So my first solo grow has been going great. All my plants look healthy, big as shit, and I have quite a few going. Out of the whole bunch, one of them suddenly started showing strong signs of wilting, and I tried to determine under or over watered, but the soil seemed damn moist, and I time all my plants and non had an issue. Was hoping it would get back on track but it continued to go zombie. I ripped it out today And check the root zone and found a lot of little bugs crawling all over the roots in the soil… I also scoped some kind of worm/larva squiggling but couldn’t get a picture. Of all the plants in the greenhouse this is the only one that died or shows any sign of an issue whatsoever. I’m terrified this is going to jump to the other plants. It went down hill pretty fast. I scoped the leaves in the actual plant and couldn’t find much as far as mites or anything like that. Just what was all in the roots. I Included some pics and video including a pic of what all my healthy girls look like
Edit having problems posting video,
Working on that now
Yes they did. A little more white, but very similar. I’m curious as to why this thing went downhill so fast and not a single other planT around it has any signs but I’m terrified of the transfer. I need to identify and attack asap. I’m about to do a bunch of research on them but put this out there because you guys always have great insight. Any advice on the threat level to all my other plants. I pulled the plant and the whole entire pot out of the greenhouse and far away.
Root aphids are one of the worst things you can get so I’d consider threat level very high
Can you rules these guys out. This is a beneficial soil mite. They are helpers and are common in soil so if it was them it may be something else causing the issue
I cannot rule out the above, to be honest it looks more like the beneficial ones you posted than the aphids. I just checked the plants on either side of the one that died and I see these bugs when I dig a little around the stock. I don’t see a whole ton of them but I for sure see them. Give me a moment to try to get pictures and video. A few of them crawled up on my microscope so I was able to get a good video of them crawling around on a flat hard surface. Thank you for your advice give me a moment to try to provide pics and video
Idk what they are, but it is probably their larval stage that is eating your roots, not the bugs you see crawling. Applying bt in some form, like soaking mosquito dunks in your irrigation water, should take out the larvae and after that the bugs should disappear.
they were so hard to get pictures and video of… I have a good scope but my mac app for capturing photos decides it needs to do a 3-2-1 before it takes the fuckin picture. I will try to capture a few in a small dab jar tomorow and get better pics. I need to identify exactly what they are before planning my response. A tiny part of me feels somewhat relieved that they look more like the beneficial’s than the suggested demons, but at the same time seeing how quick that plant went down of that size is terrifying
I have mosquito bits on hand right now, although they take a lot per gallon to be effective So Ill try to use my whole supply up and just give everything a light watering since I assume most of these things lives towards the top.
In one of the above YouTube links you can see them scurrying across the scope lens. They seem to have long legs and long antenna like the beneficial mites posted above. But I’m no expert by any means. Just having a nightmare of all my plants dying in 3 days
First thing you should always do is check soil ph and soil ppm. Also helps to know what you feed organic or synthetic. I grow organic and try to get my ppms to 400-600 before I feed them again and keep my ph between 6.3-6.8 for my soil. If you have a high ppm you can cause a lockout. I use nectar for the gods to do a flush and it does a kick ass job.
I water usually every other day as this soil seems to stay moist. I like to let it dry up a little and then give it a good water. Greenhouse has open ends and sides, temp goes with nature but we’ve barely had days in the low 90s… lots of mid low 80s so it’s never scorching in there. The bulk soil I got was organic but I supplement with earth juice sea blast dry nutes. I ph all my water to 6.4 or so, although I haven’t checked the ph or ppm of my soil. I can’t imagine this issue is related to environment or waterings, I have a whole lotta plants that are big and healthy and this one just crashed and burned. Like I said tomorow morning I’m going to really try and get some good pics of these guys. Not much I can do without a confirmed Id. Thank you guys for your input thus far. Hopefully we can figure this out and get a hold of it
