Mushroom growing in my coco!!

[abnormalgrowers]

Hey guys, now this is something pretty weird.

I started flushing my Blackjack yesterday and for the occasion I have prepared a big tank with 20L of water @ ph 6.2.

The tank was one I used for feeding but I haven't use that thank for about a month and I was a bit smelly of old water.

I didn't give it a wash cause I tought that 20L of water would give a pretty good wash to the tank and the bacteria would disperse into the water.

Less than 24 hours later I got mushroom growing into my coco coir!!!! DAMN!



Room temperature is pretty high, around 30°C but under control, and humidity low because is the flowering room. Too weird for mushroom normally live.


The coir smells a bit nasty and so I throw away all the water and made a new flush tank (in a clean tank). I have already growed mushroom before so I know that this mushroom are new and can only come from the flush but maybe there is another reason!

My feed is usual and I never had such problems. I added some molasses lately but this should not build up mushrooms.

Also I HOPE MY WEED ISN'T COMPROMISED. I still have about 10 days of flush with clear water, should this suffice?

I grow in 6,5L coco coir so I planned to flush with at least 60liters of water.

Also the coco was recycled. I water boiled the coco for a while, then let it dry and use it in this grow, could be this the reason of mushrooms?


PS. Ever wondered of growing magic mushroom in coco coir?

PPS. I would let them grow to see how they are like but in no way I want a nasty mushroom smelly plant...

 

[JacuzziSplot]

LOL thats funny. Its not from that one flush. Mushrooms takes a least 3 weeks to establish enough to grow. I wouldnt worry too much about it because at this point the whole pot is colonized and their is not much you can do now. Next time maybe inoculate with trichoderma.

If you dont want to buy inoculant soak a few onions in water and put em in a paper bag with a dusting of topsoil from outside. When green mold sets in scrape some off into your coco.

I have grown magic mushrooms before and coco coir is the best substrate for them imo because its easiest to get to field capacity.

 

[abnormalgrowers]

LOL thats funny. Its not from that one flush. Mushrooms takes a least 3 weeks to establish enough to grow. I wouldnt worry too much about it because at this point the whole pot is colonized and their is not much you can do now. Next time maybe inoculate with trichoderma.

Tought trichoderma would increase it. I have some and was happY I didn't used cause I could only imagine a bigger number of shrooms showing up.

If you dont want to buy inoculant soak a few onions in water and put em in a paper bag with a dusting of topsoil from outside. When green mold sets in scrape some off into your coco.

I will try this for prevention, but what you mean with a dusting of topsoil?

I have grown magic mushrooms before and coco coir is the best substrate for them imo because its easiest to get to field capacity.

Interesting, do you mix also with vermiculite?

 

[!!!]

your weed is not compromised. Coco is a great medium to grow shrooms in because it holds so much water but it shrooms grown in coco are not as potent as shrooms grown in horse manure or rye (expensive as a main substrate though.) Coco should be supplemented with a high source of N, chicken manure is popular.

I've had this happen when I would take contaminated shroom substrate and bury it in my house plants and outdoors.

Usually nothing to worry about but the coco should not smell bad.

 

[Krautrocker]

Some people infect their medium with expensive products containing beneficial fungi, you got them for free. The fungi is not harming your plant. Maybe you can eat them?

 

[PoopyTeaBags]

your using gh's micro shit correct?/ ive seen this once before because he was running that stuff... dont think theres anything wrong but not for sure...

 

[JacuzziSplot]

I will try this for prevention, but what you mean with a dusting of topsoil?

I mean just a sprinkle of dirt from outside. It would have the trichoderma spores in it because it is one of the most common soil microbes. Onions are toxic to most microbes so you will only get green mold(the one you want) or black mold (doesnt help anything but wont hurt either) on the outside of the onion. I learned this from my dad who used to run greenhouses for flower shops before grocery stores cornered the market.

From my experience with mushies if you use rye spawned to coco it is just a potent as horse poo. Even after the spawn run the rye has plenty of nitrogen and stuff to feed the colony. no need for vermiculite or a casing layer.

 

[HIGHGROOVE]

ya i nver had these guys before until i bought a bag of coco at a place i dont usually and bam they were everywhere

 

[PoopyTeaBags]

its a fungi thats inoculated into coco... I do believe canna coco has it its also a very common spore found in microyzzea products...