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Mushroom in my solo cup
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I avoid using any potting mix that has the word "soil" in it. My plants from seedlings to pot ups don't touch, taste or feel any soil until they get into the dirt. Any soil mix will retain too much water, this also causes a lot of, crap a can't think of the name of it, I guess I'm having a senior, drinking moment, what I'm trying to say is that the stems will rot at or near root level. Dang, I can't believe I can't remember the name of the root rot problem. I need some youngsters to re-educate me.
Are you using MG Potting Mix or Potting "SOIL"?
Had another drink and dang it, I remembered. Damping off is the problem you could potentially have with soil or potting mixes that are too wet.
Are you using MG Potting Mix or Potting "SOIL"?
Had another drink and dang it, I remembered. Damping off is the problem you could potentially have with soil or potting mixes that are too wet.
Mix.... so I guess there's the difference!
I am using MG potting soil (noob!), and I just discovered some mushrooms in one cup. None of my other 50+ have it, and this one doesn't look very wet either - I tend to try and underwater, but I did just water them yesterday after they went dry right to the bottom.
1 of two things happened. neither of which matters alot...
the mix was not pasteurized properly, and spores are still viable in the soil mix. a fruiting fungus is enjoying itself in the cups...growing happily eating the woody or fecal bits of your mix.
a random spore from some random sporulating(sp?) mushroom from some random area close by landed in your mix and is enjoying itself just as above.
fruiting mushrooms tend to need specific condtitions to fruit, but not necessarily to continue to grow and spread throughout the soil. you probably have some nice cool weather with nice humid conditions with plenty of water and decomposing wood or poo, your mushroom appreciates this.
its up for debate whether or not they are harmful to your plants health overall. on the one hand they wont necessarily compete with your plants for nutrients as it is likely a wood eating mushroom as is probably most common. however it could be argued that it is infact ruining the bark or wood chips in your soil, thereby compacting the soil, and making less favorable conditions for your plants roots.
this is the reason why commercial mulches are treated with a fungicide. infact mulched beds that are irrigated with sprayers or sprinklers basically require treated mulch. when the mulch is wetted basically daily, you are begging for shrooms to destroy the mulch entirely.
the office i work at had the beds in front redone to some great extent, however they cheaped out on mulch, and one year later it is almost entirely gone. its worth noting they also added copious composed cow manure to the beds which further doomed the mulch. i saw the same strain of fruiting puff ball mushrooms daily throughout the entire fall and spring and early summer.
ive also heard people say some fungi will activly compete with "beneficials".
imo its all just speculation.... i find mushrooms to be neat, so i dont bother knocking them down or w/e unless im mowing the lawn, in which case i lower the lawn mower blades in order to further relish the sight of them being reduced to white and brown mist coming out the side of the side mulching duct thing. i do a little lawn mower pack man thing wherein i lift the front wheels of the mower, push it forward thereby centering the blades over the offending mushrooms, and then abruptly drop the mower down on them.
the mix was not pasteurized properly, and spores are still viable in the soil mix. a fruiting fungus is enjoying itself in the cups...growing happily eating the woody or fecal bits of your mix.
a random spore from some random sporulating(sp?) mushroom from some random area close by landed in your mix and is enjoying itself just as above.
fruiting mushrooms tend to need specific condtitions to fruit, but not necessarily to continue to grow and spread throughout the soil. you probably have some nice cool weather with nice humid conditions with plenty of water and decomposing wood or poo, your mushroom appreciates this.
its up for debate whether or not they are harmful to your plants health overall. on the one hand they wont necessarily compete with your plants for nutrients as it is likely a wood eating mushroom as is probably most common. however it could be argued that it is infact ruining the bark or wood chips in your soil, thereby compacting the soil, and making less favorable conditions for your plants roots.
this is the reason why commercial mulches are treated with a fungicide. infact mulched beds that are irrigated with sprayers or sprinklers basically require treated mulch. when the mulch is wetted basically daily, you are begging for shrooms to destroy the mulch entirely.
the office i work at had the beds in front redone to some great extent, however they cheaped out on mulch, and one year later it is almost entirely gone. its worth noting they also added copious composed cow manure to the beds which further doomed the mulch. i saw the same strain of fruiting puff ball mushrooms daily throughout the entire fall and spring and early summer.
ive also heard people say some fungi will activly compete with "beneficials".
imo its all just speculation.... i find mushrooms to be neat, so i dont bother knocking them down or w/e unless im mowing the lawn, in which case i lower the lawn mower blades in order to further relish the sight of them being reduced to white and brown mist coming out the side of the side mulching duct thing. i do a little lawn mower pack man thing wherein i lift the front wheels of the mower, push it forward thereby centering the blades over the offending mushrooms, and then abruptly drop the mower down on them.
Damping off
It is potting "mix"
