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Never seen these before

Discussion in 'Sick Plants and Problems' started by Johnny Stash, Jan 25, 2019.

  1. #1 Johnny Stash, Jan 25, 2019
    I have grown off and on for a long time. I have never seen these before. They looked like smoother perlite chunks, but a slightly strange shade to them. I picked one up, and it felt kind of soft. I squeezed it, and it popped.

    So I grabbed my knives and cut the one in half. It's like an airsoft pellet sized soft shell something or other with what seems to be a nasty pus like substance inside. I found 3 on my one plant, sitting on the surface of the soil.
    Kinda grossed me out, made think of Alien Covenant or Prometheus lol.

    Anyone know what they are? I haven't seen a single bug of any type on this grow. Nothing in the soil, in the air or on the plants. 20190125_024333.jpg

    As I am sitting here typing this out I found another. WT...ACTUAL....F ?? Like a fungal sack maybe? Or some larvae early stage, but nothing is
    moving in any of them. Weird.
     
  2. #2 Johnny Stash, Jan 25, 2019
    Found another one. Damn, these things are messed up. If it's something laying them then it has to be big, and you'd think I'd see it at some point. And this one was partially buried. I could see it amongst the perlite and it kind of stood out.
    It's like a hard shelled booger. Disgusting. 20190125_072449.jpg 20190125_072706.jpg
     
  3. #3 TimJ, Jan 25, 2019
    It's a worm egg Johnny Stash. Your using worm casting or your soil mix had worm casting in it. Nothing to worry about.
     
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  4. #4 Dead Head OG, Jan 25, 2019
    It’s an alien for sure. Governments watching you.
     
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  5. #5 Johnny Stash, Jan 25, 2019
    Oh shit. Damn. I'm a murderer!!! LEL!

    OK, I thought that might be a possibility, but that worm eggs were kind of translucent and much smaller. These are fairly large with a tough skin, as I said like an air soft pellet. And wouldn't they have something crawling around in them? It's just a nasty mass of goo inside them. I get the skin crawlies just looking at the things.

    Super weird. And to add, I went and sifted thru my new mix, and I found one in there in a matter of a few minutes.

    I had both the alien idea, and the government watching me idea zip thru my head at some point. Just never together.

    Oh god......not a probing.........






    not again lol
     
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  6. #6 TimJ, Jan 25, 2019
    I get varying sizes and slightly different shades from amber to cream colored in my worm bin. If they are hollow then the worms might be in your soil or the eggs dried out before you even added them to your soil mix. If full with liquid, I'd guess they are forming worms. 3-7 average per egg. I've never cut one open, so not sure about what you found inside.
     
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  7. #7 Johnny Stash, Jan 25, 2019
    OK, that's good to know. I just noticed the other day I am getting good myco growth on some of the woody materials in my soil surface, then I noticed these things.

    Now I feel bad.

    Regards,
    Dr Kevorkian

    :GettingStoned:
     
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  8. #8 TimJ, Jan 25, 2019
    Sounds like your soil is teaming with activity now. Have you used malted barley? Dr Kevorkian <<< That's funny..
     
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  9. #9 Johnny Stash, Jan 25, 2019
    No, but I have been feeding compost tea and earth worm castings tea here or there, though. The soil the flowering plants are in had only compost and sheep poop in it, no amendments.

    But I did find one of these things in the soil I mixed up the other day. So I am wondering if they're coming with the compost I bought, that or in the peat of the ProMix.

    Was definitely weird finding them though
     
  10. #10 TimJ, Jan 25, 2019
    I've read in one of the vermicomposting threads some folks don't buy redworms. They just collect them from aged manure piles.
     
  11. #11 Johnny Stash, Jan 25, 2019
    Oh so maybe from the sheep shit then? I thought I read manure was too acidic for them or something. But if I am getting free red worms, then cool. You mean Red Wigglers?

    Damn, I murdered like a whole platoon worth of them.......
     
  12. #12 TimJ, Jan 25, 2019
    Aged manure is where they were finding the worms. They were digging to the bottom of the pile if I remember correctly. As far as the acidity or alkalinity of manure I'm not sure. I'm also not sure they are the same species of red worms/red wrigglers we purchase for our worm bins.
     
  13. #13 Johnny Stash, Jan 25, 2019
    Ooh I hope they are good worms then lol

    I was looking into getting some red wigglers sent here but I'm too far north and they won't ship them here until spring.

    My plants are doing well, so I'm not worried, but damn it was gross when that one squished in my fingers blech!! Lol!
     
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  14. #14 MidwestMover, Jan 26, 2019
    Ya I've had the bigger ones before in worm bin. they were black almost I was popping them like crazy until I realized they were a bigger worm cocoon. I felt really bad I was killing my workers.


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  15. #15 Dead Head OG, Jan 26, 2019
    Agian huh? Sounds like ur on the good shit if you know what I mean
     
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  16. #16 Johnny Stash, Jan 26, 2019
    That's how I feel now :( lol!!!


    Hey, do you think if I feed earth worm castings tea to my plants, and there are already worms in there, do you think they ask eachother "Did you shit yourself?" Lol
     

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