Tiny red round bugs

desert girl

New Member
One of my free seeds was a LaDiva from Delicious seeds. It germinated great. We planted it, and when the seed began to crack I began to see little red bugs and they were crawling out of the seed. Needless to say it was immediately removed from the grow room and the soil went to the dump. We have 3 more young seedling plants and no bugs. Has anyone ever had this problem. I've never seen anything like it and that little seed had no shortage of red round bugs. Too strange.
 

Fuzzywuzz

Member
DO you have a picture of them?
how big were they? how many legs? did they look like mites/spiders?

Always post pictures when you want an ID of a pest.
 

desert girl

New Member
Unfortunately I didn't get a pic. Sorry, I'm a newbie. What I should have done was get a video. They were very red, so round I couldn't tell about the legs. They were big enough to see with the naked eye and size, I would compare them to the colored top of a straight pin, the smallest size. It was so weird the way they crawled out of the seed once it broke open. I couldn't figure out how there could be so many in such a small seed. Hopefully I'll never see them again but if I do I will take pics or even a video. We have three others babies growing right now and they are doing great. I clean the grow closet everyday. I vacumn then wipe it all down with a bleach solution and no bug problems. I did talk to the Guy at the hydro store and he told me something like this is very rare and can happen when weavels (and he named one other but I can't remember what it was) get into the seed storage area. He is a local breeder and has been growing about 30 years. Anyway that bucket of soil is bagged and headed for the dump. Didn't want to dump them here and chance they liked the desert!
 
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