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Wet spot contamination?
#7788230 - 12/22/07 08:22 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Dear all,
My first time growing mushrooms, since there are plans to forbid the selling of mushrooms in Holland Everything went well, besides the fact that colonization took a long time (I think I my jars were in a location wich wasn't warm enough). Finally, all my cakes are colonized and in the beginning everything was snow white, beautiful. But after a while I also began to notice an orange / brownish colour (see pic). My species are the "Golden Teacher" shrooms.
After some research on this forum I suspect this to be a case of wet spot molds. The humidity in my jars was probably too high (there was water on the bottom of the jars after a while), since I placed them in my bathroom to increase the temperature. Do you indeed think that this is wet spot molds? And is it necesarry to throw the cakes away, or can I still grow shrooms on them? Unfortunately, all my cakes have this coulour partialy. Some cakes have more, some have less. So if I'll have to throw them away, it was a good lesson and I'll just start over again.
By the way, there was no particular smell coming out of the jars. Just smells like mushrooms.
Any info or advice would be helpful!


Excuse me for the low quality, I only have a webcam...
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Re: Wet spot contamination? [Re: cryps]
#7788242 - 12/22/07 08:29 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Whoa is that green or blue? either way it doesnt look good.
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Re: Wet spot contamination? [Re: cryps]
#7788251 - 12/22/07 08:33 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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The spots look like bruising to me, but can't really tell:(. Wet spot mold has a particular smell of rotten apples, and myc actually produces some water during it's growth, IME. Looks to me like those are ready to fruit!
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Re: Wet spot contamination? [Re: kingboomer]
#7788287 - 12/22/07 08:54 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Ah sorry the blue/green color you see is an artifact of the webcam. It's just the vermiculate you see there. What I'm talking about is the brownish color you see on the white parts. Don't pay attention to the blue: it's not there in real life 
Here a picture with arrows pointing at the orange spots. They have a copper-like colour.
Edited by cryps (12/22/07 09:00 AM)
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Re: Wet spot contamination? [Re: cryps]
#7788439 - 12/22/07 10:11 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Harmless metabolites. I'd give it a dunk and roll, then put into fruiting conditions. RR
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Re: Wet spot contamination? [Re: RogerRabbit]
#7788477 - 12/22/07 10:26 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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maybe a bit dry how is your humid. and temp in your FC?
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Re: Wet spot contamination? [Re: seg_x]
#7788872 - 12/22/07 12:43 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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I have just put them in the fruiting chamber an hour ago. I've done the birthing just before taking these photo's. They might indeed be a bit dry, that's what they looked like. Probably because they've been in the colonization-process for too long. I think I know how to speed that up next time.
I suspected this colour to be harmless, but since it's my first time I like to make sure of course. Wouldn't like to get ill from eating my shrooms
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Re: Wet spot contamination? [Re: cryps]
#7788902 - 12/22/07 12:52 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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To re-hydrate a dry cake, dunk it under water (inside a tupperware in the fridge) for 24 hours. Then roll it in dry vermiculite and put it in the fruiting chamber. Once in the FC mist the cakes so the dry verm gets nice and wet.
This will increase your amount of mushies a lot.
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Re: Wet spot contamination? [Re: Nibin]
#7789247 - 12/22/07 02:28 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Thanks for your reply, that's exactly the method I followed (I follow the instructions in the famous PEF-tek videos on youtube). I can't wait to see my first shrooms coming up 
But why do you suggest to do this dehydrating in a fridge? I just did it in room temperature.
Edited by cryps (12/22/07 02:30 PM)
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Re: Wet spot contamination? [Re: cryps]
#7789310 - 12/22/07 02:48 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Rehydrating, not dehydrating.
In the fridge bacteria get less of a chance to grow in the water. If you don't want to use a fridge you can use running water (expensive) or keep your water cold somehow else.
If you don't do it in cold, it isn't a problem, just a bit riskier.
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Re: Wet spot contamination? [Re: Nibin]
#7791576 - 12/23/07 05:06 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Ofcourse rehydrating. Sorry I'm Dutch and though I know there's a big difference between DE and RE I somehow mixed them up 
Thanks for your reply!
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Re: Wet spot contamination? [Re: cryps]
#7791661 - 12/23/07 07:08 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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That is due to all that weed you Dutch people smoke
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Re: Wet spot contamination? [Re: Nibin]
#7791766 - 12/23/07 08:36 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Nibin said: That is due to all that weed you Dutch people smoke
Might be, might be
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Re: Wet spot contamination? [Re: cryps]
#7791935 - 12/23/07 10:03 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Quote:
cryps said: (I follow the instructions in the famous PEF-tek videos on youtube). I can't wait to see my first shrooms coming up 
Famous videos. . .I like this guy. Here's your first five.  RR
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Re: Wet spot contamination? [Re: RogerRabbit]
#7793064 - 12/23/07 04:16 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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I think they're famous too.
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Re: Wet spot contamination? [Re: mad genius]
#7793084 - 12/23/07 04:22 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Cryps, are you going to post up pics of your first pins when they come up? I think you should
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Re: Wet spot contamination? [Re: RogerRabbit]
#7793445 - 12/23/07 06:30 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Quote:
RogerRabbit said:
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cryps said: (I follow the instructions in the famous PEF-tek videos on youtube). I can't wait to see my first shrooms coming up 
Famous videos. . .I like this guy. Here's your first five.  RR
Hehe classic.
They are great videos and plan on buying the DVD. Theres alot of great information, everything is clearly explained.
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Re: Wet spot contamination? [Re: veda_sticks]
#7795417 - 12/24/07 12:08 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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I'll post pictures if my first pins come up Hope everything will work out fine...
And I may indeed buy the DVD, if I continiue this new-found hobby of mine
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Re: Wet spot contamination? [Re: cryps]
#7812626 - 12/30/07 04:40 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Aaaah noooo.... today I see the first pinnings... but at the same time I see a blue / green color developing on my cakes... Looks like blue/green mold to me. And of course, it's developing on all of my cakes. I guess I'll just have to start over again.
I'll wait a few hours and then post a picture of my cakes. Probably I should have cleaned my FC better and also be more sterile when birthing the cakes. I didn't really pay attention to the hygene then, because the PF-tek videos said sterility is less of an issue at this stage.
Now I understand why everyone hates green mold and the likes
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Re: Wet spot contamination? [Re: cryps]
#7812728 - 12/30/07 07:08 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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It is probably bruising, every set of cakes that i have have bruised and performed well. I put it down to my spray bottle not putting out the finest mist and sometimes landing on the cake.
The bruising has always went away a few days after birthing and re rolling then appeared again.
If it rubs of its mould, but i suspect it to be just bruising.
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Re: Wet spot contamination? [Re: veda_sticks]
#7812817 - 12/30/07 08:38 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Mmm, it doesn't look like it's growing. It looks less then this morning even. I'll lend my neighbours camera and post pics in an hour or two.
Really hope it's bruising I'm looking forward to these shroomies 
Luckily I can also still buy them in the smartshop, they're not forbidden just yet here in Holland. Really dissapointing it won't be possible anymore to buy my friends in the shop in the future
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Re: Wet spot contamination? [Re: cryps]
#7812843 - 12/30/07 08:59 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Bruising will be the color of the cake itself, as if you spilled blue-green ink and it soaked in. Mold will be a separate layer, as if you sprinkled green sand on top of the cake. Close inspection will easily tell you which you have
Be clean when birthing and dunking, etc., but don't get anal about sterility, because your cakes are fully colonized. If they contaminate prior to first flush, they were contaminated since prior to birthing anyway. RR
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Re: Wet spot contamination? [Re: RogerRabbit]
#7813818 - 12/30/07 02:16 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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I've taken some pics of my cakes. I know some parts are bruising (I pressed on my cakes intentionally to see what bruising looks like), but I'm not totally sure about all the blue. Some of it looks like it's growing on the hairs of the white myc (the species is golden teacher). But I have to say that since yesterday, the amount of colored areas got less, didn't increase any way. This would suggest it's NOT a mold right?




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Edited by cryps (12/31/07 05:56 AM)
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Re: Wet spot contamination? [Re: cryps]
#7813928 - 12/30/07 02:45 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Bruising. RR
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Re: Wet spot contamination? [Re: RogerRabbit]
#7816009 - 12/31/07 05:29 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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I hoped so, especially when the blue decreased instead of increased. Just wanted to be sure about it, since it's going to be my first flush ever 
I'm starting to see some serious pinning here by the way
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Re: Wet spot contamination? [Re: cryps]
#7816021 - 12/31/07 05:44 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Mould will grow very quickly, bruising can be quite deceptive sometimes, i have seen it many shades.
I keep some cotton buds handy to check.
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Re: Wet spot contamination? [Re: veda_sticks]
#7834719 - 01/05/08 08:29 AM (16 years, 27 days ago) |
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Soooo my first flush is ready! I waited a bit too long so a couple of shrooms already dropped there spores, but for the rest I'd say I have nothing to complain 

Sorry for the quality, only have a webcam...
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