinated ( PiCs_) T0aD 4,396 13 12/08/02 08:45 PM
by MuShARoom
* Re: White Mycelium Contaminated? Anonymous 1,542 1 07/10/00 04:41 PM
by Anonymous
* h2o2 water substitute and sterilizer?! growin 1,397 4 06/11/02 11:59 AM
by psyconaut
* h2o2 in jars ... ? Mycelium 703 2 07/02/02 11:33 PM
by Anno
* Do all contaminants have odor? paranoid2 1,215 4 06/24/02 03:37 PM
by Mycelium
* How does mycelium colonize substrate? Fd3000 9,066 5 07/10/02 05:47 AM
by Mycelium
* needle guage for sucking up mycelium... Mycelium 3,503 2 07/05/02 05:58 PM
by SixTango
* H202 in Substrate 13375C0R3 1,867 3 09/08/01 12:59 AM
by tchyted

Extra information
You cannot start new topics / You cannot reply to topics
HTML is disabled / BBCode is enabled
Moderator: Shroomism, george castanza, RogerRabbit, veggie, mushboy, fahtster, the_chosen_one, LogicaL Chaos, 13shrooms, hamloaf, cronicr, Stipe-n Cap, Pastywhyte, bodhisatta, Tormato, Land Trout, A.k.a
3,566 topic views. 19 members, 181 guests and 73 web crawlers are browsing this forum.
[ Show Images Only | Sort by Score | Print Topic ]
Search this thread:

Copyright 1997-2026 Mind Media. Some rights reserved.

Generated in 0.025 seconds spending 0.007 seconds on 14 queries.