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Pictured in the video is a "Gary Peyton" clone that a friend left with me a couple of weeks ago. I put it in a second solo cup to catch the runoff, and after noticing that the soil didn't seem to be drying out at all in the first couple of days, I stopped watering it altogether, removed most of the straw from on top of the topsoil, and stuck to misting it. Since then though, when I inspect the cup underneath every day, I've noticed these tiny, tiny bugs (and occasionally some ever-so-slightly larger ones) crawling around the bottom in whatever water collected there. I'm wondering if anyone knows what those are, as it's going to inform how I treat this tent in the coming days.
A little background: Around that same that my friend left this GP clone with me, I had observed other bugs crawling around in the soil of other plants in the tent where I placed it. I had noticed some dead gnats on top of the lights of this tent in the weeks/months prior, but had never observed any flying around. Additionally, the numbers of them appearing came to a near halt at some point, which suggested that if the gnat infestation wasn't effectively gone, it was being sufficiently contained. When I put these pieces of cork down in the soil one day though, and left them overnight, the contrast of color enabled me to see that there were tiny (not as tiny as the babies in the bottom of the Solo cup in the attached video, but small enough that you need to be looking for them, or have a high-contrast situation to see them)bugs crawling around on the cork and soil. There were maybe a dozen in that one spot, which suggested that, since nothing was flying around, these were not gnats.
After reading up on some common pests, I determined I was dealing with spider mites. I wasn't financially able to get any kind of pesticide for a while though. I was able to get a spider mite solution from a friend yesterday, finally, and I applied it to the plants (not the GP clone) in that tent yesterday. When I checked the tent this morning though, the bug activity was even more visible that it was yesterday, and I could actually see what I think were a couple of gnats flying around. Whatever is in there has already caused considerable damage to the rest of the tent, so I'm scrapping it today, disinfecting the tent and preparing it for the next grow.
Before I can do that though, I need to figure out to do with this GP clone. I'm wondering if it's worth trying to salvage, or if the continued presence of whatever that is in the video, combined with this never-drying soil that it's in, means that I should probably cut my losses and get rid of this thing so as to get that tent bug-free in preparation for the next plants I plan to grow in there.
Any help anyone can offer would be greatly appreciated.
A litltnn
A little background: Around that same that my friend left this GP clone with me, I had observed other bugs crawling around in the soil of other plants in the tent where I placed it. I had noticed some dead gnats on top of the lights of this tent in the weeks/months prior, but had never observed any flying around. Additionally, the numbers of them appearing came to a near halt at some point, which suggested that if the gnat infestation wasn't effectively gone, it was being sufficiently contained. When I put these pieces of cork down in the soil one day though, and left them overnight, the contrast of color enabled me to see that there were tiny (not as tiny as the babies in the bottom of the Solo cup in the attached video, but small enough that you need to be looking for them, or have a high-contrast situation to see them)bugs crawling around on the cork and soil. There were maybe a dozen in that one spot, which suggested that, since nothing was flying around, these were not gnats.
After reading up on some common pests, I determined I was dealing with spider mites. I wasn't financially able to get any kind of pesticide for a while though. I was able to get a spider mite solution from a friend yesterday, finally, and I applied it to the plants (not the GP clone) in that tent yesterday. When I checked the tent this morning though, the bug activity was even more visible that it was yesterday, and I could actually see what I think were a couple of gnats flying around. Whatever is in there has already caused considerable damage to the rest of the tent, so I'm scrapping it today, disinfecting the tent and preparing it for the next grow.
Before I can do that though, I need to figure out to do with this GP clone. I'm wondering if it's worth trying to salvage, or if the continued presence of whatever that is in the video, combined with this never-drying soil that it's in, means that I should probably cut my losses and get rid of this thing so as to get that tent bug-free in preparation for the next plants I plan to grow in there.
Any help anyone can offer would be greatly appreciated.
A litltnn