I found tons of those eggs in the soil and around the root system of a house plant I was transplanting. What are they?
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I think those might be balls of fertilizer from the potting soil. They disintegrate over time to feed the potted plant.
Companies are now making potting soil that has fertilizers inside of it. On the bag, it will tell you how long the fertilizer is good for. In order to meet these claims, the company adds fertilizer balls to the potting soil that will release slowing into the soil over the length of time the bag says it will. The reason this happened was back in 2014 different companies received a lot of complaints about the potting soil they sold. The different people told these companies that their potting soil came with fungus gnats in the potting soil.
I tend to agree with Jess that these do not look like eggs. Some places use Styrofoam stuff (not sure if that is the exact material) but like Styrofoam in potting soil to aerate it and it gets into white clumps like this.
I think those are either slow-release fertilizer pellets OR Silica Gel pellets to help hold moisture in the soil...they act like a sponge to hold water and release slowly.
Your full picture shows what appears to be white 'balls' but the single looks to be brown so do they change color?
You do not say how long you have had this soil in a pot but if it has been a long time then it seems to me that slow release fertilizer would have broken down and these look pretty solid.
I had slugs one year and some of my pots had similar looking 'balls' (but I also had some in small 'groups') and my county agent told me these were slugs.
You can send your picture to your county extension agency fi you're still not sure.
These are fertilize pellets , that are located in most potting soils , also when you purchase new plants/flowers in pots. This fertilizer is blended into soil and will give off a slow release to disappear in the following months and provides continuance of feeding.
Hi,
I agree that these look like they may have come, inside the soil, but at the same time, they remind me of seeds, or seed hulls.
---Robyn
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