so if one little panda applies imid to a mother plant. and then weeks later takes clones from that plant, is it ok to give those clones more imid?(once rooted of course) .
as long as they stay in veg for a good while , all remaining pesticide should be gone by the end of flower?
i recently realized i had the dreaded aphids as well. like others, i thought they were gnats and i assumed my low yields, poor plant health was something i was doing wrong.
I tried applying imid to a tray of freshly rooted clones to no avail. The problem with imid is that it requires the aphids to actually feed on the roots to poison the aphids. However, while these aphids feed on the roots, the plant is still taking major damage.
I actually had better results after chopping down all but a couple of moms and a few plants in flower and applying azamax. The azamax for sure killed the aphids on contact as id see a bunch of them dead everytime i sprayed or drenched. however, this only seemed to slow the aphids down for a couple of days during the peak of infection.
What finally reduced the population significantly was live lady bugs in my bloom room. I put about 100 of em where they have been thriving for a few weeks. Once the lady bugs got accustomed to the bloom room they were crawling all around the leaves of the plants as well as the smart pots.
Its now a few weeks after introducing the ladybugs and i have not seen many flyers at all, even though i stopped treating with azamax.
i read that the lady bugs will not work against aphids that live in the growing media. However, i have noticed a massive reduction and will actually be able to pull a harvest out of my bloom closet.
On a side note, before i realized i had root aphids, i used worm castings top dressed in coco as an attempt to revive my infected plants enough so i could clone them. After about a week, the infected plants started growing again. Other plants that were not treated with the worm castings continued to decline even though they were right next to each other.
I read somewhere that the castings encourage the growth of micro organisms that release an enzyme that make the plant taste bad to the pests. This definately seems to be the case.
I wonder if a worm tea into a media like coco would be an even quicker way to restore an infected plant. I havent seen the castings mentioned in this thread yet so thought id share my experiences with both the lady bugs and the castings.
Lady bugs are not going to control RAs.
RAs live under the soil/medium, where lady bugs don't go.
Imid or Botaniguard ES are the only things that will wipe out RAs.
Imid only works if plants are drinking when used as a drench.
If roots are badly damaged, plants cannot drink.
A foliar application of imid will work.
I'm using SNS-203 for sure next time. Read what people have said about it from these other forums. All natural and it works really well supposedly. Could it finally be the end of Bayer?
Can anyone suggest any strains that are resistant to these fuckers?quote]
I am running several. Sensi Star seems to handle them better than most, but a Seedsman White Widow pheno I have had for a couple years can handle pretty much anything. Although I dont recommend the White Widow cause I ordered some more seeds of it recently and it was complete garbage. Nothing like the one seed I bought long ago.
Also what type of system or medium works the best as far as controlling them? I first got root aphids while using rockwool slabs, now im using promix in 7 gallon pots and they are back and it is hard to drench the roots when working with that much medium
Here's another product with similar ingredients that people are having success with.
http://www.ecosmart.com/products/garden-insect-killer/
Here's another product with similar ingredients that people are having success with.
http://www.ecosmart.com/products/garden-insect-killer/
Terrible advice!!!!!
this shit will kill your plants it did mine, eats holes in the leaves and the bugs love this stuff.all ecosmart stuff sucks!
use it and suffer
I never gave advice now did I? I posted a link to a product that I've never used which I said had similar ingredients to SNS-203. Read much? People are having success with SNS-203. So yeah just trying to help those who don't want to smoke imid. I'll promote it and say it works when I use it and it actually works. Satisfied?
Why switch from Bayer if we know it works? Because Bayer is disgusting and bad for the environment also don't tell me none of you have ever dumped 20 gal of water with imid at 10mL/gal right down the drain after a Bayer dunk. Who would want to use this shit knowing that there MIGHT be something that's totally safe and effective? Does imid not affect bees and other living organisms? I'd happily treat my plants several times over a cycle if it meant not I didn't have to use Bayer. You can't deny the truth that imid is harmful on some level. Or keep supporting Bayer and shitting on the environment and your own bodies. People who spend time growing plants should have the respect to treat the plants as good as the plants and earth, which gives you fucking plants, treat you. Fucking pathetic. And people complain about why this planet is so screwed up...
Neg rep me or whatever. At least some people truly give a fuck about the plant.
Yup.
We already know what works:
Imid products, or Botaniguard ES.
Period.