Change the conditions – If the air is less humid, the soil less moist or the temperature less warm, this will reduce the number of mushrooms that appear.You may need to try this treatment several times before the fungus is killed completely. Drench the soil with fungicide – Drenching the houseplant’s soil with fungicide may help with eliminating mushrooms in houseplants, but again, if not all of the fungus is killed, the mushrooms will return.One of the problems is that it is not healthy to remove all of the soil from a plant’s roots (through washing or rinsing) and the fungus may still be present and regrow from the soil left on the roots of the houseplant. Change the soil – Changing the soil may possibly help with getting rid of mushrooms.Scrape the soil – Scraping the top 2 inches (5 cm.) of soil off the houseplants pot and replacing it may help, but the fungus may regrow and the mushrooms will return.This will also help keep mushrooms out of your other houseplants. Remove the caps – By removing the caps as soon as possible, you are removing the source of the spores which result in mushrooms growing in houseplant soil.Once soil becomes infected, it is very difficult to remove the spores and fungus that causes the mushrooms, but there are a few things you can try: Unlike lawn mushrooms (which prefer cool, moist conditions), mushrooms in houseplants prefer that air be warm, moist and humid. Most frequently, mushrooms will appear in houseplants in the summer when conditions are right for them.
But occasionally, they can be introduced through other means such as airborne movement or spores brushing off clothing. The spores that are the cause of mushrooms growing in houseplant soil is normally introduced by contaminated soilless mix. This is a light yellow mushroom with either a balled or flat cap depending on how mature they are. One of the most common mushrooms found growing in houseplants is the Leucocoprinus birnbaumii. The mushrooms are the fruit of that fungus. Mushrooms growing in houseplants are caused by a fungus. What Causes Mushrooms Growing in Houseplant Soil? Mushrooms growing in houseplant soil is a common problem. But normally people want green plants, not little mushrooms. Most of the time when people are growing houseplants, they are doing so to bring some of the outdoors indoors.
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