WTF? Shrooms in my soil!

Thordinar

Well-Known Member
Today some brown cap shrooms popped up on the outter rim of one of my soil plants. What should I do???:confused:
 

Ian Singerdale

Well-Known Member
meh, it happens. I get them on house plants. no big deal. in fact some funguses are beneficial to the root system. If your plant looks ok don't worry about it. I was also going to say eat it and see if you trip. however that would be both a joke and a bad idea.
 

Murfy

Well-Known Member
interesting though -
did you take a pic of this little guy to identify him
i've never had a shroom sprout out of my potting mix but i think it would be cool and it probably would be good for the plant
 

kannibis

Active Member
This is a very good thing, that shows that you have a well colonized mycelium network. The mycorrhizae are beneficial fungi that help in the facilitation of nutrients, they convert the nitrides to nitrates that are easily taken up by your plants. Plucking that shroom wont hurt, but it also wouldnt hurt to leave him there. By leaving them, when the fruiting body (the shroom) dies, its releases a lot of nutrients back into the soil, to be once again broken down by bacteria then converted to nitrides, then the fungi starts again by making more nitrate. I highly recommend everyone purchase some sort of mycorrhiaze innoculation for use on each and every plant that goes into soil. I use "myco madness" seems to work very well.

EDIT: forgot to mention their importance in uptake of phosphorous. They are really really really important during flowering, as when the PH of your soil starts to drop, with the addition of nutrients, they provide intercellular exchange of phosphate cations, which is very good for your budding plants.
 
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