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Casing layer not colonizing
    #5346372 - 02/27/06 05:46 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

Hello, I'm writing this because I'm having a bit of a problem. I'm not a newbie, but I've run into this problem a couple of times, and I wanted to see if anyone had any insight. It's just that it's been awhile, and I forget what the casing layer is supposed to look like at this point.

Long story short, I cased about 6-7 PF cakes and put them in the incubator for 3 days. I noticed a few bits of mycelium popping up, as usual, so I birthed it, and patched the exposed mycelium.
- That was 4 days ago, and I'm not seeing any real signs of the mycelium spreading throughout the casing layer.

Now, I should mention that I added a bit of alcohol to the perlite/water lining the bottom of the terrarium, since I was out of hydrogen peroxide. I added a bit too much, since the smell of alcohol is rather strong. I'm hand-fanning vigorously (and spraying afterwards,) but the alcohol fumes are still very noticeable.
One effect of the fanning is to rapidly dry out the casing layer, which I then try to rehydrate a little bit by misting.

Any thoughts?


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Re: Casing layer not colonizing [Re: Land_Crab]
    #5347051 - 02/27/06 08:35 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

There should be NO standing water in the perlite. Any standing water will LOWER the humidity. Dump it out and get rid of that alcohol! Perlite contains no nutrients and won't contaminate. Simply put the perlite in a collander and run water through it. Drain and dump into the terrarium. Four days is also too soon to see any difference. Wait two weeks, and if the alcohol fumes didn't kill your mycelium, you should see some pinning.
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Re: Casing layer not colonizing [Re: Land_Crab]
    #5348144 - 02/28/06 02:14 AM (17 years, 10 months ago)

Thanks for your help.  :thumbup:



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