Fungus gnats

This morning i discovered what i identified to be fungus gnats on my lady. i dont like this.. I was told it could be possibly from me trimming off some unhealthy fan leaves and just letting them decompose in my soil. is this true? if not what could it be? is this bad for my plant? how do i solve this problem? Happy toking.

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or similiar products will help you......I got a bag of this ish at home depot for like 10$ after tax.....mix 1 tsp/1gal of water....and dress the top of the soil following your first watering....after 2 weeks.....no more bugs

happy growing.....follow this method....i fuckin got those 3 years ago, BAD....did what I said above, been bug free since

Insect Bastards!
Fungus Gnats larvae live on compost material in the soil then become Gnats and lay again in your soil.
They can get into your grow through crap soil or just fly in.
I have had them a couple off times once it was easy to get rid off the second time more difficult.
To get rid of the Gnats i made fly traps from yellow card smothered with vaseline.
I also put a small amount of red wine in a glass covering the top( all but a half inch square in the middle they stick if they manage to get out of the wine)completely with sellotape.
To get rid of the larvae i made sure my soil dried out completely before i watered everytime as they love it moist.
A friend of mine had such a bad problem he has an inch of sand on top of the soil and enough in the tray to cover the holes in the bottom of the pot,it works for him perfectly.
Also there are a few products you can try,Gnat Off being one.
The last time i had Gnats they stayed till harvest but i managed to minimise the problem so much that it wasnt really a problem at all.
Good luck!

^I've used the sand trick before, and it worked great for me, as well. My only suggestion is that using an inch is excessive. I had drainage problems when I used a shitload, so backed-off to using just enough to cover the top of the soil, and it worked excellent.

Also, you might want to leave the trimmings out of your soil, unless you have an actual compost pile, with sufficient time for them to decompose, before using. Just throwing them into the pot with your plant, won't give them enough time to decompose and become useable. I'm not sure how your were doing that, you didn't specify.

They are drawn to moisture and they lay their eggs on moist matter and in about four days the eggs hatch and the larvae will begin to eat organic matter and worse yet feed on the roots of your plants.

Remove all trimmed plant matter, covers your soil with about an inch of sand, make sure you have NO damp or wet trash or garbage or anything anywhere around or they will not only end up in your grow room, they will take over your home.

I know someone who did not get on top of them fast and ended up with his house being THICK with them, every room. There were so many in his kitchen, thanks to damp trash/garbage not being removed almost daily, that the combined number of them caused a buzzing sound so loud that they sounded like he had one of those really big flies in his kitchen, the ones that are so loud they sound like they are gasoline powered. The things laid their eggs on damp paper towels and used coffee filters and other moist things in the trash. They laid eggs in sink drains in his house that were seldom used and he even found they were using the tank of a toilet that was very seldom used. He had to bomb his house twice to get rid of them all.

Now that is by far the most EXTREME case of them I have ever known of, but it can happen if you let them get a good foothold and then spread throughout your house.

You have to stop the breeding cycle by depriving them of ANY moist/damp locations to lay eggs.

If you spray or bomb for them there will still be eggs and they will be back. You can use all the no pest strips and other methods of trying to catch/trap them in the world but you will never catch/trap them all before at least some lay eggs, so you will keep having them.

Do not allow any conditions in your house to exist where they can lay eggs and they will be gone fairly soon.

thanks everyone. im going to stop leaving my trimming in the pot with my plant. i will also try the sand method. should i wait till my soil is dry to put sand on top?

^Put the sand on, right after you do your next watering. You could do it now, too, but I think it's a good idea to leave the sand undisturbed for as long as possible, which'd be right after your next heavy watering.

okay i watered like a day or two ago so tonight before i turn the light back on ill give it a good water and spread some sand around. sound good?

I hate these bastards, and have dealt with em multiple times.....I hated using sand, compresses your soil/coco, and after watering will eventually sink down among the dirt in your pots. Diatomaceous Earth on the other hand seems to do the same as sand, yet not as heavy on the soi, also adds calcium...dont breath that shit in tho. This and a mix of green light neem oil helps majorly.....you will have to use some sort of sticky fly traps for the suckers with wings. You can also throw a slice of potato on top of the soil...helps draw out the larve.