My Golden teacher & ecuador outdoor fungus grow

sonar

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That is not P. cubensis mycelium, you have a bacterial infection mate.
Agreed. That birdseed is way too wet man. That's why I moved to popcorn for awhile. It's hard to get the water content right sometimes. I find just letting it strain won't do. I lay it out on a cookie sheet with a fan over it mixing it up occassionally for a good half hour.

Time to start over and this time hopefully with a pressure cooker. :)
 

canndo

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Center one mucor or just too wet? I can't tell. but yeah, bird seed is tough. Popcorn confounds some people but if they boil the kernels just until they see a few skins break on them and then they rinse well and then they DRY those suckers - there shouldn't be a problem.
 

canndo

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I don't have a pressure cooker..... boiled jars in pot for around an hour
Well, your odds are pretty slender there. There are all sorts of cavities in your substrate that may not get to a critical temperature and if you didn't boil progressively, you will almost surely have "live" endospores left in your substrate, it only takes a single one to ruine your project. Pressure cookers are for a reason, and that reason is 250 degrees under steam pressure rather than 212.
 

socialsmoker

Active Member
Well, your odds are pretty slender there. There are all sorts of cavities in your substrate that may not get to a critical temperature and if you didn't boil progressively, you will almost surely have "live" endospores left in your substrate, it only takes a single one to ruine your project. Pressure cookers are for a reason, and that reason is 250 degrees under steam pressure rather than 212.
Thanx for the info I soaked the corn for 20 hours and boiled it for a few minutes then dried corn and jarred then boiled again and let cool then inoculated them
 

socialsmoker

Active Member
Thanx for the info I'm using Coffee filters
here's a pic of the golden teacher
golden teacher.jpg
there's a few more spots like this and some covered with whitei fuzz ecuador looks about the same
 
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