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Was given clones with fungus gnats

plantsinpants

plantsinpants

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Well i recently decided to dust off the old grow gear ( im an outdoor guy )and asked a good friend for a couple cuts of the local ticket, and he was nice enough to give me 2 nice cuts in solo cups, i inspected for mites and other pest and didnt find any , i noticed the soil was compact and damp so i didnt water , couple days later i notice the fudgin fungus gnat flies , i decided to free up a few roots and transplant in dry soil in hopes of drying the soil from the rootball ( slightly root bound),, Am i doing this right by trying to dry it to the point of wilt before next watering to rid the gnats?
 
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Dumme

Dumme

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Thrip also live in substrate, and IMO, are often miss diagnosed as gnats, if you've never encountered them.
 
Dumme

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Easy way to tell is gnats normally will stay in flight longer, where adult thrip are larger, and won't stay a flight long. Thrip larvae are easy to spot signs on the leaves, but if its a clone from a friend, they might not be easy to see.

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rob333

rob333

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plantsinpants said:
Well i recently decided to dust off the old grow gear ( im an outdoor guy )and asked a good friend for a couple cuts of the local ticket, and he was nice enough to give me 2 nice cuts in solo cups, i inspected for mites and other pest and didnt find any , i noticed the soil was compact and damp so i didnt water , couple days later i notice the fudgin fungus gnat flies , i decided to free up a few roots and transplant in dry soil in hopes of drying the soil from the rootball ( slightly root bound),, Am i doing this right by trying to dry it to the point of wilt before next watering to rid the gnats?
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i dont no why people freak out so much on gnates lol you need a swarm of them to do any real damage to the plant i have done grows to harvest with about 20-30 gnates flying around did zero to my plant but leave white marks
 
plantsinpants

plantsinpants

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rob333 said:
i dont no why people freak out so much on gnates lol you need a swarm of them to do any real damage to the plant i have done grows to harvest with about 20-30 gnates flying around did zero to my plant but leave white marks
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Well i. Not freaking out but ,,ive seen gnats strip roots when soil stays wet,, its all fun and games until your plant is stunted
 
rob333

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plantsinpants said:
And yes mites
web vegging plants too,, they web arround the new shoots
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they do but very very little i have a case of em atm on my outdoors zero web look under the leaves there they are like i said i have done grows with 20 -30 flying around useing h&g roots xl there was no way in the world they could eat all that root and they came out fine no issue at all
 
plantsinpants

plantsinpants

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Yeah thats true,, im just starting for this year and was all reved up to get healthy clones and got infected babies,, lol,,,,, You must be from a pretty warm region to have mites outdoors,,, where i am there are never ever mites on outdoor plants, its not warm enough for long enough ,,
 
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