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This week was a turn for the worst, so much so that I didn't post on time because just didn't feel it. In week 4 I thought I had issues with nutrients because I was seeing some yellowing leaves and some rust spots, I posted online about it and got some mixed signals. A lot of people thought Cal/Mag and others thought perhaps pests. One day this week I went to water the plant and I bring it out of the tent and get it set for runoff etc. I had seen some flies in the tent and didn't really think much of it, I guess since I'm a new grower it hadn't dawned on me that if flies are in your tent it's a problem not just a random fly. I wasn't worried because normally in the summer I'll see some fungus gnats or whatever in my basement, usually not a big deal. Well I went to water the plant this week and I saw a bug crawl up the side of the pot, flies were one thing but a bug on the pot was a major red flag to me. Essentially this whole week I was trying to identify what the bug was, I eventually saw more as the days went on, never like crawling all over it but it got to the point were if I pulled the pot out I could find a bug within a minute or so. I bought a jewlers loupe early because of this and inspected a few bugs and as I suspected they had 6 legs and looked exactly like root aphids. Pretty devastating to this plant for sure, you can see week 1-3 was a dream, perfect grow so far but it clearly got infected in the soil and started to suffer from week 4 to 5. I went to a grow store and talked to the owner about the situation and they suggested that if I'm not trying to be a total hippy about the grow that you can't fuck around with root aphids and you need to kill them immediately. He suggested Bayer Complete Insect Killer, which is a Home Depot store major insect killer, which honestly scares me but I mean I don't want to mess around with the bugs, just kill them. I used the insecticide on Day 35, gave them 5ml per gallon and fed about 3ish gallons to the plant, runoff was like 500 PPM, 6.8 PH and yea little low on the nutes so I'll feed next time but otherwise the plant hasn't died since then and I have found a few root aphids since but also have seen corpses on the side of the pot. With the further hindsight of posting this late I can say I definitely didn't kill the plant. The tent hasn't had flies in it since. I have seen a few RA's but I killed them and they are difficult to find, I mean it's been 5 days since the soil nuke and I haven't seen one in probably 2-3 days. I'm going to nuke it again because fuck root aphids but I think I'm probably in the clear. The plant hasn't fully recovered but looks a little bit better then before the nuke, just a tad bit, I figured it's probably gonna take a while to recover and with the feeding next I think it should bounce back after that.