Bugs.

[Shmavis]

I’ve got bugs. Never dealt with anything other than fungus gnats and spider mites. These are neither. Small black flies. Not an infestation. Yet. (Have to observe closely and read up this week and take action.) I think this was brought on by an environmental crash. We had some crazy ass wind storms here. I was without power for roughly three days... That’s three light cycles missed; in a cold dark damp basement room... I noticed last night at lights-on (for the first time after three missed cycles) some bugs. Just a few. Too fast to get a picture of, they seemed to only be flying around. Tonight at lights-on I saw one running up and down a fan leaf. Although the bug was too quick, I did get a pic of the fan leaf. At first I had hoped this problem with the leaves (there's more than one on that particular plant) was environmentally related - now I’m wondering about the bugs I’ve seen. But it really doesn’t appear (to me) to be insect damage... This leaf stress (whatever its cause) was not present before losing power.

Leaves on some other girls do not show the same problems, here’s one:

And it was the plant with the ugly fans that I saw the bug running on. So possibly isolated to that one plant... (?) Ugh. Quarantine sucks! Thoughts?

 

[rockymountainJ]

Hey check your ph, looks more like a cal deficiency.
Flower? Cold root zones lock out phosphorus, and cause stuff like that too. Im dealing with a similar issue, luckily a little further along!! Good luck, doesnt look like bug damage to me unless its something going on in the root zone from them.
Cheers!!

 

[SeedsOfFreedom]

Check your root zone, sounds like fungas gants. Look around you will see more, they are weak and easily beat if that is the insect. Sometimes even just h2o2 in waterings is good enough to kill them off, and if that doesn't work, almost any insecticide should work, focus on drenching the soil.

I think the leaf problems are probably lack of calcium. Have you been feeding a calmag of some kind to them? Best kill off the bugs that are eating the roots and stopping proper nutrient intake anyway. Healthy roots will help get all those nutrients into the plant.

Unless they are another bug... then just adjust the nutrients. Try to get a bug pic maybe?

 

[Shmavis]

Thanks guys. I wasn’t able to spend time in the room last night (other than to snap those pics) but will be able to the rest of the week. Could be something about a cold root zone, since they were in a cold dark room for three days. Just surprised to see it when the power came back on since it didn’t look like that before losing power. I don’t think the bugs I saw were fungus gnats - they were much smaller and quicker, but I guess they could be babies. But as you guys are saying, I also think they’re a separate problem.

First time ever losing power for this long. Over the years it’s happened, but never for days. They were eleven days into flower when it happened. Hopefully I can right the ship. Thanks again. I’ll follow up on your suggestions.

 

[king oscar]

For me the first sign of root aphids looks like a calcium deficiency. They have tiny fliers and eventually large flyers.

That said the plant looks good it could just be a deficiency