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Little tiny white bugs all over my monotub....?
    #19358688 - 01/02/14 01:55 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

Hello!

I recently discovered that an army of mini white bugs (1/4 mm ,hardly visible ) are walking in my monotub. They are hundred and hundred...I can't take a picture cuz they are really hardly visible.  I first saw them one day ago ,on a black monotub (which made it easier to see the white bugs...) , i can't say if they are mites,or flies,or what.

Do you guys ever seen something like that?
My substrate is wheat spawned to Hpoo, and is just put in fruiting conditions since 2 weeks ( I just harvested the first flush, and dunked it 2 days before seeing this bastards).


I don't know what to do....I'm afraid of loosing my work!

Thank you in advance,sorry for my poor english

myo6


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Re: Little tiny white bugs all over my monotub....? [Re: myo6]
    #19358696 - 01/02/14 01:57 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

Toss it and start over rethinking your sterile technique, along with the entire process.


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Re: Little tiny white bugs all over my monotub....? [Re: PussyFart]
    #19358779 - 01/02/14 02:15 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

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Notahacker420 said:
Toss it and start over rethinking your sterile technique, along with the entire process.




Thank for the fast reply...but I did some nice grow the same way,properly sterilizing grains & pasteurizing the manure. I searched but without be able to understand which part of my process failed...


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Re: Little tiny white bugs all over my monotub....? [Re: myo6]
    #19358792 - 01/02/14 02:19 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

I don't think you need to toss them. Probably move them outside. I remember seeing this before in a post by another user. They looked like little white dots, but moved.

Those bugs are probably just attracted to shrooms. Like ladybugs and slugs. Try to get a close up pic of them to help us help you.

And I would defiantly wait for a trusted cultivator to chime in before you go throwing away your project.


Edited by lil_demented (01/02/14 02:26 PM)


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Re: Little tiny white bugs all over my monotub....? [Re: myo6]
    #19358798 - 01/02/14 02:20 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

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myo6 said:


Thank for the fast reply...but I did some nice grow the same way,properly sterilizing grains & pasteurizing the manure. I searched but without be able to understand which part of my process failed...



I had fungal gnats destroy a yellow oyster/straw log over the summer.  They were fruiting and looking great, and one day I look in the corner and saw maggots and flies all over.  I almost vomited.  I move the mass out to my dead wood pile in hope that it colonized the logs and refuse.  After a few weeks I gave up on even that, because it just got more and more consumed.  Ill know this spring if there is any "success" though I totally doubt it.

Get that tub out of your home.  If they will infect a monotub, imagine what they can do with any food that you may have out (fruits/bags of chips etc).

All it takes is one bug to find a grow and lay some eggs, then you got a real issue.  IMHO, Id rather have trich than gnats ever again.  God how foul.


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Re: Little tiny white bugs all over my monotub....? [Re: HypnotoadCroaked]
    #19358857 - 01/02/14 02:33 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

Most likely fly/gnat larvae.  They will eventually grow wings so toss sooner than later.
Tossing the tub is better than trying to control an infestation.
Edit: If they are larvae, there's nothing wrong with your sterile procedure.  A couple gnats found their way into your grow and got it on, again and again.


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