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New guy...WTF is this?
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Sup guys, I'm new here but have been a lurker on these forums for a while. I've recently decided to try my first grow and so far it's been going pretty well. I transfered the cakes in to the fruiting chamber exactly one week ago and I have lots of shrooms comming up. But I think I have a developing problem, as you can see in the pics I posted there is this developing blue/green stuff on the cakes. I'm pretty sure it some type of mold or bacteria. I need to know what this is, if this is harmful to the shrooms, and what I can do to kill it. I've heard that spraying the cakes with a 10% h2o2/h2o solution will kill it but that seems like it will also kill the mushrooms. So any advice you can pass along to a newb would be much appreciated. Thanks.






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Re: New guy...WTF is this? [Re: funguschamber]
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the bluing on the cake in the first and second picture looks like bruising. in the first picture, it almost looks like green mold at the base of the mushroom. as for the third picture, i dont know, there's probley some strange term for what's going on there. mutant?


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Re: New guy...WTF is this? [Re: funguschamber]
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Pic one and three look fine... Probably just bruised the cake. Pic two looks ugly... I can't really tell if it's just the picture or not, but you might want to take a long hard look at that one. The cake in pic two looks slimy and that dark spot is a bit menacing. Give it the Q-tip test. If something is wrong with it (or you're just feeling paranoid) bury it in your veggie garden or equivalent.


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Re: New guy...WTF is this? [Re: paul_muaddib]
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Got fat asses? try more FAE. I'd keep a close eye on the discoloration also. It looks like it might be Trichoderma.


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Re: New guy...WTF is this? [Re: paul_muaddib]
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It looks to me like you didnt let the jar fully colonize.

I am not sure it that has anything to do with what is wrong, but

that isnt good. No offense if you did let them fully colonize.


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Re: New guy...WTF is this? [Re: ATLean]
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wow glad you have some reasonable advice, i was going to say spore deposites on aborts..... HAH!


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Re: New guy...WTF is this? [Re: Ganzig]
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Ganzig said:
It looks to me like you didnt let the jar fully colonize. 

I am not sure it that has anything to do with what is wrong, but

that isnt good.  No offense if you did let them fully colonize.


oh wow, i didn't even notice that.  :shocked:


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Re: New guy...WTF is this? [Re: LayYouIn]
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Your right I didn't let them fully colonize. When I went to buy vermiculite I couldnt find any. I finally found one place that had it in stock but it was fine grain, instead of the medium grain. So because of this the vermiculite flour mix was a bit too compact and dense. Those cakes colonized almost a full four weeks and the colonization had just about slowed to a stop. To be honest I was just going to toss them figuring the were jacked up but instead decided to see what they could do. Thanks for the advice.

So I should just keep an eye on them for now? I don't know when I could have bruised them, to be honest I don't believe I actually touched any of them with my hands. Anyways if anyone has any more input I'm all ears.

BTW what is FAE? And why would I need it? Thanks guys

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Re: New guy...WTF is this? [Re: funguschamber]
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yes, keep an eye on them.

you could probley cut the uncolonized parts off. you might even want to harvest early, then cut the uncolonized parts off.

but one more question, is that bottom part pure vermiculite? the part that is used for a filter? or does it have BRF in it?

and the fine vermiculite will work.


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Re: New guy...WTF is this? [Re: funguschamber]
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funguschamber said:
BTW what is FAE? And why would I need it? Thanks guys


Fat Albino Europeans. why would you need them? why not?

no, it's Fresh Air Exchange. you should know why you need it.


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Re: New guy...WTF is this? [Re: LayYouIn]
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Yea I've been doing air exchanged about twice a day & misting them about once a day. Thats why that cake looked slimy. Yea a portion of the bottom is pure vermiculite but part of it is where I stopped them early. I'll add an updated pic here in a bit w/ all the cakes so you might get a better idea of what I'm dealing with. Thanks for all the help!

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Re: New guy...WTF is this? [Re: funguschamber]
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green mold grows differently the the mycelium. It will be a different texture. Not so rhizomorphic (doesn't have the root like growth that mycelium has) You should be able to tell by looking at it if it's bruising, or if it's something growing on your cake


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Re: New guy...WTF is this? [Re: enesi]
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I don't think that those cakes look healthy in any sense of the word:suicide: I would toss them,chock it up to a learning experience and prep more jars

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Re: New guy...WTF is this? [Re: Blutjager]
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I agree. They look a little scary. Hope you can get some better verm.


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Re: New guy...WTF is this? [Re: Ganzig]
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dude. those cakes are WAYYYY dry
dunk and roll next time, add more moist perlite, fan more often


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