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Black strands growing in beet stem ferment

PostPosted: Tue Jan 16, 2024 1:55 am
by mallhattan
Hi all,
New fermenter here. I've attached a pic of some dark/black elongate blobs that grew in a ~2-week beet stem ferment I made (with garlic and ginger). The blobs grew most prominently on the outside of the glass I used to weight the veggies down under the liquid. I see the white Kahm yeast, but this dark stuff doesn't look like that of like mold either. Any ideas what this is? thank you!
-mallhattan
beet stem film.jpg
dark strands growing on glass in beet stem ferment
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Re: Black strands growing in beet stem ferment

PostPosted: Wed Jan 17, 2024 5:42 am
by Christopher Weeks
I've never seen anything like that. Are you sure it's microbial product and not something that floated up out of your produce and then stuck there? Does it have an odor?

Re: Black strands growing in beet stem ferment

PostPosted: Mon Jan 29, 2024 5:57 pm
by mallhattan
I'm not sure if it floated up, but it wasn't there the first week or so of fermenting. I threw it out anyway. I'll see if I can reproduce it and will update as needed