Very Severe Mushroom Problem in one of the pots!!! What should I do?

Hi Guys,

I don't know how did it happen, but countless weird looking brown mushrooms started growing on the soil of one of my babies. I was away on a business trip for couple of days and this was the situation when I came back. Plant looks healthy.

Do you think can I save this plant? What should I do? What are these things?

save it? it's not dying..it has mushrooms growing under it... happens in nature all the time!

It probably has to do with your whatever soil you purchased and your humidity/light level...

is it pretty humid at night time in your grow?

Its clearly the humidity. I had them once and i just put another intake and out take on my grow box. Get rid of them, they are shooting spores into the air looking for other mold spores, give everything a wipe down man.

how old are your plants?

You have an opportunity to learn here! Get the Audubon Mushroom book $30?, identify the major features... Do a quick spore print on white paper, if you have a microscope, look at the size and shape of the spores... Why? LBMs (lil brown mushrooms) can be the highly sought after Psilocybins. Blue foots, liberty caps... You might have some trips FOR FREE. For free. Ok, minus the cost of the book. You could probably find some resources online if you prefer.
Also, as noted above, they aren't killing your plants, so no need to 'save' them.

EDIT: they came in with the compost in your media. Beautiful if you ask me!

Shroomies are no big deal. Take the pot out if the room before you fuck with them or spores will spread to other pots.

Trailingpickles said:

Its clearly the humidity. I had them once and i just put another intake and out take on my grow box. Get rid of them, they are shooting spores into the air looking for other mold spores, give everything a wipe down man.

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humidity is not the only contributing factor to mushrooms...
humidity, heat and darkness are the three variables needed...
then you also need the spores...which are in your soil....

Apomixis is dead on.... grab a book and see if they're good for anything else..
trip? fert? fun to look at, at the very least... it's not like they'll strangle your plant out or anything...
and one day....when one of their preferred variables changes....they will be gone... almost in an instant...

stuckonsticky said:

Shroomies are no big deal. Take the pot out if the room before you fuck with them or spores will spread to other pots.

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Oh no!!! Then there would be MORE natural harmless mushrooms everywhere!! MASS FUCKING PANIC!!!
(please note the heavy sarcasm...)

Post these pictures in the hallucinogen forum, watch the page light up!

yeah, I would at least save them and dry them out...
hard to tell from the pics... but certainly worth looking up.. could be the real deal..

these would have made it into my little wicker basket back in my cow field days!!

See what I mean? That these are hallucinogenic isn't probable, but very possible.

Once a shroomer, always a shroomer, I always say!

Mold and mold spores are already everywhere. Mushroom ID is notoriously tricky because fruiting bodies of completely different, unrelated (and poisonous) mushrooms can look a lot like each other. You are only seeing the above-soil fruiting bodies, there is a fibrous network of mycelium under the surface.

Some mycorrhizal fungi that form symbiotic association with plant roots also grow fruiting bodies above ground near their hosts. They might also be strictly saprophytic; decaying organic matter. They will release plant available compounds from the organic matter in the soil, but they will also keep some of nutrients locked up inside their bio-mass, which wont be available to plants again until the mushrooms die.

It is more difficult for an organism to establish itself where there is already a great deal of competition for various resources. For example, any spores that land on a 'sterile' substrate will have open-season to dominate.

why are you guys even thinking of getting high of these mushrooms, there are so many types of mushrooms. Then theres lots that look a like, why risk your health to some fawken mushroom in your grow box (that you dont even want there) Sounds like a dumb idea, and you know it is.

Nothing against Shrooms, i like them but i know the process to make them and that is not even close to a pot mushroom.

Please don't give people the idea of eating mushrooms that aren't grown properly.

Next thing you know peeps wil be keeling over...

I still doubt that there is enough landscape in that pot for the mushrooms to cause a threat...but you are right Nullis... they will harbor nutrients till they wither... but from the looks of it... the plant seems unaffected thus far.

Oh, glad that its not a big deal. Thank you guys!

The room was pretty humid during the past couple of days, I realized that when I got back. It is mostly because burning candles to increase CO2 concentration in the air(it works awesome), but water vapor comes from the reaction makes the room almost wet if I don't take an action.

Trailingpickles, they are at their first week of 12/12 after 16 days of vegetative stage. In total, I have 19 of plants, aged between 18 and 22 days. All of them are bagseeds, it is my first grow. I will grow some feminized white widow right after these.

So I cleaned up the mess put the infected one to a clean pot, watered it to reduce stress and I hope things will be back to normal. Here is how it looks like in terms of the overall setup.

Trailingpickles said:

why are you guys even thinking of getting high of these mushrooms, there are so many types of mushrooms. Then theres lots that look a like, why risk your health to some fawken mushroom in your grow box (that you dont even want there) Sounds like a dumb idea, and you know it is.

Nothing against Shrooms, i like them but i know the process to make them and that is not even close to a pot mushroom.

Please don't give people the idea of eating mushrooms that aren't grown properly.

Next thing you know peeps wil be keeling over...

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not the sole point of our comments by any means.... the broad point being...don't be afraid of them...learn what they are and how they got there...
figure out IF they can be good for anything other than scaring a returning traveler....

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See what I mean? That these are hallucinogenic isn't probable, but very possible.

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Oh oh, they look exactly the same! Well, they already found their way into the garbage can.

Honestly, I'm not a big shrooms fan, never did them, nor I ever will. Just principles, you know.

baronstein said:

Oh, glad that its not a big deal. Thank you guys!

The room was pretty humid during the past couple of days, I realized that when I got back. It is mostly because burning candles to increase CO2 concentration in the air(it works awesome),

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Dude, I've been looking for a cost effective way of upping CO2.. MANY THANKS!!!