some of those jars don't look so good. let them grow for a while, you'll know if they go bad. are you boiling or using a pressure cooker?

i pressure cook mine, ~45 min and rarely get contaminations.

if you don't have one, spend $50 on a pressure cooker.

growing shrooms is pretty easy .. i was "sterile" as i wanted/could be and got 0 contams my first try lol

i let the guy at work check them out and he thinks it is not contam.

he told me when he grew in colorado, if he got contamination it quickly overtook the mycelium and was extremely apparent.

the picture i posted has looked like this for 2 weeks now. it is still growing white mycelium but the stain has not gotten darker indicating a definitive bacteria nor has it stopped the growth or overtaken the mycelium and changed it all.

i did use a steamer for 75 minutes or so.

i did not flame my needle between jars is my only true concern. either way, i still have some good jars which i just moved to a pinning area. the others that arent ready will stay in a warmer and darker area.

i can always create a spore print form the good stuff and actually start new jars with portions of mycelium off the good cakes.

thanks for input

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anyhow, the update i have for today for all the great peeps giving out advice is this.

i have the 6 jars that are slow in the attic, under a towel folded in half, with 4layers of black plastic on top of that. thermometer in area shows 85+.

gonna check back in a week.

the other 4 are birthed and in basement.each one is showing aborts as well as pinning. temps on the terrarium went from ~84 to ~72 once i get them into the basement.

easy setup. old aquarium small to medium size. placed wet perlite in bottom and used small stryofoam "salad" bowls for the cakes.

cling wrap the top and fan out every so often. low to limited light.

seems to be working so atleast i have those four. things are too small for my cell to take pictures but will update soon.

thanks,

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awesomee
ive got glass bowl colonizing with golden teacher
ill post something once i get to the fruiting stage where i take it out of the casing
so far its about 40%-50% colonized

aborts are usually caused by a) water on pins or b) not enough air exchange. kinda the same problem, to much moisture, not enough oxygen.

at this point as long as they doing something. i am fanning the Co2 every 12 hours or so.

i am not so concerned about these as i am about the other i would like to see start again.

the terrarium is like 1 foot wide buy 2ft long by 16 deep? something like that

may be a little bigger but its working,.

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i should remove the aborts before they rot correct?

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you can pull them off now, or you can wait until you pick everything else.

aborts get grown over by mycellium eventually, but it takes a while and you don't want to disturb the cakes now.

where did you order your spores from?

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