Vive weevil eggs ?

[Action_Man]

I have this potted Fuchsia which just isent growing at all, so i thought i would inspect the soil, and i found several millipedes, and lots of these spherical eggs, now i dont know what Vine weevil eggs look like, so i`m just guessing.

As for the millipedes, will they attack plant roots ? ...

Anyway i have repotted the Fuchsia, and hopefully it will burst into life now .

[JRsbugs]

They look quite big, and if it's a bought potting mix (or more likely a plant bought in a potting mix) you often get some slow release fertiliser pellets which are yellow, that's what they look like to me.

Millipedes apparently do attack some roots, but I have never seen them on Fuchsias, only vine weevils. A repot often gives a plant a boost, but fuchsias are only just coming into growth now and if you bought it recently it will have been forced.

Janet

[LindaB]

They look like the little fertiliser things to me, and I think the weevil eggs are white.

I found the next stage of them in one of my baskets last year and wasnt sure what it was at first, and here is one of the several photos I took of it, so if you ever find one of these in your soil, chuck them to the birds to eat LOL.

[Action_Man]

That Fuchsia has been in the same pot for about three years .

Anyway i have re-potted it and hopefully it will start growing now, i have another Fuchsia that is romping away and is full of life, so i think it might have been those Millipedes causing the damage ...

[JRsbugs]

Some fuchsias in pots can lose a lot of their roots over winter, more so if it's a tender type. The millipedes might have been feeding on them if they were rotting.

If it's been in the same pot for 3 years, and in the same bought compost with no soil, the food will have expired by now and I imagine the fertiliser pellets might be empty. Peat or substitutes have no food, only what is added, and are really only OK for annuals which will expire after one season. Plants need soil to make proper, life sustaining roots. If you buried the stem a little lower they can make new roots from the previous seasons stems.