Root aphids or soil mites?

[waterproof808]

Exactly what I did. Cloned all my moms and chopped everything down

I have more invested In IPM than most LP's yet I still get bugs.
I'm naive and trust ppl when they say their cuts are clean.

Fak that
No more.

yep, its best to just take clones and start clean in however many days it takes your cuts to root vs spending a bunch of money on IPM and losing a month plus battling them.

 

[waterproof808]

Do these efforts eradicate root aphids though?

root aphids are notoriously difficult to get rid of without heavy hitting Chems.

no, lady bugs and neem wont do shit for RA's

 

[rmax]

Thanks. I checked my local grow shop, online and they don't have that brand. I may have to order online.

 

[jondamon]

no, lady bugs and neem wont do shit for RA's

That was my point lol.

 

[waterproof808]

That was my point lol.

Yeah, you pretty much have to go nuclear and use a systemic like imidacloprid and then veg for two months if you have stuff you don’t want to lose. Even then, you’ll still always have the risk of some tiny pocket of them surviving and repopulating your garden and ending up back where you started minus the two months you just lost to veg vs just taking cuts and starting clean.

Also, imidacloprid is known to make plants more attractive to spider mites for some reason so you end up possibly trading one problem for the other. Start clean and focus on prevention/cleanliness

 

[GrOwThMoNgeR]

Yeah, you pretty much have to go nuclear and use a systemic like imidacloprid and then veg for two months if you have stuff you don’t want to lose. Even then, you’ll still always have the risk of some tiny pocket of them surviving and repopulating your garden and ending up back where you started minus the two months you just lost to veg vs just taking cuts and starting clean.

Also, imidacloprid is known to make plants more attractive to spider mites for some reason so you end up possibly trading one problem for the other. Start clean and focus on prevention/cleanliness

I got some of these RA and they are bastards. They keep coming back even stronger after I used neem and h2o2. It is week 3 of flower. I need to keep them alive so it seems I have no choice but to fight them the whole time.

 

[waterproof808]

I got some of these RA and they are bastards. They keep coming back even stronger after I used neem and h2o2. It is week 3 of flower. I need to keep them alive so it seems I have no choice but to fight them the whole time.

Try a combo of beneficial nematodes and bio Ceres wp