I have a few feet of soil cooking in a blend with lots of woody compost. I had been stirring and venting the tub daily but didn't get a chance for a few days and a light mycelium mat started to form. I went ahead and stirred it back in as this is a tub to fill 1 gallon pots from, not a final destination.
A few days later I started noticing little "mushroom eggs" all throughout the soil. Pea sized and smaller, they seem to start out as little blue-gray/whitish mold colored chunks and quickly form a dark cap that completely encloses them. They smell like strong bleach.
Since then the soil smell went from fresh and sweet to wet forest floor. I dont keep my tubs very wet (dryer than bagged soil/peat) churn and air them out regularly. Its kinda bummed me out because the smells of my soils are something I normally enjoy, but these little truffles have changed that, putting off a strong bleach/semen smell that makes me not even want to touch the stuff.
Anyone seen this type of growth? Are these things going to take over the soil? Rise to the surface and shoot spores all over my room? Grow into sentient alien beings and invade the galaxy?
Dozens if not hundreds of tiny smelly "truffles" that aren't attached to anything,the wood chips in the mix are basically dry but the compost smelled pretty fishy when I picked it up, guessing it wasn't fish compost after all, but the fungal component I was smelling.
Either way it's back to EWC for me, no more mystery compost (glorified mulch), this soil is way too "fungal dominant" anyway you look at it.
A few days later I started noticing little "mushroom eggs" all throughout the soil. Pea sized and smaller, they seem to start out as little blue-gray/whitish mold colored chunks and quickly form a dark cap that completely encloses them. They smell like strong bleach.
Since then the soil smell went from fresh and sweet to wet forest floor. I dont keep my tubs very wet (dryer than bagged soil/peat) churn and air them out regularly. Its kinda bummed me out because the smells of my soils are something I normally enjoy, but these little truffles have changed that, putting off a strong bleach/semen smell that makes me not even want to touch the stuff.
Anyone seen this type of growth? Are these things going to take over the soil? Rise to the surface and shoot spores all over my room? Grow into sentient alien beings and invade the galaxy?
Dozens if not hundreds of tiny smelly "truffles" that aren't attached to anything,the wood chips in the mix are basically dry but the compost smelled pretty fishy when I picked it up, guessing it wasn't fish compost after all, but the fungal component I was smelling.
Either way it's back to EWC for me, no more mystery compost (glorified mulch), this soil is way too "fungal dominant" anyway you look at it.
