So I recently just started trying my hand at making my own flake soil (that stuff online gets really pricey after a couple rounds of buying), and I followed a recipe from a video to the letter. I made it about two weeks in, and it was smelling good and looking good and everything seemed on track, when I came in to see cobweb mold overtaking the surface. After another day or so it looked to be gone, so I thought nothing of it. The next morning, it was almost completely colonized by trichoderma and had begun sporulating. In order to prevent the mass inoculation of my house with trich, I closed it as tightly as I could and haven't touched it since. I don't want to try again until I can figure out how to stop that from happening again. Does anyone have any ideas? I would try exposing it to more airflow to slow the growth of either contaminants but I'm afraid it'll dry out within a few days. I would also ask, though I fear the answer, is there any way I can salvage the batch that molded, once the trich has run its course?
Flake soil mold
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I was just starting to mix daily, but it cropped up anyways. Could it just be that I had given it too much time before mixing it up? Also I just worked up the courage to open it up and look in, and tried to break it up, and it was a nightmare. There was so much trich the air was cloudy, and some lipstick mold was starting to crop up so I pitched it. It wasn't superficial, it was all the way colonized. Hell, I rinsed out the bucket afterwards and the water was turquoise... So I'm thinking it was the right move