beneficial mold or bad mold?

ive found some kind of mold in my drainage hole but im not sure if its "good" mold or bad ive been using peroxide to contain it till im sure its not bad for the plants but they do look healthy and very green so im really not sure also i notice it starting two weeks ago and my plants are 28 and 24 days old

No mold is good mold.

Are you sure it is actually a mold and not some sort of residue or fungi?

ok so have i been treating it correctly? with peroxide or is there a better way to go about it plus my plant look healthier than ever so it hasn't affected them at all in that 2week period but i have been use peroxide each time i water

Ledhed said:

No mold is good mold.

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I dont know...If I had a mold of that tail in your avatar, that would be good aye?

im not sure if its fugi its white and fuzzy but goes away after i water with peroxide

[what mold saved the world penicillin not all bad only most peace

Chriswolfee94 said:

ok so have i been treating it correctly? with peroxide or is there a better way to go about it plus my plant look healthier than ever so it hasn't affected them at all in that 2week period but i have been use peroxide each time i water

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Can you post a pic?

theres not gonna be much mold there no since i just watered yesterday with peroxide but yes i will post a pic of whats starting to come back and would you want my plants pics cause they seem healthy there 28 and 24 days old

You don't have your pots sitting off the ground, do you? That mold is from it being too damp underneath the pots. No circulation.

Put a spacer between the bottom of the pot and the floor.

Yeah I've been doing that for a week and its still trying to start again is there more ways to prevent this plus my plants don't seem affected?

I've had it just like that before. Didn't hurt anything. I just raised the pots off the ground and it went away after the bottom dried out.

lot of wood in there, that will do it

Ok so it should go away soon since its raise off the floor but should I still water with peroxide?

NO-NO-NOpeace

ok so no peroxide

Peroxide kills any beneficial bacteria in your soil. If you use bottled nutes, peroxide isn't as big of a deal.

With it raised off the floor though, it should go away in a week or so. At least it did for me.

It's some kind of mildew from organic material and lots of moisture. Probably harmless for short lived plants. You don't get that with Pro Mix.

Do you plan on transplanting them or are they in their final containers? If you transplant, try, as others have said, keeping them off the ground so the water drains and you don't have a moisture buildup under them anymore. If you're not transplanting, then keep it as clean as possible under there and keep the pots elevated a bit. Might even just take a butter knife or something, and scrape/scoop the bottom of those holes too to get as many spores out as you can. Might be nothing, but mold is rarely a good sight.