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[Market-farming] Fungal growth on top of greenhouse flats
- From: "Christine & Marlin" <glenecofarm AT planetcomm.net>
- To: "'Market Farming'" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: [Market-farming] Fungal growth on top of greenhouse flats
- Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 21:02:55 -0500
On Saturday afternoon, Jan 14, I wetted up
some planting medium and filled some flats in preparation for seeding some
onions and other things I normally start this time of year and stacked them on
the floor in my basement plant room. I seeded several yesterday and a few
more this afternoon. I noticed a little yesterday and more this afternoon
of a fuzzy fungal growth that begins growing on the surface of the medium
within a few days of prepping the medium. One can see concentrated spots
of cottony mycelium that sort of radiate outward from an apparent spore that
landed on the media surface. Since I don’t see the fungus growing
beneath the surface, I assume that the spores are probably coming from the air
or perhaps from the bottom of the tray that sat on top of a filled flat. I
have seen this other years, and have never been certain whether this has caused
any significant harm to the germinating plants, but it always scares me
somewhat when I see it as I am mold sensitive and have to be a little careful
about working in moldy environments. I used a common commercial planting medium
(Sunshine Mix #1) which I had carried over from last fall but had been kept
covered and dry in the original container. I confess that I am not
particularly fastidious about washing my hands or wearing gloves when I am
mixing or handling planting medium and I haven’t bothered with scrubbing
up my planting trays beyond hosing them off good with high water pressure and
letting them air out in the sun for a few hours. I usually use new
inserts in the trays in order to reduce the risk of container surface to plant
root contamination. I would like to know what this fungus is, whether or not
I should be concerned about it, and what I could use to either get rid of it or
prevent it. I would like to hear from some of you folks who have posted
in the last week or so that you have gotten along well starting plants without
cleaning up or sterilizing your equipment. Marlin Burkholder Virginia |
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[Market-farming] Fungal growth on top of greenhouse flats,
Christine & Marlin, 01/17/2006
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Re: [Market-farming] Fungal growth on top of greenhouse flats,
Shawnee Flowerfarmer, 01/17/2006
- Re: [Market-farming] Fungal growth on top of greenhouse flats, Allan Balliett, 01/17/2006
- Re: [Market-farming] Fungal growth on top of greenhouse flats, Nan Johnson, 01/18/2006
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Re: [Market-farming] Fungal growth on top of greenhouse flats,
Shawnee Flowerfarmer, 01/17/2006
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[Market-farming] Fungal growth on top of greenhouse flats,
Christine & Marlin, 01/17/2006
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