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Old 11-21-2011, 06:23 PM
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Mold Growing on Roots--Need Advise! Female
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I have been reading these posts about mold growing on hydroton, and I too have an issue with mold. I currently am using a bark mix with moss-but plan to switch to S/H culture as soon as I can drill some holes into my glass bowls. ( I know I could use pots already made for S/H but I love the way glass looks!) Anyway, my question is does this white fuzzy mold hurt the orchid? I have used Garden Safe fungicide just recently and the jury's out as to wether or not it works.....
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Old 11-21-2011, 08:24 PM
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I'm fairly new to the s/h myself but when I noticed early on some of the same mold. It turns out it was when some of the old roots were rotting. So I unpotted trimmed up those roots (there were about a million new ones at this point so it was ok) cleaned the hydroton and flushed with physan for good measure.

And I haven't seen any mold since and it's been about four months.
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