Invasive spores!

[user_1919]

Yesterday me and a friend were going to sterilze two NEW jars. I bought two NEW jars for this process that were never involved in my previous mushroom growing process. We make our substrate a week in advance and when I went to go sterilze them yesterday, the jar was almost 100% colinized!!! There was white myclieum everywhere! But it was acourse infected because it didn't get sterilization. This isn't really a question, more less a statement of how invasive spores can be. These two jars were on a different level of my house from where I was previously growing mushrooms. Spores travel and spread EVERYWHERE! This is can also be said with contamination! The whole house is proabably covered in mushroom spores!!

PEACE & LOVE

 

[druglessdouglas]

fruit them and see what you get. i bet its not what you expect

 

[user_1919]

They are contaminated. Not sure if the myclieum is winning the battle.

 

[druglessdouglas]

all multicellular fungi produce mycilium. fruit them and send a sample to Grimeyblimey to see what you got. may be a new species of foot fungus :wink:

do you know there are even fungi with eyes? they normally live in/on shit and "watch" the sun through the day as they fire off spores. simple eyes on stalks.
bloody strange. they do this so they distribute the spores in an ark and fire evenly. if you shine a torch on them at night they will all orientate themselves towards the light.

 

[Caduceus Mercurius]

I had been noticing some strage rubberband-like objects in my garden for a couple of days. I didn't know what they were, and didn't bother to take a closer look. I inherited some stuff recently, including all types of outdoor equipment which I stored in my garden, so I thought it was something that had fallen out of a box or something. But yesterday I found out they were mushrooms! And then I noticed they were all over my garden! Seems the spores went everywhere indeed!

But I live the center of a city and my garden mainly consists of stones, and is surrounded by high walls on all sides, so I have no idea how these fungi came here. But as long as they don't end up in my grow kits, I do not mind their presence.

 

[JustinNed]

Pretty mushrooms!

 

[druglessdouglas]

ive seen that one growing in a friends bathroom next to the shower/bath growing out of the skirting board.

 

[BlimeyGrimey]

Those look like an Auricularia species to me. Commonly called wood ears.

 

[BlimeyGrimey]

Yesterday me and a friend were going to sterilze two NEW jars. I bought two NEW jars for this process that were never involved in my previous mushroom growing process. We make our substrate a week in advance and when I went to go sterilze them yesterday, the jar was almost 100% colinized!!! There was white myclieum everywhere! But it was acourse infected because it didn't get sterilization. This isn't really a question, more less a statement of how invasive spores can be. These two jars were on a different level of my house from where I was previously growing mushrooms. Spores travel and spread EVERYWHERE! This is can also be said with contamination! The whole house is proabably covered in mushroom spores!!

PEACE & LOVE

Don't open those jars. There's no telling what exactly is growing in there. Its even harder to label a contaminate when its still white mycelial strands. It could be a mushroom species or it could be a non-sporulating strain of any number of molds or maybe it just hasn't sporulated yet.

Its usually best to sterilize jars within 48 hours of making the substrate. Sometimes a 24 hour wait before sterilizing can help to kill more contaminates. The waited time allows some endo-spores (they are hard as hell to kill) to germinate. Once germinated they are easily killed. You don't want to wait so long that the jar is visibly moldy however.

Toss those jars out and start over. When in doubt, toss it out.

 

[user_1919]

Don't open those jars. There's no telling what exactly is growing in there. Its even harder to label a contaminate when its still white mycelial strands. It could be a mushroom species or it could be a non-sporulating strain of any number of molds or maybe it just hasn't sporulated yet.

Its usually best to sterilize jars within 48 hours of making the substrate. Sometimes a 24 hour wait before sterilizing can help to kill more contaminates. The waited time allows some endo-spores (they are hard as hell to kill) to germinate. Once germinated they are easily killed. You don't want to wait so long that the jar is visibly moldy however.

Toss those jars out and start over. When in doubt, toss it out.

Thank you for the advice. I will toss the jars out right away. I have a question. I am going on vacation in 3 days out west for a 3-week roadtrip, and I wanted to start a bigger jar before I left. The jar I have is not widemouth, and I only have 1 1/2 mL of spore solutiion left. What can I do with this? I was thinking on just injecting into into some substrate, letting it colinize, and then smashing the jar and casing. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

PEACE & LOVE

 

[Ultima]

i was reading up that 1ML is enough for 1 jar. so i figure, let it colonize, then do a grain to grain transfer. (muhaha im learning!) hehe, but yeah. if you want to get a larger amount of mushies.