I am putting together a new grow box in my new apartment. I have a small amount of mold growing on one of the sides. I clean it up with bleach but it comes back. Can this hurt my plants? The mold is growing because of moisture from outside getting into the walls.
yeah good call why dont you do a search in the forums for 'mold' and see what comes up? thats how i solve most of my problems. this site's been around for a good while, and i'm sure that question has been asked and answered somewhere along the line
Hey man with personal experience with mold in the bathroom.I poured bleach all over that ****.It was white and black mold.I got rid of that ****.I don't feel like dieing.Since the bleaching no further sites of growth have been spotted.
Dank!! Its been a while. Is the mold growing ONLY in/on your grow box or is the problem with your apartment walls? Where is the leak coming from? If it is only growing in your grow box wall, I'd take that wall outside & pour bleach onto the moldy area & let it soak in & air dry, then clean the **** out of the rest of the grow box, re paint it if needed and put it all back together once it is dry... If you have moisture inside your apartment walls and also have mold, tear down your grow box, contact your apartment people and have them fix the leak & do a mold abatement immediately!! As long as it has a moist environment to live in you will never be rid of it! And you will be breathing in those nasty spores! You will probably have to change apartments while this happens, but for health reasons you should do it NOW! Black mold spores can cause serious health problems! Killing them in a shower / tub is easy with bleach... But your walls are porous, and you can't get to it all without ripping apart your walls. Black Mold, also known as Stachybotrys Chartarum (atra) is a greenish-black fungus found worldwide that colonizes particularly well in high-cellulose material, such as straw, hay, wet leaves, dry wall, carpet, wall paper, fiber-board, ceiling tiles, thermal insulation, etc. The fungus (black mold), before drying, is wet and slightly slimy to touch. Stachybotrys produces a mycotoxin that causes animal and human mycotoxicosis. This type of mold is thought to be a possible cause of the “sick building syndrome”. In May 1997, the Journal of the American Medical Association carried a news article titled “Floods carry potential for toxic mold disease”. Children’s exposure to air-borne Stachybotrys spores is thought most likely to cause pulmonary hemosiderosis (bleeding in the lungs). Please be aware that there is no threshold dangerous spore exposure level by the U.S. EPA or any other health administrations. There are ongoing new epidemiology studies being conducted. There is reference information related to a 1994 incident in Cleveland, Ohio where 45 cases of pulmonary hemorrhage in young infants occurred. Sixteen of the infants died. In addition, many state’s department of health administrations as well as the Center for Disease Control (CDC) list the following as symptoms associated with exposure to Stachybotrys mold spores: 1) Respiratory problems, such as wheezing, and difficulty in breathing 2) Nasal and sinus congestion 3) Eyes-burning, watery, reddened, blurry vision, light sensitivity 4) Dry, hacking cough 5) Sore throat 6) Nose and throat irritation 7) Shortness of breath 8) Chronic fatigue 9) Skin irritation 10) Central nervous system problems (constant headaches, memory problems, and mood changes) 11) Aches and pains 12) Possible fever 13) Diarrhea 14) Possible hemosiderosis 15) Immune suppression Don't let it go untreated!!!!! Good luck! (Edited by XXsnickelfritz420XX at 10:06 pm on Dec. 22, 2005)
