mushroom growing next to my plants?

Hey guys i figured this section would be best to get answers in. Well I have this clone i took to bring indoors for after my outdoor harvest. I used some soil from outside and now it looks like moss and a few other species are growing in here like this mushroom . I think its kinda cool will this eventually fill out and is it okay to use outdoor soil i guess is my question.

A mushroom growing in the pot is no big deal. At least you know you are harboring fungi so the soil must be healthy. Only thing is it indicates maybe you are leaving it too wet or maybe it's a bit too humid in your grow area. Mulching would help the top layer retain moisture without allowing spores that could still be present to fruit out. Also helps keep the soil cooler. Pine bark nuggets are cheap and ez to find; I use straw myself.

Richard Drysift said:

A mushroom growing in the pot is no big deal. At least you know you are harboring fungi so the soil must be healthy. Only thing is it indicates maybe you are leaving it too wet or maybe it's a bit too humid in your grow area. Mulching would help the top layer retain moisture without allowing spores that could still be present to fruit out. Also helps keep the soil cooler. Pine bark nuggets are cheap and ez to find; I use straw myself.

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Hey man this seems like i need to cover the tops of the soil with mulch from my garden then because it does seem to hold water for a long time mainly due to light source i suspect i only run a few cfl bulbs so its a cooler tent.

if you have mushrooms growing next to your pot plants is because of TWO things...
1.) You are heady as fucking can be
and 2.) You water WAY too much

Yes it's OK to use outdoor soil, and the mushroom is, as Richard already noted, a sign that yes, you do have fungi in there.

I don't see the moss in your picture, but you may be waterlogging there.
Soil in pots is different from soil in the wild: there, moisture can diffuse into the environs, in the pot it's stuck. Add to that that your setup doesn't promote evaporation by heat. So you need to make sure you have sufficient aeration in there, especially if the clay content is high, or you will end up with anaerobic conditions in the pot, which will disturb nutrient cycling, at the least.

The way the soil looks on your pic (pretty heavy), I'd be tempted to repot, mixing the rootless portion of the soil with inorganic and organic additives to get it more "fluffy". Personally, I like pumice and coco fiber, just for an example. Both can be a mix of different things too, i.e., add biochar (max. 10-15% of the total volume) and smashed pottery shards to the pumice, or any plant material that is more on the woody side - stalks of plants that died down standing will decompose faster, chipped branches of bushes or trees (NOT conifers! They're too far along the successional line for cannabis, also contain terpenes that prevent fungal colonization, so would have to be aged to the point of not smelling of "pine" anymore to be beneficial) will take longer.
HTH!