Four days ago I added some purchased oyster spawn to five jars containing popcorn or rye (after sterilizing of course). The next day I noticed these white spots on the kernels of only one jar. For reference, the pink oyster spawn in this jar was also added to a jar of rye, and there is no sign of these spots in that jar, so I believe the spawn itself was fine. Transfer was done in a still-air box, and this wasn’t even the last jar I did, so I’m not really sure if it is contam or not?
One thing that strikes me (and I’m not sure if you can see the detail in this pic), I have seen white spots like this on sweet corn, which I believe is also a fungus, but the popcorn kernels were boiled for 20 minutes, dried for a couple hours, then put in a pressure cooker for 90 minutes at 15psi, so I don’t know how any fungus would have remained in the jars?
Regardless, I was wondering if anyone had seen something like this before, and if the jar is likely a loss? The oyster spawn is actually growing growing, you can see one cluster starting right in the center, and it seems like it’s cleaning the kernels that it expands to? This is my first time trying to expand spawn so I thought I’d ask for opinions on this…
Erg that sucks… literally every digital camera I’ve owned has saved the pictures with an uppercase “JPG”. Maybe I’ll file a bug report on this. Thanks for letting me know though.
No worries, I fixed it for you. It is now possible to upload JPG to Mander :)
However, images that come straight out of the camera are usually much bigger than what you really need, so if possible I would recommend to either re-scale them to make them smaller, or to upload them to something like imgur instead - just to save some disk space. But it is not a big deal, it is also OK to go ahead and upload them.
I’ve got 105TB of storage on my NAS, I’m not exactly hurting for space. 😄 For things like this I try to link to the full-sized image so people can see the details if needed, although in this case I failed to nail the focus of the shot, but I did link to a smaller version inside the submission (which I think is the one that was uploaded to your server?) I’m still trying to figure it all out, but if the larger image also got uploaded to your end then I’ll be mindful of that in the future.
Ah - yes - I see now! No, the image that you linked did not get uploaded to mander, and so it occupies no space. And the change that I made to the UI now accepts it as an image, and it shows up correctly as an expandable file.
Woah, 105TB is quite enough to store a few photos! This instance currently has 100 GB of disk space, but am looking into potential options to use my own hardware for storage instead of renting disk space.
Haha yeah I’m pretty happy with my current NAS setup. I like to collect movies and TV shows but my previous storage was getting full and the drives were starting to fail. I picked up a set of eight refurbished 18TB Seagate Exos drives from Amazon a few months ago plus built a newer server that could handle SAS3 speeds. Made a huge difference all around. I have about 71TB of free space remaining but that should last awhile.
I’m sure using your own storage space would be quite a bit cheaper. If you’re on a linux system, go with zfs and set up a small array. Redundancy is king and zfs is geared towards reliability, although it is difficult to increase the storage unless you are replacing all the drives with larger models (so choose your initial drive count wisely).