Anyone know how to get rid of tiny bugs that live in the soil? I have searched around and cannot find any topics or anything in my cannabis bible and magazine stash


Some of the plants have them and some dont.


I dont know what kind of little bugs they are...cannot find anything on the net and to small to take a pic of.


The actual plants look pretty healthy but the ones that have it dont have as much roots as the ones that dont have the bugs



help please

What do they look like? Springtails and soil mites are pretty common and not necessarily bad either. If they are springtails you'll see lil white bugs that flick around like fleas if disturbed. If they are soil mites they can be white or orange. Maybe you have both types?

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find some mosquito dunks the rings you throw into ponds ,break them up and soak them in water then add the water to your soil

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Originally Posted by zoutekoffie
i dont have direct sunlight becouse of the clouds

Hay i had a bad problem with spidermites, do they come out when u water? Either way some neem oil might help. Remember you plant can look healthy for awhile and those little shits can still be eating your roots. Just be careful. Look into preditor bugs also like ladybugs. Good luck to ya man, i fell your pain, no one wants to see bugs on their babies.

Small Bugs? do they fly? are you using organic compost? If so then you might possibly have fungus gnats. And if thats not what they're called then who cares, either way, if the buggers have wings then I know what you're talking about. As for what to do ... good question. I would just switch soil types the next time around. Maybe cover the top few inches with some potting soil, minus compost.

Most often it's fungus gnat larvae which eat your roots and they're an indication that you are watering too often and not letting the plant dry out.

Do you have any tiny black gnats flying around in your grow, getting all in your face sometimes?

There are a couple products just for them which you can put strait into the soil. Gognats which I don't really like so far it's just cedar oil marked up 1000% and there are chemical products like gnatrol and others.

You can also just stop overwatering and they'll die off or you can just cover the top of your soil with an inch or so of cleaned/washed sand. Both work 100%.

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No other kind of bugs in grow room...had spider mites about 3 months ago but they have been gone since then (knock on wood)

To be honest the bugs are to small and fast to see what they look like...they run in and out of the soil...either a silver or darker brown color

The bugs don't come up when I water (every other day is usually how long it takes the plants to dry out)...the little bugs just run around in the soil...no flying or comming to the top when I water



Thanks for the replys RIU members




Forgot to add that I am using Foxfarm ocean forest

That's not something I've ever seen, sorry. It might help people if they knew what part of the world you are in since there are completely different bugs in different areas.

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Put a one inch covering of perlite on top of the soil. Kills them when they try to crawl through it. Works for several types of soil critters.