fungus gnats. help ):

DANK PURPY

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Fease said:
Don't forget your yellow sticky paper hung up everywhere around the plants. You definitely want to kill the larva in the soil though. Covering the clones "soil" with an inch or two of sand will keep them from laying eggs in it also.
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yeh i def need to get the sticky traps. thanks for your help.
 
DANK PURPY

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BxHaZe87 said:
yea a cup of soda or coffee would work overnight. and use it on there next watering. i beleive its somewhere around a few tsp of neem per gallon sumone correct me if its tbsp
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sorry i read the label it actually is tbsp not tsp...2 tbsp(1 oz) with 1 gallon water
 
ButchyBoy

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My go to product for fungus gnats is Spinosad. It's OMRI listed and works!

I mix it in water and water the plants as usual. I tried mosquito dunks and neem oil with zero effect. The sand thing is just out of the question LOL..
 
DANK PURPY

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ButchyBoy said:
My go to product for fungus gnats is Spinosad. It's OMRI listed and works!

I mix it in water and water the plants as usual. I tried mosquito dunks and neem oil with zero effect. The sand thing is just out of the question LOL..
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really? the neem oil worked like magic for me. my grow was infested. you couldnt look at a plant without seeing atleast 5 gnats flying around or in the top layer of the soil. as soon as i threw about a full gallon on mixed neem oil solution i saw nothing for about 7days. then i slowly started to see a gnat here and there. i think i shouldve kept applying it every day or few days. gonna try applying the neem on daily on foliage and with feeding a tad
 
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DANK PURPY said:
really? the neem oil worked like magic for me. my grow was infested. you couldnt look at a plant without seeing atleast 5 gnats flying around or in the top layer of the soil. as soon as i threw about a full gallon on mixed neem oil solution i saw nothing for about 7days. then i slowly started to see a gnat here and there. i think i shouldve kept applying it every day or few days. gonna try applying the neem on daily on foliage and with feeding a tad
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Ya.. The neem did absolutely nothing. I had one of those outbreaks where you open the door and get hit in the eye balls by gnats. Breathing them and everything LOL!! It was bad!! Spinosad did the trick so I always fall back on it. It's also Organic so a plus in my book.
 
DANK PURPY

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ButchyBoy said:
Ya.. The neem did absolutely nothing. I had one of those outbreaks where you open the door and get hit in the eye balls by gnats. Breathing them and everything LOL!! It was bad!! Spinosad did the trick so I always fall back on it. It's also Organic so a plus in my book.
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wow and where can i get this? local hydroponic store im assuming?
 
Diabolical666

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Bugs get immuned to pesticides, they build a tolerance. Any miticide with spinosad in it works. Monterrey Garden Insect Spray (spinosad) is in my arsenol as well....and avid and forbid. I started with neem , that outta let you know how much they build tolerances... each one of those miticides are more powerful then the last;)
 
DANK PURPY

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Diabolical666 said:
Bugs get immuned to pesticides, they build a tolerance. Any miticide with spinosad in it works. Monterrey Garden Insect Spray (spinosad) is in my arsenol as well....and avid and forbid. I started with neem , that outta let you know how much they build tolerances... each one of those miticides are more powerful then the last;)
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thanks man very helpful information. yeah i think im going to go with the neem oil first and see it thats gonna help. if not then i will def look into other methods. just dont have the funds atm.
 
greenghost420

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DANK PURPY said:
what is that? please explain?
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i had a crazy infestation. as bad as it can get! sticky cards covered type shit. i hit em with high doses of tarantula and great white mixed . watered it in twice in back to back feedings. they were gone at the end on the week. havent seen a gnat since! bout year n half ago... any product with bti= bacillus thuringeinsis . i used what i had in my closet being both great white and tarantula. ran out of tarantula a ways back and havent used any great white in like 3 months. best part is you cant use too much, its good for your roots too. find the generic shit if there is any...
 
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greenghost420 said:
i had a crazy infestation. as bad as it can get! sticky cards covered type shit. i hit em with high doses of tarantula and great white mixed . watered it in twice in back to back feedings. they were gone at the end on the week. havent seen a gnat since! bout year n half ago... any product with bti= bacillus thuringeinsis . i used what i had in my closet being both great white and tarantula. ran out of tarantula a ways back and havent used any great white in like 3 months. best part is you cant use too much, its good for your roots too. find the generic shit if there is any...
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very helpful thanks bro im loving the different solutions growers use and how it worked for them.....thanks man helped a lot.
 
greenghost420

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some of the other shit listed may or may not work like coffee, i dont think neem will help thats meant for insects that pierce n suck sap. gnats feed on roots. mosquito dunks are bti those work but im not sure how much to use. gnats arent that harmful at all, just real fucking annoying lol
 
DANK PURPY

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yea
greenghost420 said:
some of the other shit listed may or may not work like coffee, i dont think neem will help thats meant for insects that pierce n suck sap. gnats feed on roots. mosquito dunks are bti those work but im not sure how much to use. gnats arent that harmful at all, just real fucking annoying lol[/QUOTE
i somewhat agree. when i had my gnat infestation my plants came to an alerting stop and i didnt see much growth in weeks. they were almost completely stunted. but in a way i agree with you. im def looking into other methods obviously the neem oil didnt do what i intended it to, but im sure everyones advice is my ticket to getting those fucks out of my grow
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ButchyBoy

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greenghost420 said:
some of the other shit listed may or may not work like coffee, i dont think neem will help thats meant for insects that pierce n suck sap. gnats feed on roots. mosquito dunks are bti those work but im not sure how much to use. gnats arent that harmful at all, just real fucking annoying lol
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I am going to give the coffee thing a try next time I get bombarded. The only way to find out is to try for myself right?
The Mosquito dunks didn't work for me. I tried crushing them and topdressing then watering. I also crushed and added to a gallon of water, let sit for 3 days and watered with that and still no joy!
The neem oil seemed to glue the soil together and I didn't like that. So far the Spinosad has done the trick! Any time I see a flyer around a pot, that one gets Spinowater for it's next watering. I also suck as many of the flyers as I can with the shop vac when it's bad. Iv'e sucked the top inch or so of soil out of the pots also then top dressed to replace the missing soil.
Laying those yellow sticky traps on the floor also did pretty good at collecting the flyers. Now I use a large fan to blow air across the floor/pots that seems to make it hard for insects to stay near the pots. Collecting and killing the flyers is the key to getting rid of them. Flyers lay eggs!!
 
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