Some of my jars inoculated with P. Cubensis almost made it but I found one grain has a greenish spot looking like mould. The glass around the spot was sweated with water. The greenish part never expanded, however, it looks like the cubensis took over. I guess that jar is still no good as it contains potentially toxic mould, right? Some jars (second picture) look okay but the myc refuses to colonize it fully, the mycelium becomes fluffy around the area but does not create a barrier. Could this be bacterial contamination or some kind of rot? Thanks for any suggestions. blue.magic attached the following image(s):  DSC_5193.JPG (396kb) downloaded 93 time(s). DSC_5194.JPG (435kb) downloaded 91 time(s).
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Looks fine - spawn it and see what happens. "The brain is a reducing valve that restricts consciousness" - A Huxley
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Spot on blue.magic! To me, both look like a contamination, better check their smell (and I would drop them in the bin). tseuq Everything's sooo peyote-ful..
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Check the posts by RogerRabbit in this threadSo even if it is safe to eat mushrooms fruited from mouldy substrate it's better to discard it properly and eliminte the risk of spreading spores And yeah that second jar does look bacterial "Is this the end of our adventure? Nothing has an end. We came in search of the secret of immortality, to be like gods, and here we are... mortals, more human than ever. If we have not obtained immortality, at least we have obtained reality. We began in a fairytale and we came to life! But is this life reality? We are images, dreams, photographs. We must not stay here! Prisoners! We shall break the illusion. This is Maya. Goodbye to the holy mountain. Real life awaits us." ~ Alejandro Jodorowsky
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Thanks. I will therefore do the cotton plug test for mould and smell test for bacteria.
I will throw the jars away. I made extra jars exactly because of this.
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Be careful with smell tests, sometimes a good whiff of a nasty infection can make you sick, ideally waft some air over the jar and smell that, so you reduce the amount of potential toxic nastiness you are inhaling Peace <3 I am certifiably insane, as such all posts written by me should be regarded as utter nonsense or attempts to get attention in fact everything I write here is a lie !
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First is probably trich, second bacterial. Spawning would probably waste the tub..expect super slow colonialization that might stall at some point. Then, you might get half a fruiting cycle out of it if you're lucky....before giving your drain pipes a workout. Avoid.
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I concur with Oblighuhi. You can see the second jar has wetspot.
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