FFOF fungus nats

[420 Garden]

I'm 28 days above soil. Thought I seen one a few days ago, caught 3 on my yellow sticky traps and 1 in my apple cider shot glass today. I hit the plants with need oil and top layer of soil too. My question is should I put DE on the top layer too? I'm at about40% perlite in my soil mix. OR put down a top layer of perlite? Have tons of air movement with 4 fans moving air in 5 x 5 with 8in ac inline going outside. 700 wall watts. Thanks for your help.

 

[PadawanWarrior]

If you're growing organically, I'd get some neem need meal or karanja meal, and Microbe-Lift BMC. You can add quality EWC for some predator mites and nematodes too. Or you can buy the predators seperate.

I'm not a fan of DE.

 

[420 Garden]

You feel food grade DE would not be effective? I'm looking to break the cycle of new.

 

[PadawanWarrior]

You feel food grade DE would not be effective? I'm looking to break the cycle of new.

I don't like it mainly because it kills predators too. And also the dust sucks ass, but my biggest issue is it killing my good bugs.

 

[420 Garden]

Don't know much about predator mites and or where to get them. I always thought perlite and DE would nip it in the bud, the new would not surface and die.

 

[CaptainLucky]

I'm 28 days above soil. Thought I seen one a few days ago, caught 3 on my yellow sticky traps and 1 in my apple cider shot glass today. I hit the plants with need oil and top layer of soil too. My question is should I put DE on the top layer too? I'm at about40% perlite in my soil mix. OR put down a top layer of perlite? Have tons of air movement with 4 fans moving air in 5 x 5 with 8in ac inline going outside. 700 wall watts. Thanks for your help.

I seen a video where testing homemade pest killers and neem oil didn’t kill anything, the fastest killer was dish soap and water. Killed in 1 minute, next best was pyrithium.

 

[pahpah-cee]

You’re okay, Fungus gnats are super common (specially with ffof). Let the soil dry out more before watering. That’ll knock back their population. You can do a top layer of sand as well.

 

[PadawanWarrior]

Believe it or not, all I did was add a layer of Wiggle Worm EWC and after a month or two they were totally gone, and I didn't see another one for 3 years.

Then recently I added some compost and have them again. But they're being delt with.

I also started with plain FFOF.

 

[420 Garden]

Thanks for your help. I think I'll drop bout 1/2 inch sand down and give em some brewed ewc tea this weekend. From there just monitor the situation out from there. Thanks people! Appreciate yas

 

[medidedicated]

I do not hear much of people using mosquito bits but read it is safe for cannabis and it worked on all our house plants.

 

[pahpah-cee]

I do not hear much of people using mosquito bits but read it is safe for cannabis and it worked on all our house plants.

Teach me, I have a container of this stuff and I’m not really sure what to do with it. I have kids, a dog and chickens so I have to be careful. I’ve seen the dog, chickens, and the kids eat dirt so you can’t trust any of them.

 

[medidedicated]

Teach me, I have a container of this stuff and I’m not really sure what to do with it. I have kids, a dog and chickens so I have to be careful. I’ve seen the dog, chickens, and the kids eat dirt so you can’t trust any of them.

Just a small little little bit of granules will cover a whole pot, applications on bottle gove exact measurements but recalled like a tea spoon for, wow, like quite a bit lol a quarter bottle could surround a 1,500 square ft home. a tea spoon it says per 25 square feet so you can tell already, one potted plant hardly needs any. I think it is hazardous to eat of course but it melts into the soil and gnats larvae feed and die off it and grown gnats sense it coming out the entire plant and stay away. I would think there are ither things in the soil or media that one would use that is toxic to consume. Perhaps metal mesh screen/cage kind of thing? but yea. it is just bacteria and there would be soo little i would think it is ok.

 

[medidedicated]

I was actually going to use mine that I already have because I looked into it long ago. I just have not had issues, some spiders in the tent and earwigs have been eating them lol

 

[medidedicated]

Oh yeah, should mention the cool part, it works by scrambling their brains kind of like THC to the plant to a variety of bugs, and should I say “humans” lolol

 

[pahpah-cee]

Word I’ll get off my butt and look at the bottle.

the mosquitos are getting a bit randy lately so I’m ready to nip it in the bud.

Last grow (inside) I had so many predators I didn’t know what to do. If I grabbed the fabric pots the predatory mites would be all over me. It was like a creepy war zone and I just was a bystander. Couldn’t even find the pest they were eating. So I just kind of rolled with it and have a great harvest.

 

[pahpah-cee]

Oh yeah, should mention the cool part, it works by scrambling their brains kind of like THC to the plant to a variety of bugs, and should I say “humans” lolol

Well now I gotta google it and see what’s going on.

 

[DrDukePHD]

I tried all the options, neem, mosquito dunks & bits etc.

Just skip it all & buy "MICROBE-LIFT BMC"
You can get a 2oz on Amazon for $15'ish or 6oz on Chewy for $21 (lifetime supply). Add 2 drops to a gallon of room temp water, shake & spray your soil (House Plants too!). 1 drop per gallon once a week after that. Yellow sticky traps & they will be gone forever.

 

[medidedicated]

I tried all the options, neem, mosquito dunks & bits etc.

Just skip it all & buy "MICROBE-LIFT BMC"
You can get a 2oz on Amazon for $15'ish or 6oz on Chewy for $21 (lifetime supply). Add 2 drops to a gallon of room temp water, shake & spray your soil (House Plants too!). 1 drop per gallon once a week after that. Yellow sticky traps & they will be gone forever.

Same ingredient, BTI which the mosquito bits come in 19$ 30oz from moster gardens which 4-5 pieces will cover the plants whole life just be patient with it and take a few waterings. I am suprised it did not work for you. Same ingredient.

Now this was a quick search, 6oz , 1 oz water is close to 600 drops. Mostly liquid. Look at the 30oz jug, plenty more lol. If only it would work for you. Whoops, that may of been a decimal and could be 3000 drops lol either one should do though if price is not a factor it is the same bacteria

 

[DrDukePHD]

Same ingredient, BTI which the mosquito bits come in 19$ 30oz from moster gardens which 4-5 pieces will cover the plants whole life just be patient with it and take a few waterings. I am suprised it did not work for you. Same ingredient.

Now this was a quick search, 6oz water is close to 300 drops. Mostly liquid. Look at the 30oz jug, plenty more lol. If only it would work for you.

Microbe-Lift, i can put in 1 drop... shake up water & be watering 30secs later. No straining out pieces. 300 drops is a 6 year supply at 1 drop per week. $20 for 6 years lol, its just better/easier.

 

[medidedicated]

Microbe-Lift, i can put in 1 drop... shake up water & be watering 30secs later. No straining out pieces. 300 drops is a 6 year supply at 1 drop per week. $20 for 6 years lol, its just better/easier.

I do coco/perlite daily feed so also depends on that setup. I would run through it faaast. I actually read a tip to switch to powder nutrients, for this same reason.