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blood4blood
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paranoid about my 1st casing contaminating. (pics)
#7700630 - 11/30/07 08:02 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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so yea its my first casing and im worried about losing it to contams because its been in the fc for a week with no pins yet. so heres some pics. i keep thinking i see green spots in there but i dont know cause im coloblind as shit. how does it look to you guys???




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Nwerd
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Re: paranoid about my 1st casing contaminating. (pics) [Re: blood4blood]
#7700637 - 11/30/07 08:06 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Where's waldo anyone? Sorry, I know how it feels, I saw in only 2 pics.. #1 and #3, but I couldn't see anything on the rest. I'm not sure.. that green was pretty GREEN too... It looks like the tip of a green crayon a bit?? I don't know mang, best wishes to you, I've never seen anything like that first hand.
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Re: paranoid about my 1st casing contaminating. (pics) [Re: blood4blood]
#7700642 - 11/30/07 08:08 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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hmm it looks like there might be a slight green in a couple spots, if im not mistaken looks more like trich than anything. It tends to stain green rather than mold like that grown solid green. if thats a week in to your casing you might have some trouble but i believe it is easily salvagable. What are your temps, humidity, what is the casing? looks like it can use some speeding up u dont want a non colonized soggy mess sittin around for any longer than 2 weeks man, then it gets dangerous, are you trying to pin that right now? what are your means of FAE and light?
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Re: paranoid about my 1st casing contaminating. (pics) [Re: Curiosity_Breach]
#7700709 - 11/30/07 08:25 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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I see the same thing in pics 1 and 3, if it is mould it will be obvious in the next day or so.
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blood4blood
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Re: paranoid about my 1st casing contaminating. (pics) [Re: Curiosity_Breach]
#7700724 - 11/30/07 08:28 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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temp is probabally around 66-70
humidity is 97-98%
casing is 50/50 peat/verm
yea im trying to pin it right now. my lighting is around 12-14 hours of light with a 6500 K bulb. fae is from my pmp and i fan it 3-4 times a day
yea i know this is a pretty vauge thread but shit im tired of cakes and i really want this to turn out.
so if some trich did appear could i just cauderize it to get rid of it before it gets to bad???
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Re: paranoid about my 1st casing contaminating. (pics) [Re: blood4blood]
#7700735 - 11/30/07 08:33 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Cakes are cool.. but I started there and wanted to progress.. so I did the same and case my next run... After casing myc 2 times... I turned my eyes to Horsie Nugs lol This is my comfort zone, but I needed to learn from the ground up with cakes... I was even thinking about doing a side thing of cakes to take spores from... Not sure if this will materialize, but.... I've never had a contam problem other than a wee bit of cobweb once... So I would not know what to do and would be just as paranoid as you Good luck young jedi..
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Re: paranoid about my 1st casing contaminating. (pics) [Re: Nwerd]
#7700814 - 11/30/07 09:03 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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You should be fine if its trich, when i did cakes i experimented with nothing but a verm casing and they got real wet caused some trich. It wouldnt hurt to raise your temps 2-4 degrees but the zone youre in is fine too i just mean mostly for speed. Um yeah good humidty though thats hard for many to achieve on a consistent basis clearly u have that figured out. you can just removed trich also a good remedy is to get a spray bottle and mix it with a little bit of hydrogen peroxide and spray it with that a few times.
peace and good luck man. it doesnt look too bad.
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Re: paranoid about my 1st casing contaminating. (pics) [Re: blood4blood]
#7701087 - 11/30/07 10:18 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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your humidity is too high for casings. perfect for cakes though.
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blood4blood
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Re: paranoid about my 1st casing contaminating. (pics) [Re: Optx]
#7701142 - 11/30/07 10:32 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Re: paranoid about my 1st casing contaminating. (pics) [Re: Curiosity_Breach]
#7701879 - 12/01/07 06:18 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Curiosity_Breach said: You should be fine if its trich, when i did cakes i experimented with nothing but a verm casing and they got real wet caused some trich. It wouldnt hurt to raise your temps 2-4 degrees but the zone youre in is fine too i just mean mostly for speed. Um yeah good humidty though thats hard for many to achieve on a consistent basis clearly u have that figured out. you can just removed trich also a good remedy is to get a spray bottle and mix it with a little bit of hydrogen peroxide and spray it with that a few times.
peace and good luck man. it doesnt look too bad.
Absolutly wrong, h202 will not kill trich and a little bit of trich is bad, as a little bit of trich overnight becomes alot more trich. H202 will just harm the myc and allow the contam more chance.
h202 is only helpfull in the fight against cobweb.
If it is trich, its not worth trying to save, get rid of it before it spreads.
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Re: paranoid about my 1st casing contaminating. (pics) [Re: veda_sticks]
#7701891 - 12/01/07 06:32 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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veda_sticks said:
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Curiosity_Breach said: You should be fine if its trich, when i did cakes i experimented with nothing but a verm casing and they got real wet caused some trich. It wouldnt hurt to raise your temps 2-4 degrees but the zone youre in is fine too i just mean mostly for speed. Um yeah good humidty though thats hard for many to achieve on a consistent basis clearly u have that figured out. you can just removed trich also a good remedy is to get a spray bottle and mix it with a little bit of hydrogen peroxide and spray it with that a few times.
peace and good luck man. it doesnt look too bad.
Absolutly wrong, h202 will not kill trich and a little bit of trich is bad, as a little bit of trich overnight becomes alot more trich. H202 will just harm the myc and allow the contam more chance.
h202 is only helpfull in the fight against cobweb.
If it is trich, its not worth trying to save, get rid of it before it spreads.
Yup, not even bleach will kill this awful invader.
Lonnie Edwin
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Re: paranoid about my 1st casing contaminating. (pics) [Re: JewelessCaesar]
#7702208 - 12/01/07 09:59 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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a week at those temps isn't remarkable. there is definately something green in pics 1+3. in pic 3 - ( 2"up and 3" from the left,at least, that is how it is rendered with my browser ) there is what looks to me more like a green coloured stone, rather than mold. if you can find it from such "iffy" co-ordinates, try gently wiping it with a cotton bud - before throwing what otherwise looks like a healthy casing - if the colour wipes off you have mold. if so, you could consider covering the immediate area with a salt paste.it won't kill trich, but will help stop the spore from floating all over your growing area, and give you the chance to harvest a flush. good luck.
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blood4blood
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Re: paranoid about my 1st casing contaminating. (pics) [Re: deucedbi9]
#7702785 - 12/01/07 01:12 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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so im gonna try the salt paste thing but first would there be a possibility to cauderize the green spot out of there? you know cut it out with a hot knife and then re-patch.
this thing is starting to knot up very well and i really dont want to toss it.
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Re: paranoid about my 1st casing contaminating. (pics) [Re: blood4blood]
#7703180 - 12/01/07 03:30 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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i certainly wouldn't toss it as i'm not at all sure that those pictures show trichoderma. if it is, then digging around near it is more likely to spread the spore further, and out into your growing environment. has it shown any sign of spreading, have you tried the "cotton bud test" ?
as for cauterizing,i have asked the same question myself without answer. i had thought that heating a piece of metal until red, and then "branding" a green spot would at least kill the spore, even though the underlying trichoderma myc would survive.
post an updated picture if you can.
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Re: paranoid about my 1st casing contaminating. (pics) [Re: blood4blood]
#7703208 - 12/01/07 03:39 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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I am exceedingly unconvinced that you have any problems there. In 1 and 3 I see the green spot, but that is nothing like I have ever seen. It honestly looks like a piece of green plastic or some sort of foreign debris, not a contaminant.
Before you go upsetting your poor mycelium, do make sure it is really something growing there. It should expand fairly rapidly if it is a problem. Also the cotton swab test is sound advice, take a Q-tip or similar utensil and rub the area, you should see obvious spore deposits rubbing off, if not then you should not mess with it.
Good luck
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