Please To ID These Things

I have these things all over the side of my fabric pot and on top of my soil. I am not sure If i can see any on the plant itself… Please guys help!!!

Maybe root aphids I’m not sure though

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I am totally freaking out right now there is so many of them…

Hmm I’m not real sure what they are maybe try some neem oil

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I would suffocate them by covering soil with some diatomaceous earth DE and spray outside of pots never seen that before someone will help u out

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How much DE do I put my friend?

Put the de about a 1/4 inch thick on your soil

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Make sure it’s food grade de. And yeah I would just cover it about a quarter inch like they said. I think they’re root aphids? but the de should help.

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I battle some of that stuff myself. I get it from overwatering. I’m trying to learn but it seems like I either underwater or overwater I never find The Sweet Spot. Good luck

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They are spider mites .

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Lol seems we do not have a consensus

Do you use the cloth pots ? They are much easier to tell the water status on them than the regular pots. That was how I got the watering down on my grows, after I used cloth pots. Hope that helps! Will be around if you have follow up questions. Jerry :us: :man_farmer:

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Either whicha bug it may be. Food grade DE should nipp them in da bud. And their eggs/larva. If not in flower (not sure if itll even hurt in flower) a quick dusting of the leaves could hurt either. Don’t saturate the gals but a sprinkle wont hurt

I confirm they are root aphids.

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Yes I have cloth pots

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Holy Zeus Bawls. I do not want to use h202 I have an organic grow and i am using super soil

I had these sitting in my pots last grow… never realised until i removed root ball from pot… a million of the nasty !@#$ers… you could prob look for organic solution… but i tell ya you dont want more…

Thank you very much. I’m sure once I get going here I will be asking for more advice. I actually did buy cloth pots to use for my next grow! I got 6 5 gallon cloth pots. I’m hoping it helps. I am a chronic over water and it seems like this one I’m working on now I’m under watering. I’ll start a journal post pictures when it’s not so embarrassing haha. Thanks good luck all and enjoy your grow :+1::deciduous_tree: