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MoonDuneBuggy

MoonDuneBuggy

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INF Flux said:
Look up predator mites and compare. Those might be good and loyal soldiers taking out something else. The no till crowd here is pretty up on beneficial species. Some one there might be able to give you a more definitive answer.

Not a great pic, but maybe they are cucumeris? I am no expert, still learning.
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It sure looks like that. Now I am having a decent amount of mites that can jump. Holy Zeus's bawls wtf is going on. It's like mite city......this is an indoor grow. This is only my 4th grow.

I am using the new batches of roots organic soil, the batches that they moved to a warehouse in New Jersey I believe the rep said.
 
Roger A. Shrubber

Roger A. Shrubber

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yeah, it is spring tail. they're in practically every bag of soil you'll ever buy.
google spider mite and look at the images, mites don't look anything like that, even squished.springtail-folsomia-candida-2-600x400.jpg

that's a springtail, they just consume decaying matter and poop out nutes...
 
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Beachwalker

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Damn that's nasty :spew: I'd kill them all anyway..!

What would wipe those out Roger? I assume a standard Mite treatment will, but is there anything milder that will kill those, maybe something organic? Would a soap-based product work?
 
Roger A. Shrubber

Roger A. Shrubber

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not sure, i've never tried to get rid of them, since they're harmless. i'd guess drying the soil out good and treating with d.e. would probably knock them down good, not sure how to get rid of them completely. i've seen them alive in the soil of a plant that was treated with avid for russet mites.
 
MoonDuneBuggy

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They are back.... I took a vid of one, can I really get a confirmation that these are root aphids pretty please

 
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Herb & Suds

Herb & Suds

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Top dress with Diatomaceous earth , You can also sprinkle on the floor
Kills continuous with no harm to your plants
 
Roger A. Shrubber

Roger A. Shrubber

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are your plants having problems? are they wilting and dying? because if you had root aphids, they would be. if they are, then get some botanicare mycoinsecticide and drench your soil with it.
you started this thread over 2 weeks ago. you would know if those were root aphids by now
 
MoonDuneBuggy

MoonDuneBuggy

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Roger A. Shrubber said:
are your plants having problems? are they wilting and dying? because if you had root aphids, they would be. if they are, then get some botanicare mycoinsecticide and drench your soil with it.
you started this thread over 2 weeks ago. you would know if those were root aphids by now
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I have fan leaves that are yellowing and a pear nute burn. But I am not sure if that is from my super soil or not.

What do you mean that I would know by now. Do you mean I would see flyers?
 
Roger A. Shrubber

Roger A. Shrubber

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there are over 1000 types of soil mites, and only a few are harmful. chances are those are not hurting anything. but, just in case, here's a quick, easy way to get rid of them. go buy a big bottle of hydrogen peroxide. if all you can get is the three percent stuff from the drugstore,
use 15 ml per gallon when you water. it won't hurt your roots, will eat up some of the decaying matter in your soil, and will kill the mites.
if you do that every other watering for a week to ten days, it will kill pretty much anything in your pots except your plants.
 
MoonDuneBuggy

MoonDuneBuggy

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Roger A. Shrubber said:
there are over 1000 types of soil mites, and only a few are harmful. chances are those are not hurting anything. but, just in case, here's a quick, easy way to get rid of them. go buy a big bottle of hydrogen peroxide. if all you can get is the three percent stuff from the drugstore,
use 15 ml per gallon when you water. it won't hurt your roots, will eat up some of the decaying matter in your soil, and will kill the mites.
if you do that every other watering for a week to ten days, it will kill pretty much anything in your pots except your plants.
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But that will kill my super soil correct?
 
Roger A. Shrubber

Roger A. Shrubber

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MoonDuneBuggy said:
I am very sorry for the million and one questions my friend but how could I reintroduce them. Is it a product i must buy?
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there are several products out there, recharge, great white, xtreme gardening mykos, root naturally granular mykos....look on amazon, the root naturally is a good product and 1/3 the price of great white.
if you use one of those products once a week, with some EWC tea, you ought to have a healthy crop of micro benes re-established pretty quickly.

if you know someone who gardens outside, and has a compost heap, you can get a bucket full of good, well broken down compost and add that to your soil, it ought to be full of good benes
 
INF Flux

INF Flux

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Or, keep your soil alive, buy some nematodes and whatever predator mite is most local to your area. Trying to kill off all insects can be a futile and frustrating endeavour. Building up your own little army of beneficials to protect your plants works and you get to brag about being all organic.
 
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