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Problems with my cakes
    #7518370 - 10/15/07 04:26 AM (16 years, 3 months ago)

Hello !
Again I'm bothering you guys with my newbie problems.

This time .... with pictures!!!!

Aaaaaand...very bad quality! Hooray.

Here we go.

Growing cubes, Mexican strain.
Pf tek for dummies.
Brf/verm jars inoculated on 3rd on august (!!!!) and, as weird as it may sound, two of my 11 jars are not yet fully colonized (kept in the dark, 27 C).
Anyway. Some of the jars are fully colonized, and one of them had a "bump" in the myc, at the bottom of the jar. The bump was myc white at first, then turned a yellow-light brown.
I got the cake out, dunked&rolled and the bump became white again.
Put the cake in a 5 liter recipient with perlite. After a few days the bump became light brown again. No smell whatsoever.

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Primordia showed up, then pins, the tiny mushrooms. Air 6-7 times a day, no misting, 12/12 dark/light.
But the tiny mushrooms had no veils! The gills are visible and some have a very light coloration.

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I'm really sorry about the quality, but you can see the shape of the caps doesn't seem right.
Also all pinning occurred on the top part of the cake.
Now I did my share of reading and I think this:
The colonization took too long and the cake has too few nutrients left in it. That is why there are no veils and the coloration is light and also this is the reason the shrooms grow only on the upper part (that part was colonized last and has more nutrients left).

This is a "maaaaybe" guess, but this is my first time ever doing this thing.
What do you think?
Was there a contaminant on that cake and that is the reason, rather then lack of food?
And if it's lack of food, can I inject some?
I'm really worried for the rest of the cakes, can't birth them because I can't find perlite anywhere and what I had was from a kind soul, but it's not enough. I have some keramzit (leca) but it doesn't look anything like perlite and it doesn't absorb water, and some verm/coir mix. I'll probably have to order more perlite from outside the borders, but it will take at least a week to get here and the remaining cakes will consume more nutrients...
I read I can use soaked paper instead of perlite, should I do that instead of waiting for the perlite?


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Re: Problems with my cakes [Re: Schmensie]
    #7518933 - 10/15/07 10:50 AM (16 years, 3 months ago)

Bump!

The thread ... feels ... empty ...:sad:


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bloodninja: Robots are trying to drill my brain but my lightning shield inflicts DOA attack, leaving the robots as flaming piles of metal.
bloodninja: King Arthur congratulates me for destroying Dr. Robotnik's evil army of Robot Socialist Republics. The cold war ends. Reagan steals my accomplishments and makes like it was cause of him.
bloodninja: You still there baby? I think it's getting hard now.
bloodninja: Baby?


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Re: Problems with my cakes [Re: Schmensie]
    #7519429 - 10/15/07 01:12 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

Simply put....Mutations.


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Re: Problems with my cakes [Re: The shroomy 1]
    #7519649 - 10/15/07 02:14 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

A better picture :



I got all worked up because of my "lack of nutrients" paranoia...
It's the first time I hear "it's a mutant" and feel good about it, I'm tellin' ya, the space ranger job starts to become too stressful after the first thousand years or so...


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bloodninja: Robots are trying to drill my brain but my lightning shield inflicts DOA attack, leaving the robots as flaming piles of metal.
bloodninja: King Arthur congratulates me for destroying Dr. Robotnik's evil army of Robot Socialist Republics. The cold war ends. Reagan steals my accomplishments and makes like it was cause of him.
bloodninja: You still there baby? I think it's getting hard now.
bloodninja: Baby?


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