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BlackCat0315
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Came back from vacation to a nightmare
#5731258 - 06/09/06 03:59 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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I just got back from vacation and four of my fruiting cakes had started to get what looks like a bluish green contam...I threw them out...the other 7 cakes look fine...except for some really bad looking shrooms. 11 days with no light and only polyfill for air exchange = fucked up looking shrooms, all stems and tiny tiny caps !!
My question is are the other 7 cakes likely to get this contam ? They were all in the same fruiting chamber, and I disenfected the chamber with rubbing alcohol, added fresh perlite and picked all the messed up shrooms off the cakes. It's been 3 days since I got back and no sign of blue green shit so far.
Any other suggestions?
Thanks !
P.S.....I'm never gonna leave my babies alone like that again !
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Re: Came back from vacation to a nightmare [Re: BlackCat0315]
#5731281 - 06/09/06 04:07 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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you probably threw away some viable cakes man, blue/green is an indication of bruising. When you catch trich you know, it can be wiped off as the green you see are it's spores. The actuall trich mycellium is white which is why you usually can't detect it until it's too late.
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BlackCat0315
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Re: Came back from vacation to a nightmare [Re: coda]
#5731310 - 06/09/06 04:14 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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I hope your right...I was just curious how they could show bruising if I haven't touched them ?
Thanks for the input.
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monstermitch
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Re: Came back from vacation to a nightmare [Re: BlackCat0315]
#5731334 - 06/09/06 04:22 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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they can show bruising because of drying out.
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creamcorn
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Re: Came back from vacation to a nightmare [Re: monstermitch]
#5731357 - 06/09/06 04:34 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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did they smell like bleu cheese? have had blue-green that looks almost exactly like bruising but wasn't, but was easy to tell because of the smell
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BlackCat0315
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Re: Came back from vacation to a nightmare [Re: creamcorn]
#5731759 - 06/09/06 07:00 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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creamcorn said: did they smell like bleu cheese? have had blue-green that looks almost exactly like bruising but wasn't, but was easy to tell because of the smell
No...they just had that great mushroom smell !
Here's a photo of the worst one that I tossed:

Any hope for the other ones ?
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Re: Came back from vacation to a nightmare [Re: BlackCat0315]
#5731776 - 06/09/06 07:03 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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That one looks just fine bro. Sometimes, cakes will get even more blue depending on humidity and their moisture content.
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Re: Came back from vacation to a nightmare [Re: BlackCat0315]
#5731830 - 06/09/06 07:20 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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I would have isolated the cakes with the color from the ok ones, just to watch how fast the color spread... if it were a mold it would dominate your cake rather quickly, rather than going away...
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Re: Came back from vacation to a nightmare [Re: Jim]
#5732320 - 06/09/06 09:49 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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That cake is fine, Its just brusing, happended with my first cakes and I freaked out, but a bit of TLC and they returned to normal.
Lucky you threw out 4 and not all of them though.
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Re: Came back from vacation to a nightmare [Re: Ascension]
#5732551 - 06/09/06 10:52 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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looks alot better than mine which was contamed
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Re: Came back from vacation to a nightmare [Re: BlackCat0315]
#5733491 - 06/10/06 08:33 AM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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These cakes for whatever reason dried out more than the rest. Bluing is also caused by lack of water not just bruising. A good dunking would have saved those, remember fully colonized substrate is very resistant to contams.
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BlackCat0315
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Re: Came back from vacation to a nightmare [Re: hyphae]
#5733648 - 06/10/06 09:57 AM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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Thanks for all the responses. I guess it was pretty dumb to throw those out, but I was worried they were going to contaminate the rest of the cakes...I plan to be much more careful in the future.
Thanks agsin !!
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Re: Came back from vacation to a nightmare [Re: BlackCat0315]
#5733737 - 06/10/06 10:30 AM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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damn that sucks
sorry dude
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Re: Came back from vacation to a nightmare [Re: BlackCat0315]
#5733781 - 06/10/06 10:47 AM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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I did the same thing when I first started. Everyone makes a few little mistakes now and again, novice or veteran. 
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BlackCat0315 said: Thanks for all the responses. I guess it was pretty dumb to throw those out, but I was worried they were going to contaminate the rest of the cakes...I plan to be much more careful in the future.
Thanks agsin !!
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Re: Came back from vacation to a nightmare [Re: BlackCat0315]
#5736174 - 06/10/06 11:07 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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BlackCat0315 said: Thanks for all the responses. I guess it was pretty dumb to throw those out, but I was worried they were going to contaminate the rest of the cakes...I plan to be much more careful in the future.
Thanks agsin !!
Always better to be safe than sorry especially if not sure, you did good but now you are a bit more wiser (Budweiser).
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