Okay so I'm at about 3 week veg and im plagued with these annoying fungus gnats, I'm growing In ffhp with added amendments, i tried nematodes and safer garden dust with bt, those white spots are the safer stuff I put on the leaves, I don't want to use chemical pesticides and I don't want to kill my microbial life in my soil. Please help. Thank you http://1drv.ms/1F427nm
top dress with a teaspoon neem seed meal per gallon of medium then ewc on top of that. other than that get a small dustbuster type vacuum and suck the adults up with it. Hypoaspis Miles mites.
BT comes in 2 major types BT-I and BT-K.. Safer dust is for caterpillars and I use the liquid version weekly for that.. What you want is Mosquito Dunks and or Bits.. `Crush a dunk or bits and sprinkle on top of the soil.. Each watering will activate and control the gnats.. You can hang a dunk in your watering bucket as well.. It takes a few days to stop seeing them.. You can top spray with spinosad, Neem or lavender oil to knockdown the flyers or use a few yellow sticky traps on stakes..
Thanks for the quick reply guys! This is what I'm using Do you think that's good enough? Also how long does it take to start working? Because it seems worse now? "10 Million Live Beneficial Nematodes Sf - Fungus Gnat/Rootknot Gall Exterminator" http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51IFb3DyiML._SY400_.jpg
get the house vacuum and shake the pots and seek and kill as many as you see..they do take a while ti kill off...also let the pots dry out as much as you can with out killing the plants..one bad thing about air-pots lots of door ways for the little bugs to go in
Get a bottle of Gnatrol, it is the same Bt as the dunks in liquid form. Use as directed in a soil drench and your problems will be solved with one or two drenches. You need to modify your watering practices also or you will continue to get re-infested if you keep the soil too wet or water too frequently. The gnats are attracted to overly moist soils. Use yellow sticky traps to catch the flyers. http://www.amazon.com/Valent-Gnatrol-WDG/dp/B003E7BGTU PW
I make apple cider vinegar/honey traps but gnats are few and far between. Switch to hydro and you'll have 99% less problems with bugs.
Hey everyone thank you all for the help! I ended up using hydrogen peroxide. Then the following day I mixed in some rocKY mountain worm castings to help get my microbial life back together followed by floralicious plus. I then used some misquito bits and followed that with a topping of diatomaceous earth food grade, the gnats are like literally gome! There were hundreds before! Girls are starting to pick up growth again! Thanks again 😆
When I first started growing, I had an outbreak of fungus gnats. I hung up some flypaper and stopped watering as much. Problem solved.
The gnats will come back haha. In my case they have anyway. I have found the vacuum method very very effective. They fly toward the lights and you simply suck them up.
their eggs hatch every 2-3 days..keep an eye out for the tiny ones that are hard to see..just a heads up buddy good luck
Heres your fix .. becuase the motherss barrel down drops load after load get some DE food grade diatomaceous earth get the less than 5% DO NOT GET ANYTHING ELSE OVER %5 AND FOOD GRADE .. Diatomaceous Earth (often referred to as "DE") is an off white talc-like powder that is the fossilized remains of marine phytoplankton. When sprinkled on a bug that has an exoskeleton (such as bed bugs, ants or fleas) it compromises their waxy coating so that their innards turn into teeny tiny bug jerky. But it doesn't hurt mammals. We can eat it. We do eat it! It's in lots of grain based foods because lots of grains are stored with diatomaceous earth to keep the bugs from eating the grain! Peoplw have been eating this for yrs.. you probly 93% sure we have all had this.. i use it now ..cleanse. . Google it .. i have a link somewhere. . Heres link enjoy this works for growers huge farms etc. http://www.richsoil.com/diatomaceous-earth.jsp fukcancer we winning everyday we awake #teaamfukcancer #teamsarcoma. ..
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Yet they will be back .. see mi post .. on DE .. fukcancer we winning everyday we awake #teaamfukcancer #teamsarcoma. ..
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Why would they come back? I added misquito bits, predator predator nematodes (10 million shit was like 20$), then worm castings from Colorado with over 43000% nematodes, and I also added some other bt, plus I put food grade de all over the tent topped dress the soil and all over the leaves. Plus around the tent? And they'll still come back? !
i dint have a answer . .. i will ask around.. fukcancer we winning everyday we awake #teaamfukcancer #teamsarcoma. ..