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grayg187
grayg187started grow question 3y ago
I have what looks like a yellow fungus growing in several Acapulco Gold plants that are just a week old, the soil is plain with no nutrients in it. I've been trying to gentle dig it out as I see it but it seems to keep coming, is it harmful to my plants? Help please!
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m0use
m0useanswered grow question 3y ago
common houseplant mushroom. Leucocoprinus birnbaumii - most likely. Feeds on dead organic matter in the soil. this could be peat, coir, wood or anything alike. Not Harmful to the plant, just means its nice and moist. Don't eat them. you can not get rid of them, the yellow bits your seeing is the fruiting body of the mushroom but the mycelium"its main body" is everywhere in the soil. Can only kill it with heat after your done, and sterilize the medium. I would pluck them to prevent more spores from being released and going into other plants, It fruits when it gets lots of moisture and FAE or fresh air exchange. its one of the triggers to make fruit "mushrooms". Good Luck!
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TravelingLuffy
TravelingLuffyanswered grow question 3y ago
It's looks like mushrooms staring to grow which are harmless to your plant which is a sign of good soil but can just dry out your soil and raise temperature should get rid of it. Hopefully this helps happy growing
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Chucky324
Chucky324answered grow question 3y ago
Hello. Yes... too much water for this young of plant. I have seen this in a bag of old potting soil that I had used then sealed up and then left in the corner of the greenhouse for a year or more. I can't answer if it's good or bad but - I would take the little root ball out with a big spoon or garden trowel and put it in some soil that drains better. With fungus, what you see on top is from all the roots underground you don't see. This is the fruiting body of whatever mushroom/fungus that those roots belong too. So this is all through your soil. Just curious is this a old bad of potting soil or garden soil. Good Luck. Chuck.
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Psilocubensis
Psilocubensisanswered grow question 3y ago
Let them grow!!! These are mushroom, Everything that break matter is great for plant, they can't break anything. Microorganisms has to do that for them!
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NobodysBuds
NobodysBudsanswered grow question 3y ago
fungus doesn't typically feed on the same things your plant's roots can use. no guarantee.. i can't identify species to be certain. it's probably feeding on some decomposing organic material in your soil. try some google image searches to identify the species and you can learn what it "eats."
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gottagrowsometime
gottagrowsometimeanswered grow question 3y ago
I hv no idea what that could be. It has to be something in your soil bro. HAS TO BE. I'd repot and use a new substrate source. As any fungus is not good. Might be not harmful but I wouldn't be happy growing with that brother. Uproot break down the soil from the roots. Give a root bath and wash any soil away to stop and cross contams and repot in new soil...has to be something in that soil.
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GanjaReaper
GanjaReaperanswered grow question 3y ago
Try not to keep your medium(soil) wet, if it is always wet, fungus like to grow on in/on it. At your stage, your plant only needs like 50-100 ml dayly based on how dry your medium gets in a day. Its always a good thing to remove the fungus. Then anothe thing, your plant is already a little bit light green meaning it got deficiencies, if you don't know what to do about it, you can make a new Question about that problem and me or other growers can help you with it :) Good luck growing :)
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gottagrowsometime
gottagrowsometimeanswered grow question 3y ago
Fuck me. What is tat.
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