I have had this golden pothos in my cubicle at the office for around 2 years now, and it has been in this pot for about 6 months. Today when I came into the office I noticed something in the bottom and it seems to be a mushroom? I have so many questions like, how did this happen, should I pluck it off, what kind of mushroom is it, and should I change pots?
by tinyminnie-fatmoe
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I too have questions…. Never seen a mushroom grow in water like that! You can just pluck it off, but keep in mind that this is just the fruit – the mycelium network that is the actual fungus is in the soil, invisible to the naked eye. (Fun fact: mycelium networks can spread for *miles* in nature!)
This is not harmful to your plant. Often mushrooms popping up in a pot means the soil is being kept too moist, but that doesn’t apply to whatever the heck this guy thinks he’s doing.
Not an expert, but: Given that you have an empty reservoir, which is basically a humidity chamber, + moist substrate with some nutrients in it, you basically have a mushroom incubator.
Plucking the mushroom stalk off doesn’t really remove it, it’s just the fruit. There will still be mycelium in the substrate. This can in theory grow further and inoculate the entire pot, and clog it up. I would probably replace the substrate entirely.
Just my 2 cents, somebody please correct me 🙂
EDIT: This is looks like an additional reason to not use transparent reservoirs (the other one being algae)
There’s spores in the substrate sometimes. It’s nothing to worry about.
hahahahahah!
classic terrarium mushroom but upside down.
IMO they grow once and then don’t pop up again until you repot / add new soil