How to get rid of fruit flies or gnats?

I have either fruit flies or gnats and they’re sticking to my buds. I’m about a month or so into flowering and I need some help I don’t want to be smoking in bugs. I know I already have to remove the ones that are stuck to the buds but how do I keep them from returning and off my plants? Thanks

Get mosquitoe dunks.

So for the gnats flying around you can use yellow sticky traps and stick them in different areas throughout your grow room. Do you have fungus gnat larvae in the soil? If so water with a 4 to 1 ratio of water and Hydrogen Peroxide. Do this for each watering until they are gone.

Also how often are you watering? Overwatering is usually the cause of fungus gnats, as the constant moisture causes a fungus to grow on the topsoil. Cheers!

I second the mosqito dunks. I take a chunk of dunk and put in my watering containers, after watering i refill em so they can soak the dunk till next watering, takes care of em quick, tho a yellow trap wud get rid of the adults, which will help to. Those things fuck like bunnies. I had crumbled dunks onto soil without much luck, soaking em in between feedings worked within days...

yo_Dyldo said:

I have either fruit flies or gnats and they’re sticking to my buds. I’m about a month or so into flowering and I need some help I don’t want to be smoking in bugs. I know I already have to remove the ones that are stuck to the buds but how do I keep them from returning and off my plants? Thanks

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Do you have pictures of the whole plant? It could tell us if you are over watering.
As LemonChello420 said, over watering in soil creates a happy environment for gnats indoors.

A partly filled bottle of coke or any sweet liquid will attract and kill them, and it does help considerably, but there seem to always be one or two flying about. Not enough to affect my harvest. I don't panic over them.

I have used these w/great success.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000I6K3JY/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I guess success is relative. But I have never had a bug problem. Keep about 5 of these in a 5' X 6' grow area. They last like 2-3 years, always stay sticky. So, what I'm saying is I've never had an insect problem, yet my traps catch plenty of little critters. So any problems with insects are "nipped in the bud" maybe?

So in my opinion it's pretty cheap insurance. Would I have crashed and burned without them ? Probably not, but maybe. I never sensed an insect problem other than soil gnats, which is probably most of what I was / am catching.

Anyway, about 50 Cents apiece. Call it around 1/2 USD or Euro. I get probably 2-3 years from each, at which point they get Gnatted up".

So in retrospect these are dirt cheap, I have no idea if they are adding much to the party. But I have no bug problems and after a couple years they are pretty much get packed w/small gnat sized critters.

As it's never developed into a problem I have not paid much attention to things. Just keep them (bug strips) up and keep going forward. So ridiculously cheap.

yo_Dyldo said:

I have either fruit flies or gnats and they’re sticking to my buds. I’m about a month or so into flowering and I need some help I don’t want to be smoking in bugs. I know I already have to remove the ones that are stuck to the buds but how do I keep them from returning and off my plants? Thanks

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1: Add uncooked French Fries 2-4 will do to the top of your soil

2: Avoid over watering

3: Washing of the flies from bud will also dilute your trics, they wash off too

good luck

yo_Dyldo said:

I have either fruit flies or gnats and they’re sticking to my buds. I’m about a month or so into flowering and I need some help I don’t want to be smoking in bugs. I know I already have to remove the ones that are stuck to the buds but how do I keep them from returning and off my plants? Thanks

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Gnat nix....sticky traps

Switch to hydro, that's what I did, haven't seen those bastards since lol.

1. Let the top layer of soil dry out and/or water your plants from the bottom if you can
2. Sprinkle some diatomaceous earthb on the top layer of soil. Will kill all gnats in a few days and is a good source of silica

Richard Drysift said:

1. Let the top layer of soil dry out and/or water your plants from the bottom if you can
2. Sprinkle some diatomaceous earthb on the top layer of soil. Will kill all gnats in a few days and is a good source of silica

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De earth is not a good source of silica unless you reuse your soil. It takes a long time to break down much like azomite.

Let the plants dry out. Wait til lthey are light then water them only water but only 1/4 to 1/2 of what you normally do . THen get back to us for more advice

trics don't wash off unless your using ice water or actually scrubing otherwise outdoors would have none after a storm. I had a touch of pm once and made a peroxide wash to soak the colas in. the nuggets still looked like they were sprinkled with glitter

Dynamo626 said:

De earth is not a good source of silica unless you reuse your soil. It takes a long time to break down much like azomite.

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Yeah you are right it does; so just keep on reusing the soil lol