this is my first post in the infirmary and its a doozy. im new to the ICmag community but a veteran grower of 5 years, in washington state.
To the point, 9 days ago i ran into Root Aphids, found a single flier on my yellow sticky pads that i have been using for monitoring my fungus gnat issue. knowing that a single flier usually means a huge population in the room or adjacent room, i went on the hunt and found a cut i had recently purchased from a local club was infested... not sure how i missed it during the first transplant, probably too many dabs haha. i studied quickly to find i had a recommended product for the bitches, botanigard ES. called a buddy and asked if he knew of any products to use. he claims he wiped them out in three, five day intervals of spectracide with triazicide at 1 TBS/gal root drench. he still hasnt had issue 6 months later. read about plenty of options, acephate, bifenthrin, imidacloprid, cyhalothrin, acetamiprid, and permethrin. i decided to buy most of those... and rotate each one 3 days apart till each one has been used. give them not a signle chance to bounce back. i may loose more then a few ladies, but thats better then getting 50% yields. EclipseFour20 has an awesome recommendation of doing a "healthy cocktail* between each treatment, i slightly modified the recipe to what i had available in my grow. will use after treatments or if plants show signs of shock from heavy treatment.
*ALL PLANTS WILL BE VEGGED 30 DAYS TO REMOVE CHEMICALS BEFORE FLOWER*
First i did a Botanigard Treatment of 2TBS a gallon and did a soak of Each and every plant in my grow. thats 45 plants total, half of those in 5 gallon pots. the next morning around 12 hours after treatment there were THOUSANDS of dead ones covering the area around the pots, i vacuumed the entire grow area floor, ceilings, cracks...EVERYWHERE with my hepa filter vac. and let off a pyrithrum bomb to hopefully knockout any flier out of the soil.
2 days later, for my second treatment i used Bayer complete at 1 TBS a gallon as a root soak on my veg plants and early flowering plants. Plants past week 2 or 3 weeks into 12/12 were given SNS-203 at 3TBS a gallon as a root soak.
*I noticed everyplant was more perky and healthy after only 2 days of the botanigard treament.*
3 days after the bayer treamtnet (today 4/19/2013) I hit all the VEG plants with a mix of 2 TBS/gal of SNS-203 and Azamax at 10ml/gal used as a root soak. Flower got another 2 TBS/gal of botanigard. Most plants are looking healthy! A few are noticeably over watered from the short period between treatments, but as pointed out by many others you have to do treatments every 3-5 days to disrupt the life cycle or there is no chance of winning this battle. i chose to accept a few casualties and give them hell.
I will keep everyone posted on the events following today... hopefully i can win this battle, or its a change of location for me... womp womp
To the point, 9 days ago i ran into Root Aphids, found a single flier on my yellow sticky pads that i have been using for monitoring my fungus gnat issue. knowing that a single flier usually means a huge population in the room or adjacent room, i went on the hunt and found a cut i had recently purchased from a local club was infested... not sure how i missed it during the first transplant, probably too many dabs haha. i studied quickly to find i had a recommended product for the bitches, botanigard ES. called a buddy and asked if he knew of any products to use. he claims he wiped them out in three, five day intervals of spectracide with triazicide at 1 TBS/gal root drench. he still hasnt had issue 6 months later. read about plenty of options, acephate, bifenthrin, imidacloprid, cyhalothrin, acetamiprid, and permethrin. i decided to buy most of those... and rotate each one 3 days apart till each one has been used. give them not a signle chance to bounce back. i may loose more then a few ladies, but thats better then getting 50% yields. EclipseFour20 has an awesome recommendation of doing a "healthy cocktail* between each treatment, i slightly modified the recipe to what i had available in my grow. will use after treatments or if plants show signs of shock from heavy treatment.
*ALL PLANTS WILL BE VEGGED 30 DAYS TO REMOVE CHEMICALS BEFORE FLOWER*
First i did a Botanigard Treatment of 2TBS a gallon and did a soak of Each and every plant in my grow. thats 45 plants total, half of those in 5 gallon pots. the next morning around 12 hours after treatment there were THOUSANDS of dead ones covering the area around the pots, i vacuumed the entire grow area floor, ceilings, cracks...EVERYWHERE with my hepa filter vac. and let off a pyrithrum bomb to hopefully knockout any flier out of the soil.
2 days later, for my second treatment i used Bayer complete at 1 TBS a gallon as a root soak on my veg plants and early flowering plants. Plants past week 2 or 3 weeks into 12/12 were given SNS-203 at 3TBS a gallon as a root soak.
*I noticed everyplant was more perky and healthy after only 2 days of the botanigard treament.*
3 days after the bayer treamtnet (today 4/19/2013) I hit all the VEG plants with a mix of 2 TBS/gal of SNS-203 and Azamax at 10ml/gal used as a root soak. Flower got another 2 TBS/gal of botanigard. Most plants are looking healthy! A few are noticeably over watered from the short period between treatments, but as pointed out by many others you have to do treatments every 3-5 days to disrupt the life cycle or there is no chance of winning this battle. i chose to accept a few casualties and give them hell.
I will keep everyone posted on the events following today... hopefully i can win this battle, or its a change of location for me... womp womp
