General Organics Nutes - Mold - Anyone Else?

[upperline]

So.... Yesterday when watering the girls, I opened my bottle of Diamond Black, which is their humic acid additive. When I took off the cap, there was what appeared to be mold around the rim of the bottle. It looked like someone took a piece of a cotton swab and swirled it around the inside of the bottle neck.

 

So I took the bottle in to my grow shop today, as I needed to pick up a few things. I asked the guy about it, and he said it was mold. He also said that he's had a few other people with the same complaint and that it's no big deal. He said because its organic, it is susceptible to those types of things. He said to just wipe it away and forgot about it.

 

Has anyone experienced mold (or anything similar) using organic fertilizers? It freaks me out, and I'm not cool with "just wiping away the mold" and then using that product to feed something that I will later ingest! For what it's worth, I've only had the bottle for 3 months and have stored it properly....

 

Any ideas? Thoughts?

[stopgo]

Certain molds/fungi and bacteria are beneficial to plants. Take great white or mycomadness for example, these are both fungal supplements sold for horticulture. Considering that you will be feeding this to the rootzone of your plants I wouldn't worry about it and it might actually be beneficial. There are millions of spores floating in the air of your grow room, this mold isn't going to crawl up the plant and infect the leaves.

[noctuanlreef]

i wouldn't sweat it....if the bottle was sealed the line itself has only been out for like 9-10 months i ran that program when it first came out.... had all kinds of deficiency issues and slow growth... how is it working for you?

[MrShpongle]

I've been running General Organics for 6 months with no mold or other issues. I agree with stopgo 100% - it's going into your roots, so don't sweat it. I suppose I wouldn't use it for a foliar spray, but I don't think this line is made for that anyway.

 

Noctuanlreef, were you running soil or hydro with it? And what sort of deficiencies were you noting?

[CheezeAddickt]

Any information on this product line would be much appreciated. I just started my first grow using the complete line of nutes. Looking good so far but only 4 days into veg. Must mention im growing 6 cheese from clone using happyfrog soil top dressed with earthworm castings in 5g smartpots lined with mollasses and coated with canesuger in a 4x8' tent with 2 1000w HPS and 840w of cfls. Anxious to see what the biothrive will do for me. Im also goin to add big up from humbolt. Any other suggestions? Thanks in advance

[treehugger]

I've seen this happen in various nute's over the years, both organic and "chemicals". The bottle could have been inoculated at the factory or just the first time you opened the bottle (most grows are far from antiseptic). If you keep your bottles in a lightproof cabinet with screw caps tightly fastened you usually won't suffer this surprise.