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Mushrooms growing in potting compost??

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  • 15-04-2019 5:58pm
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    bomchikkawawa
    Registered Users Posts: 29 ✭


    I repotted an indoor aloe Vera plant a few weeks ago, used potting compost I had left in shed from last year. I notice a mushroom in it a few days ago, looks like a supermarket button mushroom but rusty/ brown colour on top. I took it out but i noticed today another one popping through. Is it from the potting compost? Do I need to re- pot or do I just keep harvesting mushrooms!??


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    GrumpyMe
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    Harvest mushrooms if you want but if I was you I'd get a positively correct ID before eating.


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    bomchikkawawa
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    GrumpyMe wrote: »
    Harvest mushrooms if you want but if I was you I'd get a positively correct ID before eating.

    I just want to know if it’s likely it’s the compost and if I need to re- pot with new compost.are the mushrooms likely to affect the plant? Will the mushrooms keep growing in the pot themselves if I don’t re-pot?


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    Doctors room ghost
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    They could be pookys.dont eat them they could put you tripping.


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    macraignil
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    bomchikkawawa wrote: »
    I just want to know if it’s likely it’s the compost and if I need to re- pot with new compost.are the mushrooms likely to affect the plant? Will the mushrooms keep growing in the pot themselves if I don’t re-pot?


    The potting compost being a bit older might explain the spores of the mushroom landing on it and I think it's most likely it is just living off the material in the compost. The chances of it being a fungi that is pathogenic to aloe vera are very very small and if anything it should be helping break down the material in the compost to leave more nutrients available for the plant.



    The mushrooms are the fruiting body of the fungus and they will likely stop being produced once the energy source of the fungus is depleted.


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    The Enbalmer
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    The compost is probably spent mushroom compost that just happens to have a couple of fruiting bodies still active which implies the mycelium is intact.


    You could look up how to raise mushrooms and see if you can start our own shroomery..it's unlikely but its fun to try things!


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    Hocus Focus
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    Here is a link to a guide to fungi, edible and inedible.
    https://www.wildfooduk.com/mushroom-guide/


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    Graces7
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    Hocus Focus wrote: »
    Here is a link to a guide to fungi, edible and inedible.
    https://www.wildfooduk.com/mushroom-guide/

    There were yellow ones here last autumn but was not sure if they were chanterelles or the poisonous imitations.. growing on a grassy bank

    If in doubt, don't eat. Not as if we were starving...


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