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Mushroom cultivation => Cultivation => Topic started by: jabwemet on January 22, 2010, 09:42:29 AM

Title: name that contam
Post by: jabwemet on January 22, 2010, 09:42:29 AM
What is this bullshit called?  I've never had it before; it's now taken out all of my pint jars (but none of my quarts for some reason)
(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4033/4296012946_225d601a83_b.jpg)

There should be a contam gallery somewhere, I'd be interested to know all the names and info of the usual subjects.
Title: Re: name that contam
Post by: cugak on January 22, 2010, 10:57:07 AM
Thats not contaminated!
Title: Re: name that contam
Post by: fattrout on January 22, 2010, 11:22:11 AM
yeah, that looks good to me..
check this out...
http://www.shroomery.org/5276/What-are-common-contaminants-of-the-mushroom-culture
Title: Re: name that contam
Post by: Azurascender on January 22, 2010, 12:44:27 PM
It looks like that cobweb mold I usually get on my half ass casings, but I could be wrong.
Title: Re: name that contam
Post by: fattrout on January 22, 2010, 01:02:10 PM
huh, it could be cobweb. but i don't think cobweb grows in the jars. at lest i have never seen it. the old pros will know....
Title: Re: name that contam
Post by: jabwemet on January 22, 2010, 01:38:21 PM
I hope it's contamination... or I just dumped a few perfectly good jars!  It really looks kind of bad... kind of grey and dark, not like healthy mycelium.  I still have the jar in the pic, maybe I'll give it some more time.
Title: Re: name that contam
Post by: cugak on January 22, 2010, 01:50:17 PM
Mycelium is just not that thick! Trust me, youll know when u see contaminated shit!
Title: Re: name that contam
Post by: ImAFungi on January 22, 2010, 02:57:43 PM
It kind of looks like moisture on the inside of the jar to me. But that's just me.

           -ImAFungi
Title: Re: name that contam
Post by: malabar on January 22, 2010, 06:15:05 PM
  Hate to say it,....  But you just trashed your future friends!  Not a bit of contamination do I see,...   :huh:
   ~Malabar    :mellow:
Title: Re: name that contam
Post by: jabwemet on January 22, 2010, 07:08:10 PM
really...?  maybe this isn't a good enough picture.  it's definitely patterned growth of some sort- definitely not moisture.  i've had jars with weak mycelium before but they didn't look like this.  this is the color of cigarette ash and very thin.

I want to believe that this jar is OK but I'm worried about putting it back into the incubator.  those 3 Qt jars are the last remnants of my GT! 
Title: Re: name that contam
Post by: malabar on January 23, 2010, 03:53:59 AM
Jabwemet,
  Spray a towel lightly w/lysol, then wrap it around the jar, and allow it to colonize in another location,........ Isolated from the rest, ( like another warm closet ).  Within a week, you should know for sure, and in the same breath, you won't risk a possible exposure to the others.
  Think of it as a form of Quarantine .
  ~Malabar    :mellow:
Title: Re: name that contam
Post by: jabwemet on January 23, 2010, 08:21:27 AM
right on
Title: Re: name that contam
Post by: ImAFungi on January 23, 2010, 11:01:06 AM
GL jabwemet :ph34r: Hopefully all will be good.

         -ImAFungi