BRF Cake Turned Wicked!

canndo said:

The brownish aborts look like bacterial infection to me - not enough air movement, and or, they got really wet. You want high RH but you don't want the things to remain wet very long. Maybe Pseudomonacae. Frankly, you are on the verge of growing plenty of mushrooms, good mushrooms, Personally, I wouldn't eat anything that had the chance of making me sick AND high at the same time. We play with all sorts of nasties at the microscopic level when we grow mushrooms. We can inadvertently bring a slight concentration of a few harmless little bodies into the realm of toxicity and danger. For instance, Aspergillus Niger or Aspergillus Flavus scare the PISS out of me. If I even imagine I have a case growing I will toss it all in the cooker, steam it for an hour or so and still use a mask when I get the stuff out of there. I recently read a recounting of a guy who just went outside and cleaned his jars of who knows what, no precautions no nothing. He is quite certain that he can attribute a host of lung disorders to his having done so. Whenever I am unsure, it goes in a sealed bag, it gets steamed and then goes into the trash.

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DarthD3vl said:

I didn't read therough yet so this may have been answered already but it look to me like combination of over spraying and lack of air flow, the pinning was perfect, but something went wrong during that period, to much moisture with lack of fresh air allows the water to sit and soak into the mycelium, possible that it has bactiral infection also.. the dark lines in the stems are normally weak lines in the stem from to much water + lack of airflow, if thats all it is its pretty much the worse case of it i've seen.. hopefully some one more experinced chimes in, i'm not sure if i'd eat them or not..

edit: read through, canndo is probably right on the money... bacteria, and i see you chuncked them already so.. im late to the party

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DarthD3vl said:

I didn't read therough yet so this may have been answered already but it look to me like combination of over spraying and lack of air flow, the pinning was perfect, but something went wrong during that period, to much moisture with lack of fresh air allows the water to sit and soak into the mycelium, possible that it has bactiral infection also.. the dark lines in the stems are normally weak lines in the stem from to much water + lack of airflow, if thats all it is its pretty much the worse case of it i've seen.. hopefully some one more experinced chimes in, i'm not sure if i'd eat them or not..

edit: read through, canndo is probably right on the money... bacteria, and i see you chuncked them already so.. im late to the party

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midwest reefer said:

Thanks for stopping by Darth. When I saw all the pins, I thought the cake might need a bit more attention. Lesson learned. Must control my urge to mist. Oh well, just bagged 5g (dried) from one of the other cakes.

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