Plagron light mix - very tiny insects

Hi,

it's my first time with products of this company. I tried their Light mix soil.
After one week of watering said soil I started to seing very tiny insects inside it. ( propably smaller than 0.1 mm, little bit thicker than human hair, bright green or yellow color)

I always used BioBizz products and never saw anything like this. But maybe I just didnt look carefully.
My question is is it normal? Should I be worried?

edit: I think I'm not able to take a photo, because they are indeed very small.

I'm new to also this too but from my research sounds like mites, I believe they come out when the soil is wet so they don't drown. I wouldn't think what you have is good so maybe a pro can help

Bongboy00 said:

I'm new to also this too but from my research sounds like mites, I believe they come out when the soil is wet so they don't drown. I wouldn't think what you have is good so maybe a pro can help

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I had spider mites last year on my windoor - fought with them whole summer saw them everyday and I think this is something different.
They look more like tiny caterpillars. But really tiny.

I checked the situation again and it's propably some kind of tiny larvas.
I think it killed some of my seeds from seedbank. (They sprouted, I inserted them in soil but they never made it above surface. I took them from soil into water and saw lot of tiny bastards curling in water).


It looks like these on photo http://www.420magazine.com/gallery/data/500/SDC11395.jpg almost same shape but mine seems lot of tinier.

Springtails?

Mine are very similar they also have such antenna (feeler). But these on photo seem quite fat. Mine are tiny. So maybe too young.
They infiltrated my seeds (found lot of them inside the shell of dead seeds)

What about booklice? They look like this, and they eat the microscopic mildew that collects on surfaces where there is high humidity, especially paper type products (like books, hence the name)

Ace Yonder said:

What about booklice? They look like this, and they eat the microscopic mildew that collects on surfaces where there is high humidity, especially paper type products (like books, hence the name)

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Nope, this looks different.
Springtails is the closet match yet. But I am not sure - I googled something about them and pepole are saying they are pretty inoffensive - Well in my case they are offensive as hell and I believe they are the reason why some of my older seeds didn't sprout above the surface.

Well I think it's Symphilids - they are eating roots When you water your soil you can see them crawling on surface. Exactly like in description. This is bad ...

https://www.icmag.com/modules/Tutorials/PlantTrouble/1247.htm



EDIT: Except from something like Symphilids in soil I propably also have tiny white worms most likely Enchytraeidae --> these thing ate my weak seeds and attacked it from inside...
I'm really disappointed by quality of Plagron soil ... I have two 50l packs. And all these parasites were found inside less than 2 litres of said soil.

Metasynth said:

Springtails?

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Now that looks awesome!

I also have the Light Mix CG, and I have no problem with it whatsoever and doubt it's the company's fault.
It's more of a possibility it hasn't been stored right.
You seriously can not think they would ship you larvas for free

mealybugs maybe.

CyberGanja said:

Mine are very similar they also have such antenna (feeler). But these on photo seem quite fat. Mine are tiny. So maybe too young.
They infiltrated my seeds (found lot of them inside the shell of dead seeds)

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Collembola come in a variety of sizes, colors, etc. Many of them are able to to "jump" as fleas do.

Predator mites also look quite different. Check your roots for damage.

Today I catched one. Observed it and saw how it jumps really high.
I would need really good zoom to see full body structure and I dont have such.

Besides Springtails is there anything else with antenna that is jumping and could be in my soil? Hope not

They must be some kind of soil-dwelling Collembola (springtail). They use a forked-shaped lever-like appendage called a furcula to thrust themselves in the air, rather aimlessly (fleas on the other hand, can actually jump with their legs). There are several hundred different species of Collembola, which are not technically considered to be insects.

These little critters are mostly found in leaf litter and decaying matter; they usually eat detritus or microbes. They are eaten by predator mites.