tiny white flying bugs

i have tiny white gnats flying around my indoor closet mother plants. what are they and how do i make them gone? organic method prefered.

can you describe a little better? maybe pic? are they producing anything on or around your ladies? how are they affecting your plants?

Sounds like fungus gnats. Sometimes in commercial soil you will get larvae. Just put out a sticky fly trap and catch some so you can post a photo. You know the type, the ones that are just a little tube like an m-80 firecracker and you pull the end and it stretches out to be a sticky strip of fly paper.

silusbotwin said:

Sounds like fungus gnats. Sometimes in commercial soil you will get larvae. Just put out a sticky fly trap and catch some so you can post a photo. You know the type, the ones that are just a little tube like an m-80 firecracker and you pull the end and it stretches out to be a sticky strip of fly paper.

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yeah, those are really cheap too.

you have fungus knats most likely if you are growing in soil. they feed off your soil mix...get some sand and completely cover a decently thick layer with the sand over your soil and they cannot get in to feed and if your trap some under the sand they cant get out. Also getting some very hot ass pepper plant in your bed would be righteous enough to keep all insects out. organic.

Here are some organic methods
[video=youtube;Q8hvtQGEb7Q]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8hvtQGEb7Q[/video]

http://www.hydroponics.co.uk/Disease---Pest-Control/Disease-and-Pest-Control/Fungus-Gnat-Off
"gnat off" will kill them and they dont like oscilating fans, fill the top inch of your pots with perlite and it kills and prevents bugs

Finshaggy said:

Here are some organic methods

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nice buket o mold br0

thx for everyones input. im gonna try a sticky trap like silusbotwin suggested i think and go from there. they dnt seem to be hurting the plants or leaving any larvae or anything. my main concern is them getting into my tent where i have plants in week 7 of flower. thx again

Sorry to hear about you're problem I have the some White Flies and Thrips, but it's not terrible yet. I've heard it said that Monterey Garden Insect Spray works wonders. The active ingredient is, Spinosad. Can anyone verify this before I buy it?

personally i would try a natural fix before i went w chemicals, but thays just me. i bought some sticky traps and they seem to be working. im seeing less white flies. do u know anything about those white flies??

ktang said:

Sorry to hear about you're problem I have the some White Flies and Thrips, but it's not terrible yet. I've heard it said that Monterey Garden Insect Spray works wonders. The active ingredient is, Spinosad. Can anyone verify this before I buy it?

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Update!
The local hydro shop had something called Organocide. It was certified organic by OMRI. The active ingredient is Sesame Oil and there's edible fish oil which gives the girls a nice foliar feeding while taking care of those bugs. In my case 2 low concentration sprayings a week apart worked well. Good luck

Seems the overall consensus anyway, is that they won't harm your plant. Unlike the little white fuckheads all over my tomatoes at the moment, and the little thrips that show-up on ALL plants every now and then.

Meh, mine are outdoors. Other bugs etc keep bug-numbers down pretty well I find.

What about that White Oil?

I found a bottle of spray with WHite Oil as the active, and I havne't bothered grabbing Neem oil.. I know White Oil's petroleum based, but so what, I say

apbx720 said:

thx for everyones input. im gonna try a sticky trap like silusbotwin suggested i think and go from there. they dnt seem to be hurting the plants or leaving any larvae or anything. my main concern is them getting into my tent where i have plants in week 7 of flower. thx again

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They stick to your buds man, the damage they do to your roots can't be seen till its too late basically, don't waste any time and don't let up, the adults are an easy kill and not harmless(they do stick to your buds) but the larvae are a bitch, if in soil a layer of diatomaceous earth is much more affective than sand, they may get thru sand but they certainly won't get thru diatomaceous earth because it has razor sharp microscopic edges and cuts the little bastards to death .

errr, was it white flies or fungus gnats??

GrassCity Sucks said:

What about that White Oil?

I found a bottle of spray with WHite Oil as the active, and I havne't bothered grabbing Neem oil.. I know White Oil's petroleum based, but so what, I say

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You want to smoke petroleum? That generally gets burned as fuel.

ktang said:

You want to smoke petroleum? That generally gets burned as fuel.

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Well, it's only in veg (half way through summer) and yeah, I don't mind tossing the oily leaves in the bin - when the time comes to trim em up

I don't believe the plant would actually ABSORB any of the oil, and those ugly little white-fly spots are starting to haw 'bug' me

..I've tried Pyrethrum on my other garden plan ts, and it always fucks the whole plant up. It's like - they act like they've been sprayed with weed killer.

I've also tried that aerosol shit: Hortico something.. for all vege/fruit. I LIKE that one, cos it doesn't fuck the plants looks up, but it's far from natural.

So wouldn't white oil (Which's traditional for mites at least, maybe white flies too), be the lesser of the ev.. Wait.. nevermind. Fuck it.

I'll use the Hortico chemical-waste-based stuff - I hardly need any of it on the plant, and it doens't leave any oily shite on the leaves.

Good to have my questions answered: Even if it's by myself

To each their own I suppose lol. Have you considered trying lady bugs? There's even some super tiny wasp that will kill the bugs and not hurt you or your ladies, but I can't remember the name of em. Good luck

ktang said:

To each their own I suppose lol. Have you considered trying lady bugs? There's even some super tiny wasp that will kill the bugs and not hurt you or your ladies, but I can't remember the name of em. Good luck

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I haven't seen a lady bug in over a year outside OR in

I'd have to order insects, and I can't be f*cked going to quite that much effort really

The spray is good enough for the tomatoes and other plants, then it's good enough for canna plant(s) I say