Unidentified tubes in houseplant soil

[Quilla]

Hi,

I grow several species of chili peppers on my window ledge in my kitchen, due to the humidity of my kitchen with my dryer this is ideal for them.

However this morning suddenly there are two half inch long tubes in the soil of my bell pepper pot (a terracota pot) that literally were not there 10pm last night. They are just under the diameter of a 5p coin, have a very pale yellow/peach colour. They have like a frilled top (not Gilled as far as I can see)

I don't know what they are, can anyone help? I don't want this going to my other pepper plants and I don't know if I should just throw out the whole pot they are in, please help me it was just a bag of commercial soil for tomatoes from dobbies.

[artdemole]

Could be from spent mushroom Compost.Spoon out are to remove including fungi root.Treat with fungicide .Or bleach pot rinse well repot with fresh compost.

[Ditiola]

When someone says bright yellow fungus and pot plant in the same sentence I usually find they are referring to: Leucocoprinus birnbaumii

Perhaps you could download a photo, they you may get a more definitive answer.

Peter

[Chris Yeates]

Originally Posted by artdemole

Could be from spent mushroom Compost.Spoon out are to remove including fungi root.Treat with fungicide .Or bleach pot rinse well repot with fresh compost.

bit extreme methinks

this is after all the fungus forum of Wild about Britain

not Gardeners' Question Time . . .

Chris

[The Woodman]

One could say the same about threads concerning long distance walking, camera choice, personal illness, software, etc., Chris.

I think it's a reasonable request for a first time poster, albeit without an image.

[Chris Yeates]

Originally Posted by The Woodman

One could say the same about threads concerning long distance walking, camera choice, personal illness, software, etc., Chris.

I think it's a reasonable request for a first time poster, albeit without an image.

point taken - my (not entirely serious) comment was not of course aimed at the 'first time poster' . . . a suggestion that the presence of the fungus might not pose a major problem rather than talk of bleach and fungicide might have been useful, that's all

cheers

Chris

[The Woodman]

Far be it for me to suggest otherwise Chris on the veritable fungi forum, as an intrigued chilli grower I am keen to discover the answer!

[Chris Yeates]

Originally Posted by The Woodman

Far be it for me to suggest otherwise Chris on the veritable fungi forum, as an intrigued chilli grower I am keen to discover the answer!

I just love the idea of you growing "intrigued chillies" do they taste different? - sounds like something out of Marinetti's Futurist Cookbook (see - The Futurist Cookbook)

sorry I am now extremely guilty of going off-topic - off-piste even

C

[fairplay]

Originally Posted by artdemole

Could be from spent mushroom Compost.Spoon out are to remove including fungi root.Treat with fungicide .Or bleach pot rinse well repot with fresh compost.

I don't want this to come across as if I am angry or having a go at anybody, but we happen to LIKE fungi on this fungus forum and I'm a little unhappy at somebody being advised to destroy their fungus before we even get to know what it is.

It's a little like Artemole being passionate about birds and somebody posts a question on the bird forum saying they have a bird of prey, the likes they had never seen before, scaring all their garden birds away, what should they do ?

Then I jump in and say "Spray it with 'birdicide', net it, and take it to the local rubbish dump.

Is this fair comment ?

Neil.

[Quilla]

I attempted to take a phone pic but it's really terrible so tomorrow I'll do a camera pic and show it, the suggested yellow mushrooms look nothing like mine. Mine are reminiscent of pitcher plants without a lid. I have seperated my bell pepper pot for the time being as I too would like to know what this is if only from an eating and preventative point of view (though yellow fungi seems like one that's not for eating)

If the chili curiosity is strong that window has Bolivian rainbow, aji crystal, brazillian starfish, short yellow tobasco, large brown habenaro, Fresno supreme and the humble bell peppers will get back with that pic tomorrow