New Grower Woah Mold on Coco! Emergency Help Needed!!!

[420Grouch]

Anyone have any experience with coco? It seems to want to grow a lil mold on me what can I do to help it and why is this happening? What can i do to prevent it. Oh No my babies!!!!

 

[roadsidevendor1]

mist with a mixture of 1tsp of 3% H2O2,(the cheap stuff in the brown bottle)
per quart of r/o water or distilled water

this worked for me with a white mold
on rooter cubes.

good luck

 

[Stone]

Do you mean algae (nasty green stuff) on the top?
If it's algae you can remove it gently from the coco and cover the tops of your pots and maybe lower the humidity and let the coco dry a bit. Generally algae won't cause any problems but if you let it grow it can deplete some nutrients. I have had such problems but once I removed it and covered the pots all was fine.

 

[420Grouch]

Its white, thanks roadside +rep

 

[L]

Make sure it is not myco what does it look like?

 

[Trifid]

I used to buy my bread from the shopping center like the ones that have giant car-parks. I don't eat bread often but when i do i'm on the look out for any suspecting spores, mold that kind of thing. Anyway i noticed one time, once a few weeks had past that to my suprise my bread was entirely un-inhabited. Like a barren landscape. Although much of the moisture had managed to escape it's polythene enclosure. i thought to myself 'if mold won't feed itself on this stuff what the hell am i going to get out it?' So i decide to return it an explain to the shop-person who probably dreams in bleeps and reads the bar codes on everything that there must be something missing like some nutritional content. I was told that since i'd made the purchase three weeks prior a refund wasn't justified and that i'd just wasted my time coming here to walk probably further than you would to a corner shop to commandeer a huge trolley that you fill up with endless things you don't want don't, need and can't afford then have an argument with whoever you're with because the whole experience is beginning to destroy you and then you queue up behind a line of similarly soul-damaged people. And then a poor unfortunate kid or near-old-age pensioner stacking shelves who doesn't want to hear you say anything is obliged to ask you if you have a club card and if you want cashback, and you say 'yes please I'll have the fucking lot back thank you very much and you can keep all this rubbish in my trolley and I'll go forage and kill the cow myself! And if you don't say that then you have to cart it all the way back to your car and load it up in the boot and

 

[Trifid]

Sorry man i went off on a tangent there. I don't think it'l be much of a problem, plants love fungus as long as it stays in the soil.. Soil fungus and plants are 'mutualistic' meaning they co-operate with each-other whereby the plant provides the colony with carbohydrates in return for enhanced rhizome surface-area and increased macro-nutrient availability. If your growing medium is prolific then this should be taken into consideration when using molasses since the fungal culture can act as a scavenger for carbohydrates depriving useful bacteria (Phosphate solubilizing Bacteria (PSB)) obtaining a sufficent energy surplus.

 

[roadsidevendor1]

Its white, thanks roadside +rep

yessir ,hope it goes well,
o it probly wouldnt hurt to
cover the exposed media with
maybe a layer of hydrotron clay
balls,or tiny little pebbles.
something to block light.

 

[snowgrower]

Is it fuzzy? Or is it just a chalky white looking coating on top of the soil.How old are the plants?Give us a PH reading on the run off please.A picture would really help..But if it is just a light coating of white on top I bet its excess salt from nutes.Scrape the top of the soli off and discard.Put fresh clean coco in it's place.If it is salt build up it's time for a flush.Flush with 6.5-6.8 distilled water or fresh rain water.

Get a PH pen if you dont have one.Test the run off untill it matches the PH of your flush.allow the coco to dry out for 24-48 hrs or untill extremely light and dry. Feed as usual from this point on.Also if you water from the top down which you must with coco since it doesn't wick like pro mix, it can keep the top of the coco wet allthough coco drains very well/fast.I'd say it's salt build up however.