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#1
PF - Tek / Re: Mycelium in fruiting chamber
February 09, 2009, 06:57:37 AM
i started a new topic...this one was getting too long.  It's under "Is this mold"
#2
PF - Tek / Is this mold?
February 08, 2009, 03:14:07 PM
I have some bluish-greenish stuff on my cakes.  On the first picture, the darkest blue-green area (in the middle of the cake) is where I tried to swab the cake with a Q-Tip to see if any of the stuff came off - and it did not come off.  It doesn't smell too bad, but it does smell different from when I put the cakes in.  Any Identification of this would be helpful. 
http://i664.photobucket.com/albums/vv4/derekbk16/DSCN0224.jpg
http://i664.photobucket.com/albums/vv4/derekbk16/DSCN0225.jpg
http://i664.photobucket.com/albums/vv4/derekbk16/DSCN0226.jpg

Please give me good news, these are my only 2 cakes left and I want to have something for all this waiting/work!
#3
PF - Tek / Re: Mycelium in fruiting chamber
February 06, 2009, 08:36:23 AM
Also, I swabbed it with a cue tip to see if any green came off, and it didn't, but it compacted the fluffly stuff against the cake and the greenish/blueish color was a little darker then where I pushed it back into the cake. 
#4
PF - Tek / Re: Mycelium in fruiting chamber
February 06, 2009, 08:34:54 AM
Just wanted to check on something here.  On the one cake in the front of the picture is some fluffly stuff that has turned a little green since this picture was taken.  It started out looking fine, as it does in this picture, but it didn't look right on the cake b/c I was expecting to get pins only, and not some fluffly stuff.  Anyway, here is the pic and let me know what you think.  Thanks.
http://i664.photobucket.com/albums/vv4/derekbk16/DSCN0176.jpg
#5
PF - Tek / Re: Mycelium in fruiting chamber
February 04, 2009, 07:10:08 AM
great.  thank you very much to those who responded and helped.  This is a great site, and you guys are great resources for us beginners.   I'll post some final pics then once I get something to show....hopefully soon.   -_-
#6
PF - Tek / Re: Mycelium in fruiting chamber
February 03, 2009, 04:23:05 AM
Ok, I'll be sure to use only perlite in the future.  The one cake on the far right grew into some perlite/verm that the cake was sitting on.  Will that cake still be good?  I wasn't sure if perlite would contaminate the cake, but so far it still looks the same/healthy.
#7
PF - Tek / Re: Mycelium in fruiting chamber
February 02, 2009, 06:34:18 AM
It's a mix of verm and perlite.  I was going to put down only perlite, but I didn't have enough to cover the bottom, so I mixed in some verm and added water.  You think these will be good then? 
#8
PF - Tek / Re: Mycelium in fruiting chamber
February 01, 2009, 01:37:03 PM
I never dunked and rolled the cakes, but they've been in the FC now for 3-4 days.  Should I dunk and roll now or just let them be?
#9
PF - Tek / Re: Mycelium in fruiting chamber
February 01, 2009, 01:35:03 PM
On the second pic, the left and center cakes seem to have a yellowish color to the top of the cake.  Is this normal?  Also, will the cake on the right be affected now that I ripped it from the verm it was trying to grow onto?  Will I have to do anything special to that cake to now initiate fruiting?  Thanks again for the help. 
#11
PF - Tek / Re: Mycelium in fruiting chamber
February 01, 2009, 11:40:27 AM
Are the white peaks that look like they are reaching out Hyphal knots?  Or is it just mycelium attempting to spread?
#12
PF - Tek / Re: Mycelium in fruiting chamber
February 01, 2009, 11:29:21 AM
In case it matters, the growing chamber has 95% humidity and is around 70 F. 
#13
PF - Tek / Mycelium in fruiting chamber
February 01, 2009, 11:17:01 AM
Hi everyone, first time grower here.  I put my cakes (fully colonized but no pins) in my fruiting chamber 4 days ago.  No pins have developed, but I put the cakes on a verm/perlite layer and now the mycelium is spreading to the verm that it's sitting on.    Is this ok, and will the mycelium keep spreading?  The one cake that is spreading the most also has white peaks growing off of the cake, but there are no pins.  What are those white things and will they lead to pins?  It looks like the mycelium is "reaching out" to try and grow on anything near it.  Thanks for your help, I searched the forum for something like this and didn't find anything, so any help would be appreciated.