My Golden teacher & ecuador outdoor fungus grow

You have any better quality pics? I'm leaning towards contam.

sonar said:

You have any better quality pics? I'm leaning towards contam.

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for some strange reason, legitimate mycelium will almost always become evident on the ends of individual kernels, rather than on the center. I have often wondered about that. Also, most often contamination tends to grow indiscriminitly, so odds are, even in a bad picture, if we see growth eminating from the center of the kernel, and we see the growth down from the surface of the grain, it is contamination. Beyond that, it doesn't look particularly white. I agree, Sonar, With your assessment.

Only pics I have there is white stuff with strings growing on the corn and some of its fuzzy looks like mycelium from the pics I've seen

golden teacher top of the jar there's more white on the sides i've shaken jars couple times

That jar is full of trich man. You can see it sporulating in at least 3 different places.

You should look into picking up a pressure cooker if you plan on working with grains.

BINGO! ^^^^^

CONTAM! Sorry man but that is straight up trich. A cheap 8qt PC at wally world is only like $50.

I hate to see that.

So it's not mycelium

I put the contents of the jars in some pasteurized coco and manure il bury them in a couple days

I'll be doing the brf tek

socialsmoker said:

So it's not mycelium

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Yes it is, just not the one you want or planned for.

Well I checked the bag I put the gt in and the kernels are covered white I don't c any discoloration..

i was getting more manure and found some shrooms heres a pic

Healthy cubensis mycelium looks like this. A few jars of ecuador on wbs in various stages of growth.

Some of the corn kernels looked like that but really wern't growing I just put that batch in the out door pile
got more Ecuador on the way doing some pf cakes and some bulk for outside

The Ecuador spores arrived and I enoculated the pf jars

1 of the Brf jars has mycelium the others stink real bad

I threw the stinky jars out

And then transplanted the mycelium into some sterilized coco/Hpoo

Did you finally get a pressure cooker? I can tell you that in my experience mushroom tek is not easy, even with a pressure cooker. No matter what I did, I still got contaminated! You definitely NEED to get a pressure cooker if you want to do this. I am gearing up to try again. I am going to run a big hepa filter in the room this time. I live in an old house, and no matter how well I clean or spray with Lysol, there is still something that is contaminating my jars....so frustrating.