Kickflipfrontblunt
Active Member
Having issues with those pesty little black "soil" flies ( it's what I call them cause when I move the soil they all fly out) well my friends I have figured out a free, 100% organic way of dealing with them... But first I must say not for everyone... So I was sick of buying sticky strips to deal with flies, they definetly work but for only so long before you need to buy more and change them. And the fly traps only keep population down ... They obviously only kill things that fly into them...so I went on the offensive looked for a better solution and I found one... Spiders... And it works! I don't have a massive fly problem never did but I used to have flies in the soil and they really didn't do much until my girls started budding and they would land on the buds ( assuming that's what they were eating) . So once I " relocated " some little black jumping spiders I have not seen a fly since. The spiders do nothing to the plants and they setup little webs above the pots and when I flick the side of the pot BAM the flies get spooked fly upwards and get caught and eaten . I did this for about a week and my fly problem is completely gone and my girls have not been effected at all by the spiders... I know I'm bound to get a lot of heat for this but this is my expirence and I'm only trying to share it to help. p.s I'm growing in my closet that is 9x7 so it's not a rather large space so this may not work in larger grow spaces