Recent content by Nander

Yeah I both heard and read that you can use a potato. Fungus gnat larve are like 3mm long, if that. They are nearly microscopic. But I saw them crawling on the stem of a clone I was trying to root. It died. I tried the potato trick, but it just seemed to dry up without doing much. I did not...

Well I'm glad I ph'ed it before I watered every plant with hard water deposits. I only flushed the one plant with the worst deposits with the ph 4 water. But I am also hoping that it might flush out all those hard water deposits. We will see how it goes.

I seem to have a lot of trouble with our well water. It seems to lock up nutrients because my plants end up being pale green in short order even when I feed them. Also there is a white and yellow crust that forms on the top of my promix/foxfarm soil that is hard water deposits. Thinking I could...

Yeah, I am on low budget myself. Can't afford the spray you buy at the grow shop. I bought one cape sundew, and as it grew i put it in larger pots. In the process it had babies because of all the fungus gnats it ate. I transplanted one of them and now I have four plants. It will never eliminate...

Oh. The cape sundew. Its a truely beautiful plant. Its got long elongated leaves with sticky balls of goo on the end of long bright red hairs that completely cover each leaf. They smell sweet to all flies and gnats. Its basically like your own personal, ever growing yellow sticky trap. ENJOY...

Something I noticed -a lot- with soil and growing weed in general. Your product and the whole plant itself will both taste, and smell exactly like what you are growing it in. I know because I used miracle grow the first few times I grew. The buds were dense, compact. The plants were beautiful...

About a year after I first started growing in the tiny space that I have, I ended up getting both pests pretty regular. They go away, and come back on the wind, or with soil. Spider mites as far as I know like it hot and dry. So you should make the grow room cool and humid. Unfortunately this...

And I hope no one mentions bat guano, that would be buying something. :wall:

I dislike the idea of having to purchase bloom booster, and I was wondering if you could use banana peels, potato peels, lakeweed, earthworm castings, and molasses to make a compost tea to accomplish the same thing. As I can generally get these things without too much expense or come about from...

Picture of the large sundew in flowering closet. And a picture of the one in the vegging box. Actually growing in one of those tiny plastic bathroom drink cups.

I tried potatoes with no results, and I use grow bags pushed up against the sides of my veg box, making it impossible for sticky traps, which also have icky sticky slime that both gets on plant leaves or worse, my arms and hands. Ick. I Just have one sundew at the very base of all the bags. If...

My sundew has been flowering in the flowering closet, but the first bloom looked the best. Otherwise I could say my gnat problems are over. In fact had to use myself as bait to catch a few mosquitoes to feed it, since it was looking pale. It's baby is doing extremely well, very dark green. Its...

I especially like how the more gnats there are the faster the plant grows, meaning it catches more gnats. I also heard they really attract spider mites too, I pray I don't get those.;-) Mine is getting ready to bloom, and as soon as she does I will be posting pictures. Those mites sound really...

I tried this thread once before, but this might just be a better home. I Used to have fungus gnat problems. They ate my clones and stunted growth big time. I tried neem oil but plants did not seem to like it. I tried nematodes, and they worked.. for a while but the damn gnats came back. Not only...

Great info. I am definitely getting a nice air-stone. I grow veggies outdoors, and medicine indoors. I bet my tomatoes, peppers, and pumpkins will really appreciate the beneficial microbes