Root Aphids

I am on my third grow and I have what the title states. I know they are root aphids I spent a lot of time googling lol. All help is appreciated. I am currently using H2O2 everyother watering and put dietamachous earth on the soil for crawlers. I am thinking about just putting an inch of sand on the top of my soil rather than DE. I am in a 3x3 tent and soil based. In first week of flower.

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Imidacloprid. The brand I shelve is Mallet. 0.5 mL per gallon, root drench. One application and they are doomed.

Renfro said:

Imidacloprid. The brand I shelve is Mallet. 0.5 mL per gallon, root drench. One application and they are doomed.

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Thank you. That is great news.

Day after application you will likely see crawlers trying to hang out on the rim of the pots since they can't live in the soil anymore. lol

NJDGow said:

I am on my third grow and I have what the title states. I know they are root aphids I spent a lot of time googling lol. All help is appreciated. I am currently using H2O2 everyother watering and put dietamachous earth on the soil for crawlers. I am thinking about just putting an inch of sand on the top of my soil rather than DE. I am in a 3x3 tent and soil based.

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I've been growing for awhile, and I've never, ever heard of root aphids
You probably have fungus gnats which are flyers and annoying but harmless, and will have little too no affect on a 3 month grow.
Diatomaceous earth and sand are useless in either case. Don't do it
Look at the underside of your leaves, if u have eggs or insects, then you have issues, but I seriously doubt it.
Anyway, good looking plant.

Jimdamick said:

I've been growing for awhile, and I've never, ever heard of root aphids
You probably have fungus gnats which are flyers and annoying but harmless, and will have little too no affect on a 3 month grow.
Diatomaceous earth and sand are useless in either case. Don't do it
Look at the underside of your leaves, if u have eggs or insects, then you have issues, but I seriously doubt it.
Anyway, good looking plant.

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I grew in missouri for over 2 decades and never saw root aphids until I moved to Colorado, I have seen them here many times. Most treat them like fungus gnats without success while the plants get worse.

Renfro said:

I grew in missouri for over 2 decades and never saw root aphids until I moved to Colorado, I have seen them here many times. Most treat them like fungus gnats without success while the plants get worse.

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Correct. I thought it was a deficiency until I watched my soil and the little white pear shaped nastys started crawling around my soil after a watering. That's the only time I see them is after watering.

Jimdamick said:

I've been growing for awhile, and I've never, ever heard of root aphids
You probably have fungus gnats which are flyers and annoying but harmless, and will have little too no affect on a 3 month grow.
Diatomaceous earth and sand are useless in either case. Don't do it
Look at the underside of your leaves, if u have eggs or insects, then you have issues, but I seriously doubt it.
Anyway, good looking plant.

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Hey thank you. Well I am glad you have never had them and hope you don't. Thanks for the info.

Renfro said:

Imidacloprid. The brand I shelve is Mallet. 0.5 mL per gallon, root drench. One application and they are doomed.

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What about the powder? Friend gave me clones with the fuckers so hopefully they are still contained but found the powder on ebay for 35 bucks.

Gemtree said:

What about the powder? Friend gave me clones with the fuckers so hopefully they are still contained but found the powder on ebay for 35 bucks.

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No experience with it, seems legit

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I just dug up a seedling that I transplanted from a paper towel to a 6” pot several days ago. The root looked healthy and the cotyledons were green as ever under ground, but hadn’t moved a centimeter vertically. I picked it up by the cotyledons and noticed a white pear shaped bug same color as the root

Solution: 2.5ml of neem oil per 6oz water.. foliar sprayed, and sprayed top soil until it was pretty saturated.
I just did this about an hour ago, I’ve never used neem before and it just seemed like a heavy duty spray to put on the leaves. Did I do it right?

Only one plant seemed affected but I sprayed all 5 of my plants

NJDGow said:

Correct. I thought it was a deficiency until I watched my soil and the little white pear shaped nastys started crawling around my soil after a watering. That's the only time I see them is after watering.

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im sewing them now! Ugh how do you stop and kill them immediately?!?

Little white pear shaped bugs are NOT root aphids. Most likely they are hypoaspis miles or some other soil mite. Very common. If you start seeing winged black flyers hanging out on the foliage that move very slow like a turtle then you can start worrying.

aphids only turn to fliers when the pot has become infested and they need to find more space. not having any fliers is not a good way to determine if you have them or not. a microscope is a much better solution.

if you don't want to use heavy chems like imid, other things like og bio war and nuke em work to keep them in check. just be careful with soil drenching with nuke em, plants don't like it.