Nats , please help (pics)

digitalliquid

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hey so i got these little annoying nats going on. i didnt notice them till about a month ago and they were not doing anything so i thought nothing of it (has anyone seen the commercial for that medication that says "while steve was having fun , something deadly was building up in my arterys"?) and so after awhile i noticed my pants slowed down to almost a crawl in growing. now here are some key points that i think are important to understand whats going on in my garden.

1. i DID use those yellow non toxic strips and the entire 2 weeks it has been there has not caught a damn thing. i have it hanging in the middle of my girls.
2.i DID use those mosquito dunks. i have to say i havent noticed a change at all, and further more i have concern that these larve are up inside the rock wool (where the water doesnt touch)
3. i used the wrong nutes and it ended up clogging (crystallizing) the pipes in my areo garden. so now i have stagnant water , i tried to remedy this by adding some cleaning solution and putting in some bubbles.
4.after watching one bag seed plant die i decided to pull it out so i could further look into the problem. this is when i noticed a little white nat hanging on to the roots.
5. at one point i DID have mold growing on the rock wool but sprinkled some sulpher and it went away in a couple of days.

okay so after taking the plant out i look at it and it had a bunch of little black dots everywhere. so i assume it was parts of the mosqwuito dunk , however its far into the roots and higher than the water can reach. so with my thumb nail i dig out what apears to be a little worm or slug of some sort. i took a picture but you cannot see it well enough. im almost positive that its the larve of the gnats and also chunks of the mosquito dunks. so my question is , of course , how the fuck do i get red of these little guys. they are literally making my plants struggle to grow.
 

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Ichi

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hey so i got these little annoying nats going on. i didnt notice them till about a month ago and they were not doing anything so i thought nothing of it (has anyone seen the commercial for that medication that says "while steve was having fun , something deadly was building up in my arterys"?) and so after awhile i noticed my pants slowed down to almost a crawl in growing. now here are some key points that i think are important to understand whats going on in my garden.

1. i DID use those yellow non toxic strips and the entire 2 weeks it has been there has not caught a damn thing. i have it hanging in the middle of my girls.
2.i DID use those mosquito dunks. i have to say i havent noticed a change at all, and further more i have concern that these larve are up inside the rock wool (where the water doesnt touch)
3. i used the wrong nutes and it ended up clogging (crystallizing) the pipes in my areo garden. so now i have stagnant water , i tried to remedy this by adding some cleaning solution and putting in some bubbles.
4.after watching one bag seed plant die i decided to pull it out so i could further look into the problem. this is when i noticed a little white nat hanging on to the roots.
5. at one point i DID have mold growing on the rock wool but sprinkled some sulpher and it went away in a couple of days.

okay so after taking the plant out i look at it and it had a bunch of little black dots everywhere. so i assume it was parts of the mosqwuito dunk , however its far into the roots and higher than the water can reach. so with my thumb nail i dig out what apears to be a little worm or slug of some sort. i took a picture but you cannot see it well enough. im almost positive that its the larve of the gnats and also chunks of the mosquito dunks. so my question is , of course , how the fuck do i get red of these little guys. they are literally making my plants struggle to grow.
Most hydro shops will have the more expensive version of dunks called Gnatural. It is some OMIRI listed shit but the same stuff as the dunks just way more concentrated. Mix up a big batch of that shit.

...oh ya. Those little shits look like they are fucking shit up. I fucking hate grubby type bugs things. So fucking nasty. lol. Killkillkill.
 

digitalliquid

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as far as the gnat problem goes i think i have it covered , ANY water that goes to the plants is first soaked overnight with ground up mosquito dunks. for the moms i got them into some new soil and gave them some molases and dunk water (lol) and covered the top with sand. low and behold about 3 hours later im smashing about 4 of those fucking gnats trying to get in there. as far as the hydro goes they also got the dunk water and i took the time to sit there and drip about 8 oz of the dunk water on each plant (from the top so they would be absorbed into the part of the rockwool that wasnt touching the water). then i went with a sugesstion of a guy at the local hydro shop to put a jar of pickles out (open) , he claims that by his own test he put out 2 things of the yellow sticky tape and caught about 2 of them , then put out the pickles and caught about 10 floating around, guess its something about the vinegar. also i put that yellow sticky tape right in-front of the res (the only way in and out). then sprayed booth plants with neem oil and gave them all new nutes and a product called 'bio root' to help reapire what the fuckin gnats did to my root system. something else i was looking into was 'magic green' by house and garden (anyone used it?) it claims to "...leaves a waxy layer on the leaves protecting them from mold and insects. Magic Green contains macro and micro nutes that will restore vitality when root absorption is disrupted." sounds promising but just looking for some feedback before i try it. now if all this doesnt get red of some fuckin gnats i dont know what will. lol i know it seems i went a little overkill but i just want these things gone so i can continue to watch my girls grow happily.
 
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