Frankster
Never trust a doctor who's plants have died.
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I did a transplant took pictures of the roots what you guys think??? Looks healthy?Wrong, they will flat out mess your plants up at the sweet spot for the first round, as things get worse you won't be able to get clones to grow or get out of veg. THEY ARE FROM HELL!!!
Why I am not sure whether they are bringing fungus and injuring roots or flat out eating roots...however I do know that once they get ahold of your garden the roots turn brown , your plants can't absorb nutrients.
The first round you will notice a problem in late flower as in your buds won't finish , then if you can get a harvest it lacks flavor and potency.
I think I finally found the solution....I will keep you posted.
Spider mitesbuggy video
If they have antennae two antennas pointing out the front of their heads. You got root aphids!! Or some type of bad mite. The bad ones move slowly while the good ones move quickly. I think is a general rule to go by...get to looking at your roots. They look a lil beat up...rootbaphids will be on your roots. Look very closely, you'll see them more on the bottom and outside of your pots.Spider mites
I was telling frankster he has spider mites . My images were to show you my roots . Pertaining your comment about Mites doing damage to rootsIf they have antennae two antennas pointing out the front of their heads. You got root aphids!! Or some type of bad mite. The bad ones move slowly while the good ones move quickly. I think is a general rule to go by...get to looking at your roots. They look a lil beat up...rootbaphids will be on your roots. Look very closely, you'll see them more on the bottom and outside of your pots.
I really had a hard time with identification the last time these beast took over my garden...they stunted everything. The misidentification really hurt because I was treating for the wrong bug.I was telling frankster he has spider mites . My images were to show you my roots . Pertaining your comment about Mites doing damage to roots
Not to be an ass! But THEY'RE ROOT APHIDS!! i have them too.in the begining i thought oh what a nice surprize something to kill my fungus gnat larvae....dont come talkin shit...theyre ROOT APHIDS OR A BAD MITE...THEY MOVE SLOW THEY ARE BAD...idgaf!! Again not tryin to be an ass...I was telling frankster he has spider mites . My images were to show you my roots . Pertaining your comment about Mites doing damage to roots
Im thinking 99 alcohol. @mimedman he dealt with them and went crazy over them too....over the top hard to get rid off...im thinking tear everything down....the place i live in is condusive to pest development!!!They are hell man...had them for 3 years of frustration ...took everything down and they still survived. I read they will eat paper just to stick around...no fucking joke.
Research "bulb mites".
I am gonna start calling them root scabies...little fuckers.
I think I might have killed mine or least got them under control..it's a happy day.
PS don't use Imid...somehow it makes them lay more eggs. WTF!!
Im thinking 99 alcohol. @mimedman he dealt with them and went crazy over them too....over the top hard to get rid off...im thinking tear everything down....the place i live in is condusive to pest development!!!
Im going to stick it out do an experiment/s and see what can be done if anything at all...ill be getting rove beetles and predatory mites nematodes the whole fucking works.....sux is that winter is coming, yay, i get them next year too
The don't have fliers...look I believe they have a symbiotic relationship with fungus gnats. I believe they catch rides with fungus gnats because they rely on fungus and decay as food. Bees get mites and transport them , this is not beyond imagination.They arent hard to get rid of. They are hard to detect. Especially if you dont have great eyesight. The little bugs dont appear above soil at all until they have really filled the pot and they are like 1/2 a millimeter and can change color to camouflage themselves. At least they were white from the roots on the edge of the black nursery pots.
And the fliers looked just like fungus gnats to my inexperienced eye. I can tell now. Lol.
The deficiency the plants show looks exactly like a severe magnesium issue. Striped lower leaves rapidly climbing up the plant until they are all gone and it gets to work on the smaller and then bud leaves.
I had half yields for a year almost. And never saw a bug. Well recognized one. I was treating for gnats. Oops.
Live and learn right.
The treatment to be sure is imid. (Merit 75)
And the backup and can be used in flower is botanigard. But it might not get rid of all of them by itself.
I treated all my seedlings with imid and am pouring through botanigard once in the one gallon and once in the 3 gallon final pot. Also deep cleaned both rooms and threw away all i fected plants that werent close to harvest. Those i nursed a few weeks and cropped.
Do you have 60x Microscope ? If you do It might be easier to identify them. Look like a mite to me .buggy video
The don't have fliers...look I believe they have a symbiotic relationship with fungus gnats. I believe they catch rides with fungus gnats because they rely on fungus and decay as food. Bees get mites and transport them , this is not beyond imagination.
DON"T USE IMID , it makes mites lay more eggs.
Sulphur , malathion, pyrethium if you roots can handle it.
Sulfur kills every might even scabies in humans. These little fuckers due to them living in soil have had every pesticide we ever invented . Pyrethium knocks out eggs.
They use sulfur to keep the infestation out of bulbs, it always works but is less effective as a control.
Did a sulfur and malathion dip and it was the only thing that got rid of the crawlers...I am gonna follow with Met fungus and pyrethium once my root zone is healthier.
OkNo root aphids burrow into the root and eat the nutrients the plant is trying to uptake.
They have no relationship with fungus gnats.
There is much misinformation here.
Everything I wrote about root aphids is from university and industry agriculture guides.
And the advice I took here was from an educated and experienced grower with a degree and a job as groundskeeper as well. @Dirtbag
They are not root aphids, they are mites.
I only read half a dozen posts and I'm not sure what's even going on in here lol.. Whew! I'll have to read the Op.No root aphids burrow into the root and eat the nutrients the plant is trying to uptake.
They have no relationship with fungus gnats.
There is much misinformation here.
Everything I wrote about root aphids is from university and industry agriculture guides.
And the advice I took here was from an educated and experienced grower with a degree and a job as groundskeeper as well. @Dirtbag
I tried to upload a video of these bastard and the file is to big.
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