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title: "Why do all my plants have mold in the dirt?? Can anyone help please?"
description: "Why do all my plants have mold in the dirt?? Can anyone help please?"
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community: "Pests, diseases and problems"
author: "Plant mother"
published: "2025-06-29T17:56:52.342136Z"
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# Why do all my plants have mold in the dirt?? Can anyone help please?

_Posted by Plant mother on 2025-06-29_

Why do all my plants have mold in the dirt?? Can anyone help please?

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## 6 comments

### MysticMacGyver commented on 2025-06-29

Is that a self watering pot, by chance? I don’t have an answer for you, but it is such a crazy coincidence…I logged onto this app because I just bought self watering pots and planted seedlings for the first time a couple weeks ago and I noticed today that the dirt had mold just like this! I wanted to know if it was normal and I opened the app to your post at the top of my feed. Random!

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#### Plant mother replied on 2025-06-29

No it’s not a self watering pot but I feel your pain!!

### becca commented on 2025-06-29

It looks more like mineral buildup from watering than mold to me. In my experience, this doesn’t harm the plant at all, just kind of looks unsightly. You can stir around the top inch or so of the soil to hide it, but nothing to be worried about

#### Plant mother replied on 2025-06-29

Awesome!! Thanks so much! That’s what I’ve been doing is stirring it around and they seem to be still growing great!

### teig Westbury commented on 2025-06-29

If you use a little bit of a chunkier soil mix it’ll not happen! Had the same probably but realized it wasn’t distributing throughout the soil, creating a water bubble on the top soil, creating mold!

### Waspinator commented on 2025-06-29

It's also possible that it could be flowerpot parasol. They look very similar to mold when the mushrooms start to grow out of the mycellium. But for this one i agree on the mineral buildup

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