Mushrooms?

[gareth3]

Hi All look what I found sitting in my new seedling pot this morning "Mushrooms" are they good or bad. Have 5 pots on the table in the conservatory 2 of are covered in like a white dust, and in the corner (ok it's a round pot) are these anyone know anything about them please. Do I pull the seedling up and put new compo or what ? Thanks for looking and thanks for any replies.
Gareth3

 

[asaph]

i'm no expert on this but i think this means you have a very unhealthy soil ecology. probably bad soil - where did you get it?

Since they are very small I advise you get good potting soil (not MG though) and start over, if possible.

Also, water less. Mushrooms need much dampness to grow. let your soil dry between waterings.

on the other hand - your plants do looks very healthy. perhaps i'm wrong and it's not so bad.

 

[gareth3]

Hi Asaph, Thanks a stack for that your opinion is well recived. A lot of sence as well thanks.
gareth3

 

[asaph]

quite welcome! in exchange, please update here on what happens next, and further down the road with this.

 

[gareth3]

Hi, Reading a few pages on the internet found that there is a YellowMushroom called "the house plant mushroom" it does no harm to theplant it feeds on dead organic matter. I will let it go a bit to see if theychange colour at all, because the plant is very healthy. The compost I use isfrom B&Q all purpose it is suppose to be sterile! That is why I use it,this is the first time anything like this has happened with it and I have usedit for a good while.

 

[Wetdog]

i'm no expert on this but i think this means you have a very unhealthy soil ecology. probably bad soil - where did you get it?

Since they are very small I advise you get good potting soil (not MG though) and start over, if possible.

Also, water less. Mushrooms need much dampness to grow. let your soil dry between waterings.

on the other hand - your plants do looks very healthy. perhaps i'm wrong and it's not so bad.

Well, about the only thing right about this is, you're keeping your soil too moist. Set the watering can down and pay more attention to the dry part of the wet/dry cycle.

Actually, the mycellium that causes mushrooms is an indicator of very robust microbe activity. A good healthy micro herd.

Use some common sense. If it was such a unhealthy soil ecology, your plants wouldn't look so good.

Just slack up on the water and keep on doing what you're doing. Looks good.

Wet

 

[ExtremeMetal43]

Where'd you get your soil from? All that white stuff on the top of your soil is mycelium or mold. Im guessing mycelium from the fruits but your trying to grow plants not mushrooms. You can identify the mushroom with a little work a spore print and some looking up. Im guessing youl find its a common soil mushroom or a mushroom common to compost.

 

[gareth3]

Hi, A lot of sense here, looked up the mushroom type it is a common Yellow head, feeds on dead stuff will not harm the plant at all. Any way all the mushrooms have died they were only out for a day or so. What I have done is on the pot up, I buired the pot at least three inches below the surface, the seedlings have streched so that will alow me room. The mushrooms can not survie at this depth, but as you say they are doing no harm. Will update with photos later, of them in their new home Lol.
Gareth........
Forgot to mention, I had the compo from B&Q it saysit is sterile!!!!!!! It is an all purpose compo used it before with very goodresults so this is strange; a spore could have fallen of the person bagging itor around the area where it is made.

 

[Nullis]

If it really was sterilize that could actually be a contributing factor. Fungi spores are ubiquitous, but in an unsterilized medium with beneficial bacteria and fungi already present there is staunch competition so any other fungus is pretty well out-competed and would have difficultly establishing. A sterile medium is pretty much open season for whichever spores make it there first.

 

[gareth3]

Well that is a lot of sense, thanks a lot. Have re-potted on, now they aredown at least three inches so that should???? Stop them. Brilliant help herevery knowledgeable people and clever as well lol thanks a stack to all who gaveadvice, will post some pic’s soon to show them as they are now.
Gareth...

 

[gareth3]

As prommised a few pic's