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Mould in house plants

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  • 19-11-2004 5:22pm
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    fjon
    Registered Users Posts: 2,086 ✭✭✭


    First off, I'm really not too knowledgeable about keeping plants. Actually I am fairly clueless (to the extent that I don't even know what plants I have). However I have managed to keep them alive for the last two years.
    Recently I have noticed something strange on one of the potted plants. On top of the soil there seems to be a layer of white mould. And it seems to be increasing.
    Should I pay any attention to it, or is it just harmless?


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    Milkman
    Registered Users Posts: 235 ✭✭Milkman


    This can happen if you are watering your plants from the top all the time, the top section of soil gets saturated then dries out repeatidly causing a kind of souring of the soil - I'm sure others here could tell you more.

    This happened to some of our house plants - the ones that the water tray was too small to easily water, so we'd just dump it in ontop.
    I just pulled out the top inch or so of soil and replaced with fresh - alternatily and probably better would be to repot the plants with frsh soil.

    HTH.

    M.


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