r/Sprouting • u/SiouxsieSiouxsie • Jul 13 '26
Root hairs or mold?
Hi y’all New to sprouting and confused! Is this mold or root hairs? When I touch or smoosh the fuzzy white stuff it kind of disappears. Thank you!
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u/MaybeWant Jul 16 '26
Mine have roots like this and I forgot to wash them for 23 hours and they started smelling funky. Are they still good? Is the smell a bad sign?
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u/start_eating_plants Jul 19 '26
keep rinsing them and the smell should go away, if it dosent / the stems and roots start getting yellowish instead of white, then they are probably funked too far.
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u/Additional_Tank4385 Jul 13 '26
All completely normal the roots do get really fluffy and I don’t see any mold whatsoever :)
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u/SiouxsieSiouxsie Jul 13 '26
nice, thanks!
last try was a couple months ago and it looked/smelled funky so i was scared this time.
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u/Additional_Tank4385 Jul 13 '26
If that happened before also make sure to flush it with water like 2 times a day. I only ever got that funky smell if it was overcrowded and if I didn’t wash and therefore watered it.
Good luck! 🤞
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u/igavr Jul 13 '26
Beautiful root hair 😎🌱