Mold?

I’m assuming this is mold, is it beneficial or harmful to my soil?

SteakBags said:

I’m assuming this is mold, is it beneficial or harmful to my soil?

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It’s more than likely beneficial, looks like a mycorrhizal fungi, as long as the plants are not showing any signs of distress, I wouldn’t worry.

Phytoplankton said:

It’s more than likely beneficial, looks like a mycorrhizal fungi, as long as the plants are not showing any signs of distress, I wouldn’t worry.

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nope this is actually the most vibrant/vigorous they’ve been

SteakBags said:

nope this is actually the most vibrant/vigorous they’ve been

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The fungus is usually a sign of a healthy rich soil! I had a crop of mushrooms sprout from the bottom of one of my grow bags.

Phytoplankton said:

The fungus is usually a sign of a healthy rich soil! I had a crop of mushrooms sprout from the bottom of one of my grow bags.

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That makes sense, I forgot I just top dressed for the first time last week. Maybe the beneficials from that took off and produced this.

get rid of the dead leaves on top of your soil or you will have trouble

i can't remember the name now, but it's harmless

go go kid said:

get rid of the dead leaves on top of your soil or you will have trouble

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I feel like the people in the organics section wouldn’t agree with this.

SteakBags said:

I feel like the people in the organics section wouldn’t agree with this.

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I run organic and I’d agree with that. Anything dead and lifeless shouldn’t be hangin’ out in your soil. My humble opinion and practice anyway.

DMChiz said:

I run organic and I’d agree with that. Anything dead and lifeless shouldn’t be hangin’ out in your soil. My humble opinion and practice anyway.

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So would you consider what I’m seeing in my soil a bad thing? Im guessing it’s either from a recent top dress, or it’s the dead leaves.

From what I’ve found online, it’s common to see this after top dressing. Kind of the point of having all the beneficials in the top dress mix, I believe they’re breaking down the leaves.

SteakBags said:

That makes sense, I forgot I just top dressed for the first time last week. Maybe the beneficials from that took off and produced this.

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The microbes and fungi are always in the soil, but when conditions are right their numbers explode. You can supplement the mycorrhizae too.

you get white fluffy mould on organic matter in the bags of soil, it will die off as you go through the wet dry cycle, mould thrives in damp conditions, so just wait till it dries and it should die off.
i grow organic and have never had problems with it hanging around

I get a little bit of that

SteakBags said:

From what I’ve found online, it’s common to see this after top dressing. Kind of the point of having all the beneficials in the top dress mix, I believe they’re breaking down the leaves.

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You dont want mould that breaks down cannabis kicking around lol do yourself a favour top dress with non cannabis stuff as for the grey stuff on top of the soil its harmless we should always remove the dead leaves from plants tho to be safe

SteakBags said:

So would you consider what I’m seeing in my soil a bad thing? Im guessing it’s either from a recent top dress, or it’s the dead leaves.

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No, not at all. Like @conor c said, you don’t want dead stuff lying in the soil, but the white fungus isn’t necessarily a bad thing. As you grow out, too dress etc it’ll level itself out.

That’s mycelium, but you have also got some bad biology going down - due to rotting material
On the surface if left alone the bad biology will take over !

floor mold is not soo much hairy its more fluffy thats the good kind.your kind is the one from rotting leafs if the ventilation is not good and humidity high it could spread up
outdoors should not be a big problems.

Mycelium… mycorrhizae fungi in the soil attaches to the plants root system and assists with absorption of nutrients. Hates high levels of NPK like say from an overdose of soluble nutrients. Upset the fungi and it will upset the plants and ph balance as well. Mycorrhizae is the basis of the soil food web.

Rule number one- keep everything clean