What is this? Plants look great, but...

[Carraxe]

Found that on the side of every soil pot. I was repotting from 1l to 3l when I saw that:



It looks like a bunch of eggs, but I haven't seen any bug, just a couple of fungus gnats. And the plants look nice, roots are OK. Maybe it is a bacterial colony, or a fungus.

I've been watching at this for about a week, I think if they were eggs they'd have hatched by now and they'd eaten either the plants or me, since there are thousands of them.

Soil is Canna Professional + and I've used some Tarantula and Piranha.

What do you think? Some advice?

Thanks in advance

 

[Hammerhead]

Dank Frank had some of those.. Nobody could ID them. Here is his post

https://www.icmag.com/ic/showpost.php?p=5404699&postcount=4

 

[Phillthy]

several people have been seeing these lately.... we need to ID those things.

 

[Hammerhead]

Is there anyway you can open some to see if there is a bug inside. Im reading that these might be snail eggs???


SNAIL EGGS

 

[Carraxe]

Thanks for the references.
I feel kind of relieved, doesn't look like it affects growth.
We'd need to have a closer look just for identification, but it might be fungal.

 

[spiralofeyes]

I've had/have those too. I'm banking on it being trichoderma.Makes sense,as my coco is inoculated with just that. I don't know for sure...plants are doing great though.

 

[Phillthy]

a lot of people think some sort of fungus. i have never known there to be "fuzz" on snail or slug eggs.

 

[resinryder]

Tarantula and Piranha.
I quit using those 2 in hydro cause I had yellowish, tiny stalked mushroom type shit growing out of my rockwool and coco. Never had a problem since I quit.

 

[KrazyieFosho]

Tarantula and Piranha.
I quit using those 2 in hydro cause I had yellowish, tiny stalked mushroom type shit growing out of my rockwool and coco. Never had a problem since I quit.

Heh just not sure about that or more ppl would probly know about it?

 

[Hammerhead]

did those shrooms make you see things melt lol...

 

[dank.frank]

Here is a link to the thread I started in the infirmary:

https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=248861

I have personally accepted that this is some form of bacterial activity....beneficial. The batch of soil I experienced this with had been composting for nearly 4 months. Typically I only compost about a month. However, I think the additional composting on the one batch simply allowed for a higher amount a biological activity within the medium.

While most of the research I found on root nodules and nitrogen fixation via Rhizobium bacteria was coming from the world of legumes, I was able to ascertain that such inoculations are not limited to the legume family...

I can put you mind at ease and say with 100% certainty I have not seen any negative performance from the plants whose roots displayed this...keeping in mind those plants are now about 6wks into flower, and are perfectly healthy...



dank.Frank

 

[dank.frank]

It is curious though, that many people are seeing this just now - and there isn't a lot of documentation about it. Perhaps, we are all getting a bit better at growing our cannabis in the collective sense??

You would think if this had been a common thing, that it would have been heavily documented on numerous sites over the years, but that simply isn't the case...



dank.Frank

 

[PuReKnOwLeDgE]

I took these pictures on 5-5-2011. I was throwing away a old ass mother, she was like 10 months old+. When I saw the shit it freaked me out and gave me the eeby jeebys. I immediatley quartined it outside. After searching the other 50+ plants in the vacintiy of a perpetual organic soil grow I never found anymore. I posted a thread, I think the conclusion was it was a type of fungus. I also had thought this because I was using alot great white around that time, so maybe the old ass rootball developed some late stage of soil fungus?

 

[Phillthy]

i have read online people seeing this in cannabis pots since 2007 or so.

 

[cocktail frank]

maybe mealybugs?

 

[whiteberrieS]

Here it is all grown up.

 

[Carraxe]

Here it is all grown up.
View Image

Oh man!! my pot monster never fructified
cheers

 

[kiwi_growa]

Mycelium?

 

[Carraxe]

Oh man
I was going to recycle some coco from last grow and I found this:



This thing really loves coco, even more when there are no plants. I don't think enzimes are necessary anymore. Just to say, the plants that grew in these pots were some of the best looking ones I've ever seen.
I am actually using some mineral magic and I think that this will harm this fungal grow due to its aluminum content. Hope not.

Cheers

 

[soil margin]

Interesting stuff, I know a lot of fungi are benficial and have symbiotic relationship with the plants above them. Would be cool to identify exactly what these are.