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title: "This little ball thing showed up on tip of my soil on my alocasia any…"
description: "This little ball thing showed up on tip of my soil on my alocasia any idea of what it could be? It wasn't there before lol"
url: "https://getplanta.com/community/lZ7uAE3pQ86jnFGxrCwLrg/pmUEFom5U6v07OToqPghNP"
community: "Anything about plants"
author: "Cierra"
published: "2024-12-02T22:10:40.962303Z"
language: "en"
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# This little ball thing showed up on tip of my soil on my alocasia any…

_Posted by Cierra on 2024-12-02_

This little ball thing showed up on tip of my soil on my alocasia any idea of what it could be? It wasn't there before lol

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## 4 comments

### Plant lover 2000 commented on 2024-12-02

Maybe slow release fertilizer in the soil... does the soil have more inside

#### Cierra replied on 2024-12-02

I don't believe so

#### Ezzeldin Yaqoub replied on 2024-12-02

Crush it, if it is powdery then it is slow release or if they are squishy and squirting they are snail eggs.

### Ezzeldin Yaqoub commented on 2024-12-02

It’s slow releasing fertilizer. Some of them are shiny balls and they put very little in there so you probably won’t notice them.

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