just.wing.it
Deadwood Head
Algae? Moss? Something else....
It's DE.
It's DE.
What is growing on my soil??
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dirk hoorelbeke
Omono
Algae would be my vote. It comes with damp weather and sometimes with ferts. Goes away when it gets drie.
leatherback
The Treedeemer
Looks like young moss to me?
aml1014
Masterpiece
Looks like algae to me.
I'll start to get algae growing on the more water loving trees as the soil is kept more moist. I just refresh the soil surface around this time of year.
Aaron
I'll start to get algae growing on the more water loving trees as the soil is kept more moist. I just refresh the soil surface around this time of year.
Aaron
fredman
Masterpiece
Yeah that's me in the winter wet. Summer its all gone again. Used to bother me but not anymore...
sorce
Nonsense Rascal
Algae....the little black pinhead algae eating bugs are the tell.
After while, when it gets thick enough, it makes a good still place for moss to grow.
I just cleaned some off mine.
Mine gets black around now....
Root rotting black.
Once it gets thick enough, you can pull off sheets of it with the entire top layer of soil.
And the underside is fresh and clean.
If you stir it around....it will fall through and make for shitty drainage.
I think I'm gonna put t-shirts on everything next year to keep em cleaner.
Good thing is....you know you're fertilizing enough when you get a lot of algae.
Sorce
After while, when it gets thick enough, it makes a good still place for moss to grow.
I just cleaned some off mine.
Mine gets black around now....
Root rotting black.
Once it gets thick enough, you can pull off sheets of it with the entire top layer of soil.
And the underside is fresh and clean.
If you stir it around....it will fall through and make for shitty drainage.
I think I'm gonna put t-shirts on everything next year to keep em cleaner.
Good thing is....you know you're fertilizing enough when you get a lot of algae.
Sorce
jeremy_norbury
Omono
Indeed the algae can be completely black. I get it too.
aml1014
Masterpiece
I tend to get the green on the larger trees, and black on the tiny guys.
Aaron
Aaron
cbroad
Omono
@aml1014
The stuff in your second picture almost looks like Nostoc Commune to me, which is a type of cyanobacterium. We have it growing on the gravel paths at my nursery, it's usually a dark green but can be almost black in really wet spots. It can be really slippery and we control it by spraying dish soap and water on it. It dries up after about a few hours and turns a gold/brown color. The dish soap should be fine to spray on your soil; if you've ever bought soil with a "wetting agent" it's usually dish soap. People actually eat this stuff
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The stuff in your second picture almost looks like Nostoc Commune to me, which is a type of cyanobacterium. We have it growing on the gravel paths at my nursery, it's usually a dark green but can be almost black in really wet spots. It can be really slippery and we control it by spraying dish soap and water on it. It dries up after about a few hours and turns a gold/brown color. The dish soap should be fine to spray on your soil; if you've ever bought soil with a "wetting agent" it's usually dish soap. People actually eat this stuff
.
aml1014
Masterpiece
Every couple months I give it a spray of copper fungicide, dead in a day lol then I justscrape the soil and replace with some fresh stuff.@aml1014
The stuff in your second picture almost looks like Nostoc Commune to me, which is a type of cyanobacterium. We have it growing on the gravel paths at my nursery, it's usually a dark green but can be almost black in really wet spots. It can be really slippery and we control it by spraying dish soap and water on it. It dries up after about a few hours and turns a gold/brown color. The dish soap should be fine to spray on your soil; if you've ever bought soil with a "wetting agent" it's usually dish soap. People actually eat this stuff
Aaron
