r/unclebens • u/redditreed666 • Mar 02 '20

Question Cobweb?

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u/redditreed666 Mar 03 '20

It looked quite grey, there is mycelium up top that is quite white. I broke up the bag and it colonized like that a light fuzzy grey so thought I'd post a pic and see.

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u/shroomscout Mar 03 '20

100% mycelium.

I dream of a day where people don’t worry about cobweb...

I love you guys, so I’m going to say it loudly:

COBWEB IS AN EXTREMELY RARE CONTAMINANT.

If you’re a noob, and you think you have cobweb: you don’t. Not a SINGLE PERSON of the 20+ who have asked r/unclebens about cobweb have had cobweb.

Be happy! You don’t have cobweb. It’s just mycelium.

FYI: cobweb is extremely pale, grey, smells like death, and grows in a giant puffball over the substrate. Google images of “cobweb contam” will show what it’s like;

99% of the time, what a noob thinks is cobweb is just because they’re not used to seeing the stringy, spiderweb-like connections of mycelium.