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[Jetson]

I have a cake that's fruiting, but the fruits are still young, only a day after being pins, about - the problem is that some light blue/green (not trich) mold-looking contam has appeared. I'm going to do a 200/1, water/bleach dunk to hopefully save it, but I was wondering, should I just pick everything and dunk asap, or should I let the fruits develop a little more and then dunk?

[chimp]

Are you sure thats its contams and not bruising or dehydration? Try to dab it with a cotton swab thats wet..if it doesn't "smudge" it isn't contams

[Jetson]

Oh, damn: the picture on that "bruising" page looks like what I have. Which is strange because I haven't been touching it much. I haven't dunked it yet, so it could very well be dehydration as well.
What should I do?
Should I still dunk it?

[chimp]

You can dunk it with the pins and all if they are still really small...I wouldn't do a bleach dunk tho. Try a 12-18 hour dunk in the fridge. I don't think that it will hurt anything..may slow em down a bit though at first.

[Jetson]

hmm, they might be too old? I'm not sure though. One of them is about an inch tall and the cap has already changed from the little dark, fuzzy bump to a well defined orange-y sphere. The others are still pretty pin-like.
What do you think?

[chimp]

I think you will be ok..the worst thing that could happen is that the large one may rot..highly doubtful though..if it does it will turn black and you'll know to pluck it anyways.

[Jetson]

sweet, dude: thanks!

[Jetson]

I dunked it for 20 hours with great results - pins continued to grow during the dunk - many more had formed by the time I removed it. Some aborts started to get blue and mushy. I picked them, and I'm guessing they're okay for consumption?

It seems much healthier now: thanks:heart:

[chimp]

Glad it workin out for ya bro....Ya them aborts are full of magic..I'll take aborts over mature fruits anytime :teeth:

[hydrodad]

Bruising. If it isn't green (obviuos dark GREEN or glow in the dark green) don't worry.

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[Jetson]

Those are some nasty cakes

[entheogenisis]

hydrodad, those cakes make me sad.:thumbdown:

[Jetson]

I don't understand:
The first flush, after that first dunk, only yielded one boomer and a bunch of aborts. It was still feeling real dry and looked blue, so I did another dunk for 22 hours and returned it to the FC. I checked it this evening and it's still blue and really dry! I don't know what to do at this point...

[dinosaur]

no dunking will not stop your grownth, it"ll help with yeild are u sure it's green? some pics would help us to help u. :D
What type of chambers u have and humid level is????

[CoyoteMesc]

How long has it been back in the FC?
You say you checked it this evening but
I didn't catch the day it was removed from the
dunk.

[Jetson]

Oh, yeah - I started the dunk the day before yesterday, at 11 am. I put it back in the FC at like 9 or 10 am the next day. I checked it again in the evening and a bunch of pins had stalled and it still seemed dry. I may be overreacting. I'll try to take a picture and give an update this evening.

[CoyoteMesc]

I always like to give everything close to 24 hours to recover before I analyze too much.
The mycel has to come back up to temp and
then takes some time to recover and utilize the water from the dunk. In the fridge its so
cool its not grow much if any at all, just absorbing moisture.
I hope your cakes come through ok, let us know tonight how they look :)

[Green~Thang]

What are some details of your FC? Are you keeping RH, FAE, misting up? Do you have perlite, is there any standing water in the perlite??

[Jetson]

The perlite was only damp as of 10 minutes ago - originally it was thoroughly saturated, as it is right now; more water was just added. (Is that bad?)
The walls are misted regularly. Although I have no meter, I hope it's fine - I assume it's fine. There's plenty of FAE, if anything too much, which might be my problem, but idk...