how are those good old Ants.

[0011StealTH]

treading you and your ladys today? o man they love my earth juice

 

[ronnyyork]

Yea there is alot of red fire ants around the stalk of my smallest plant and it seems like they are trying to eat it a few of the nodes where the new growth is dying?

 

[Carne Seca]

fire-ants are aphid farmers. I would check under the leaves and on the stalks for aphids. They collect aphid nectar for food. Also, fire-ants are attracted to oil and sugar. Keep both away from your grow if you have a fire-ant issue.

 

[CR500ROOST]

yea they eat aphids not the plant so be happy

 

[Endur0xX]

they also eat your house dont they? me the ants in my grow room last year were the carpenter one ... this year the room is going to be fully sealed exept for the exhaust fans!

 

[0011StealTH]

i had black ants, to my experiences black ants are more forgiven than red ants.


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@0011STEALTH blend some garlic and hot pepper and spray them with it- that way yu keep ANTS away my fellow, even when the herb is changing its original smell it is cheesy and I use panamanian pepper which is really spicy and it ends up in a Jamaican smell excellent

 

[namtih024]

in some conditions fire ants will chew through your stalk at the base, they do it in a matter of days too. i had a five foot tall haze topple over and die on me about four years back, dont get me started on termites that suppossedly "dont eat plants" either

to solve the problem then i took a sort of radical solution. i elevated my five gallon pots on a metal wire stand that was then placed into a large pan filled with bleach water, this cut off there route and they killed themselves in the water.

 

[RawBudzski]

sometimes ants figure the loose soil at the base of the plant is a good place to start digging, they use the Roots & stalk as lets say "guides" they dig along them and will cause your plant to have issues beginning under the soil

 

[assistantreaper]

yea they eat aphids not the plant so be happy

yes but aphids eat your plant. ants will raise aphids and place them on your plant. They are very good farmers

 

[Carne Seca]

yea they eat aphids not the plant so be happy

Actually they take care of the aphids and even move them to other plants and collect the nectar from glands where the aphids excrete waste. Fire ants are butt lickers.

 

[Wetdog]

Amdro takes care of all those fuckers. Very mild stuff since it mainly targets the queen. Kill her and the whole colony dies out.

Wet

 

[0011StealTH]

Amdro takes care of all those fuckers. Very mild stuff since it mainly targets the queen. Kill her and the whole colony dies out.

Wet

can i fuck the queen?
seriously are this ants control by the queen?

 

[Wetdog]

They aren't controled by the queen, I don't think, but killing her means no new baby ants and they all die. The other ants eat this stuff too, it's just that the queen gets first dibs.

The stuff works great. You only need about 1tbl sprinkled around the mound and the jug I bought has lasted for over 3 years.

Wet