Algae on cuttings?

[PA Figs]

Has anyone seen this before? The bark on these cuttings has a green substance on it, I am guessing algae. They all came from the same person and all have developed this green color. I wiped it off the cutting where it was covering the fig name. I had these in coco coir.





The pictures don't really do the blue green color justice.

[hoosierbanana]

Mold

If they are all like then they were probably frost damaged.

[pppldj]

I agree. That looks like mold.

[PA Figs]

Hmm I guess I am used to seeing the white fuzzy stuff... I will have to clean them and cross my fingers.

[hoosierbanana]

Molds start white but produce colored spores fairly quickly. Other types of fungi stay white and fuzzy, like mushrooms. Usually it is a white fuzzy type that attacks cuttings, but I have also seen a cutting that had black mold.

p.s. The blue green stuff is not "aggressive" in my experience, another reason I think the cuttings were damaged.