Hello everyone, I have a questions and I am kinda stumped and seeking some experience. I have some weird growth in the dirt that I think may have been brought in by my motorcycle tires I used to surround the plant.… it’s hard, yet bouncy like when you push on it it springs back… I pulled out what I thought was all of it at the beginning of the season… and it keeps growing back. Doing a google image search came back with nothing similar… anybody have an idea as to what this is. It is not hurting the plant other than I have to water this plant like 3 times as much as the others…
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Wierd. Def looks like a fungus but no idea what for sure. Looks pretty thick too
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It is pretty thick like it has roots, here is a picture of the plant itself, couldn’t take one last night the light wouldn’t show it right…
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Looks to me to be a whole shit ton of little brown toadstools (not edible or psychoactive) but should make for a pretty interesting pic in a couple days
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Where does the soil come from and how long have you been using it?
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Do you have cellulose fiber in your soil? Lots of different types of fungus go nuts on rotting wood fiber. Any fungus gnats?
Cheers
G
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Well it was sandy dirt that had chickens living above it for 2 years, then I decided to rototill 20 bags of top soil and it’s been through 1 season so far, this is second season and nothing like this happened last season, I figured the tires must have had something to do with it as this was the first year I tried the tires
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I did throw in coconut husk when I tilled the soil… But was told it just helped the soil retain water… no bugs, but I have a ton of lady bugs in the greenhouse haven’t even seen a fly
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I haven’t seen fungus go after coir before. Whatever it is they have taken a liking to doesn’t seem to be affecting your plants at all. I’d guess something breaking down in the compost.
Cool but mostly harmless 
Cheers
G
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Never seen that before. It looks the corona virus pics you see online… 
Probably related to the chicken compost?? I collected about 4 gallons of chicken shit off of my yard from my neighbor’s birds free ranging all day at my place. I wondered about it. I always heard it needs a good aging period but fungus means it’s already eating nutrients, huh. If plants aren’t burning up in it, the soil is probably just really alive right now.
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Well its looking pretty fungal dominant which honestly is not a bad thing … as thick as it is i doubt it will affect your root zone … id say its doing more protecting your roots
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Were the tires full of any funky water still when you filled them with the soil? Looks chunky. How does the whole plant look as a whole, is it showing nice growth?
That amount of micros should be feeding it nicely/ interesting indeed
Looks like slime mold.
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Honestly I don’t know… not to my knowledge, but there might have been a little water in each one… just weird how it affected only one plant… It is showing nice growth and looks healthy, the only negative is it take 3 times the water to get the soil saturation where I want it…
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I don’t know if this would work, but if you extracted all of them as completely as possible, then place a thick layer of sand on top, you might be able to prevent their return.
Google White slime mold Physarum leucopus.
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As Buzz stated slime mold, if it is sounds like it is bad for the soil
It retains moisture which will lead to root rot and possibly other bad things.
I am not sure, But if your plants start looking funky and sickly you could try and do a soil change with better soil.
Maybe Buzz has a fix also.
How does the top part of plant look, any chance of a whole picture of plant? Stem looks healthy
I’ve seen that grow in mulch, that I spread around the house on occasion. It seems to bloom, then hang around for a while. But if I remember correctly, it died out during the heat of summer.
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My guess is Nidulariaceae. 
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