Thanks everybody. I will have to keep checking and yeah, get a better magnifying glass, as for better or worse they seem to have gone. Next time I will try to identify first but there is something very off putting about the thought of tiny bugs crawling around. 0.1mm? You've got good eyes! Alas, no....

Hmm, there hasn't been any webbing. What I saw were very small, maybe 0.1mm? I only noticed them by chance when looking very close and I could only tell they were moving by watching for a while. Mostly they weren't moving, they'd move faster after being touched though. I couldn't see any legs etc ev...

Thank you! Yes it's the spray one. I might leave it another day then just to avoid this booming heat. I haven't seen any more bugs since yesterday either, so maybe the provado has had some effect.

I've noticed a small infestation of what look like red spider mites (just tiny little moving red specs) on one of my plants, so yesterday applied some provado ultimate bug killer. Now I've noticed that provado doesn't really deal with mites and I can still see them happily crawling about. I got some...

I'm afraid I can't help you determine what they are but I'm quite sure I have experienced the same thing. They never seemed to hinder plant growth, but spread all over the place - walls, windows, curtains etc. As far as I could see they didn't have legs or mouths and could be brushed off easily, jus...

I live in an area with hard water also (about pH 8 ) and I lower the pH to 6 with vinegar for some years now. The plants seem to like it, much better than the time I only used tap water. No need to change the soil more often than usual in my opinion. Thank you. That is what I have started to do too...

I wish I rent a second floor appartment with only a small amount of outside, mostly public, space. I will take a look at the downpipes though and see if there is any possible way to collect from them.

Wow, they look cool. I would love to get something like that, but not sure I could afford/have the space for it. One of the bonuses for me with a dehumidfier was that it would also be fulfilling two purposes at once and I thought harvesting water from the air was a nice idea :D However with steady e...

Ok thanks guys! So it might not be optimum but wont be disastrous either. I will make sure to put them out for a drink whenever we get a good downpour.

So as spring has come around again I have the problem of finding a good water source. I live in a very hard water area, can't find any distilled water and have no efficient way to collect rainwater (the best I have right now is a small bucket outside). I was wondering if getting a dehumidifier and u...

Ah, I see. Thank you. It's good to know it is not something more sinister.

I have always been encouraged to use coir as a substitute for peat because of the environmental issues (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-25760294" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;) but I don't know enough to say if it would be a good idea to use just pumice and coir in this instan...

Thank you for your advice! Sounds alot more like scarring then. Of course, I have already impatiently applied Provado I'm hoping it can't make the situation any worse.

I will leave it alone to settle in and see if the scarring stops spreading.

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First of all I would like to say thank you to this forum for being such a wealth of information. I have been looking through pretty much every page for topics about how to grow cacti and it has been a great help. I've previously grown carnivorous plants and this is quite a change! However, I was hop...