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Also, I haven't seen any slugs anywhere around. Even in my yard. Unless they're like roaches and are really good at hide and seek, and can even hide their trails, I don't know that they are slugs.
If you are using Miracle-Gro Moisture Control potting soil with wetting agents in it then you likely don't have slugs in your soil. That particular soil mix has polyacrylamide gel pellets that they use as their wetting agent and that polyacrylamide happens to be a quite deadly neurotoxin so I doubt that slugs or earthworms or any other soft bodied invertebrates in the soil would be able to survive from exposure to it.
A word to the wise, don't handle Miracle-Gro soils with bare hands and don't get your gloved hands near your face and eyes when you are potting up plants with it.
The round white and brown plant food pellets that they include in their mix are opaque and can be crushed into a fine powder, they do not look translucent /semi-transparent as what you took pictures of. But the whitish round polyacrylamide gel pellets that they use as their wetting agent do have a translucent appearance to them that is very similar to your pictures.
So it may be that's what it is. Try this water trick first to confirm what they are before going to all the effort of transplanting the plants in different soil. You can immerse some of them into water and see if they swell up more. Just leave them in a glass of water at room temperature at a bright window for several days. If they rot and collapse while soaking in water they are slug eggs, and if they do not rot in water but swell up a wee bit more firmly and become more transparent and colourless they are the polyacrylamide gel pellets that Miracle-Gro uses as their wetting agent.
If you are using Miracle-Gro Moisture Control potting soil with wetting agents in it then you likely don't have slugs in your soil. That particular soil mix has polyacrylamide gel pellets that they use as their wetting agent and that polyacrylamide happens to be a quite deadly neurotoxin so I doubt that slugs or earthworms or any other soft bodied invertebrates in the soil would be able to survive from exposure to it.
A word to the wise, don't handle Miracle-Gro soils with bare hands and don't get your gloved hands near your face and eyes when you are potting up plants with it.
The round white and brown plant food pellets that they include in their mix are opaque and can be crushed into a fine powder, they do not look translucent /semi-transparent as what you took pictures of. But the whitish round polyacrylamide gel pellets that they use as their wetting agent do have a translucent appearance to them that is very similar to your pictures.
So it may be that's what it is. Try this water trick first to confirm what they are before going to all the effort of transplanting the plants in different soil. You can immerse some of them into water and see if they swell up more. Just leave them in a glass of water at room temperature at a bright window for several days. If they rot and collapse while soaking in water they are slug eggs, and if they do not rot in water but swell up a wee bit more firmly and become more transparent and colourless they are the polyacrylamide gel pellets that Miracle-Gro uses as their wetting agent.
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Right! If you are using a store bought soil that's it ^^^^^ a slow release fertilizer.
It is the plant food called Osmocote'.
These fertilizer prills absorb moisture to allow the liquid fertilizer inside to pass out of the prill into the soil.
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