What are these?????

[VickiC]

Hi again Camille,
Well, if they were fertilizer pellets, like you said, I feel pretty stupid getting so paranoid. I don't guess it hurts to be on the safe side and ask, though.....especially since I've never seen them before in orchid media. Anyway, you say you had fun crushing them sometimes when you repot?!? (I guess it's sorta like popping bubble wrap lol) Well, I did too....the most fun for me at the time was dumping them into the dumpster. lol By the way, in my paranoia state, I wondered why they were in a "patch" sorta....kinda like the mother of the little things laid her eggs in a "bed". I guess that's just the way fertilizer pellets end up in the media sometimes. Didn't know that, so thanks for your help.
Vicki

Originally Posted by camille1585

Slow release fertilizer pellets (like Osmocote) are made of a porous resine capsule, in which there in the fertilizer. I've had fun crushing some sometimes when I repot, and it is exactly as you describe.(assuming that it's really what they are) A fully used up pellet has nothing left in it.