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Contaminated?????? --------------------- P.Cubensis
#7844693 - 01/07/08 05:32 PM (16 years, 25 days ago) |
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Hey all i'm trying to grow p.cubensis through making the cake with brown rice flour and verm. i waited till the mycelium was covered and was ready to colinize, i brought a box and sterilized it, now its got around 2 inch of perlite and the cake covered in verm. the thing is its smelling rather off in there, is it contaminated??? theres no mould or anything, ive also read having a blue light above the cake will help it grow as hte p.cubensis filters blue out of natural light which helps it grow??
any help would be appreciated.
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Re: Contaminated?????? --------------------- P.Cubensis [Re: Psilocybeater]
#7844704 - 01/07/08 05:34 PM (16 years, 25 days ago) |
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nice!! Show us a pic. We can not smell it from here
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Re: Contaminated?????? --------------------- P.Cubensis [Re: Psilocybeater]
#7844711 - 01/07/08 05:35 PM (16 years, 25 days ago) |
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Pics? How long did you incubate the cakes? Temperature?
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Re: Contaminated?????? --------------------- P.Cubensis [Re: tahoe]
#7844718 - 01/07/08 05:36 PM (16 years, 25 days ago) |
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LOL sniff sniff mmmm smells like chicken... Anyway you could at least describe the smell. Mycelium to me kinda smells earthy and kinda sweet after you dunk it. Just keep a close eye on it, a contam would show itself soon enough but your probably just paranoid.
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Re: Contaminated?????? --------------------- P.Cubensis [Re: Crasher]
#7844733 - 01/07/08 05:40 PM (16 years, 25 days ago) |
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will get pics up soon, the temp at which they are at the moment is around 21c. erm incubation time....too long lol it was well over 3 weeks which worried me, made me think. but they smelt fine out of the jars, nice shroomy smell.
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Re: Contaminated?????? --------------------- P.Cubensis [Re: DontPlay]
#7844743 - 01/07/08 05:42 PM (16 years, 25 days ago) |
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like mustard tbh
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Re: Contaminated?????? --------------------- P.Cubensis [Re: Psilocybeater]
#7844753 - 01/07/08 05:43 PM (16 years, 25 days ago) |
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lets see. 21 x 1.8 +32= 69.8 degrees. Hmmm. Gents? I've never incubated this low so I can't suggest anything.
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Re: Contaminated?????? --------------------- P.Cubensis [Re: Crasher]
#7844780 - 01/07/08 05:49 PM (16 years, 25 days ago) |
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If it was 69F then that is why they took so long to complete.
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Re: Contaminated?????? --------------------- P.Cubensis [Re: DontPlay]
#7844801 - 01/07/08 05:55 PM (16 years, 25 days ago) |
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incubation was much higher they where put in my airing cuboard next to the heater, im trying to grow em now
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Re: Contaminated?????? --------------------- P.Cubensis [Re: Psilocybeater]
#7844885 - 01/07/08 06:16 PM (16 years, 25 days ago) |
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Ahh okay my bad, yeah I don't see how that would be a huge difference but I guess it could be higher.
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Re: Contaminated?????? --------------------- P.Cubensis [Re: DontPlay]
#7846447 - 01/07/08 11:26 PM (16 years, 25 days ago) |
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It isn't blue light as in a blue lightbulb. It is light in the bluer spectrum range, the bulbs normally known as daylight or white light (at a 6000k spectrum).
If you have ever grown weed or seen a setup, it is the difference between the sodium vapour light you use for flowering (gives off an orangey light) and metal halide lamps used for vegetative growth (give off a blueish/white light)
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Re: Contaminated?????? --------------------- P.Cubensis [Re: Nibin]
#7846786 - 01/08/08 03:12 AM (16 years, 25 days ago) |
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I nice cheap solution for lighting is a daylight compact fluerescent (6500k) that should do nicely for a small setup, a nice bright one.
Not sure why your FC smells odd, i have 5 cakes in mine and it has a hint of earthy mushroom.
Did u rinse your perlite very well!! It may just be the smell of perlite
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Re: Contaminated?????? --------------------- P.Cubensis [Re: veda_sticks]
#7847632 - 01/08/08 12:16 PM (16 years, 24 days ago) |
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yeh i didnt realli rinse my perlite out at all tbh, that could be it. but be fair its rock it woudlnt stink like mustard :S
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