Too much fungus!!??

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Apical Bud

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Hey everybody! I have big yellow mushrooms growing in my plants' soil. I've noticed mushrooms popping up up in the plants that aren't doing too well but none popping up in the plants that are doing well. I measured the pH of a control pot and one with shrooms and the shroom pot was at 5.9 while the control was at 6.5.
Could the mushrooms be related to the lower pH? I'm growing in soil with organic nutes. I believe the mushrooms are pot mushrooms.
I've been looking for ecological ways to nom the fungi away but the best thing I've come across is insect frass. Any suggestions?
 
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greasemonkeymann

greasemonkeymann

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Apical Bud said:
Hey everybody! I have big yellow mushrooms growing in my plants' soil. I've noticed mushrooms popping up up in the plants that aren't doing too well but none popping up in the plants that are doing well. I measured the pH of a control pot and one with shrooms and the shroom pot was at 5.9 while the control was at 6.5.
Could the mushrooms be related to the lower pH? I'm growing in soil with organic nutes. I believe the mushrooms are pot mushrooms.
I've been looking for ecological ways to nom the fungi away but the best thing I've come across is insect frass. Any suggestions?
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yes, the ph and the mushrooms are related, but not in the way you're thinking.
habitually moist soil will be acidic naturally, and you need habitually moist soil in order to grow mushrooms, so in a sense, they are related.
you need aeration, and way less watering.
both of those will steer the soil more to a neutral PH
 
calliandra

calliandra

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Well, whether a fungus is beneficial to the plants depends on the fungus.
The mutualism only happens with certain kinds of them, the mycorhizal ones ;)
Big yellow mushrooms, not sure. :shock:

One of the ways the fungi are getting destroyed out on our agricultural fields is through repeated ripping and tearing the hyphae through tillage. So fluffing up the soil may help in reducing your fungal growth there?
 
greasemonkeymann

greasemonkeymann

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calliandra said:
Well, whether a fungus is beneficial to the plants depends on the fungus.
The mutualism only happens with certain kinds of them, the mycorhizal ones ;)
Big yellow mushrooms, not sure. :shock:

One of the ways the fungi are getting destroyed out on our agricultural fields is through repeated ripping and tearing the hyphae through tillage. So fluffing up the soil may help in reducing your fungal growth there?
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Excellent point!
but don't forget the rest of the "good" ones
penicillium species, as well as aspergillus are CRUCIAL to the breakdown and uptake of phosphorus
(if I misspelled, my bad)
Mycorrhizal fungi are the stars of the show though.. up to 80% of the plants uptook phosphorus is supplied/made available by mycorrhizal fungi
but beyond that, it's the bacteria that do much of the work.
They call those fancy little fellows "phosphobacterins"
 
unwine99

unwine99

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You could also try some green mulch to promote bacterial growth over fungal; a top dressing of vermicompost would promote bacterial growth as well -- maybe even an aact for your next watering. Fungi is a good thing to have in the soil -- even if it isn't mycorrhizal, it's still most likely breaking down organic matter for your plants which is a good thing. The problem starts, for cannabis anyway, when the soil becomes too fungal dominate -- cannabis prefers a slightly bacterial dominate soil where nitrogen is converted into nitrates (which raises the PH) rather than being held as ammonium (lower PH).

If you have a bunch of fungal fruit popping up in your pot, chances are it's become fungal dominate which, if you haven't been top dressing/mulching an ass load of fungal conducive 'brown foods', is most likely being cause by a low PH -- like Grease said, maybe from overly moist soil and/or maybe overdoing it with those crazy acidic organic bottle nutrients. :confused:

Btw -- this is all reworded info from the book, Teaming With Microbes...wish I was smart enough to come up with this stuff on my own. lol
 
greasemonkeymann

greasemonkeymann

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unwine99 said:
You could also try some green mulch to promote bacterial growth over fungal; a top dressing of vermicompost would promote bacterial growth as well -- maybe even an aact for your next watering. Fungi is a good thing to have in the soil -- even if it isn't mycorrhizal, it's still most likely breaking down organic matter for your plants which is a good thing. The problem starts, for cannabis anyway, when the soil becomes too fungal dominate -- cannabis prefers a slightly bacterial dominate soil where nitrogen is converted into nitrates (which raises the PH) rather than being held as ammonium (lower PH).

If you have a bunch of fungal fruit popping up in your pot, chances are it's become fungal dominate which, if you haven't been top dressing/mulching an ass load of fungal conducive 'brown foods', is most likely being cause by a low PH -- like Grease said, maybe from overly moist soil and/or maybe overdoing it with those crazy acidic organic bottle nutrients. :confused:

Btw -- this is all reworded info from the book, Teaming With Microbes...wish I was smart enough to come up with this stuff on my own. lol
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teaming with nutrients is another good read, very good information regarding PH
 
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