Sprout in coco fiber?

MVDaniel · Mar 15, 2008

Anyone seen this one before? I have what looks like a large beansprout popping out of my coco sub. I was out of town for 3 days, and it wasn't there when I left. Wondering if I should leave it, or pluck it. Advice?

CjP · Mar 15, 2008

If you didn't put it there intentionally, I'd pluck it.

jbrd · Mar 15, 2008

Me? ...Personally, I would grow it to see what it turns out to be.

Cocoa-Jin · Mar 15, 2008

Is the substrate very moist? Its soon to be spring, it could be a plant, it could be a mushroom.

MVDaniel · Mar 15, 2008

Yeah, the sub is really moist. It's definitely a plant and not a mushroom. Could it be something that may be harmful to the T?

Snakeguybuffalo · Mar 15, 2008

MVDaniel said:
Yeah, the sub is really moist. It's definitely a plant and not a mushroom. Could it be something that may be harmful to the T?

Do you use "white prosso millet" in any enclosures you've got? At my pet store, we sometimes accidentally transfer one or two small pieces of millet into other tanks when we clean/feed/remove animals etc. into a tank that has eco or coco bedding in it. If the eco earth is moist enough, the millet will sprout, and it'll look like a little bean sprout and will get bigger.

MVDaniel · Mar 15, 2008

No, no chance of cross contamination. It's a new setup, nothing but eco earth in there, ever. It's been in there and very moist for about 11 days now and all of a sudden I have a beansprout that seems to be doubling in size each day........lol

jbrd · Mar 15, 2008

Name it Audrey and feed it crickets.

MVDaniel · Mar 15, 2008

lol, I'll throw a pic of it up tomorrow. I'd do it now but I left my camera at work.

Rain_Flower · Mar 15, 2008

I had eco earth sprout once, it turned out to be nothing but grass though... so I dunno what yours is, I'm interested in seeing a pic though

penny'smom · Mar 16, 2008

I think I'd remove it to it's own pot, and grow it up 'til you figure out what it is.

GartenSpinnen · Mar 16, 2008

Are you intentionally growing """""plants""""" in your terrarium???? ;P

hamfoto · Mar 16, 2008

penny'smom said:
I think I'd remove it to it's own pot, and grow it up 'til you figure out what it is.

That sounds like a good idea. This stuff happens sometimes...it was probably some kind of seed that got missed or accidentally landed in the coco while it was being processed.

Chris

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