tiny bugs
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STILL PUFFIN
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need to get it sorted , whats the rh like and are the temps ok ?
EvlMunkee
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Yep, sounds like fungus gnats. They run around in your soil and will fly or crawl out on the sides when you topwater.
Is your soil always moist? A layer of sand on top will discourage them.
Hotsause
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Yes that works but ive also let my soil dry out completely a few watering ive had 1 other run in with them and used Nematode Gnats
mr.bond
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Here is a recent quote from the wonderful Heisenberg on fungus gnats:
"A great preventative and suppressant for fungus gnats is the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis. If you use mycogrow or great white you have this bacterium. If you do not use these products, or want to introduce more BT to your tea, pick up some mosquito dunks. Break off a little of the disk and add it to the tea brew, or put some directly into the res. The larvea will still live for several days but stop eating almost immediately, get sick and eventually expire. If you can pour some tea directly on the larvae you have the best chance of infecting them. A turkey baster works pretty well. You should always have several yellow sticky traps around your garden to catch adult females and those who escape the tea. Removal of alternative breeding grounds helps alot. Keep cat boxes clean, trash taken out and left over food put away. Remove any standing water including unused drains. I find these measures are enough to keep fungus gnats from being a problem."
the mycogrow he mentions is MycoGrow Soluble, available from fungi.com for cheap. this can be brewed into a tea and used to inoculate your plants and provide benefits in addition to gnat death. cheers and good luck on your eradication
mr.bond
"A great preventative and suppressant for fungus gnats is the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis. If you use mycogrow or great white you have this bacterium. If you do not use these products, or want to introduce more BT to your tea, pick up some mosquito dunks. Break off a little of the disk and add it to the tea brew, or put some directly into the res. The larvea will still live for several days but stop eating almost immediately, get sick and eventually expire. If you can pour some tea directly on the larvae you have the best chance of infecting them. A turkey baster works pretty well. You should always have several yellow sticky traps around your garden to catch adult females and those who escape the tea. Removal of alternative breeding grounds helps alot. Keep cat boxes clean, trash taken out and left over food put away. Remove any standing water including unused drains. I find these measures are enough to keep fungus gnats from being a problem."
the mycogrow he mentions is MycoGrow Soluble, available from fungi.com for cheap. this can be brewed into a tea and used to inoculate your plants and provide benefits in addition to gnat death. cheers and good luck on your eradication
mr.bond
BeaverHuntr
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Yes that works but ive also let my soil dry out completely a few watering ive had 1 other run in with them and used Nematode Gnatsand i havent seen those shits again
Yes sir I used predatory Nematodes too fight nature with nature !!! Yellow sticky pads to catch the adults.
BeaverHuntr
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My gnats seriously chilled on the mosquito dunks I would put near my pots. They became immune to everything but No hot shot pest strips, nematodes and yellow sticky pads. Catching adults is easy but they will come back because they will land on your medium, have a fuck fest and dump mass larvae into your medium.
Fungas gnats destroyed two of my newly planted babies so I quickly threw those away and changed as much of the soil on my remaining 8 that all had the larvae and then I did something they always tell you never to do which seemed to do the trick....I watered with one part of hydrogen peroxide to 4 parts of water...I first tried it on all my houseplants and they all survived. I also watered all my plants in the veg room and the bloom room (total 16 plants) with the hydrogen peroxide solution and every one is bug free and thriving. This was a last resort...I had tried the Mosquito Dunks and Neem Oil and nothing was working.
I now keep plants as dry as possible and disturb the top of the soil often so that it's loose
I also use Dr Doom bug spray with pyrethium...it gets rid of all the adults which look like small mosquitoes that fly really fast but not far.
I now keep my growrooms ultra clean and boy, was I ever overwatering.
I am on my 4th indoor grow now and have not seen them or their gross-out larvae for over a month and all my plants are doing really well. My best grow yet.
By the way...I discovered where the fungas gnats were coming from...the sewer in the basement where my grow op is. We rented a sewer snake and snaked out a bunch of roots that were slowing down the sewer stuff from going down as fast as it should have been.
I now keep plants as dry as possible and disturb the top of the soil often so that it's loose
I also use Dr Doom bug spray with pyrethium...it gets rid of all the adults which look like small mosquitoes that fly really fast but not far.
I now keep my growrooms ultra clean and boy, was I ever overwatering.
I am on my 4th indoor grow now and have not seen them or their gross-out larvae for over a month and all my plants are doing really well. My best grow yet.
By the way...I discovered where the fungas gnats were coming from...the sewer in the basement where my grow op is. We rented a sewer snake and snaked out a bunch of roots that were slowing down the sewer stuff from going down as fast as it should have been.
