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Eraserhead
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Is this bacteria? and some ugly mold
#5737622 - 06/11/06 11:18 AM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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Wanting to know if this is a nice bacteria culture I have on this jar of rye and quinoa that's been incubating for 10 days and growing really slow.

And this stuff started off bright yellow, and didn't even see it, checked my jar 24 hours later, BOOM whole jar was yellow with this stuff.... it's sat a few days since then off in another place to see what happens, it's turned this putrid brownish yellow color, and mycelium is still growing in it, albeit very slowly. (jar is trash when I get bored with it obviously)

That stuff was bad-ass and quick as hell is all I can say.. nothing one day, boom the next day whole jar was filled...
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RemainRandom50
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Re: Is this bacteria? and some ugly mold [Re: Eraserhead]
#5737818 - 06/11/06 12:20 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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if it was that quick, it is defiently a contam. not too sure which one exactly, but i would toss them out. colonization correctly occurs anywhere from 4-13 days on rye.
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RogerRabbit
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Re: Is this bacteria? and some ugly mold [Re: RemainRandom50]
#5738944 - 06/11/06 06:02 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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Definitely bacteria. Sometimes bacteria is followed by mold, which is what the last picture looks like. No way to save those, sorry. Toss them out and try again. Read everything you can find on sterile technique. Disregard the posts that say anything like "I smoked a cig and petted my cat while doing inoculations in open air and had no contams" RR
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Eraserhead
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Re: Is this bacteria? and some ugly mold [Re: RogerRabbit]
#5739084 - 06/11/06 06:40 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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Yep, my thoughts exactly, thanks, only these 2 jars of 10 contaminated, the others are 50%-90% colonized. One of my 50% colonized jars has a couple small visible spots of bacterial growth as well, I assume toss it as well.
I didn't soak the quinoa, and only the jars with that in it contaminated... gee I wonder where I went wrong?
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Re: Is this bacteria? and some ugly mold [Re: RogerRabbit]
#5756285 - 06/16/06 04:56 AM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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Quote:
RogerRabbit said: Disregard the posts that say anything like "I smoked a cig and petted my cat while doing inoculations in open air and had no contams" RR
ROFL
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Eraserhead
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Re: Is this bacteria? and some ugly mold [Re: CureCat]
#5756291 - 06/16/06 05:02 AM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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found my source of contams when I went to go use my syringes again.
Faulty gasket on one of them, and I probably screwed it up while making the syringe
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