"Cynthia" wrote in message
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When transplanting some pot plants I've noticed that there is a fluffy
white
fungus type of material on the decomposing matter in the soil. The plants
themselves haven't been very healthy and I wondered if the white stuff was
in some way responsible for the poor health and very limited growth of the
plant?

I've put the old soil to one side in the hope that I will be able to reuse
it come next spring. I guess I am hoping that the fungus will die off as
it
has no moisture now.

Does anyone know what this might be and if it's a problem, how to remedy
it?

It could be any number of things ... but healthy soils contain fungi and it
can be beneficial as well so unless the plants were showing signs of fungal
attack maybe not??

Also on a side note .... beware white fungi - I learnt the hard way that
sometimes what looks like fungi on first glance is actually Funnel Web web.
(But that was this Qlder on a uni field trip to NSW and having to take
detritious samples and not knowing much about arachnids at the time
Amanda