Gnats everywhere

[nczeroballer187]

No way man. That will slow them down but that won't eliminate the problem. You gotta kill em and keep em from having babies too. Neem Oil is the best, hands down. I promise you that if you use it, your problem will be gone and if you use it like every 4 weeks or so, they'll never come back. Not to mention that the plants love all the trace nutes in the oil. You just gotta try it.

You sir are wrong. The sand COMPLETELY eliminates them. I speak from 100% firsthand experience. My growroom no longer has gnats with only sand added to the top layer of soil.

 

[number2pensel]

sand worked for me too..

 

[Brick Top]

Gnats is a colloquial name for many types of small flying insects so it may depend on what they actually are and while I cannot swear that it works since I have never tried it I did read that many small flying insects can be killed by filling a glass with apple cider vinegar and adding about two drops of Dawn dishwashing liquid. The apple cider vinegar attracts them and the Dawn kills them.

I have never had the problem but since reading about that I figured if I ever had the problem I would give it a try since it would be so easy.

The Neem oil will do the trick for sure but it might be worth testing the apple cider vinegar/Dawn thing too since it is cheap and easy to just fill a glass, add a couple drops of Dawn, stir it up and set it in place.

 

[lvpete]

gnats like soil and dont bother the plants

 

[joeyjoejoe]

i have a bad gnat problem right now.currently using the beer and sand technique .hope it works. although, this is the best method of killing them i think.works everytime

 

[RaymondStone]

I used the yellow sticky paper and it worked GREAT!

 

[jimtufano12]

ok where can you go to get a ba of sand? and these traps

 

[jimtufano12]

wouldnt sand have too much salt going into the soil when watered?

 

[GoPostalMan]

wouldnt sand have too much salt going into the soil when watered?

it's sand... not salt.

 

[Baz]

ok where can you go to get a ba of sand? and these traps

lol ur kidding me right, u telling me u don't know were to get sand and beer?

ha ha wtf!

 

[jimtufano12]

i know i just thought it had salt in it? so watering it with sand on top wont harm the roots?

 

[jimtufano12]

lol i know where to get beer
but the sand id think you could get at menards or home depot right?
i just dont feel like wasting gas and them not having it.
toooo high to drive

 

[Baz]

lol i know where to get beer
but the sand id think you could get at menards or home depot right?
i just dont feel like wasting gas and them not having it.
toooo high to drive

Yes, why wouldn't your local diy center sell sand lol?

 

[jimtufano12]

just making sure before i head out

so when you said you had spilt beer in the top of the bucket thats all it took to wipe em out? these little bastards are annoying the fuck out of me.

ive smashed about 15 of these little fuckers and ive finally had enough, they wont be living past today.
im guessing they came in the soil i bought. and ive just cloned so i need them gone asap

haha if i go there and theyre out or something im going to be pissed!
but im sure theyll have it, thanks for the "help" bro ;p lol

 

[Baz]

I'll put my life on theem having sand lol

get some coke bottle tops, fill em with beer and place them arround places of interest for the little shits, like the drip tray, do the sand method or what ever (i only used the beer traps) they will keep the numbers down not wipe em out totally, get some sticky tape and wrap it arround your pots (with the sticky side outwards) that always amused me

 

[GoPostalMan]

no... you don't feed your plants beer!!
you put the beer in a bowl or cup the gnats are attracted to it and die in it.

 

[jimtufano12]

im going full force on these bitches im talking genocide against fruit gnats lol

im gonna put the sand on top, fill a bowl with some brews,
and tape the shit outta my room lol

and since the worlds in this whole waste not cycle ill just drink the beer after :O

 

[GoPostalMan]

im going full force on these bitches im talking genocide against fruit gnats lol

im gonna put the sand on top, fill a bowl with some brews,
and tape the shit outta my room lol

and since the worlds in this whole waste not cycle ill just drink the beer after :O

haha....
get some natural light
cause your gonna be drinking gnatty light

 

[jimtufano12]

ahaha ill probably have a friend whos already too fucked up too notice drink it.

hed be like whys it in a bowl?

 

[jimtufano12]

Went to menards. Found some sand.
Haha the menards by me is fucking huge with two floors two elevators and a huge escalater.
it nearly took me forever to find this shit. but i did.
i also checked out some wood and found some great deals. Mini-ramp here i come!

But anyway, i added the sand to the plants and it was pretty fun i must admit seeing the little bastards go nuts!
while i was putting some duct tape around the pots i saw one land on it and try gettin off haha
i guess its a lil bad how that amuses me but these things were hurting my babies :]

after only about 30 mins after putting the sand on i didnt really see any movement around the puts.
give it a couple days and they should be gone