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Cake pinning and now early stages of GREEN mold Help
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Cake has been pinning for about 2 1/2 days on it's 2nd flush and now about 1/3 of one side of the cake has small green dots on it. I'm sure it's Green Meanie. Don't know where it came from.

What can I do here, anything?

Spray it with something? Won't that hurt my pins?

Q tip?

Cut the cake in half?

It's still early green mold, so can I get away with it?

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Re: Cake pinning and now early stages of GREEN mold Help [Re: udontknowme]
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Look here and check out the photos I posted:
http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/5752290/an/0/page/0

If you are seeing green, then it is NOT at an early stage.  It is at the stage where it produces spores.  Get it OUT of your grow area unless you want to chance getting Green spores all over  :undecided:
1/3 of a cake is a lot... it is probably not salvageable.  I would pick all the pins at this point and bury the cake in a shady area of the backyard.


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Re: Cake pinning and now early stages of GREEN mold Help [Re: CureCat]
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Thanks Curecat, would it be ok to let this flush mature another day or two? It's the same stuff as in your photos.

How does this green get a foothold on a fully colonized cake? I thought they were pretty resilliant.

There is another cake next to it and I fanned with cardboard earlier. Did I just fan those spores onto the other cake?

Help is very much appreciated :regularshroom: :regularshroom:

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Re: Cake pinning and now early stages of GREEN mold Help [Re: udontknowme]
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Move it outside in the shade to finish. It's best to get anything green out of your house as soon as it's discovered.
RR


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Re: Cake pinning and now early stages of GREEN mold Help [Re: udontknowme]
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udontknowme said:
Thanks Curecat, would it be ok to let this flush mature another day or two? It's the same stuff as in your photos.

How does this green get a foothold on a fully colonized cake? I thought they were pretty resilliant.

There is another cake next to it and I fanned with cardboard earlier. Did I just fan those spores onto the other cake?

Help is very much appreciated :regularshroom: :regularshroom:


As far as it gaining a foothold after colonization... It just happens.  two organisms fighting for resources, sometimes the Green wins. 

Take the contaminated cake and put it outside as RR said, as far as letting the mushrooms mature further, you risk the Green spreading to the growing mushrooms, which consuming could cause food poisoning.  I say pick anything that is growing near the green patches, leave the cake outside and see if the green spreads, if it does, pick the rest of the mushrooms.  I highly recommend making tea of any mushrooms from this cake- that should reduce any chance of food poisoning.

And lastly, yeah.  You did fan spores all over your grow area, including the healthy cake.  You might want to take any cakes in proximety of the contammed one and do a bleach dunk- 200 parts water to 1 part bleach (ratio 200/1), and let it sit in there 15min, which is less than the recommended 30min, but as there aren't any signs of green on the others, and the fact that they are flushing, you dun want to damage the mushrooms to bad, and 15min should take care of the spores.  I also highly recommend thoroughly cleaning your grow terrarium or whatever as soon as possible.


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Re: Cake pinning and now early stages of GREEN mold Help [Re: CureCat]
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Ive fought the green again and again and have done three things that helped:

1. Fresh air exchange like in the double tub tek, holes stuffed with polyfill work great.. I use 8: 4 just above casing and 4 near the top.

2. Quit using perlite for growing with a casing layer... the casing layer doesnt need it... just excessive humidity and stagnation

3. Spray the casing with a mix of 30% peroxide and 70% water. This can be used to spray any green patches that show up... keeps them from getting burped everywhere and makes the green shrivel up and dissapear. The peroxide gets broken down into water after a couple days.

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Re: Cake pinning and now early stages of GREEN mold Help [Re: udontknowme]
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Peroxide will not kill Trich., only cobweb, and it will set your mycelium back some. The biggest cause of contams. is stagnant air, so practicing good FAE is a must. And, of course, be as clean as possible when you're maintaining your grow. We all get contams; don't listen to peeps who say, "I've never had contam. problems," because they have not done much growing. And like Roger Rabbit said, get the green stuff out of your house ASAP. And just dry the fruits before you eat them--drying kills any mold or bacteria. And definitely do a 200/1 bleach dunk with the remaining cakes. Wash them under the faucet, bleach dunk for 30 minutes, then do a regular dunk. This will fight off anything on the surface. GL.

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