I hear what u are saying but too hot will definitely kill most of them. Cubensis grows on composted manure so its not so hot. Straight shit will kill them for sure. I have grown them before and would dump the spent sub into the worm bin. It always goes away and doesnt regrow. Oysters or othe wood lovers will definitely take over a grow medium that contains wood chips. I have mycelium grow in my soil a few times but its always from the wood lovers. If it gets out of hand like what the original poster is experiencing, then it can definitely cause root rot. Been there...
I guess we're looking at this differently, because as I see it, the composted soil has as much nutrition in it as the fresh material. The big difference is how available it is to the plant and in what form. Mycellium generally doesn't like nutrients to be volatile. Perhaps that is a better way to put it.
Sounds like you're putting waaaay too much food in your mix. Mycellium shouldn't be able to form a solid colony like that with the amounts of food normally found in a cannabis grow. Are you doing some sort of super soil?
Personally I use Cinnamon (tea) as an organic fungicide.
It's well know for it and there is lots of info about it.
For example: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10658-019-01882-0
But I only have experience with it to (successfully) combat fungus gnats and as a anti-damping proactive aid. I have never tried it to kill off an entire Mycelium cake.
You can brew it (literally cooking) into a strong tea and try it to kill the Mycelium cake. Or topdress powdered Cinnamon on top of the soil to limit Mycelium growth.
Please Google for more info about the fungicide effects of Cinnamon. It truly works, I use it all the time.
Just an idea, but I would reach out to Paul Staments and see what he suggests. If there is anyone who would know what would compete with that mycelium, or help slow/stop its growth, he would be that person.
Trichoderma?
That's sort of a broad statement considering how many high-density food sources that mycellium is known to colonize. Its really the balance of water, light, and oxygen/co2 that govern how well it thrives on a given food source, but with the right conditions it can definitely colonize very "hot" sources. Cubensis for example will grow in straight horse manure that is sterilized, and cow manure if its hot composted for a few days and then sterilized. That's a heavy feeder of course, but there's definitely mycellium that voraciously devours what it can when the conditions allow it.
Dude really? I grow shrooms.
I use raw coco as a block. And i pick 1
Popcorn
Rye
Any grain
Millet
Cowpoo
Just 1 is enough... To collinate a solid block. That soil has somuch in it breaking down it will be a fesspit for it. Mental. Mushroom rewuire nothing to grow. If u even try suppliment them ul kill em. Only thing is teaspoom of honey or gypsum or coffee but defo rewuire not alot to groe.
Cant i get new soil? Or mix it at 33% to peat and lava rock.
Amend it with amendments ousyershell gypsum rockdust kelp neem etc and start cooting
Any updates on what happened to the mycelium, has made quite an interesting thread?So this is a weird one. What kills fungus?
I have this 300 gallon pot that just got completely taken over by mycelium a couple years ago. It seems to have happened again.
It doesn't seem harmful to roots in any way. It totally colonized the pot and turned into one solid mycelium cake. If you have ever grown psilocybin mushrooms, it looks like that. Just healthy white mycelium all the way through. No slime. The problem is that it makes it difficult for water to penetrate the substrate.
Is there anything i can water through it that will kill fungi?
I'm happy when I find those.So in between one of my crops this popped up in one of my 75 gallon notill beds. its about the 3rd run in this bed. Should i be worried about them ?
I've stated my next run in them and there doesnt seem to be any issues.
I'm happy when I find those.
So this is a weird one. What kills fungus?
I have this 300 gallon pot that just got completely taken over by mycelium a couple years ago. It seems to have happened again.
It doesn't seem harmful to roots in any way. It totally colonized the pot and turned into one solid mycelium cake. If you have ever grown psilocybin mushrooms, it looks like that. Just healthy white mycelium all the way through. No slime. The problem is that it makes it difficult for water to penetrate the substrate.
Is there anything i can water through it that will kill fungi?
I have had this yellow one! It is freaky how yellow it is. I was told it was a wood loving fungus. The mycelium crept up from the bottom of a plastic 1 gallon pot and when i transplanted it, i saw all these yellow ropes. Maybe a year later i saw its fruits.So in between one of my crops this popped up in one of my 75 gallon notill beds. its about the 3rd run in this bed. Should i be worried about them ?
I've stated my next run in them and there doesnt seem to be any