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kranked
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Malt/dex LC weird growth pattern
#5821412 - 07/04/06 08:44 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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My malt/dextrose LC's are bothering me. The myc seems to be growing in an odd fashion, if it's even myc. It kind of forms like a skin on top of the liquid, it's not fluffy, but stringy and in strands, and when shook breaks apart nicely but doesn't dissolve, so it rules out the possibility of precipitates. I'd post some pictures but the LC has not begun to lighten up yet. Has anyone seen this happen before? Could it be contamed? I'm going to attempt to extract some tomorrow and inoculate a jar and hope it doesn't turn some weird colour. 
Any comments/advice are greatly appreciated
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mycopsycho
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Re: Malt/dex LC weird growth pattern [Re: kranked]
#5821462 - 07/04/06 09:09 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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smell it. smell can tell a lot when looknig at it tells nothing.
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kranked
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Re: Malt/dex LC weird growth pattern [Re: mycopsycho]
#5821470 - 07/04/06 09:13 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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lol, you just crack it open and take a wiff? I think I'll wait until it's nearly colonized to do that.
-------------------- "When it went off in New Mexico, that first atomic bomb, we thought of Alfred Nobel and his hope, his vain hope, that dynamite would put an end to all war" -Robert Oppenheimer 1945
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mycopsycho
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Re: Malt/dex LC weird growth pattern [Re: kranked]
#5821477 - 07/04/06 09:14 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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does it have any ventilation at all? even just a tiny pinhole with a filter? if so you will be able to smell bad contam through the filter.
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Tippinthru
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Re: Malt/dex LC weird growth pattern [Re: kranked]
#5821629 - 07/04/06 10:15 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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kranked said: My malt/dextrose LC's are bothering me. The myc seems to be growing in an odd fashion, if it's even myc. It kind of forms like a skin on top of the liquid, it's not fluffy, but stringy and in strands, and when shook breaks apart nicely but doesn't dissolve, so it rules out the possibility of precipitates. I'd post some pictures but the LC has not begun to lighten up yet. Has anyone seen this happen before? Could it be contamed? I'm going to attempt to extract some tomorrow and inoculate a jar and hope it doesn't turn some weird colour. 
Any comments/advice are greatly appreciated
START OVER. You have something BUNK in there. UNLESS it looks like THIS.

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fastfred
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Re: Malt/dex LC weird growth pattern [Re: Tippinthru]
#5826556 - 07/06/06 04:03 AM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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> START OVER. You have something BUNK in there.
Maybe, maybe not. I've seen it sink, float, and hover in the middle. All with essentially the same media. I'd still throw it out though. But it might be worth testing it just to see what it is.
-FF
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