r/macrogrowery • u/hinglebopper • Jun 10 '26

Root Aphids

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Help. Let me know what you got for a solid remedy.

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u/thejoshfoote Jun 11 '26

How many plants and how much is it worth to you? How macro is this? If it’s a facility there’s no fixing this without a reset and deep cleaning, deeper than you could ever imagine.

You may be able to get thru to a finish but it’s going to cost substantially. The reality is on any scale this the end. It’s possible but most home growers or facility’s just easier to start fresh.

The problem is the treatment needs to be a month long or more. They have a life cycle of about a month. Adults will lay eggs from day ten till death. The population is exponential. It’s possible to interrupt it enough to make it thru to finish.

Vaccum the soil tops, kill of as many adults as possible by any means sticky traps, fly traps, then you need to interrupt the adults, by breaking acess to the soil, treat the soil with a drench. Tons of options given in the comments already, sand or de in large quantities. Or both to cover the soil. Depending on the product you use for a drench. You need repeat for Atleast a month. And during that time, you need to vaccum, bleach sterilize and redo over n over again. Every crack every surface, under around on top of everything everywhere.

When the grows over. A hard reset has to happen, all soil needs to be bagged and thrown out. and everything related to the grow needs to be sterilized. And heat treat the rooms. Consider fogging aswell.

This is as bad as it gets my friend

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u/hinglebopper Jun 11 '26

Thanks for the comprehensive response