what do you think this is....

JSJ

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I have these perfectly round things in my soil. The pix aren't the best because they are so small I can't get the can to focus on them. I want to say they are some kind of egg or cocoon or someshit. The solid ones pop like a tiny grape and there is liquid inside. I have also found just the outside shell, opened, dried and hard.

I thought maybe red wiggler eggs at first, but these things are perfectly round. I can roll them from one side of the table to the other.

As for any bugs, there is absolutely nothing flying, crawling or hopping about the plants or pots.
 

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desertdog

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I am guessing you are using Miracle crap or something like it. It is something that they use in their soils. I don't know what it is, but I stopped using their crap because the results sucked. When I switched to Fox Farm and promix blend my results doubled. You wont find those in Fox Farms. I think they are water crystals. I found them in all of the cheap bag soils and all of the MG products. Now I use my blend of Fox and Promix and everything is pumpen!
 
JSJ

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desertdog said:
I am guessing you are using Miracle crap or something like it. It is something that they use in their soils. I don't know what it is, but I stopped using their crap because the results sucked. When I switched to Fox Farm and promix blend my results doubled. You wont find those in Fox Farms. I think they are water crystals. I found them in all of the cheap bag soils and all of the MG products. Now I use my blend of Fox and Promix and everything is pumpen!
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Yeah that's flat wrong. I am using an organic mix made from the compost in my back yard and a local greenhouse organic garden soil as my base. Neither of them have time release capsules or water crystals.

Seeing how its compost as a base I'm thinking more along the lines of some type of critter or such.

I add warm castings to the mix also, but I have looked up red wiggler eggs and they aren't as round as these things.
 
Pattahabi

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Can you take a closer picture? If it is a bug egg, and no one here knows what it is, I'll post it up on some other sites.


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JSJ

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Pattahabi said:
Can you take a closer picture? If it is a bug egg, and no one here knows what it is, I'll post it up on some other sites.


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Well first I would have to find another, I popped it after taking those shitty pix, lol.

The cam is on my tablet, not the best to take close up pics, sorry
 
vostok

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You can soak it in water and see if it expands ...but I think its one of those nutes crystals that last like for ever, crush one ...will go like salt!
 
JSJ

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vostok said:
You can soak it in water and see if it expands ...but I think its one of those nutes crystals that last like for ever, crush one ...will go like salt!
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I have popped them in my fingers, has a liquid inside of it, but if you mean it will taste like salt, I ain't the guy to pop one and taste it!
 
JSJ

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Pattahabi said:
Dunno, it does kind of look like a worm egg. Maybe some are a little more round?

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Those are exactly what they look like. The egg right above Eisenhower's head, looks perfectly round, looks exactly like what is in my soil. The pix of worm eggs I was finding this morning they looked more oblong.

I wonder if they have a pic of a hatched egg shell?
 
Pattahabi

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JSJ said:
Those are exactly what they look like. The egg right above Eisenhower's head, looks perfectly round, looks exactly like what is in my soil. The pix of worm eggs I was finding this morning they looked more oblong.

I wonder if they have a pic of a hatched egg shell?
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That was from a random image search on 'worm eggs'. I too have seen the really oblong ones. I'm assuming each species is slightly different?

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desertdog

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JSJ said:
Yeah that's flat wrong. I am using an organic mix made from the compost in my back yard and a local greenhouse organic garden soil as my base. Neither of them have time release capsules or water crystals.

Seeing how its compost as a base I'm thinking more along the lines of some type of critter or such.

I add warm castings to the mix also, but I have looked up red wiggler eggs and they aren't as round as these things.
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In that case I would have to say it is a bug of some sort. I have seen them many times and thought they were water crystals or bug eggs. Many bugs lay eggs in compost. No seller of soils can say their stuff is clean nature gets in. Try hatching them and see what they are then we will all know for sure what it is.
 
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