Bird of Hermes
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Rooms been dormant for over a month and I'm still nervous about starting a new grow up. Had a thread about this a couple months ago where I was pretty sure they were broads but I never found the eggs. With the possibility that they were cyclamens I figured I needed to increase the amount of time my room was empty of any living plant tissue for them to feed on. Couldn't find a way to raise the room temps up as all store bought heaters have thermostats that stop stuff from getting too hot. Also since I live in the same room I elected not to use any chemical sprays and chose to shut down and starve them. It's been 6wks now with no living plants at all.
I've spent many many hours searching online about these demonic little bastards. If I do a Google search anything that comes up is pink showing I've clicked on it at least once haha. Cyclamens have a lifespan of a month and broads a little less then half that.
If they have no living plants to feed on they couldn't have survived if they fell in a crack or crevice that I missed right? Spider mites can enter diapause but it's been hard to find info on whether broads/cyclamens can. I did find one article from the usda(dated November 1933 lol) that is the most descriptive I've found so far in my exhaustive searches.
https://archive.org/stream/cyclamenmitebroa301smit/cyclamenmitebroa301smit_djvu.txt
It says there's no evidence that either species hibernate in soil or anything and clearly states they need "living plant tissue" to survive. It also states that cyclamen are more likely to strike in winter months which is what happened and that they both species commonly occur together. So reading that I'm going to assume it's possible I had the longer living cyclamens or both to be safe.
So my question is basically would 2 months of being shut down starve them for sure? I really want to start up again in 2wks or so I've been off my meds for way too long and things are getting weird yo. I relined my cabs with panda film, got new media and will be starting over from seed. Thanks for any help
I've spent many many hours searching online about these demonic little bastards. If I do a Google search anything that comes up is pink showing I've clicked on it at least once haha. Cyclamens have a lifespan of a month and broads a little less then half that.
If they have no living plants to feed on they couldn't have survived if they fell in a crack or crevice that I missed right? Spider mites can enter diapause but it's been hard to find info on whether broads/cyclamens can. I did find one article from the usda(dated November 1933 lol) that is the most descriptive I've found so far in my exhaustive searches.
https://archive.org/stream/cyclamenmitebroa301smit/cyclamenmitebroa301smit_djvu.txt
It says there's no evidence that either species hibernate in soil or anything and clearly states they need "living plant tissue" to survive. It also states that cyclamen are more likely to strike in winter months which is what happened and that they both species commonly occur together. So reading that I'm going to assume it's possible I had the longer living cyclamens or both to be safe.
So my question is basically would 2 months of being shut down starve them for sure? I really want to start up again in 2wks or so I've been off my meds for way too long and things are getting weird yo. I relined my cabs with panda film, got new media and will be starting over from seed. Thanks for any help
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