Safe bug solution?

CarpeNocturnum

CarpeNocturnum

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I have some good quality lavender essential oil from France, I wonder if it would help.. Probably, would it be bad for the plant tho?
 
Brewery

Brewery

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CarpeNocturnum said:
I have some good quality lavender essential oil from France, I wonder if it would help.. Probably, would it be bad for the plant tho?
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It won't hurt it's its properly diluted. I often make a lavender blossom tea and spray in veg.

I can't reccomend a dilution rate as I've never done the essential oil route but the lavender tea spray and the bronners lavender soap is pretty pungent.

I can't remember the active ingredients off hand but I've read that there's good insecticides in both lavender and peppermint.
 
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gb123

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bcbreeder said:
these peat providers gotta get it together, i popped a bunch of seeds and put them in jiffy pellets and lo and behold i see some fungus gnats for frig sakes only place they could have come from
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everyone should go back to using granulated rockwool....now that no one cares about throwing it out.. ;)

stuffs the cats ass!!!!!!!!!!! unlike cubes :roll:
 
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CannaReview

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Fornfrussen said:
Neem oil, SM-90, raise the humidity, lower the temp... With neem oil you have to mix in soap like Dawn and make sure while spraying you agitate the hell out of the bottle!
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SM 90 already has a wetting agent in it, Not sure if its all Yucca based or there are two in it. I'm gonna open up a online nute only store shortly and will be repackaging a name brand wetting agent that is sold to hydro stores at 10X the price vs what the farms get it for. It'll be about $20 for 1L and usage is 5ml per liter.
 
HerbalRelief

HerbalRelief

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bcbreeder said:
these peat providers gotta get it together, i popped a bunch of seeds and put them in jiffy pellets and lo and behold i see some fungus gnats for frig sakes only place they could have come from
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Just popped a beaner and put it in a "soil-less" mix next to my hydro setup. Come back an hour later and see a friggin fruit fly. Pissed off! Only place it could have come from.
 
bcbreeder

bcbreeder

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you sure its a fruit fly? they resemble fungus gnats, having once had a major outbreak of those buggers you must take preventative action i used to use beneficial nematodes but this time used bti since i just had a few
 
HerbalRelief

HerbalRelief

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bcbreeder said:
you sure its a fruit fly? they resemble fungus gnats, having once had a major outbreak of those buggers you must take preventative action i used to use beneficial nematodes but this time used bti since i just had a few
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Probably a fungus gnat..typo/brain fart :) ...that last joint was strong. I used DE on the soil before the bean popped out after I saw it. I'm using hydroton in the DWRC system and have low res temps (60's), use HydroSparkle and Grozyme. More worried about the soil being contaminated. What do you recommend?
 
bcbreeder

bcbreeder

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this is the product i used to successfully use and one hundred percent safe

Nemasys® Beneficial Nematodes
Nemasys Steinernema feltiae beneficial nematodes help provide biological control of soil dwelling stages of fungus gnats (Bradysia sp.), as well as soil and foliar stages of western flower thrips (Frankliniella occidentalis).


General Information
Beneficial nematodes are microscopic worms that attack and kill targeted insects, without affecting any other organisms. Within the infected insect, the beneficial nematodes continually reproduce and then spread out for long-term control.

See our product tech sheet for suggested application rates under our research library.

Package sizes include trays of 50 million, 150 million and 5 x 250 million nematodes.

To find out more about beneficial nematodes, access additional information, and discuss recommendations with other growers and industry experts, visit our Nematode News blog.
 
HerbalRelief

HerbalRelief

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bcbreeder said:
this is the product i used to successfully use and one hundred percent safe

Nemasys® Beneficial Nematodes
Nemasys Steinernema feltiae beneficial nematodes help provide biological control of soil dwelling stages of fungus gnats (Bradysia sp.), as well as soil and foliar stages of western flower thrips (Frankliniella occidentalis).


General Information
Beneficial nematodes are microscopic worms that attack and kill targeted insects, without affecting any other organisms. Within the infected insect, the beneficial nematodes continually reproduce and then spread out for long-term control.

See our product tech sheet for suggested application rates under our research library.

Package sizes include trays of 50 million, 150 million and 5 x 250 million nematodes.

To find out more about beneficial nematodes, access additional information, and discuss recommendations with other growers and industry experts, visit our Nematode News blog.
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Got some Neems on the way now. Death to fungus gnats. Once had them fuck up a soil grow and the guy at the store sold me Vectorbak or something. I used it and think I created more gnats by overwatering.
 
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