I hope i'm freaking out for no reason but i've been researching snails because they are a becoming big problem right now . When i was checking my new odora variegata I noticed theese little balls which at first I thought were fertalizer pellets but on digging I found pockets of hundreds of them so now i think they are snail eggs, when you break them they squish to a liquid mush. What do you think. If they are eggs what do I do other than removing them.
Neil
Did you use Miracle Grow potting soil when you planted them or another type of soil? They look to me like the little fertilizer balls that are put into the soil. Ive seen them color up like that too.
I haven't repotted it yet its still in its original organic no soil mix. But they are definately in pockets under the soil not sdispersed throughout it. Ive removed as many as I could so far, and that was a lot.
doesn't look like snail eggs
here's a gross look at them LOL
http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&q=snail+eggs
Yours does look like those little fertilizer pellets that come in alot of containers bought at nurseries. yours do seem to be solid color and m ine are always almost clear though.
ohh i duno
Looks similar to mine in real life, are the fert. pellets liquid inside? lots of mine are clear like the ones in the picture.
Osmocote is usually clear, sta-green(I think) is the fertilizer with the colored pellets.
Right???
Janet
Your description sure sounds like snail eggs, which are typically clear, and occur in clusters. When you squish them, they are liquidy, and leave no "shell," whereas many pelleted fertilizers, when squished, still leave a visible or tactile trace of the resin coating.
Better to play it safe and lose a bit of fertilizer rather than incubate a bunch of snails.
Unless, that is, you run an escargot farm . . .
They certainly could be "Osmocoat" time release fertilizer balls, but they are usually more of an orange color and they are distributed more evenly throughout the soil.
