I am growing some BlackBerry Autos organically in living soil for the first time. I noticed after two weeks they were only 5 inches tall and a little slow going. they are green and look healthy with the exception of a little twisting on the main leafs. I didn't think much of it until I went probing around in the soil.
That's when I found these white pests crawling around and some of them seem to move very fast and possibly jump. At first I thought fungus gnats but I have had an exposed tub of soil "cooking" in this room for a month now and I maybe catch 1 or 2 gnats a week.
Im still not sure if they are feeding on my plants roots either because the tub that I have "cooking" is completely infested too and there is no living roots over there. they also go deep, I moved the soil down about 8 inches and still saw them crawling around. any experience in this group with what they are and how to treat them?
I am open to using non organic pesticide as long as it doesn't kill my living soil or can be re-amended.
That's when I found these white pests crawling around and some of them seem to move very fast and possibly jump. At first I thought fungus gnats but I have had an exposed tub of soil "cooking" in this room for a month now and I maybe catch 1 or 2 gnats a week.
Im still not sure if they are feeding on my plants roots either because the tub that I have "cooking" is completely infested too and there is no living roots over there. they also go deep, I moved the soil down about 8 inches and still saw them crawling around. any experience in this group with what they are and how to treat them?
I am open to using non organic pesticide as long as it doesn't kill my living soil or can be re-amended.
