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title: "The soil for my plant has started to develop white growth on top - is…"
description: "The soil for my plant has started to develop white growth on top - is this bad? What is it? Thank you :)"
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author: "Jamie S"
published: "2023-08-29T09:29:01.767Z"
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# The soil for my plant has started to develop white growth on top - is…

_Pubblicato da Jamie S il 2023-08-29_

The soil for my plant has started to develop white growth on top - is this bad? What is it?

Thank you :)

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## 6 commenti

### Ian Pittman🌿 ha commentato il 2023-08-29

Could be nothing but could also be the start of mold!! Maybe try repotting and hopefully it doesn’t come back! Hope that helps:)

#### Jamie S ha risposto il 2023-08-29

Thank you. Do you know what causes it? Is it overwatering?

#### Ian Pittman🌿 ha risposto il 2023-08-29

Yes! The two most common causes are usually low light or overwatering, if your plant likes a lot of water but the dirt doesn’t then you could try switching pots to something more ventilated or with better drainage!

### Plant Father ha commentato il 2023-08-29

this looks more like mineral build up from hard water than mold, consider flushing the soil with distilled or rain water to rinse off the excess minerals

#### Jamie S ha risposto il 2023-08-30

This may well be true, the water is very hard here.

### Plantsarelife ha commentato il 2023-08-30

It’s prob just fungi fungi is our freind it doesn’t do anything it just spawns on decomposing material such as soil especially when it’s moist very common on plants like your prayer plant because it likes moist soil nothing to worry about

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