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Does anyone know if Merit will kill unrooted cuts? These RA's made into my damn clone dome too. was thinking of drenching the rapid rooters too....
Does anyone know if Merit will kill unrooted cuts? These RA's made into my damn clone dome too. was thinking of drenching the rapid rooters too....
PB, I think I've already gone down that road, and the consensus and final conclusion was that they are indeed RAs. IIRC, mites are arachnids, which would mean they'd be 8-legged, not 6, right?Can someone step back to the pictures on the first page with me? I don't see RA's here. I see some sort of mite. Living in the soil makes me think some sort of predatory mite that is going after some other bug in the soil. Fungus gnats? I don't know... Predatory mites can be extremely hard to kill- just like RA's. Any thoughts regarding the pictures initially posted?
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PB, I think I've already gone down that road, and the consensus and final conclusion was that they are indeed RAs. IIRC, mites are arachnids, which would mean they'd be 8-legged, not 6, right?
Yeah, you're right.. I just thought I was seeing eight leggies.
No offense taken! I've posted in many of these threads, and going from memory doesn't always serve. So, what are being depicted on the first page *are* mites, then? Yeah, I only counted six legs.Actually PB, you called it right, no
Offense seamaiden.. You can barely see the 8 legs on cctt photos..
Here's a link of another thread that talks about soil mites..
https://www.thcfarmer.com/community/threads/mites-in-the-medium.23248/page-2
Sited from this link http://soilbugs.massey.ac.nz/acari.php
The reason you would find hypoasis mites in soil looking like they are chewing your roots is because they are eating the fungus gnat larvae that are eating your roots. Thanks for checking those pictures again. I thought I was seeing eight...
No offense taken! I've posted in many of these threads, and going from memory doesn't always serve. So, what are being depicted on the first page *are* mites, then? Yeah, I only counted six legs.
EDIT--looking @ the 2nd pic, yeah, you're not kidding about barely, because I still can't quite make out all the legs. Probably need to clean my glasses (if not also my monitor...?). D'oh!
I hear you, its hard getting a good shot of they guys and other small pest unless you have a good macro lens/ camera...I tried to count legs in those pictures so many times. Never came to a solid conclusion, though. There's something poking out the front but I could never tell if they counted as legs or antennae or were used for feeding or something else.
With my giant list of attempted pesticides I now regret not giving abamectin a shot, as its efficacy (or lack thereof) might have shed some light on whether these were mites.
This saved me a round of drenching. Thought these were root aphids for sure. Now I'm pretty sure they are Hypoaspis Miles.Google Hypoaspis Miles