Ants!

I just fed my baby molasses lastnight and came back to find an entire colony of ants in the pot of my plant. I have an indoor grow and i can't leave the ants in there what will kill them quickly and still be safe for my plant?

Put some ant traps in there.

i just did but nothing has happened very fast so ill give it a bit and get back

If you know where they're coming in at you can put some borax or even baking soda in their way.

MrBlanco said:

If you know where they're coming in at you can put some borax or even baking soda in their way.

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well there making there homes in the soil of my plant now and not planning on leaving and as long as i feed it fish oil and molasses and all the other goodies i give my plant there prob going to stay. But i did find a Ortho Bug B-Gon for lawn and gardens. It's safe to use on fruites and veggies and all types of flowers so it should be safe for the plant. There all in my buds and all from where i mist them. What do yall think about using the ortho?

bump.........

Do a massive flush, then hit your plants with WAY too much fert. Let it think about what it did for about a half hour and flush the fuck out of it. Pour borax all around the botom outide of your planter in case they try to escape or return.

This will disrupt the colony, flood and colapse the tunnels, and drown/poison the ants. Let the soil dry out for a day or 2 and examine. It would be great if you could find the queen and kill it.

Sorry about the infestation. Ants are good for soil and nothing more than a pest.

I had ants make a colony in some sunflowers I had growing outside. When I cut it down, it was downright infested throughtout the stem with hundreds of them little motherfuckers. I've always used palmolive liquid soap to stop them inside the house. They hate that stuff.

greensister said:

Do a massive flush, then hit your plants with WAY too much fert. Let it think about what it did for about a half hour and flush the fuck out of it. Pour borax all around the botom outide of your planter in case they try to escape or return.

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sounded like at first you were talking about punishing my plant lol

Hahaha I thought he was talking about punishing the plant too. I too have some ants problems but I set up some traps and they have died out a bit. Luckily they havent made homes in my soil but they are still a fuckin pest! Im gonna try to do the palmolive trick and see what happens. Good luck tho Skunk, hope you beat em!

Do not use some nasty chemical on your plants. Get Diatomaceous earth!
It will cut those ants down and also help water retention.
See my post https://www.rollitup.org/marijuana-plant-problems/100088-diatomaceous-earth.html

This stuff has been used for over 100 years and works.
I got mine from http://perma-guard.com
Has kept my plants bug free as well as my dog.

I can 100% Guarantee this stuff will work.
Use it when your plant is semi dry, pour about 1/4 of an inch on the top layer of the soil.
slightly mix it in to the top layer of the soil so it looks gray. Then slightly dust the top again. Then pour a ring around your plants container.
The poor ants will all get cut to pieces by the microscopic glass that is diatomite.

If the colony makes the foolish mistake of trying to move you will have an ant grave yard around the ring.

greensister said:

Do a massive flush, then hit your plants with WAY too much fert. Let it think about what it did for about a half hour and flush the fuck out of it. Pour borax all around the botom outide of your planter in case they try to escape or return.

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flush... cool, do it.
over fert... wtf?... dont do it, you're likely to kill your girls.
borax far away from your plant? fine.

whatever you do dont contaminate your buddy's smoke with toxic chemicals. whether it fert or pesticides. thats no way to grow good dope.

I had some ants in a little white widow I'm flowering (about week five). A heavy watering, not quite a flush, seems to have done the trick because I haven't seen any in 4-5 days.

MrBlanco said:

I had some ants in a little white widow I'm flowering (about week five). A heavy watering, not quite a flush, seems to have done the trick because I haven't seen any in 4-5 days.

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ha they just might be all at home now in your pot lol

One thing I've done about ants is take a dixie cup and cut it to make a tray about 1/2 dp. Mix three to one with your molasses or honey and boric acid in the cup. Stuffs real cheap and you can probably find it at a hardware store I found mine at a local dollar store, (not THE Dollar Store I mean a cheapass store). The ants will eat it and bring it back to the nest and feed it to the rest, young ones also. Give it about a week or two, bingo ants gone . Diatomaceous, I believe, can also be found at swimming pool stores. It's what's used in the filters.
I do this trick outside around my house. I take another cup and cut "V" grooves around the top edge. Then turn it over to cover the cup to keep the weather out and put a rock on top, big enough to keep it from being blown over but not too big to crush the cup. I place them near spots where I've seen carpenter ants or other insect pests.

I would advise against using Diatomaceous from a pool supply store.

from the wiki

However, the continual breathing of any dust should he absolutely avoided.

• This DE is not the same thing as the DE used in swimming pool filters. Pool grade DE is Diatomaceous Earth produced for pool filters and it is treated with heat, causing the formerly amorphous silicon dioxide to assume crystalline form. Pool grade DE should never be used for pest control. Swimming pool DE ranges from 60% to 70% free silica!

It may cause silacosious.