Gnat basterds!!!!

I know you wanna stay away from organic pesticides but "azamax" is amazing. It's from the rosemary plant and it stops bugs from feeding and reproducing on your plants. Other than that, i've heard cinnamon is a good thing to use. Maybe even go to a local pet store and buy a dozen lady bugs or so?

I had the same problem, dam flys are annoying. i went from watering evry 4 days to 7 days and the gnat reduced in numbers by 90%.

The maggots are probly in your roots. Or they like to hang out in grow plugs. The maggots will munch on your roots if there isn't anything else to eat. I had fungus gnats once they suck. I used gnat-trol, drowned the maggots out with that. You need to kill all the fungus gnats flying around or they'll just lay more eggs.

Use pyrethrin and never see them again. It is organic not a pesticide. Gnats are some of the easier pest to control. Be sure they aren't winged root aphids cause then you will have a more severe problem 10x more severe. I thought I had gnats once I was using all the gnat control products on them but it wouldn't kill them. It happened to be that they were winged root aphids not gnats. One way you can tell the difference between the flying aphids and gnats is the way they fly. The root aphid will fly directly at the bulb of your light and keep hitting the glass of your reflector. The fungus gnats just buzz around like flys with no particular destination.

Fazer1rlg said:

Use pyrethrin and never see them again. It is organic not a pesticide. Gnats are some of the easier pest to control. Be sure they aren't winged root aphids cause then you will have a more severe problem 10x more severe. I thought I had gnats once I was using all the gnat control products on them but it wouldn't kill them. It happened to be that they were winged root aphids not gnats. One way you can tell the difference between the flying aphids and gnats is the way they fly. The root aphid will fly directly at the bulb of your light and keep hitting the glass of your reflector. The fungus gnats just buzz around like flys with no particular destination.

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That's funny you say that. I had a pest problem on my last grow and I used the azamax as referenced before, and after i found ALL of them dead inside one cfl reflector I use. Dooley noted.

nematodes, top layer of DE. pyganic for anything in your room you may wanna kill (except for mammals) . azamax is actually derived from the neem tree.

another decent product that will simply make bugs leave (I use it as preventative at times) is sns209 , systemic rosemary extract, makes the plant taste like shit to the bugs so they leave it.

Depending on your exact situation starving your plants of water is probably not going to solve the problem. I don't care what people say, I have seen fungus gnats swarming and laying eggs happily in practically bone dry soil.

It is better to prevent them in the first place and if you don't have too many of them now take the following measures: have plenty of sticky traps of all kinds, the ones that hang and the ones that go on stakes directly in your container. Vacuum up as many adults as you can. DE will work in other areas where you see them flying, on the floor, in crevices, but it needs to be dry in order to work. Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis or Bti is a bacterium that produces a toxin that causes fungus gnat larvae to die once they ingest it. It is very narrow spectrum and is only toxic to a few types of pests including gnats, and mosquitoes. Bti is what is in Mosquito Dunks, but liquid formulations are more available these days. This should be applied once a week, or every other week to prevent them.

Beneficial nematodes are also effective, as are predator mites.

You sure you dont have springtails?

I ask because you said its in your res.

Bernie420 said:

You sure you dont have springtails?

I ask because you said its in your res.

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he did say res didn't he, that confused me. but if they were springtails I'm sure he'd notice how well they jump. confusing post op.

dbkick said:

he did say res didn't he, that confused me. but if they were springtails I'm sure he'd notice how well they jump. confusing post op.

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Thats is how I noticed mine when I had them.

Bernie420 said:

You sure you dont have springtails?

I ask because you said its in your res.

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some picture look like them but some of the gnat one do to i have not seen a singe winged fly just this tiny tiny little white blips that twitch about the tray/res all my pots are sat in

Yeah I dont know what you have. Sounds like springtails but I had them in my hydro and it sounds like you do dirt, I couldnt tell you if they live in dirt or not off hand sooooo..... gl...

I asked my guy when I got them about what to do and he said that it sucks you got them but they dont harm the plant to much. So I left it alone and just cleaned the system really good after the chop.

Bernie420 said:

Yeah I dont know what you have. Sounds like springtails but I had them in my hydro and it sounds like you do dirt, I couldnt tell you if they live in dirt or not off hand sooooo..... gl...

I asked my guy when I got them about what to do and he said that it sucks you got them but they dont harm the plant to much. So I left it alone and just cleaned the system really good after the chop.

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Oh i hope its them lol ... i shall keep close eye if its not gnat ill leave it cos im only 3-4week fro needing to be done ..

Fungus gnats look nothing like Collembola (spring tails), dude. Adult fungus gnats would have wings and fly; the larvae which may be noticed in run-off or in the soil look like little white\yellow\brown worms, up to a quarter inch long (6 mm) with a small black head.

Springtails are typically not more than a few millimeters in length, or smaller. Many but not all possess a furcula which is an appendage they use to propel themselves into the air, so they appear to jump. They eat primarily microbes and\or detritus (dead organic matter), they are very common and most are not harmful. They require moisture and can easily be dried out.

I have used nematodes, sticky yellow paper and duct tape and mosquito dunks crumbled into a jar lid and filled with water.
That might be enough to put a serious dent in your gnats. The nematodes kill the babies that eat the roots. The sticky paper and crumbles are for the adults.

3 Pounds of Weeden said:

That's funny you say that. I had a pest problem on my last grow and I used the azamax as referenced before, and after i found ALL of them dead inside one cfl reflector I use. Dooley noted.

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Tom Dooley noted?

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johnjoe22 said:

• I Have Gnats or what i believe to be anyway little tiny white specles floating round in my res ..... my plan is to avoid chemical remedy's and even organic remedy's and just go for all out famine
  
  my plan is to cut off there breeding sites by way of adding no extra water to them for as long as possible without causing to much damage to my ladies so like 2 weeks at maximum by doing this is hope to fuk them right up with this lol i am getting couple of sticky pads for flys just in case
  
  Anyone got any ideas ??? .... i have one mass of soil seperated by bag pots all sat in the same tray so spread is going to be really easy for them why im making such drastic kill off i have 4 weeks left till im finished frosting nicely only discovered the larvae on tuesday so not sure how long they have been there
  
  Any Ideas Welcome

  

  
  Thanks​
  
  

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Give them something to eat. Them let them go swimming again. You know what will happen - your mom warned you about that.

Seriously, set up an aquarium filter and begin filtering your solution to strain them out. Bugproof screens over the res wouldn't hurt.

The best trick I know is to get those white fly sticky traps and attach 2 to the back of a chair and then point a fan at the traps a couple feet away. They get blown and stuck on the trap...works good...grow on.