Grizzly's Guide to Pulverizing Pests

Purplestickeypunch

Active Member
Some kinda caterpillar larva probably...fungus gnat larva are clear with black heads and feed on roots, not leaves.

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They were clear with dark vein when they were smaller. Sorta like a shrimp. I'd take a pic, but they are so damn small I don't know that the camera will even pick them up. I noticed they drop / hang from silk strings like a spider. I'm getting ready to head over to my local shop and they're coming with me. I'll let you know what they tell me.
 

Purplestickeypunch

Active Member
Update: Shop guy said they were some sort of fly larva. I can't remember the name (damn short-term) but they look like a mosquito. He recommended azamax pesticide to treat the media, and don't bug me insect spray to apply directly to the plant.
 
I ran across this online; I think it was called "Frugal Living" or something. I thought it sounded pretty good.

Garden Tip #1 – Slugs and Snails
Slugs and snails have a huge appetite for decaying matter and soft green leaves, and they can destroy a bed of lettuce in no time flat. I am having a huge problem with slugs right now eating my lettuce. All I did to get rid of them is use beer! That’s right! Slugs and snails LOVE beer! They are attracted to the yeast that is in it.

Here’s what you do: Take a pie tin and sink it into the dirt closest to your garden or flower beds. You want the top of the tin to be level with the ground. You may have to do more than one pie tin, depending on how big of an area you need to cover. Start in the evening and pour a can of beer into your pie tin. These slimy creatures are most active at night. What’s great about using beer to get rid of your slug and snail problem is these little guys can’t swim. Bahahaha! {That was my evil laugh} Then in the morning, you are going to find your ‘beer pool’ full of snails and slugs that died a very happy alcoholic death. Just pick up the pie tin and throw it away!

Garden Tip #2 – Aphids and other soft bodied bugs
You are going to want to make a Cayenne Pepper & Garlic Bug Killer Spray. This is going to be your very own homemade pesticide in a spray bottle.

Ingredients
3 Cups Warm Water {Your water needs to be pretty warm to help dissolve the pepper}
4 Garlic Cloves
2 Heaping tsp powdered Cayenne Pepper
1 squirt Dish Soap

• Blend all of these ingredients in a blender REALLY well. You don’t want any chunks clogging up your spray bottle. Then go outside {in the evening} and spray your leaves, stems, everything. Leave the pepper spray on overnight and then hose it off in the morning. You will have aphid free plants. Repeat this process every time you start to see an infestation coming along.
can this be used on flowering plants?
 

Dr. Kundilini

Well-Known Member
Darn, lost my first response...Just wanted to say...great thread...the complete skinny on pests and how to kill them. deffinately +rep for this wealth of info...thanks
 

Sr. Verde

Well-Known Member
Pretty sure that's calcium deficiency. Pick up some Cal Mag to use with every watering :).

I'd say start a regimine of Cal Mag and your leaves will be a much healthier green. However those spots wont be reversed, it's permanent damage. So new leaves will be fine/the problem won't get worse, but it looks as though your into flowering. Next round will be much healthier if you use Cal Mag and maybe a little more N. :smile: Good luck!



Potassium deficiency?
Wheres the Ca deficiency in that chart? :) Potassium deficiency usually looks like discolored/burned up leaves. His leaves look to have little copper burn spots speckled about, with a lime green leaf color. That is Ca deficiency ;).
 
Hot shot no pest strips, work wonders hang one in your grow room and you will never see them again.. you can buy them at Lowes or Home Depo....
 

grebal

New Member
My insect damage (if that's what it is) is just starting. I did not see the little insect I killed today in your great pictorial.

But the leaf damage I think it caused looks like the thrip damage you pictured (but bug doesn't look like a thrip, too big).

Any thoughts or suggestions are welcome. !!

Two pics of the afflicted leaves, the damaged leaves are in pic 1, and at top and bottom of pic 2 (all on same plant).

Then two pics of the little green/yellow bug I squished (got one yesterday and found this one today - can't find any others). I killed the bugs right near the afflicted leaves.

If I search real carefully I can find a few other touches of what looks like similar damage, all these others are very minor.


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herbbilly

Active Member
Pretty sure that's calcium deficiency. Pick up some Cal Mag to use with every watering :).

I'd say start a regimine of Cal Mag and your leaves will be a much healthier green. However those spots wont be reversed, it's permanent damage. So new leaves will be fine/the problem won't get worse, but it looks as though your into flowering. Next round will be much healthier if you use Cal Mag and maybe a little more N. :smile: Good luck!





Wheres the Ca deficiency in that chart? :) Potassium deficiency usually looks like discolored/burned up leaves. His leaves look to have little copper burn spots speckled about, with a lime green leaf color. That is Ca deficiency ;).
Waaaahhh it's Ca. Naawe its Mg. Blah Blah Blah its THRIPS.
 
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