a mongo frog
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Have you grown the marijuanas before and had aphids? They stick to the leaves like no ones business. Millions of them.
Aphids week 3/4 flower
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lukedaduke
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Yeah I have dealt with rice root aphid in cannabis. Alates will stick to the trichomes of the bud, but not the wingless females that are showing in that picture. When they had gotten bad enough they would even form colonies that fed on the foliage, but this is because I didn't have a real tool to deal with them as the state wouldn't give me a break and let me use botannigard or another mycoinsectcide.
but like I said if it has gotten bad enough in the root zone where alates and wingless aphids are actually venturing out of the soil in search of food then there should be quite a bit of evidence to show for it, namely massive root damage resulting in nutrient deficiency symptoms.
From what I can see from the picture its probably either the glasshouse potato aphid, or the green peach aphid, neither of which feed on the roots but rather the foliage, and both of which can be easily controlled with out having to break out systemic insecticides.
a mongo frog
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Do you even fantasy football though?
I don’t seem to have any major deficiencies as he mentioned though. The only true deficiencies
The aphids I have these two antennas sticking out the back root aphids do not
(Root aphid below, not my pic)
Case closed.
I did a spray of insecticidal soap at midnight but yesterday but ran out cause i only had a bit left. Checked the one plant that got sprayed after work today almost all aphids gone on the one plant that got sprayed. I bought concentrated stuff so i can do the rest of my plants. https://www.rona.ca/en/end-all-miticide-insecticide-concentrate-4-l-31-6040can-13095165?viewStore=55070&cm_mmc=shopping_google-_-g_127_87-_-1701008834-_-ON-13095165&gclid=Cj0KCQjw753rBRCVARIsANe3o47gT_TDt_3Y9y0eNrfEnBWxog4LmB2WEzlZ53Xaaba4EYFHJM7DOhIaAuv7EALw_wcB
lukedaduke
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Nice! im glad to hear you got the aphids under control!
Thank you! The last two days I have found the odd aphid here and there. So I am going to continue spraying. However I an facing other problems now :/
lukedaduke
Member
Such is life with plants. Solve 1 issue 3 more pop up in its place lol
GreenApple
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Using lady bugs and lacewings last 5weeks to keep aphids from exploding again. While away partner didn’t do control spraying and we had aphids explode on two plants. Did a every other day drench treatment but plants are so large it did kill them all.
It is definitely year of the aphids. Found wife’s butterfly garden completely infested as well.
Pic FF is orange blossom special
Pic B008 is milkweed only 2 ft tall in wife garden
Avatar is from week end
It is definitely year of the aphids. Found wife’s butterfly garden completely infested as well.
Pic FF is orange blossom special
Pic B008 is milkweed only 2 ft tall in wife garden
Avatar is from week end
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lightitsmokeit420
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I’ve had a aphid problem since week 2. You can control them so it’s not a infestation but I doubt you can really get rid of them. It sucks but the way I see it is the plants are healthy. Sure you’ll probably smoke a few aphids but I don’t think aphids are worth completely chopping down healthy girls.
Coloradoclear
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Dawn dish soap, 2 1/2 tbs per gallon and a teaspoon of vegetable oil. Works great and non toxic. It will get you to harvest.
Jujubejohnny
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Information to your next grow. Aphids ONLY come to plants(trees, shrubs, vegetable etc), which has a surplus of nitrogen. For an example, I heard of a guy with 5 lemon trees and only one had aphids, wierd right? It turned out every morning he peed right next to the aphid infested lemon tree, so the tree got 50gallons of urea each year. A bit too much i would say 
In my own garden its the same. If I see aphids anywhere I only put a little compost and mulch it heavily the year after. A forest or garden in balance do not have aphids. Aphids eat the problems in the plant, that absorbed the problem in the soil
Hope your grow turns out well
In my own garden its the same. If I see aphids anywhere I only put a little compost and mulch it heavily the year after. A forest or garden in balance do not have aphids. Aphids eat the problems in the plant, that absorbed the problem in the soil
Hope your grow turns out well
Jujubejohnny
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BTW
The easiest, cheapest and nicest way is to spray them with epsom salt , water and a tablespoon of cooking oil. AND that will feed your plant with magnesium.
Or diatomaceous earth works wonders too, kills the ants as well.
The easiest, cheapest and nicest way is to spray them with epsom salt , water and a tablespoon of cooking oil. AND that will feed your plant with magnesium.
Or diatomaceous earth works wonders too, kills the ants as well.
PadawanWarrior
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I got aphids on some houseplants and sprayed them with 50/50 91% ISO to water spray every few days a few times, and I haven't seen them since. It also didn't hurt my plants at all which kinda surprised me. I also hear you can do that all the way through flower. Works on mites and their eggs too supposedly, but not as well as it does on aphids according to my house plants.
CanadianJim
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Aphids are attracted to some species more than others. I have yet to see an aphid on my plant despite the milkweed 6 feet away on either side being infested with orange aphids, and a dahlia 8 feet away has plenty of green ones. My sister has swamp milkweed in my garden for monarch butterflies. It's kept the aphids off my cannabis and pepper plants, so I don't mind.
Safer's insecticidal soap is sold here, just a quick trip to Canadian Tire on the way home. Works on mites too. Can't use it on the milkweed as it kills butterfly/moth eggs. Another plus for cannabis growers.
If you're growing outdoors you should wash your buds at harvest, especially if you spray them with anything.
Safer's insecticidal soap is sold here, just a quick trip to Canadian Tire on the way home. Works on mites too. Can't use it on the milkweed as it kills butterfly/moth eggs. Another plus for cannabis growers.
If you're growing outdoors you should wash your buds at harvest, especially if you spray them with anything.
Root Aphids DO have the two little barbs on them known as “tailpipes” , pull a plant out of its pot and look in the roots with a magnifying loop, or gently tap the roots on white paper and look through that. They are the Antichrist of bugs they laugh at most insecticides , peroxide, bleach they laugh at . I just went through this with a buddy and we found some crawlers and they were hard as fuck to kill , they are born pregnant. Ended up using an Imidacloprid product as it will kill the bugs when the try to eat the plant or else you will fight them forever. And for anyone that even remotely think the LPs and big growers don’t use this kind of stuff , you need to give your head a shake .
Good luck with the battle
Good luck with the battle