Root Aphids! Careful w clones...

[lampost]

So any of you CO people ever run into root aphids? Be very careful where you get your clones! Mine came with spider mites and root aphids! Root aphids are far worse. I was able to easily get rid of the spider mites.

The thing with root aphids is, unless you're looking for them, they've caused most of their damage by the time you notice them.

Please just only get clones from people you trust.

lampost Reviewed by lampost on 03-16-2010. Root Aphids! Careful w clones... So any of you CO people ever run into root aphids? Be very careful where you get your clones! Mine came with spider mites and root aphids! Root aphids are far worse. I was able to easily get rid of the spider mites. The thing with root aphids is, unless you're looking for them, they've caused most of their damage by the time you notice them. Please just only get clones from people you trust. Rating: 5

[TurboALLWD]

So any of you CO people ever run into root aphids? Be very careful where you get your clones! Mine came with spider mites and root aphids! Root aphids are far worse. I was able to easily get rid of the spider mites.

The thing with root aphids is, unless you're looking for them, they've caused most of their damage by the time you notice them.

Please just only get clones from people you trust.

Do you have them in hydro or soil? Have you tried gassing them with co2? I wiped mine out immediately with a sealed bag over the ebb and flow pot and a co2 line pumping it full for 5-10 minutes. I thought I could trust this guy in Ft. Collins but it turns out he likes to screw people. Sterilize you're clones and throughly inspect them for bugs, a magnifying glass is really useful to.

[ColoradoCareMMJ]

So any of you CO people ever run into root aphids? Be very careful where you get your clones! Mine came with spider mites and root aphids! Root aphids are far worse. I was able to easily get rid of the spider mites.

The thing with root aphids is, unless you're looking for them, they've caused most of their damage by the time you notice them.

Please just only get clones from people you trust.

Every single clone vendor thats come through our door has had either powdery mildew, root aphids, spider mites or all three..

[MEDEDCANNABIS]

root aphids? never heard of them. is that slang for fungus gnats?

meded so you can mededicate to mededitate

[lampost]

No! Its far worse!

Search for root aphids on ICMag. Some people think they are the insect phylloxera. Many people do mistake these for fungus gnats though and then they wonder why their yields are so low and why they're seeing phantom lockouts.

[johnthemick]

There aren't many throw away bugs (as in throw away everything and start over) but these are one.

they will decimate an entire operation.

[lampost]

Yep. I already had to kill my nicest 8-cola Mr Nice @ 32 days. Its actually still dank... Would've liked to seen it @ 60 days.

If you're close enough to finish you can make it supposedly. But if you don't catch them in time your root system will be fucked. The plant won't "drink" at all, it'll just sit there suspended in time, a painful reminder of what could've been. Then it'll yellow up and all the leaves will die.

[MEDEDCANNABIS]

what are symptoms and does anyone have pics of these creatures. they sound like spider mites of the underworld

meded so you can mededicate to mededitate

[lampost]

Here's a thread over at ICMag that has some pics:

Fungus gnats or WINGED ROOT APHIDS??? - International Cannagraphic Magazine Forums

They are really easy to mistake for fungus gnats. I thought they were fungus gnats until I noticed they were kinda hanging out in my buds. And I took a microscope to them one day and noticed they were laying eggs or giving birth to little spider-like things...

The symptoms for me were basically a phantom nitrogen deficiency. The plant was slowly yellowing... although it was the entire plant... not just lower leaves. It was not helped at all by high-nitrogen nutes. By then it's pretty much too late.

Nematodes supposedly work well as prevention. But it appears there are a few different kinds of root aphids.

[TurboALLWD]

Here's a thread over at ICMag that has some pics:

Fungus gnats or WINGED ROOT APHIDS??? - International Cannagraphic Magazine Forums

They are really easy to mistake for fungus gnats. I thought they were fungus gnats until I noticed they were kinda hanging out in my buds. And I took a microscope to them one day and noticed they were laying eggs or giving birth to little spider-like things...

The symptoms for me were basically a phantom nitrogen deficiency. The plant was slowly yellowing... although it was the entire plant... not just lower leaves. It was not helped at all by high-nitrogen nutes. By then it's pretty much too late.

Nematodes supposedly work well as prevention. But it appears there are a few different kinds of root aphids.

Have you tried foliar feeding the damaged plants with the nitrogen deficiency?