Gnats

tristynhawk

tristynhawk

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Well i havent had this problem before but someone suggested i use an organic soil and now there seems to gnats in my closet everytime i open the door will they hurt my plant's and if so how to get rid of them.

I went and bought some bug spray but it seems to have no effect on them their driving me crazy...lol
 
Ku$hking3883

Ku$hking3883

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Heres a ~link~ for a good brand. I use it the second I see one of those little winged bastards. I just put it in a pepper shaker and use it when you see um kinda like putting parmesan cheese on a piece of pizza. I have had no negative effects on my garden. for real theres not that big of deal of you get on um Fungus Gnats:-x
 
oldschooltofu

oldschooltofu

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i have been battling fungus gnats for a while now.
i tried Sand, DE, mosquito dunks, gognats.
nothing worked...well the gognats can work ok if you do a dunk or heavy soil soak.

then i tried pure 100% BTI from the hydrostore. it was 30$ for a 1/2oz but way worth it. one soil drench and they were gone. did a follow up dose. still no bugs 4 weeks later.

fungus gnat larve will eat your roots. causing nutrient uptake problems and very dimished yields. your buds will be light and fluffy and have almost no weight.
good luck.
 
Xcon

Xcon

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Try sand first, worked for me. I put an inch of white desert playsand from the depot in all my pots + 3 or 4 flypaper strips around the growroom and they were gone completely in a week. Once gone I put up a clean flypaper strip and it was still clean 2 months later.

IDK, but most of the chemical remedies I've tried are useless. A preventive and chemical-free approach has always worked best for me, and I'm sure plenty of growers here feel the same way.
 
i81two

i81two

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One word.

Pygantic 5.0. Pricy but is the best. I have used them all.

For a cheaper solution, nematode the fuck out of them.
 
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babykayla

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Sevin Dust...I HAD the same problem and went to home depot and bought a $4.00 bag of it , sprinkled it on top of soil around base of plant and 2 hours later I checked and EVERYTHING WAS GOOD....
 
i81two

i81two

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del66666 said:
grow in coco and avoid the pests................
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Idont know man. I used a coco mat in one of my sog's and that thing had bugs and worms like i never saw before and the other trays with no mat were fine.

Kinda wierd.
 
del66666

del66666

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i81two said:
Idont know man. I used a coco mat in one of my sog's and that thing had bugs and worms like i never saw before and the other trays with no mat were fine.

Kinda wierd.
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buy it in a dry compressed bale which you add water too........nothing living in that.
 
poindexterous

poindexterous

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del66666 said:
buy it in a dry compressed bale which you add water too........nothing living in that.
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A friend of mine grows with the mixed coco bricks and his pots are teeming with fungus gnats, even worse than my perlite, so I think they'll invade any wet medium, they are happy in peat/promix as well, little buggers!
 
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