White egg sacs or sacks in soil

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Scarfinger68

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Found after harvest and I was cleaning the pots. I didn't have any pest problems during this grow.

FFOF soil, 24 oz. cups as pots, harvested at 56 days of flower. Maybe one chewed leaf out of 5 plants. But every plant had these in the soil.

Anyone ever seen this before? Anyone know what it is?
 
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Scarfinger68

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stoned cockatoo said:
it looks like a furry perlite deposit. maybe if you nurture them and treat them like your own you can see what hatches
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:) If you rub them they break. I did think about trying to see what hatches and I may eventually find out... I just checked my ICE that are almost 4 weeks from seed and they have a few of these white sacks also. Time may tell...
 
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smacksjack

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Hmmmmm - are you outdoor or indoor???

First guess is slug or snail eggs. They look like organic material...and for eggs that big, they seem spidery, sluggy, snaily, in that line of animalia.
http://www.dendroboard.com/forum/general-discussion/45844-slug-snail-eggs.html

Also, what soil did you use??? Because some soil, especially Miracle Grow, contains Osmocote, which is a time-releasing plant food pellets, and they look very similar as well. Check out pictures of those...there could have been a cluster of them in part of your soil that molded over time...

Either way - I would remove from the soil, clean the grow tent, check the rest of the plants, etc. Last thing you want is for your plant to 1) get attacked by slugs/spiders or 2) hit that nutrient hot spot and burn out.

Good luck!

-Smacks.
 
hsfkush

hsfkush

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Spider eggs in soil? The only spiders I know of that lay eggs in soil are Funnel webs. I'm sure there are more species that do, but Funnel web is the only one I personally know of(my knowledge is limited).
 
stoned cockatoo

stoned cockatoo

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^^ mr bean is right. here is a picture from a snail farm. looks right, how deep in the soil were they. should defiantly watch the snails grow
 
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Scarfinger68

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Someone suggested it may be a form a fertilizer? Something like Osmocote? Also another person suggested it was perlite with maybe some mold around it? Personally I think it could be either or mainly because I don't have any bug infestations.

I checked my other pots and they all have some of these. No leaf damage ... yet :)

Unless it something that lays eggs in spring and hatches in the summer?? My bag of FFOF has been sitting on the basement floor so maybe something laid some eggs in it... time will tell.
 
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