strictly seedleSs
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Root aphids showed up in my veg room about a month ago. First off, my veg room is ebb and flow tables with 3x3x4 rockwool cubes. I have been treating them with Azamax, because thats what I used to kill off my spider mites (I had a serious problem with them). I was giving each cube a top down drenching with a solution of 10 ml per gallon. The plants showed no signs of stress, and i continued to do this every 5 days, but this only slowed down the colonization of them. So today I made up a new solution of 1/2 oz of Organicide to 1 gallon of water. I did this in a five gallon bucket using 4 gallons of water with 2 oz of Organicide. You need to keep mixing this solution before you dip each cube. The Organicide is pretty oily, so mix it ALOT. I did this with each cube until the ebb and flow table was empty, then i filled it with the solution, and drained back into the bucket. I cleaned out the table, and as I was placing the plants back in, I dipped them in a new batch of solution. I checked everywhere on each one as I put it back in, and I only saw a couple moving slowly on the outside or top of the cubes. I waited about an hour them flooded my table to the top of the cubes to chase out any live ones, and I didnt see any. I will be doing this again in 2 days if no signs of stress appear, and follow that up immediatley with a pyrethrum bomb, then 2 days later with another dip solution. I will be recieving some Merit 75 WP in a week and throwing that in the rotation until these critters are gone. I learned from killing my spider mites, you have to dip/spray/bomb regularly. Find a potent enough sloution to kill the bugs and not the roots, then do it every 2-5 days. I will keep this posting updated each time I dip.
