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One out of three shoeboxes has shoots? Any ideas what this is? (lemmy.ca)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Coco Coir, Vermiculite for the substrate and that is it.

Could I be growing rice? Lol! (This might be a hint as to why I had issues with Kroger brand precooked rice bags...)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Ah I'm bummed I didn't save a picture to show you, but I've had the exact same thing happen to me. I was thinking that there was a seed in my coco coir, but looking back I'm not sure if that's very probable. Wherever it came from, it ended up dying off well before fruiting and the tub went on to live a long happy life with many flushes :) Keep us posted for sure!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks for sharing that info. It's always good to know that someone else has seen this too. :)

I'll absolutely keep the updates flowing when I can. I really want to see these Lemmy communities grow.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Right on! And likewise. It's great to see more activity in these communities :)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hahah wow, it's definitely growing something! The mycelium will probably eat them anyway, but it's interesting! Keep us posted!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I do not know but if my box was growing something I was not expecting I would toss it. Who knows what it is or if it is toxic.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I suspect it's rice and pictures I have found seem to match rice sprouts. If it was another type of fungi or the mycelium was showing any kind of stress, I absolutely would toss the bin. Since this isn't doesn't appear to be a type of infection, I'll just keep an eye on it as there is the potential for it to actually be beneficial to the mycelium.

Heck, this might be something to investigate and experiment with further. While the rice(?) is absolutely using nutrients in the substrate (most definitely nitrogen), there is a very small chance there could be a symbiotic relationship forming here. IF that is the case, the roots may be providing additional micronutrients back to the mycelium. This will take time and a ton of experimentation to see if my hair-brained theory is true.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

There shouldn’t be any way you’re getting rice that would germinate from a pre cooked rice bag. And if you are, I’d worry that the bags aren’t really clean and sterile enough for the job without further processing. If you aren’t cooking the coco fiber then it’s more likely that a stray seed got in that way.