White egg sacs or sacks in soil

Scarfinger68

Scarfinger68

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I found these after harvest. I was cleaning the pots out and where there was some pockets of space in the soil I found these clusters of white sacs that remind me off spider sacs. They have a moldy substance around them.

Grow was FFOF soil, pots were 24 oz. cups. I didn't have any pest problems that I know off. Maybe one leaf had some chewing damage on it.

Anyone else ever seen these:

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Unfortunaly i'm not an expert of eggs spawned in soil !

Soil bound insects possible depending on what part of the world ya live in... maybe ?



I would suggest removing as many eggs as possibles from the soil & certianly keep an eye open for any potential parent bugs which may of layed them !


If you have any leaf or stem damage, i might be inclined to post a pic or 2 as it may help in pest indentification !
 
Someone on another forum 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 is 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.
 
It looks like it could be some thriving fungus, feeding off the high amount of organic matter in your soil, the spores do likely come from the bag of soil you had. Definitely not really a bad thing, means the soil is healthy and fertile for life of all kinds. Spores that have a high affinity for soil typically aren't the same spores that will cause bud damage, but sometimes they'll clamp to anything

If on the other hand, the spheres were eggs, the larvae hatched would be decently large, possibly indicating large soil grubs. However I am going with that it is a fungus based off the "hair" that envelopes the spheres.

If so, the question remains, is it a species that will clamp to anything to survive? That I would hope not.

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Relaxed Lester said:
It looks like it could be some thriving fungus, feeding off the high amount of organic matter in your soil, the spores do likely come from the bag of soil you had. Definitely not really a bad thing, means the soil is healthy and fertile for life of all kinds. Spores that have a high affinity for soil typically aren't the same spores that will cause bud damage, but sometimes they'll clamp to anything

If on the other hand, the spheres were eggs, the larvae hatched would be decently large, possibly indicating large soil grubs. However I am going with that it is a fungus based off the "hair" that envelopes the spheres.

If so, the question remains, is it a species that will clamp to anything to survive? That I would hope not.

:peacetwo:
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I am leaning toward the fungus explanation. I have not had any bug or grub breakouts.

Considering that my plants are healthy, I believe it is potentially perlite or fertilizer particles covered in fungus.
 
Scarfinger68 said:
I am leaning toward the fungus explanation. I have not had any bug or grub breakouts.

Considering that my plants are healthy, I believe it is potentially perlite or fertilizer particles covered in fungus.
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That many "fertilizer particles" conglomerated that closely together doesn't seem realistic, an idea in addition to the possibility is that is the phenotype of the fungus, "sphere like". Lots of difference fungus species out there, I would not be surprised if this was a fungus.
 
Relaxed Lester said:
That many "fertilizer particles" conglomerated that closely together doesn't seem realistic, an idea in addition to the possibility is that is the phenotype of the fungus, "sphere like". Lots of difference fungus species out there, I would not be surprised if this was a fungus.
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Ahh! Ok. So the whole sphere could be a fungus ball. Interesting. Sounds like it is beyond my scope of knowledge.

Thanks for commenting.
 
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