ShirkGoldbrick
Active Member
So I took in some clones and immediately noticed they had what I thought were fungus gnats. No big deal, I use silica so they don't seem to be causing any issues in the 4 months I've had them. I do see a flyer every now and then..I actually see them in every.plant.in.my.house! Small numbers though so I kinda just ignored them.
Then I was cutting some clones and I saw a little tan bug crawling on one plant a few feet up from the pot. It was about the thickness of a dime in diameter. I think it's an aphid as it looked like this:
That was the only one I could find.
Anyways, I covered the tops of my pots in Diatomaceous earth (they're flooded from the bottom by an aqua valve so nothing coming in that way). I also mixed some DE into water (about 4T per gal) and foliar sprayed them.
All other house plants also got a coating of DE on top and at drain holes.
I was wondering though if someone could help identify these that I had on sticky traps in my room though. They look like the abdomen of fungus gnats but their wings are long like root aphids (fungus aphids?
) (under 64x magnification)
The plants seem to be doing fine, I've been busy and neglectful though and let the bottoms die from lack of light as they grew into the LEDs(These are mothers). [Another question, now that I've pruned them will I grow new suckers on the lifeless below branches?] Except that even in veg 7 plants in a 5x5 tent had always laughed at my 6" carbon filter and stunk to the high heavens to spite me, but now I don't smell them unless I move them around.
Then I was cutting some clones and I saw a little tan bug crawling on one plant a few feet up from the pot. It was about the thickness of a dime in diameter. I think it's an aphid as it looked like this:
That was the only one I could find.
Anyways, I covered the tops of my pots in Diatomaceous earth (they're flooded from the bottom by an aqua valve so nothing coming in that way). I also mixed some DE into water (about 4T per gal) and foliar sprayed them.
All other house plants also got a coating of DE on top and at drain holes.
I was wondering though if someone could help identify these that I had on sticky traps in my room though. They look like the abdomen of fungus gnats but their wings are long like root aphids (fungus aphids?
) (under 64x magnification) The plants seem to be doing fine, I've been busy and neglectful though and let the bottoms die from lack of light as they grew into the LEDs(These are mothers). [Another question, now that I've pruned them will I grow new suckers on the lifeless below branches?] Except that even in veg 7 plants in a 5x5 tent had always laughed at my 6" carbon filter and stunk to the high heavens to spite me, but now I don't smell them unless I move them around.
