Gelatinous Blobs
 

A very weird appearance on the soil in some pots. Very large blobs of clear
jelly just sitting on the surface of the soil. Definitely not water
retaining gel. It almost looks like it's rained jelly!

Anyone know what these blobs might be?

Gelatinous Blobs
 

Ade wrote:
A very weird appearance on the soil in some pots. Very large blobs of clear
jelly just sitting on the surface of the soil. Definitely not water
retaining gel. It almost looks like it's rained jelly!
Anyone know what these blobs might be?

Pixie spit. Sorry ... I will stop right now. Promise. No, I've no idea.
Too early for cuckoo's spit - still not jelly enough. How trully
strange. Which colour?

Gelatinous Blobs
 

Ade wrote:
A very weird appearance on the soil in some pots. Very large blobs of
clear
jelly just sitting on the surface of the soil. Definitely not water
retaining gel. It almost looks like it's rained jelly!
Anyone know what these blobs might be?

Pixie spit. Sorry ... I will stop right now. Promise. No, I've no idea.
Too early for cuckoo's spit - still not jelly enough. How trully
strange. Which colour?

Totally clear in colour. It's not a solid, so I don't think it's a fungus.
If you try to pick it up it just runs, exactly like a half-set jelly. I'm
going to take a closer look to see if it has any eggs in it. Do birds throw
up jelly? I'll laugh if it turns out my daughter has thrown out her pots of
jelly snacks that I bought her this week !!

Gelatinous Blobs
 

Ade wrote:
Totally clear in colour. It's not a solid, so I don't think it's a fungus.
If you try to pick it up it just runs, exactly like a half-set jelly. I'm
going to take a closer look to see if it has any eggs in it.

Indeed. If you have a microscope, would be really interesting :o) You
said in pots?! What would deliver that jelly in a pot?! You'd think
you'd find it in the grass, if it's from a frog. I can't think of an
insect doing 'jelly'. Do be carefull though ... it's a *blob* cue
scarry music

Do birds throw
up jelly?

A sneeze?! LOL!!!

But perhaps that's a question for Malcom ...

I'll laugh if it turns out my daughter has thrown out her pots of
jelly snacks that I bought her this week !!

How dissapointing ... ;o)

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"Ade" wrote in message
...
Ade wrote:
A very weird appearance on the soil in some pots. Very large blobs of
clear
jelly just sitting on the surface of the soil. Definitely not water
retaining gel. It almost looks like it's rained jelly!
Anyone know what these blobs might be?

Pixie spit. Sorry ... I will stop right now. Promise. No, I've no idea.
Too early for cuckoo's spit - still not jelly enough. How trully
strange. Which colour?

Totally clear in colour. It's not a solid, so I don't think it's a
fungus.
If you try to pick it up it just runs, exactly like a half-set jelly. I'm
going to take a closer look to see if it has any eggs in it. Do birds
throw
up jelly? I'll laugh if it turns out my daughter has thrown out her pots
of
jelly snacks that I bought her this week !!


The description would fit water snail egg jelly. The eggs are contained
inside a clear jelly. I have seen it occasionally on the surface of very
wet pots near the pond but never in very big blobs.
What does it taste like? :-)

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Rupert (W.Yorkshire) wrote:
The description would fit water snail egg jelly. The eggs are contained
inside a clear jelly. I have seen it occasionally on the surface of very
wet pots near the pond but never in very big blobs.
What does it taste like? :-)

Are you serious? What should it taste like?

Gelatinous Blobs
 

"Rupert (W.Yorkshire)" writes

"Ade" wrote in message
...
Ade wrote:
A very weird appearance on the soil in some pots. Very large blobs of
clear
jelly just sitting on the surface of the soil. Definitely not water
retaining gel. It almost looks like it's rained jelly!
Anyone know what these blobs might be?

Pixie spit. Sorry ... I will stop right now. Promise. No, I've no idea.
Too early for cuckoo's spit - still not jelly enough. How trully
strange. Which colour?

Totally clear in colour. It's not a solid, so I don't think it's a
fungus.
If you try to pick it up it just runs, exactly like a half-set jelly. I'm
going to take a closer look to see if it has any eggs in it. Do birds
throw
up jelly? I'll laugh if it turns out my daughter has thrown out her pots
of
jelly snacks that I bought her this week !!


The description would fit water snail egg jelly. The eggs are contained
inside a clear jelly. I have seen it occasionally on the surface of very
wet pots near the pond but never in very big blobs.
What does it taste like? :-)

Are they 'very large'? - I suppose that depends what the OP means by
'very large'

Our pond snails (3 species) don't produce anything more than an inch
long and quarter inch wide.

Can you get a transparent slime mould?

http://tinyurl.co.uk/ns2h

I can remember being out on the Yorkshire Dales when I suddenly became
unable to keep my footing - feet kept slipping our from under me. The
culprit was masses of clear (IIRC) jelly in amongst the grass, which i
assumed was slime mould. This was a few feet from the cliff edge of an
old quarry, so it wasn't funny!

Only other clear gelatinous thing I've found was some frogspawn on the
lawn of some old people's bungalows a couple of days after heavy rain.


--
Kay

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Sounds like slime mould to me.

We get it on our rockery stones sometimes.

Have you tasted it yet?

A bit like seaweed? Then its slime mould.

(just kidding)

Sue W.

--
Derby, England.

Don't try to email me using "REPLY" as the email address is NoSpam. Our
email address is "thewoodies2 at ntlworld dot com"


"Ade" wrote in message
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A very weird appearance on the soil in some pots. Very large blobs of clear
jelly just sitting on the surface of the soil. Definitely not water
retaining gel. It almost looks like it's rained jelly!

Anyone know what these blobs might be?

Gelatinous Blobs
 

"La Puce" wrote in message
oups.com...

Rupert (W.Yorkshire) wrote:
The description would fit water snail egg jelly. The eggs are contained
inside a clear jelly. I have seen it occasionally on the surface of very
wet pots near the pond but never in very big blobs.
What does it taste like? :-)

Are you serious? What should it taste like?

:-)

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The Invalid wrote in
:

On Tue, 23 May 2006 11:47:48 GMT, "Ade" wrote:

A very weird appearance on the soil in some pots. Very large blobs of
clear jelly just sitting on the surface of the soil. Definitely not
water retaining gel. It almost looks like it's rained jelly!

Anyone know what these blobs might be?


Strange, yesterday I found my chickens pecking at some stuff.
I investigated and found....... several blobs of completely clear
jelly, each one about an inch and a half.

War of the worlds ??
Day of the triffids?

Invasion Of The Body Snatchers ?

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On Wed, 24 May 2006 09:49:37 +0100, The Invalid wrote:

On Tue, 23 May 2006 16:14:27 GMT, "Sue" wrote:

Sounds like slime mould to me.

We get it on our rockery stones sometimes.

Have you tasted it yet?

A bit like seaweed? Then its slime mould.

(just kidding)

Sue W.

The stuff I found was completely clear jelly, each blob being about an
inch and a half or so

I'll see if theres any today and try and get a pic of it.

Haven't followed the thread, but are we talking 'water retaining
granules/crystals/gel' which are added to hanging basket mixes?

--
Jim
Tyneside UK
http://www.jimscot.plus.com

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Jim Scott wrote:
Haven't followed the thread, but are we talking 'water retaining
granules/crystals/gel' which are added to hanging basket mixes?

Pay attention at the back!!! We're talking alien invasion - we're now
planning a strategic defense manoeuvre which will save the world as we
know it. Are you in?

Gelatinous Blobs
 

On 24 May 2006 02:18:48 -0700, La Puce wrote:

Jim Scott wrote:
Haven't followed the thread, but are we talking 'water retaining
granules/crystals/gel' which are added to hanging basket mixes?

Pay attention at the back!!! We're talking alien invasion - we're now
planning a strategic defense manoeuvre which will save the world as we
know it. Are you in?

Not sure I want to save the world 'as we know it'.
--
Jim
Tyneside UK
http://www.jimscot.plus.com

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Jim Scott wrote:
Not sure I want to save the world 'as we know it'.

deep sigh There's always one isn't it. put back foil hat on

Gelatinous Blobs
 

Ade wrote:
Ade wrote:
A very weird appearance on the soil in some pots. Very large blobs of
clear jelly just sitting on the surface of the soil. Definitely not
water retaining gel. It almost looks like it's rained jelly!
Anyone know what these blobs might be?

Totally clear in colour. It's not a solid, so I don't think it's a fungus.
If you try to pick it up it just runs, exactly like a half-set jelly. I'm
going to take a closer look to see if it has any eggs in it. Do birds throw
up jelly? I'll laugh if it turns out my daughter has thrown out her pots of
jelly snacks that I bought her this week !!

Perhaps u.r.n-h might help!

Gelatinous Blobs
 

In article ,
Jim Scott wrote:

Pay attention at the back!!! We're talking alien invasion - we're now
planning a strategic defense manoeuvre which will save the world as we
know it. Are you in?

Not sure I want to save the world 'as we know it'.

!!!!Excellent!!!!

Gelatinous Blobs
 

"The Invalid" wrote

A very weird appearance on the soil in some pots. Very large blobs of
clear
jelly just sitting on the surface of the soil. Definitely not water
retaining gel. It almost looks like it's rained jelly!
Anyone know what these blobs might be?


Strange, yesterday I found my chickens pecking at some stuff.
I investigated and found....... several blobs of completely clear
jelly, each one about an inch and a half.

Seriously? That's exactly what I have - completely clear jelly, each an
inch or so in size, just sitting there on the soil surface. The only thing
I can think of is water retaining crystals that have somehow mysteriously
found their way onto the soil (although I only use them in hanging baskets
and haven't used them at all this year).

Gelatinous Blobs
 

On Wed, 24 May 2006 13:58:45 +0100, Ade wrote
(in article ):

"The Invalid" wrote

A very weird appearance on the soil in some pots. Very large blobs of
clear
jelly just sitting on the surface of the soil. Definitely not water
retaining gel. It almost looks like it's rained jelly!
Anyone know what these blobs might be?


Strange, yesterday I found my chickens pecking at some stuff.
I investigated and found....... several blobs of completely clear
jelly, each one about an inch and a half.

Seriously? That's exactly what I have - completely clear jelly, each an
inch or so in size, just sitting there on the soil surface. The only thing
I can think of is water retaining crystals that have somehow mysteriously
found their way onto the soil (although I only use them in hanging baskets
and haven't used them at all this year).



Perhaps birds have taken some of the lining from hanging baskets and dropped
the jelly at the same time?



--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
email address on web site

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In article ,
serialthrilla writes

Invasion Of The Body Snatchers ?

Bogey Snatchers I think you'll find.

--
regards andyw

Gelatinous Blobs
 

Strange, yesterday I found my chickens pecking at some stuff.
I investigated and found....... several blobs of completely clear
jelly, each one about an inch and a half.

Seriously? That's exactly what I have - completely clear jelly, each an
inch or so in size, just sitting there on the soil surface. The only thing
I can think of is water retaining crystals that have somehow mysteriously
found their way onto the soil (although I only use them in hanging baskets
and haven't used them at all this year).

Wind and (later) prolonged rain?

I remember being astounded, last year, by the size and appearance of
blobs like this on a lawn I'd sown using the phb[?] Lawn in a Bucket,
which contains seed, fertiliser and crystals all mixed up together. The
gel blobs didn't appear until weeks after I'd sown it, and we'd had a
lot of rain. Maybe you have a neighbour who's used such a product?

Gelatinous Blobs
 

"Ade" wrote in message
A very weird appearance on the soil in some pots. Very large blobs
of clear
jelly just sitting on the surface of the soil. Definitely not water
retaining gel.

Are you sure it couldn't be water retaining gel? I've had the same
thing you have described happen in a pot in which there has been a
rose which has been there for some years. The gel only appeared a
couple of years after the rose went in and after a period of extended
heavy rain. The gel seemed to heave up out of the soil.

Gelatinous Blobs
 

"Sidney" wrote:
"Farm1" please@askifyouwannaknow wrote:
"Ade" wrote in message
A very weird appearance on the soil in some pots. Very large blobs
of clear
jelly just sitting on the surface of the soil. Definitely not water
retaining gel.

Are you sure it couldn't be water retaining gel? I've had the same
thing you have described happen in a pot in which there has been a
rose which has been there for some years. The gel only appeared a
couple of years after the rose went in and after a period of extended
heavy rain. The gel seemed to heave up out of the soil.


Another great evolutionary leap for slime moulds?

I've seen this in my garden too, and I have never used
water retaining gels. I've always assumed it was something
left behind by slugs or snails, or something.

--
altheim

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On Mon, 14 Aug 2006 08:22:36 +0100, Sidney
wrote:

On Mon, 14 Aug 2006 16:57:37 +1000, "Farm1" please@askifyouwannaknow
wrote:

"Ade" wrote in message
A very weird appearance on the soil in some pots. Very large blobs
of clear
jelly just sitting on the surface of the soil. Definitely not water
retaining gel.

Are you sure it couldn't be water retaining gel? I've had the same
thing you have described happen in a pot in which there has been a
rose which has been there for some years. The gel only appeared a
couple of years after the rose went in and after a period of extended
heavy rain. The gel seemed to heave up out of the soil.


Another great evolutionary leap for slime moulds?


there are two rather common examples of " gelatinous blobs "
that when seen , one could instantly think of " alien blobs "
( because they are rather alien looking ) that come to mind
with what you speak about.

these are both freshwater bryozoans ( which sometimes
pop up in many different places where freshwater is used )
...... and frog and salamander egg masses, whcih
can be similar looking . I live on the west coast
and commonly find both kinds of " blobs " in my outdoors garden
areas. common freshwater sponges and jellyfish also
( less frequently ) come to mind as well. they could easily end
up in a potted plant medium . ( they do here anyway ) .

" Some species of freshwater bryozoans have been introduced into
lakes and rivers where they do not naturally occur. I haven't been
able to find out if the Black River bryozoans are native or
introduced. In any event, they are there and they are blobs, however
some other blob-like things are out there too. Frog and salamander egg
masses can be similar looking. I don't know if there are freshwater
sponges in the Chehalis system, but they can resemble bryozoans. There
may be blobs out there that we really don't want to know so
intimately. My advice is to examine blobs carefully. "

http://www.crcwater.org/fish/19980913blobs.html

http://www.westol.com/~towhee/reptiles.htm

type " common freshwater bryozoans " and

" pictures of Frog and salamander egg masses "
into Google for more info to compare against.

myself .... I'm quite old but find myself constantly
surprised by what I " still " find in nature ....

LOTS stuff you have NEVER seen or heard of before
abounds al around you !!



k............