No known problems BUT i found bugs!

[KMK0420]

After watering my soil, little teeny white bugs were jumping all over the soil. I see absolutely no plant DAMAGE in a sense, the lower leaves are falling off as normal but these bugs literally appeared overnight.

Again white tiny little bugs jumping across the soil, going in coming out etc.

I see none on the leaves/plant itself.

What could they be?

 

[LolaGal]

I have heard of bugs like these, never seen em.

I think they are called Spring Tails ???

 

[KMK0420]

Nope.

Figured it out!

Symphilids.

 

[KMK0420]

Shit! Gnatrol is only available on SOME hydro sites....other shit is available but this stuff has BT, a bacteria that kills em.

BG Hydro has it but its wednesday and i would RATHER not go all weekend without it... so i may have to suck it up and try for 2nd day or next day

 

[LolaGal]

Glad I could help. You're welcome..

 

[KMK0420]

Lol im sorry. I just rushed posting before i did more studying.

Plants aren't showing really BAD signs, but some leaves are dying off at a decent rate...

Do yall think a fungus gnat infection will do major damage in the next week? I am ordering the Gnatrol tomorrow morning, hopefully to have it here by the weekend (Sat)...if thats the case, should i be okay? Or are these bastards the type to destroy quickly?

 

[KMK0420]

If the gnatrol comes as a liquid chances are its old. They only make it in powder now.

Bacillus thuringienses, subspecies isrealensis is the bacteria your looking for. It comes in mosquito dunks as well as gnatrol. Good luck.

Ya i heard that liquid got discontinued. BGH has it in powder form..

Thats the only thing with the BTI in it.... i saw those mosquito dunks, but it comes with the isrealensis and some other member said it worked only about 50-75% as well as the gnatrol...

should i go to lowes and buy the dunks first or just order the gnatrol?

 

[KMK0420]

Mosquito dunks work bro. Its the same thing. Take a mosquito dunk and drop it in a 5 gallon bucket of water. Water with it. They are cheap too so you cant go wrong.

cool beans man!

will be buying them tomorrow...

i also ordered gnatrol, and when that gets here (in about a week) i'll re-water with that also to ensure further generations of the fuckers get popped...

im finishing up week 3 flowering so i have a ton of time left

 

[medmaker420]

check your roots, make sure they haven't eaten into the main shoot already. Are the roots brown yet or still white?

 

[KMK0420]

check your roots, make sure they haven't eaten into the main shoot already. Are the roots brown yet or still white?

No idea, i dont want to take them out of the pot they're in.

They couldn't have been here for long. I didn't see them the previous watering...so they've prob been active for ~1-2 weeks at most... getting the dunks tomorrow