contamination?Is it possible for a healthy cake to have a faint bluish tint? I used a spray bottle without a drip shield until told not too. Could these water droplets have bruised the myceleum?
When water touches a cake, it turns blue. That's a good sign. What's a drip shield anyway? What kind of casing layer did you use?
I didn't use casing. I followed the PF-tek innoculated with ecuadorian spores. My terrarium is a 10 gallon piece of tupperware with an inch of standing water and hydroclay balls at the bottom. A heating pad creates steamp etc.
the fruiting bodies are not the only part of the fungus that will bruise blue. a tint is not contamination. you'll know if its contaminated by very OBVIOUS growth of a completely seperate fungus (usually blue, green, or black, like bread mold. it will be easily distinguishable from the mycellium) or else by a pungent sour odor, indicating a bacterial rather than fungal infection. i highly recommend throwing out any contaminated cakes, but from the sound of things, its just bruised mycelium. a little water wont hurt it, honestly, there are lots of techniques for taking care of your cakes. some people even soak them in water overnight after harvesting a flush in order to replenish the cake's moisture and more easily keep up with heavy fruiting. in the future, however, i would recommend using perlite instead of hydroclay balls. you can simply add a little water to the perlite and it will humidify the terrarium wonderfully, almost no need for misting unless its seriously drying out in there. read up about it at the shroomery. also, google "the pf tek for simple minds" for a much simpler and easier to follow, yet still very effective, manner of using the PF tek. simple variations which make things much easier, imo.
back in the day we'd get impatient and eat grain spawn, half gallon jar full would get you decently fried.
back in the day we used to wrestle polar bears on the way to school. That would get us rreeaallyy fried.
back ivery often the day the bus driver would skip me in the morning, like actualy drive right past, one time hit by with muddy slush, fuck you bald bus driver, if any of you are a bald school bus driver from rhone/anderson county tennessee you are a fuckin asshole and I am still mad at you. makin me walk hella far, if you went by road it was 6 to 8 miles, depending, if you took the shortcuts more like 2 or 3 miles, man that shit builds those leg muscles, teacher wouldn't ever take the excuse that bus driver is an asshole who skips my stop my stop all the time, getting in trouble over shit out of my control shoving reasons they cooked up in my face "you been smoking dope boy?", when I actualy skipped school to smoke a joint out in the woods it was very nice. you young wippersnappers aint got nuttin on me...... I dont get why old people say that sort of shit, I mean that wasn't actualy that long ago in the bigger perspective. get fried off fighting polar bears, man that kicks ass! whats it feel like? man I wanna try that now, anyone know where I could buy some polar bears? maybe from one of those shaman supply supply houses..... hmmmmm......
