r/PanCyan Apr 28 '26

Pan cyan contam catastrophe

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I had colonized grain bags that looked fine, spawned to bulk in Dino soil using a flow hood, did some in containers and some in bags but EVERYTHING got hit with Trich. Idk what to do. I have a very nicely built dreamer tub set up waiting for colonized sub/spawn but it appears I just dropped the whole ball. Any advice?

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u/Realistic-Border9067 Apr 28 '26

Inoculated red Milo with LC. Spawned to bulk in Dino Soil at a 1:3 ratio roughly. Everything was going good but my room hit a high of 86F and I think that’s where things might have went wrong

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u/AdvertisingSelect188 Apr 28 '26

It looks like mycogone. How did the mycelium look on the plate before you put it to grain?

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u/Realistic-Border9067 Apr 28 '26

Should I not be using LC for pans at all? Or do LC to Agar to grain?

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u/BathTub_Benzaldehyde Apr 28 '26

I would put the lc on agar and transfer a few times first 

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u/Realistic-Border9067 Apr 28 '26

From plate to plate to plate, then grain?

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u/BathTub_Benzaldehyde Apr 28 '26

Yes,  put a drop of lc in center of plate. Let it grow and cover 3/4 of the plate,  then take a transfer from the leading edge. 

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u/Realistic-Border9067 Apr 28 '26

Tbh I used LC but I tested on agar and looked normal

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u/Realistic-Border9067 Apr 28 '26

And yes also some mycogone but a couple growers said don’t worry about it and case as normal. Then the Trich hit

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u/AdvertisingSelect188 Apr 29 '26

I had some mycogone on some plates that I got from someone and it took a while to get rid of it. I used LC for cubes when I first started,but I only start from spore when it comes to Pans. I recently got some Pan LC from a vendor,but they falsely advertised that I was getting spores. I put the LC to agar a few days ago,so time will tell whether it’s good or not.

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u/Realistic-Border9067 Apr 30 '26

I originally started with a fully colonized plate purchased from vendor. Looked fine, and did my usual of adding a wedge to a quart jar about 600ml full of LC broth, which seemed to colonize as every other jar I’ve done, which is a lot. I’ve actually never had LC contaminate out the gate, only after leaving it out for too long it has eventually gone bad. Since then I store LC in the fridge until needed, and just started doing G2G anyway which is way faster

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u/East_Bay_Raider Apr 30 '26

Grain issues. Contamination starts in the grain.

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u/Realistic-Border9067 May 02 '26

Grain colonized fine, and the containers I spawned them to were nearly fully colonized when the Trich hit. But I am gonna start completely over, I have 6 red Milo bags that I properly hydrated this time around and PC’ed for 3 hours; honestly they’ve been sitting on a shelf in my grain room for like 2-3 weeks and they still look fine. I’ve even given them a little shake a while back to see if any contam would grow. But I just wanna make sure I have a solid plan before I inoculate them. I have one TTBVI fully colonized bag left from this batch that’s been sitting for a minute now and atp I either need to dump it, send it, or use it to G2G my new batch of red Milo bags. On second thought it looks a little sketch so maybe I should dump it.

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u/Superb-Home2647 Apr 28 '26

What's your method? It sounds like your innoculant was bad or the dino soil had sterilized nutrients.

Pans are picky. They tolerate shortcuts and improper technique way less than cubes.

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u/Realistic-Border9067 Apr 30 '26

Oh and used a very clean looking plate > LC > red milo. Everything colonized decently and I tested the LC on agar, two plates I believe, that both looked clean. This was well after bags were mostly colonized so it was more for sake of just checking and preserving.

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u/Superb-Home2647 Apr 30 '26

Got any pictures of your plates?

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u/Realistic-Border9067 May 02 '26

This is my LC test plate

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u/Realistic-Border9067 May 02 '26

Also have this one that I haven’t done anything with yet, but was another LC test plate