This is the one that I'm growing inside. I just noticed the mushroom and I know I have to get rid of it but I don't know if I need to replant it or just get some fungicide so I'd love some advice.
Also I haven't seen any mushrooms in the outside pepper plants.
by Either_Letter_4983
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Mushrooms fruiting is a sign of soil health. Yall need to chill out when the fungi comes out. I see these posts at least weekly between peppers and gardening.
let them enjoy the soil. 🙂 Congrats on having a great and healthy soil.
If you’re not already screaming, you should start.
Consume it to commune with the spirits of your ancestors.
Preferably with some Pink Floyd playing in the background.
…….No, but realistically fungus growing like this can be harmless or harmful. If you don’t want to wait and see:
Wear gloves and carefully pluck them by the stem to avoid spore dispersion.
Reduce watering frequency.
Replace the top 2″ of contaminated soil.
Poke holes in soil surface and increase air circulation.
Or just re-pot them all together
these are all good. just got a ton of these in pots where i added compost
nothing
Nothing
CALL THE POLICE
Celebrate as he’s helping turn organic matter into plant food. Might be a sign the soil is too wet though – which is an easy fix.
Jump for joy!! Perfect soil
Thank you all for the comments and info. I decided to pick it just to be safe, and I will be cutting back on the watering.
Edit: After a few more comments have come in, I guess I shouldn’t have picked it in the first place… I don’t know much about pepper planting, hence why I’m asking this stuff, so I’ll make sure to keep this in mind next time around if more don’t grow back.
Just chill and let the peppers grow
I’ve got a chilli hedge row along front of my house, it’s been full of mushrooms ever since I dug mushroom compost in the bed, and after 90 days of rain this year alone yesterday and this morning is the first time there isn’t any, until I water. Fungi, especially good fungi (not fungi on the plant) is good to work with. I use it regularly, along with my own compost and aged/weeded horse and cow manure. I get all of it free, just where I live, mushroom compost gets delivered free too, a large Ute load.
On a totally different note; it actually looks like a newly sprouted Lophophora Williamsii, one that’s had a day or two’s worth of too strong, not-filtered-enough sunlight.
Whenever I see this I kinda laugh because I buy FoxFarm Happy Frog where they include several fungi species in it on purpose. While I never have a perfect traditional fruiting body like this I can see it growing from time to time and I get happy about it!
Let it grow and see if that stalk turns blue when you pinch it. Just sayin’.