Vanisle_BC
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Are these eggs, seeds or what?

I'm finding these little yellow translucent balls in a soil mix I made: garden soil, potting soil and peat.

Does anyone know what they are?
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Gary350
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I believe that is a material designed to hold water. It is made from modified corn starch. I think that is the same stuff they put in baby diapers only in powder form.

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Add moisten some of them - if it gels, it's the moisture holder, if it sprouts, it's a seed, if it crawls away, it's an egg! :lol:

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It sort of looks like Slow-release fertilizer Like Osmocote

...but snail/slug eggs can look similar

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pepperhead212 wrote:
Tue Aug 18, 2020 1:03 pm
Add moisten some of them - if it gels, it's the moisture holder, if it sprouts, it's a seed, if it crawls away, it's an egg! :lol:
Good suggestion: I'll try that. But what if they hatch into alien invaders from galaxy GTY2937b? Woo-woo.

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applestar wrote:
Tue Aug 18, 2020 1:17 pm
It sort of looks like Slow-release fertilizer Like Osmocote

...but snail/slug eggs can look similar
Please, no! I'll opt for the alien invader eggs :).

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Looks like the little balls I find in Miracle Gro soil. It's a fertilizer or moister holder ball thingy. I think.

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Looks like a fertilizer, but I wont trust it until I know it's organic

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pepperhead212 wrote:
Tue Aug 18, 2020 1:03 pm
Add moisten some of them - if it gels, it's the moisture holder, if it sprouts, it's a seed, if it crawls away, it's an egg! :lol:
Immersed in water for a week. They're unchanged.



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