I've made sure that the moss i use dries out every few days as to not overwater my orchids and to avoid fungus. today i spotted little green specs of which i'm 99% sure are mold on both sphagnum moss and a dead root. I use moss because soaking with bark would be hell for watering. not to mention summer would be...impossinle to keep up with wqtering
The pots have *lots* of ventilation holes, have very fluffy spagnum moss, with bark, perlite and air pockets. i only water enough enough to make the moss moist, it's never soggy. And yet i got specs....
I don't have any good photos myself (i tried
it's not visible on the photo due to a crappy camera), but they look like the specs in the photos in this reddit post:
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This is 100% what i have as well. someone said it's algae but this doesn't look like algae to me
any tips are welcome...I've been trying to grow orchids on and off for a few years now, with bad results every time due to bad watering. now i finally have the watering down so it dries at a good pace, so i'm a bit at a loss of words here...i'm very passionate about it, but it never seems to work out. it's really getting to me now...i'd just like to be able to grow orchids for once.
mold in quick drying moss?
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