Scrambled Eggs on My Blaschak Bags?

Upon further review (see pics below)I have found that indeed my bags of Blaschak do have holes in them. They seem to be down the sides of the bags. The stuff that looks like its growing or secreting as some other have suggested seems to be eliminating from the areas of the holes. if in fact this is a fungus I am wondering if there may be a nutrient coming from the bags to foster its growth.

I've hit it with some diluted clorox and the A Unit almost made me. She came down stairs to do some laundry and could smell the bleach.......I told her I was cleaning the black stains from the wet coal bags off the floor. Am gonna quickly wipe off the scrambled eggs (fungi?) that is visible. I'll leave some in the back so I can see if the bleach is gonna knock this down.

The moisture you see on the bags in the pics is from me spraying the bleach on them..........

Oh yeah,............GO PATS!!!!!!!!!!

I have the same thing on my bags, which were wet also. I got this coal from Paris Farmers Union. It is Kimmels coal. After it was in the basement for a month or so I noticed it. But after about a month I didn't see it spreading or anything and it doesn't seem to be hurting anything.

They probably use the rinse water over and over when bagging the coal, this would make it high in minerals. They loose a lot of water to evaporation, leaving behind the minerals to concentrate. As the water runs through the hole in the bag and evaporates, it leaves behind the calcium and other salts much like hard water on your fine stemware. The yellowish color is most likely from the iron content in the coal.

I'm thinking it resembles sulfur which tends to have that brightish yellow color if I recall correctly from high school chemistry. Either that or the guys at Blaschak had a party where someone consumed too many lemon jello shooters.

ramien wrote:I have the same thing on my bags, which were wet also. I got this coal from Paris Farmers Union. It is Kimmels coal. After it was in the basement for a month or so I noticed it. But after about a month I didn't see it spreading or anything and it doesn't seem to be hurting anything.

Mine has been in the basement about a month as well. It is only occurring on the Blaschak plastic bags and it appears mostly around the holes. Not causing any problems, just wondering what else I got for my money.

I have the same thing on my leftover bags from last year. This years supply was nice & dry when I opened a few bags, last years was very wet so probably is wash water being recycled like someone suggested. Burns well so thats what matters the most. Mine was stored in my pole building which is dry & fungus or mold free everywhere else.

Your bags are made from a solid plastic where the bags I got are a weave so the bags can breathe and drain better. I would bet that your bags will hold up better in the sun though.

Call Blaschak and ask if they know what it is.

Bird Poop!
Weird Birds! hah

Bought some Kimmel's pea and nut last week down to Paris Farmer's Union too. The yellow seemed to appear as soon as it dried from being outdoors in the snowbank. I'd postulate some deposits of some kind. I'll watch it to see if it grows for a couple weeks. Is yellow a common color for mold? Seen green, brown, black, and gray... not yellow.

Eat some. What does it taste like? Does it make you sick?

Ya, tried some . Tasted like S***. Kinda gritty.

Gonna give Blaschak a call. Its on my honey do list........

I don't think coal will support mold growth. I thinks it's sulfur. Did anyone ever try putting a match to some of it?

Cold_Mainer wrote:Yup, Its gritty beweeen the fingers. Doesn't smell like sulfur, even when I gave it some flame. Weird.

Yup.

I had the same stuff on one of my pallets ... no idea what it was - made a mess in the basement, but with a little broom action it was all better .... it was yellow-ish to start (perhaps pollen) but turned whitish over time. Less messy than the black water coming out of the bag, though!