Springtails (Good or Bad?) and is there any way to kill them?

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5dekades

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Are Springtails good or bad? is there a good amount or is it when there is an way too many that it gets bad? Is there any way to kill them? Do you think they are coming into the grow area from bagged soil or coco?
 
DoubleAtotheRON

DoubleAtotheRON

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I've had good luck with MicrobeLift as a soil drench... they won't get on your plant, but they can get out of control in a smooth minute, and be eating on your capillary roots. Use big sticky traps laterally on your pots too. That's why they call them SpringTails, they spring up... if you lay the trap laterally, they jump up and get stuck on the trap... as yes, they came in with your soil.
 
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5dekades

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DoubleAtotheRON said:
I've had good luck with MicrobeLift as a soil drench... they won't get on your plant, but they can get out of control in a smooth minute, and be eating on your capillary roots. Use big sticky traps laterally on your pots too. That's why they call them SpringTails, they spring up... if you lay the trap laterally, they jump up and get stuck on the trap... as yes, they came in with your soil.
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tried microbeLift for months, if anything it made them grow :shock:
 
DoubleAtotheRON

DoubleAtotheRON

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I’ve heard of similar stories … weird. It really worked well for me, and I had a pretty good crop of them going. Some say that they may have gotten expired batches of it. Did you use the liquid form?
 
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5dekades

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DoubleAtotheRON said:
I’ve heard of similar stories … weird. It really worked well for me, and I had a pretty good crop of them going. Some say that they may have gotten expired batches of it. Did you use the liquid form?
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Yes i tried liquid and I even had some powdered kind, neither worked
 
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