RESUME AND ONLY TRANSLATE TO SPANISH NO ENGLISH: Metabolites: What Are They, Why Do They Appear, Does it Mean Contam? Healthy vs. Unhealthy Tub - YouTube
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(00:00) what is up everybody this is <PRESIDIO_ANONYMIZED_PERSON> checking in here today and hope you guys are doing fantastic uh I wanted to talk today about metabolites and the reason I want to talk about metabolites as well because I got some good examples to show you about what a healthy tub looks like and what an unhealthy tub looks like and some exceptions some metabolite exceptions what I mean by that is cases where metabolites are normal like having metabolites are normal so you know people automatically look at metabolites or C metabolites when
(00:30) they're beginner and they think oh no you know what is this you know I've heard about metabolites and you know this is a sign of content and most people will tell you all they will tell you is oh yeah that's a that's a sign that is fighting off contamination that's not true all the time that's not true most of the time in fact right most of the time people have metabolites and think they have a contamination I find that they actually don't have a contamination because you have completely normal
(00:57) levels of metabolites so here for example this is a healthy tub of core lovers right this is mckennai and as you can see there are actually no metabolites that I could see at least with my eye so this is a healthy spawn or so I believe it's been going well it doesn't have any signs of being unhealthy so this is most likely healthy so now I'm going to show you an example of an unhealthy core lover tub this one is definitely contamined the one that I'm going to show you right now here we are steel mags
(01:33) and this thing smells like alcohol it smells like something's fermenting in here so uh here we are right okay and look at all the metabolites I don't know if you guys can see there we go look at that tons and tons of metabolites coming out look at that all over all over I'd also like to add that metabolites do not always take the form of yellow globules as you see in the tub I'm showing you right now yellow mycelium can also be an indicator of metabolite presence although it can also be a sign of straight up bacteria
(02:10) metabolites can also form inside grain jars and brf cakes and the same parameters can be applied as to their health as I go over in this video for bulk grows so basically this is this is not good this is way too much metabolites this is more than normal uh and also in addition to the smell the fermenting smell and the way also you can see sort of the way the mycelium is it's very very sort of thick almost it's almost looks a little like like if you poured oil on mycelium kind of look I don't know how to explain it
(02:47) but um the way that it's growing is not fluid it's very you know sort of uh blobulus I don't know how to say it but basically this guy is the most certainly contained this is way too much metabolites now if I had like maybe one or two or three pieces of metabolites here and there maybe two right then I wouldn't be worried at all it's completely normal to have some metabolites but if you have a lot like this this is abnormal and the the metabolites in addition to the smell and other signs that can sound like the
(03:20) way the mycelium looks are telltale signs of a definite contamination going on here now on the other hand there are some species that will produce much more metabolites than others in certain conditions so here this is not a core lover this is actually a grass lover a Florida grass lover here and uh it's been spawned a couple days ago but already this this is a really good truffle producer right so already we've got some truffles forming uh let me show you here that right there there's a little crack
(03:49) in there and you see that little yellow thing right there a yellow thing that is metabolite that is a glob of metabolite and over here we've got another truffle coming and that is also you see that that's metabolite that big droplet there that's metabolite uh so truffles basically truffle producers will produce lots and lots of metabolites when they're producing truffles that's completely normal I don't know if you guys have seen my other videos but in the Truffle jars that I have shown in
(04:18) the past you'll see some metabolites pooling on the bottom that's completely normal right with truffles that's you know they're completely healthy that's just how they go and the reason why I believe is because metabolites are basically uh well they serve a few functions right the primary one that I want to talk about here is the antibiotic qualities uh it's something that the mycelium releases basically to Aid itself right that's what it does so one of its main purposes is as an
(04:46) antibiotic so to fight off contaminants that's why having lots of metabolites is a Surefire sign that there's some kind of contaminant at least in Coral lovers not grass lovers necessarily but in core lovers the second reason is that it helps the mycelium break down certain substrates so that it could access the nutrients inside basically it helps break down cell walls so that's why you often find more metabolites in a core substrate and there is also a third reason that I forgot to mention and that
(05:13) is basically it's an indicator of full colonization of your substrate this follows the second point that I mentioned that is it helps break down food and that's because the mycelium's first priority is to colonize whatever the substrate is the second priority is now to extract all the nutrients that it can out of that substrate so that's why you start to get metabolites right around full colonization it doesn't always happen but usually when people post their pictures of metabolites this
(05:39) is usually the reason why it's not contam but it's just fully colonized so that's essentially why you know metabolites can be either a sign that the mycelium is fighting off some kind of contamination or it is simply trying to break down some food and oftentimes when it's fully colonized then it's basically you know you might have some metabolites it's also a sign of full colonization basically and I'm sure there's a genetic component to it as well most definitely you know maybe some
(06:06) of them will produce some metabolites some of them won't when they're healthy but anyways the main takeaway here is just a few drops here and there maybe one or two right it's completely fine it's not a cause for worry now if it smells bad for example uh and you got some metabolites that's a different story if you've got a ton of metabolites on a core lover that's no good as well so and again some species like the Truffle producers the sclerosis producers they produce tons of metabolites especially on the truffles
(06:36) themselves they will produce a lot and you know I've thought about this a lot and um my my thought on the reason why is basically because sclerosis are produced uh as sort of an insurance of the mycelium for when terrible conditions hit you know for example drought flood landslides you know basically catastrophic events so that once the conditions become good again then these hard little stones that it's produced will start putting out mycelium again and it can start over and these guys are really really strong
(07:09) right but it's made for adverse conditions so the metabolites I believe it releases it so that it it helps it survive basically you know it's just another layer of protection for the stone to ensure its survival so anyways guys that's basically the video for today I hope you guys enjoyed it and I hope you guys have a great day or night microphile sage check it out [Music] thank you [Music]