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Will substrate contam if not allowed to breath?
    #667363 - 06/07/02 10:31 AM (22 years, 4 months ago)

I just spawned some milet to a batch of straw. I don't cut the straw up but I weigh it down with weight on top of a piece of a light diffuser(the plastic that goes on florescent fixtures) and it is too btittle to drill holes in and was wondering if the straw will contam in the stagnet air. I am guessing it will take longer to colonize.


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Re: Will substrate contam if not allowed to breath? [Re: powderfinger]
    #667401 - 06/07/02 11:08 AM (22 years, 4 months ago)

I was going to ask this question also.

All 4 of my straw trays have been comtaminated by the green mold. When I dump them, I found that the green is all over the middle and the bottom of the trays, and it's real wet in there. So my assumption is that it got contaminated because I didn't fully strain the straw.

But I also don't poke holes in the saran wrap during the spawn run, and was wondering if stale air could also contributed to the green mold problem?


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Re: Will substrate contam if not allowed to breath? [Re: lithiumcove]
    #667409 - 06/07/02 11:13 AM (22 years, 4 months ago)

How wet was your substrate? Were their pools of water? Also, i just read that if you use alot of spawn you increase the risk of contam because the spawn is at about mid-life.


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Re: Will substrate contam if not allowed to breath? [Re: powderfinger]
    #667415 - 06/07/02 11:17 AM (22 years, 4 months ago)

I left the straw to dry in the pillow case for about an hour, thinking it would be sufficently dried. When I dumped it, it was sopping wet in the middle.

I didn't use too much spawn, just a quart for a 1 foot square plastic bin that was about 4 inches deep.


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Re: Will substrate contam if not allowed to breath? [Re: lithiumcove]
    #667492 - 06/07/02 12:09 PM (22 years, 4 months ago)

I have read that high humidity and stagnant air cause contams. My casings usually have water condensing on the sides of the container, but this is the first time I have put a piece of plexiglass on top of my substrate. I usually use som chicken wire wired to four plastic dowel rods that form a (#). these rusted and now im trying the plastic.


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