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How really green mold look like ? I didn't find a photo in the forum. Its spreads, but can be killed under light (neon light or sun) and isopropyl alcool ? Some moss may look like mold ? Like green patches ? My drosera has i think star moss and under it has some green like moss patches that look like moss but stay under the star moss and keep their size.

It doesn't do any harm as far as i know

I like the way your plants look

The only thing i do with algae is turn the soil over but then your would mess up your nice moss

You can trim back that moss as-well if it starts out growing your plants

the green patches are smooth and i don't think is mold. Any picture or photo of a green mold you could show me ?

Is it algae? I have had that happen on a couple of pots that I kept too wet that were seedlings. It is almost a blue green color, and I just repotted them to get rid of it. It was killing my seedlings. I think that it was BradR, that told me to use the cheaper brands of moss, and not the finely milled stuff that I was using, and not to keep my pots as wet. Worked for me.

yes in that photo there is very tiny green patches of algae that i can see but i wouldn't be worried about that

those seedlings look big and strong enough to cope also some people say that this problem is to do with lack of air movement

I have a few big fly traps that have thick algae growing around the top in the green house but are fine

Yes you could re-pot them if you want to but i think this is more trouble than its worth but that's my 2 cents

Myhumminbird, it is not blue green color, is rather darken green and some lighten. I will do some experiments with different substances to see if i can kill algae. I removed almost all patches of algae.

strong enough to cope

SnapSnapIOM, in small seedlings (or rootcuts), what damage the algae could have done ? And it seems that is some sort of symbiosis between moss and algae, but i don't know what, besides that they share humidity. Moss grows right from the algae.

I have all sorts growing on my plant surfaces and i haven't had any problems

It bothers some people just purely for cosmetics reasons so they remove to surface soil and replace it simple enough

I havent heard of algae damaging plants its not like they have roots but maybe if it over runs your plant maybe then

I did a Google search and couldn't find much