I have aphids!!!!!!!!!!!

Ok my mystery issue is solved. I have aphids. Can I spray insecticide? Not very long int flowering? Neem oil and all the other stuff I know wont work fast enough if at all. I can get neem oil but, not really effective on aphids.

predatory mites ? lady bugs ? weak washing up liquid soapy water spray will kill them.

should work.

wompaa said:

predatory mites ? lady bugs ? weak washing up liquid soapy water spray will kill them.

should work.

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Although they were mainly on the lower leaves of the healthy plant, not really any on the 3 not so healthy plants. i sprayed all of the aphids I could off with pressured spray water bottle. Than sprayed all foliage heavy with a kill on contact and residual insecticide for fruits and veggies which kills aphids #1 on the list. Cleaned my entire tent with bleach and water. Took me two hours to get this done. God I hope this at very least slows them down. I think I did a really good job. If they start reappearing I will try the dish wash soap as well. They must have clinged on to the plants when outside soaking up some sun. Learned my lesson. They are never going back outside.

good to hear, just buy a load of lady bugs before your grow and they'll look after the pests right through to flower and beyond ... predatory mites some of them can eat upto 250 pests and eat the larvy in the soil aswell.

i buy these, they eat upto 250 bugs, no adult thrips tho but the lavy in the soil breaking the life cycle .... buy them every grow just incase.

soapy water works every time on everything, i'v seen it in action many times and it works.

get one of these, easy to get under side of leafs

wompaa said:

get one of these, easy to get under side of leafs

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My plants are rather small 12-16" so a strong spray bottle did the trick. sprayed super close to the leaves underside. One pull of the spray trigger would knock a lot of them off the plant (I did this outside). I will def use the soap and water trick once I use the rest of this organic pesticide is used up. I am just glad I caught this kind of early before they really got bad.

so far I have not seen them come back. Hopefully they stay away. I think I caught it in the nick of time. I am hoping anyway. I combed through it again today and could not find any.

good to hear ma nigga, youll know next tine to keep a better eye out and catch em early, i just got my thripes sticky traps in fused with thripe feramones, catch a thripe at 100 yards


keep us upto date with the grow

Ya I caught early enough I think. I was in panic mode lol. I did not want to lose 4 plants and 5 weeks of work over this.