However there is an orange mold like substance growing on the top of the soil and i can see a few tiny white bugs crawling stack exchange network stack exchange network consists of 176 q a communities including stack overflow the largest most trusted online community for developers to learn share their knowledge and build their careers. They range from perfect smooth teracotta balls to lumpy rough brown things depending on the brand. Since perlite is normally little white balls about 1 8 inch in diameter old ones that have turned yellow will look like yellow balls. One is of one of them in the hand to. Like puppies and children houseplants add a spark of life to an otherwise dull living space.

It is not common but sometimes small plastic beads are added to specialty soil mixes. Yellow insect eggs in a houseplant s soil. This time i took some pictures. Perlite is a common soil additive found in most potting soil. Feed me seymour fertilizer prills may be small hard yellow balls lying on the surface of.

If some of the balls on the soil are brown or changing from yellow to brown suspect a fungal pathogen. I have found small yellowish balls in the soil around what appears to be a dying clematis is it the result of a pest. They blend into the plants perfectly and. I know they weren t there the night before because i was very carefully layering the soil over the seeds and misting it to ensure good germination. They could have been put in the bottom of pots to help drainage.

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I wouldn t expect any clematis to look great right now unless its an evergreen species. He assured me that these yellow orange liquid filled b b balls that burst when squeezed are indeed osmocote fertilizer prills that absorb moisture which allows the liquid fertilizer inside to pass out of the prill and into the soil. You won t like the answer. The very next day 2 of the little balls showed up in the pot of seeds. They are used for hydroponics and as part of some orchid mixes and also to make light weight concrete and as a soil ammendment to lighten soil.

Horn worms eat tomato plants like crazy they chow the foliage and will eat the surface of the tomatos. It is horn worm poop. One is of the balls in the pot i circled one of them. Horn worms eat tomato plants like crazy they chow the foliage and will eat the surface of the tomatos. I wouldn t expect any clematis to look great right now unless its an evergreen species.

One is of the balls in the pot i circled one of them. If some of the balls on the soil are brown or changing from yellow to brown suspect a fungal pathogen. It is not common but sometimes small plastic beads are added to specialty soil mixes. However there is an orange mold like substance growing on the top of the soil and i can see a few tiny white bugs crawling stack exchange network stack exchange network consists of 176 q a communities including stack overflow the largest most trusted online community for developers to learn share their knowledge and build their careers.