First Attempt @ Mushrooms: Is this bad?

dr.tomb

dr.tomb

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I inoculated my jars on Jan 29, and all of my jars are looking pretty good, 2 even started to pin in the jars, so im going to take them out and get them into the terrarium tomorrow.

I was looking at the one jar and it has some brown, im not sure if its a mold.... or if perhaps it is pinning or water in the inside. Any input would be awesome.

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Im talking about the brown about 1cm up from the 4
PS: That's where the white was on Feb 4, I just wanted to track how fast it spread.
 
Mad Hamish

Mad Hamish

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Two guys I know will give you a straight up answer, on my friend list the fellas are called Mycomaster and Javadog. The latter is one amazing mycologist, he knows his moulds like the back of his hand.
 
KLITE

KLITE

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Those yellow brown spots on the right hand side seem to be metabolites. Its a good sign that the mycelium is attempting to fight something off, i would therefore risk saying you have the early stages of some type of mould contamination, hopefully grey mould cause the gren one is harder to fight off. The mycelium might kick its ass... I have previously used jars where only about 5 to 10% were contaminated, dunked in water and in the tub and it didnt appear again in the tub...
 
x6fallen9x

x6fallen9x

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KLITE said:
Those yellow brown spots on the right hand side seem to be metabolites. Its a good sign that the mycelium is attempting to fight something off, i would therefore risk saying you have the early stages of some type of mould contamination, hopefully grey mould cause the gren one is harder to fight off. The mycelium might kick its ass... I have previously used jars where only about 5 to 10% were contaminated, dunked in water and in the tub and it didnt appear again in the tub...
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This right here, to a T! "Mycelium Piss". I had it pooling on the top of my last grow.. Dunked it and put it into fruit and never had a problem after :-o
 
dr.tomb

dr.tomb

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So should i let it sit in the jar a while longer? is it possible its a greasy looking pin? i compared it to the color of the pins that formed in the 3 jars that the stem is a light brown (like this, with a darker top at the top of the light brown stem). im still waiting on 2 other jars to finish colonizing the jars... aside from this one.
 
MadDog607

MadDog607

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I've seen this in jars that take longer than usual to colonize do to grain not being hydrated enough. I've used em still with good results and some bad. I hope it doesn't stall on you
 
canndo

canndo

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mycelium will exude water when the temperature is close to its thermal limits to growth. The water/exudite will serve as host to a variety of microorganisms which may or may not inhibit further growth of the mycelium.
 
dr.tomb

dr.tomb

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I opened the last 3 jars and found that the one in question had cobweb mold.. Tossed it.. Other two are in the fridge being dunked.
 
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