Re: Strange result on my mold test

[Guest guest]

what kind of tests are you doing?

sue v

>I've been hunting down the mold in my kitchen and got the strangest hot

>pink dot on 2 of my tests dishes. What is that?

[Guest guest]

I am doing that mold test kit that you buy from Home Depot-maybe not the most

scientific but it works well enough to tell me whether there is mold or not.

It's a petri dish with some gel poured in and you leave it open for an hour than

close for up to 96 hours and see what grows=usually something disgusting!

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> what kind of tests are you doing?

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> sue v

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> >I've been hunting down the mold in my kitchen and got the strangest hot

> >pink dot on 2 of my tests dishes. What is that?

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[Guest guest]

You can catch yeast in the mold dishes also. It's almost impossible to guess

what you caught. You can send them in to be analyzed. Are the 'dots' real

smooth looking,kind of dewy surface? I think the smooth, moist looking dots I

caught were yeast, not sure about the pink color though. I caught some mold

that was rose colored. Mold comes in all sorts of colors. I think it's more

important how many spores you catch of the same type, but then sometimes the

mold 'sporolates' in your dish, has babies, so it isn't that you caught that

many, it's that they have multiplied in your dish. I can tell that if there is

one big mama one and a whole lot of tiny ones, all about the exact same size,

that look just like mama,if you know what I mean... I would count that actually

as 'one' that sporulated in the dish. In that case, you might to redo test...but

then I'm an amateur, but I have done alot of testing that I did send off and get

results, so have enough understanding for my own purposes but not anyone elses.

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> I've been hunting down the mold in my kitchen and got the strangest hot pink

dot on 2 of my tests dishes. What is that?

> I've used these tests alot and they are pretty good-is this just a fluke? The

pink dot grew there-it didn't land there immediately-it grew like the mold.

> Another question: Now that it's cold (I'm in NY) and my kitchen is always

freezing-will I get a different result on the tests?

[Guest guest]

Yes, you can get different results in different seasons because air flow

directions in the house can change/do change so what used to flow up, flows down

and vice versa. I got almost nothing in the winter, tests done by professional

company and then thought there was no mold problem in my house, then I read

about changing air direction somewhere and it was summer and retested it, and

found a problem. I would test in the midst of summer and then the middle of

winter to be sure. Again, I'm not a pro though..

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> Another question: Now that it's cold (I'm in NY) and my kitchen is always

freezing-will I get a different result on the tests?

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[Guest guest]

Oy. I'm screwed. Read my other post re mold growing upwards-I agree with you.

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> > Another question: Now that it's cold (I'm in NY) and my kitchen is always

freezing-will I get a different result on the tests?

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