Widow Maker
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Hey everybody! Its been a while. Im sorry to say I havent been able to reply to any pm's. I logged on and had a million pm"s and decided to delete them all. If anyone hasnt got any help then maybe you can try me again.
Ok, so I have been using GH grow only. The stuff looks like fish emulsion. Anyways the plants have been growing fairly well but the top of the plants have turned yellow and my ph drops from 6.2 to 5.0 overnight. The new leaves are curling under pretty bad. Been at about 1000 ppm and raised it to 1250 thinking they were not getting enough nutes. Talked to a friend of mine and he said they were toxified. Told me to flush over night with pure water and if they get better then thats the problem. If they got worse then they were lacking nutes. So I flush and decide to check my sprayers, its been a month since I checked them.
Well to my surprise the roots were black. After closer inspection I noticed they were little bugs eating my roots. I take the lids off my buckets and try to wash them off in the sink. I got most of them off. Prolly a couple million bugs got washed away. Anyways I have no clue what these are. I am suspecting they are some sort of fly/gnat cause I have been noticing a few little flies lately. There doesnt seem like too many cause they fly into the light and die so I havent worried till now.
I added some sm-90 to my water hoping that will agitate them and I also dumped a bottle of hydrogen peroxide in my res. Im just going with what I think is right but since I dont know what the bug is I am just gambling now. lol. Any help would be great. The bug looks about 5-10x the size of a spider mite. The younger ones are white and the older ones are black. Unless I have multiple bugs. lol. I am pretty sure they are what I am seeing fly around my garden once they reach adulthood. Thanks in advance. WM
ps looked on the grow faq and the closest thing that they sounded like was fungus gnats. Said the larva was worm like and that didnt seem correct to me.
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Ok, so I have been using GH grow only. The stuff looks like fish emulsion. Anyways the plants have been growing fairly well but the top of the plants have turned yellow and my ph drops from 6.2 to 5.0 overnight. The new leaves are curling under pretty bad. Been at about 1000 ppm and raised it to 1250 thinking they were not getting enough nutes. Talked to a friend of mine and he said they were toxified. Told me to flush over night with pure water and if they get better then thats the problem. If they got worse then they were lacking nutes. So I flush and decide to check my sprayers, its been a month since I checked them.
Well to my surprise the roots were black. After closer inspection I noticed they were little bugs eating my roots. I take the lids off my buckets and try to wash them off in the sink. I got most of them off. Prolly a couple million bugs got washed away. Anyways I have no clue what these are. I am suspecting they are some sort of fly/gnat cause I have been noticing a few little flies lately. There doesnt seem like too many cause they fly into the light and die so I havent worried till now.
I added some sm-90 to my water hoping that will agitate them and I also dumped a bottle of hydrogen peroxide in my res. Im just going with what I think is right but since I dont know what the bug is I am just gambling now. lol. Any help would be great. The bug looks about 5-10x the size of a spider mite. The younger ones are white and the older ones are black. Unless I have multiple bugs. lol. I am pretty sure they are what I am seeing fly around my garden once they reach adulthood. Thanks in advance. WM
ps looked on the grow faq and the closest thing that they sounded like was fungus gnats. Said the larva was worm like and that didnt seem correct to me.
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