Alien(Fungus Gnats) vs. Predator(Spider Mites) Need quick Human Win

Feck

Member
I currently have two set ups going. One being my clones, 12 plants in 1 gallon grow bags with 4 cups set on top, to the side of a few plants. They sadly live under 4 cfls due to tough money times. iphone 1142.jpg

That picture doesn't have the cups, but they are usually sitting on a few bags in between plants. The 4 cfls hang inside a rather large metal dome reflecting all light down. This is in the bottom of my closet where clothes hang above the dome and i usually have the door closed to keep in as much light as possible.

Not even 3 feet from my closet door I have my homemade tent. This has 6, 5 gallon pots with my girls that are just now entering week 8 of flowering. They are under a 600 watt high pressure sodium light. They have a problem all their own meant for a nutrient forum.


iphone 1538.jpg

This picture is from before the nutrient problem. The closet is directly to the left in the picture.

Now to the problem. In my clones area I have been having a small fungus gnat problem, I have been slowly poisoning them off. Somehow I have managed to keep my flowers gnat free. Today I opened my closet to check on my clones and noticed a couple dead gnats on the leafs of my plants. -_- Then I saw all of the white spots on my leafs and a couple tiny webs the gnats were dead in. I turned over a bunch of leafs, some clear, some...how did it get this bad?! This wasn't there yesterday I have no idea where they came from.

I took scissors and cut off all of the really damaged or infested leafs, throwing them directly into a trash bag to contain it. They are still there though, and as much as I appreciate the fungus gnat help I do not want anything to do with spider mites. I have $0.00 to my name, how do I contain this and destroy it before it spreads to my girls that are so very close to being done after so much work?!?
 

dart420

New Member
if the mites have made webs then your plants may be infested too bad and need to chop down/clean and start over.
 

NLX

Active Member
If that is the case, first try to get some predator mites or ichneumons, they'll kill those bastards. The easy way would be to start over.
 
Top