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title: "I’m fairly new to plant care, this is my first time repotting a plant…"
description: "I’m fairly new to plant care, this is my first time repotting a plant with problems in the soil. What exactly am I looking at, how do I treat it?"
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# I’m fairly new to plant care, this is my first time repotting a plant…

_Publicado por Aliac01 el 2024-03-25_

I’m fairly new to plant care, this is my first time repotting a plant with problems in the soil. What exactly am I looking at, how do I treat it?

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## 3 comentarios

### Katelyn comentó el 2024-03-26

Could be a mix of mold and water build up. Do you use regular tap water? If so that might be the white stuff. I would try and remove all of the soil spray roots with Hydrogen peroxide to clean the roots of any bacteria.

### abi\_interrupted comentó el 2024-03-26

This might not be a problem… healthy soil contains mycelium (roots of fungus), which is a very good thing.

### Vivienne comentó el 2024-03-26

If it smells really bad and is mushy it’s root rot, if it has or gets root rot you have to chop off every root that is mushy and dark, it doesn’t look like root rot though

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