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BrightStar Chesapeake, VA May 22, 2009

Anybody know anything about how to get rid of slime mold?

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ceejaytown The Woodlands, TX(Zone 9a) May 24, 2009

What is it on?

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ecrane3 Dublin, CA(Zone 9a) May 24, 2009

Slime molds are kind of gross looking but they don't really hurt anything, so you probably don't need to do anything.

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BrightStar Chesapeake, VA Jun 12, 2009

It is on top of the soil.

The plants with this disgusting thing on top of their potted soil are:
bourganivillea(probably misspelled)
flowering maple
athurium(probably also misspelled)

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ceejaytown The Woodlands, TX(Zone 9a) Jun 13, 2009

Well, by now they are probably gone. These are decaying fungi - decaying the organic matter in the potted soil or mulch. Although they look disgusting, they are harmless and nature's way of breaking down organic matter. Some of them look like scrambled eggs, or dog vomit, and so are commonly called by those names... No need for fungicides (they don't work here anyway), since these molds don't attack plants. If you just have to do something (they will dry up when they disperse their spores) you can use a shovel and toss them into the trash.

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BrightStar Chesapeake, VA Jun 13, 2009

cell ejaytown,
That's probably as good a thing to do as anything to do about it. Maybe I'll experiment on the slime mold...heh, heh, heh....

Well, actually that might be a good idea. Conduct a scientific experiment, with photos...

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