First off, this is my first post so I’m very excited =)
Using fox farms ocean forest, which I had in bag for over a year. Seen these lil balls forming in bag. They look solid white, like mini air soft bb’s, with furry surroundings, like WPM. I thought I removed them before using on my clones in a styrofoam cup. Clones had a case of WPM. That’s under control w/apple cidar vinegar spray. But now when I took a look at the roots the perimeter of the soil is covered in them. What are they? Should I worry? How to fix?
Google search didn’t help much, so I joined the forum specifically for this issue.
I just want to say thanks ahead of time.
I got nothing. Well nothing good. But let’s tag some experts to see. @Niala @garrigan62 can one of you identify this. I have a guess but not sure.
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Never seen anything like it. First guess would be eggs of some kind? sorry not really helpful. others will be along.
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It kinda looks like Canada , United States Mexico South America and Hawaii far left lol
Sorry I couldn’t help it.
Ok
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
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.
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:
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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They do look like tiny mushrooms.
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Welcome to ILGM @chitoman good luck with ur grow. U got G man on the scene tho. Garrigan is a diagnosing machine. Trust him
Did anyone ever figure out what these are? I have them on my plant roots as well and it’s freaking me out! My plant doesn’t seem happy about it.