Help My Seedlings are Under Attack!

[Bluesboy]

Alright I'm so upset right now, I wake up today and check on the seedlings I planted last night. To my effing horror I notice a little white bug crawling around in one of the 16oz cups I'm starting my post germination seedlings in. Upon further inspection I realize there are at least 6 of these little fuckers running around inside various cups.

What can I do!? The germinated seeds have just started poking through the surface of the organic medium I use. I planted all my seeds in this apparently infested organic soil I use and these seeds are all I have genetics wise.

These little monsters are the size of a pin head or smaller white....mite...looking beasts. Please advice on what I should do, the seedlings have long tap roots and transplanting at this stage would be murderous to the babies but It would seem given there young age so would a pest control product.

Please advise,

Bluesboy

 

[Bluesboy]

Ah god I don't know If I should be fishing these seeds out of the cups and dealing with the shock or If they can deal with a pest control application this early in life. Someone help me out here. Time is critical.

Bluesboy

 

[Bluesboy]

I Couldn't let this ruin my day so I manned up, grabbed an uninfected bag of seedling starting soil I had on standby, and transplanted the seedlings.

Some of them had taproots as long as two inches but they all were handled with sterile tweezers and none had cast of there shell to start their leaves yet so hopefully they will barely notice their change in environment.

If this all went down in their first 24 hours of life I can't imagine the road that lies ahead.

Will keep you all posted on whether or not any of the little white weapons of mass destruction make it over to the new containers/soil.

Bluesboy

 

[Doug_Marsh]

Neem oil would have worked as well. You may have done the right thing though seedlings are sensitive. Sorry no one chimed in to help, but if you see them again try watering with a light mixture of neem oil once there a bit bigger. You can get it at any hydro/garden store.

Best of luck

 

[StickyIcky29A]

Had the same or simliar problem with my seedlings. It turned out to be fungas gnats. They land in soil and lay egges, which turn into larvae and eat and eat. Fly paper works as a preventative. I used Neem and didn't work for me. I had a second type of unidetified bug as well. I wish i would have trasnplanted but sadly they all died. Make sure you scrub and disenfect like hell if you are putting those back into the same area as the infected ones.