Spore-tacular Shenanigans

[Orb]

time can feel like it’s standing still when I’m at work or attempting to germinate beans, seems to fly by the rest of the time

27g+ dry from this second tray so far but its developed what appeared to be a fluffy white mould around the stem base of a few shrooms, so threw them away just in case

the last contamination was green, so it’s a plus I don’t have any of that but spraying the fluffy stuff with iso and it appears to have killed it and turned that area blue/black

there are plenty of unaffected pins so it would be great to get more but we’ll see how things play out

 

[Goonie Goat]

time can feel like it’s standing still when I’m at work or attempting to germinate beans, seems to fly by the rest of the time

27g+ dry from this second tray so far but its developed what appeared to be a fluffy white mould around the stem base of a few shrooms, so threw them away just in case

the last contamination was green, so it’s a plus I don’t have any of that but spraying the fluffy stuff with iso and it appears to have killed it and turned that area blue/black

there are plenty of unaffected pins so it would be great to get more but we’ll see how things play out

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The fluffy stuff might just be tomentose mycelium? Is it around the base of the mushrooms? It can look really fluffy at times.
eBay has 12% peroxide which you can dilute to 3% or 6% which won't kill the mycelium like the alcohol does.

I did the same as you did in a monotub a few years back and while the alcohol did kill everything, it left a dead patch which encouraged more contamination to grow.
Peroxide will kill the contam but won't kill the mycelium unless it's a high concentration

 

[Sun Ra]

 

[Orb]

The fluffy stuff might just be tomentose mycelium? Is it around the base of the mushrooms? It can look really fluffy at times.
eBay has 12% peroxide which you can dilute to 3% or 6% which won't kill the mycelium like the alcohol does.

I did the same as you did in a monotub a few years back and while the alcohol did kill everything, it left a dead patch which encouraged more contamination to grow.
Peroxide will kill the contam but won't kill the mycelium unless it's a high concentration

thanks Goonie, i though the iso would be the gentler of the two but I’ll try the peroxide if it continues

I reckon between contamination risk, final yields, actual effort and total cost, the larger all in one grow bags might be a better option for me