Tiny little black flying fucks

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rep+ fuckin A. Thanks bro.

Ninjabowler said:

Dang, sounds like a classic case. Watering a little less often will help and if your not that far along you may want to bomb the room.

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A lot of the time they dont have good enough ventilation or air movement within their grow room.. that would help dry out the pots much faster...

I see them flying in my grow room but its only a few.. had them on and off for years. never once had a problem with them and I did nothing to kill them. just dont over water and make sure you have good air flow.

Incase you care...What I found out about these Bastards is: the adults only live a short time like 5-10 days. They lay eggs in the surface of your soil I believe this is a larvae style Reproduction, The egg/larvae feed off of fungus, Which is in your soil. If you over water or soil stays moist on surface too long (poor drainage, Etc.) there is more fungus growing on top of your soil. More eggs/Larvae can feed and hatch. Some occasions they can even feed on small roots and root hairs. So you need to take atleast 2 steps when fighting These bastards. Catch the adults by using sticky paper. The larvae are still there, and will hatch become adults lay eggs, get stuck on paper etc. So the cycle isn't broken, You may even notice less. Other tips I heard about in addition to what everyone else said is, Ground Cinnamon on surface of soil. They say it kills the fungus on the surface of soil. Therefore the larvae have no food, and breaks the cycle. I heard soapy water sprayed on surface, Insecticides, Sand as well... Maybe more than you care but figured I would share. I had a long war getting rid of these. Moist soil surface seems to be the main problem with these. IMO I would use the Natural/Organic remedies first, Before Neem or chemicals and sticky mouse traps on soil surface. Good Luck Please let me know how it goes for ya...

Have you still only seen 1 lol? Don't shit yourself because some poor guy got sucked through your intake fan haha.

These tiny little fucks are fungus nats,they live where there is moisture. They eat the little green fungus that grows on your delta cubes and media, if in hydro. Also this is a biggy because the little white larve from their eggs eat ONLY your roots,right off your plant, making them vulnerable to overdose, and other root loss problems. The little fly's,if they find a selfed male-flower will be atracted by the sweet smell,they carry pollen from one plant to another just like sugar ants. Catch the flys with sticky pads on the soil surface,to prevent them from breeding as soon as the emerge from the soil. Get some "Az- Max" this is organic, If you haven't FIM yet,this is the best opportunity to do so. Mix Az- Max at recomended strenght for the drench solution and drench the soil. This stops the larve from eating your roots. They starve and dont emerge from the soil. The side effect of this is slower growth for about a week, continue to water with fresh water. After compleatly dryed out, resume reg nute program. I like to FIM during this time because it slows the plant down for a week afterword,the azmax does this also, might as well get everything that can slow them down, all at once. With your left over Az- Max just put it in a large bowl and mix a little vinager into it.The smell of vinager (rotting fruit) will atract the little basterds to the poison bucket. Within a few hours you will find way more dead nats than on your strip. This method works with some success with vinigar and dish soap. mix the two together in a bowl, The vinigar will attract,the foam will capture,the water will drown. Peace

Just went back and read some very fucked up ideas. If thinking of bombing? STOP! If thinking of neem oil? STOP~! Look at my post and do just what I outlined. They may come back, their larve is in the soil. Even Fox Farms ect. They dont have to fly in to manifest themselfs. It is a little extra "preventitve work" To keep the larve from hatching. Run your soil in an Ice cream bucket, (this is made up of plastic that can withstand temps without leaching polimers, it is cullanary plastic) anyway run it a gallon at a time in the mirowave this eradicates and pops the worms adding little nitrogen bursts to your soil. Gets rid of other living organizms in the soil as well so right after transplant, water with a UN-sulfered molassass solution. This replaces all and "recolonizes" your soil with those friendly little bacteria that help break down the oraganic food maters in your soil. Hope all this useless information helps in some way, "UNDERSTAND" the proper ways to treat for these . As well as why it works.
Also your extra Az-Max solution can be used as well to spray the emergers on the soil they die. What you are spraying is the green algea on the media. Delta cubes ect this renders it in-edible to the fly without food thier cycle is broken no food no reproduction. The Az Max is not a insectacide, It is not a herbacide. It won't kill anything. It just makes bugs liike thrips spidermites. fungus nats and thier larve starve to death and not reproduce. Compleatly Organic can be used as foliar or drench during flower or fruiting of any plant. Not toxic to humans to smoke or eat. or handle good shit man kinda pricey but awsome I treated for fungus nat four weeks ago retreated 5 days later. As you can see this treatment does not harm your plants, and havent seen a single fly.

Thanks alot bro. Keep in mind though I've only seen one the entire time growing. Do you think to start off I could use the sticky tape or should I go right to doing this?

i use a pop bottle with a bit of water and sugar in

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Hang up some fly traps. 4 around every plant. Then be prepared to trim out any flys in your bud. It's not too difficult. Might lose a trich or two.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZE6A0SBg50 or if your felling energetic lmfao

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Why do you have standing water in your tent?

they are fungus gnats and they dont do anything to the plant but there larvae will stress out your plants they eat on roots and your nutes that are in the soil but if i was u i would remove the first 2 inches of soil because that is where the fungus gnat lay the larvae if it is bad i would use neem oil as a drench

Flaming Pie said:

Why do you have standing water in your tent?

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I have a bowl of water underneath my exhaust fan to boost my humidity until my second (stronger) humidifier comes in the mail

what is your humidity (without the standing water) and how old are the plants?

Have 1 that is about a week and some change old, and two fresh sprouts that are about 48 hours old..The humidity without the bowl is about 35, with it is about 48

Place a small glass of red wine next to your grow pots. They will fly into the wine, and, (hiccup, hiccup) die in the juice.

Seriously? And love your avatar. Oorah. You a former devil dog?

T.Huxley said:

Have 1 that is about a week and some change old, and two fresh sprouts that are about 48 hours old..The humidity without the bowl is about 35, with it is about 48

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I have a plant that is in 16-20 percent humidity. You should be fine at 35.

T.Huxley said:

Seriously? And love your avatar. Oorah. You a former devil dog?

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Yes, I'm serious about the wine. You can also use vinegar. The little dumb asses will fly right into the juice. I dealt with fungus gnats a couple of grows back, and I just kept killing them when I saw them buzzing around. They never really caused any problems that I could see, but my soil wasn't full of the bastards like others have talked about. Just one here, and one there.

When I researched the subject back then, most seem to agree that the larva (eggs) or live bugs are already in the soil. When I bought my soil last year, I noticed the bags I was buying had been through the previous winter and it gets fucking cold here. My thought was, the freezing temps may have killed off any bugs in the soil because I've had absolutely no bugs in my last 2 grows.

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