Re: house plants soil mold

**"* H* <g*@charter.net>**

CL Fornari wrote:
I've seen molds on the top of the soil on houseplants in a couple of 
instances: 1. When an organic fertilizer is put on the top of the soil. 2. 
When foliage or other plant debris falls to the surface of the soil and 
stays there.  I'd ask if the plant had been recently fertilized or if other 
organic matter had been applied to the top. I'd also ask if it was possible 
that a house guest or child might have poured something such as an unwanted 
drink or food onto the plant.
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At the first newspaper where I worked, the newsroom had a pet dracena on the 
desk outside the managing editor's door.  It thrived on cigarette smoke, 
cussing, adrenaline and a steady diatribe of catastrophies narrated by a 
shrieking police scanner.  One day, the dracena started to wilt, despite 
regular watering and fertilizer religiously applied by the education beat 
reporter.  Within a month it was dead.  When we did the post morteum, we 
found that the chain-smoking, coffee-swilling, hung-over sports editor was 
dumping his coffee dregs into the plant when he was called into the managing 
editor's office, which was often.

Thankfully, much has changed.  No smoking in newsrooms, a silent feed from 
the police scanner, computers that don't require Unix programming knowledge 
and sober sports editors.  But, and there is always one, newspapers are 
rapidly dying, like the caffeine-buzzed dracena.

Feeling nostalgic tonight,
Doreen Howard 

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