Need help diagnosing my BUG problem

ak9077

Member
So I've been growing for around 3 years now so I definitely know my shit. Thing is I've never had any sort of bug problem so this is all new territory for me and I'm completely clueless.

So, I'm going to try to explain this as thoroughly as possible and hopefully some of you experienced people will be able to point me in the right direction at least.

These plants are in my veg room. Vegging for around 3 1/2 weeks now. All 24 affected. Most of the affected leaves are at the bottom of the plants, though there are a few random leaves towards the top that are affected. This makes me think the bugs started from the bottom and are working up. The damage looks like little dark/some white spots on the leaves and there's also that shiny shit on them that I've read about before. Almost looks like a trail of shiny bug shit.

Anyways, there actually isn't many of them but the bugs look like little white larvae. To me they look like tiny gnat larvae but I was under the impression that gnats don't do damage to your plants. I've had a pretty bad gnat problem as of late. Lots of adults flying into my traps. They're covered in them. Could these be the gnat larvae starting from the soil and working their way up my plants? Is this the classic start of a spider mite infestation? They look nothing like spider mites from what I've seen. Like I said, little white larvae. The more mature ones look like little white flies without wings. Much longer than they are wide.

I'll attach some pics to show the damage. Like I said, most of it is at the bottom of the plants with the rest of the plant looking normal and growing normally. This could just be a little nute burn with the bugs not affecting anything, but I doubt that.

Any help would be appreciated.


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buster420

Active Member
Hey man I,v got the same thing happening to me right now i just sprayed soap and water on them and they got really agitated and started jumping everywhere like flees there really small and you really have to focus to see them but there infesting my plants. Is yours an indoor grow?
 

ak9077

Member
ya, im indoors. i tryed agitating them but they don't jump around or anything. i'm thinking they're probably just gnat larvae but from what i was told those don't do this type of damage. no clue at this point.
 

2much

Active Member
fungus gnats? are they in the soil also?neem oil works on the gnats, make sure you give the soil around the plant a good spray and plan to be doing that for awhile cuzz there will be more hatching
 

ak9077

Member
do fungus gnats do that type of damage? i was under the impression that they just chew on your roots and mainly stick to your soil when they're larvae. do they actually crawl around on your leaves too?
 
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