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Lost - Thanks for that. First grow and all, I'm probably over worrying.
Living Legend -Thanks dude.
This though is a worry. I have thrips. :sick0026: Well, not me personally, but my plants in the closet (and the outdoor ones) have definately got thrips. Now the ones outside I am not too worried about, as we have plenty of predator bugs out there, but the ones indoors are more of a worry.
Caught a ladybird larvae today and put it in there with them, and am going out tomorrow to look for more of those, and also lacewing larvae. If anyone has any other ideas (bearing in mind my girls are two weeks into flower) then I would love to hear your input.
I have read the thread on thrips on this site, but want to know everybodys preferred methods, especially organic/bio.
I would imagine the fruit fly looking things are fungus gnats, more annoying than anything, althugh it's my understanding they lay larvae that eat the fine hairs off the surface of your roots, and slow plant growth.
When I was reading about neem, it said you can use on fruiting plants on the day before harvest if neccassary. I cut a male down that had been neemed a couple of days previous, and when i dried a leaf to get an idea of taste, it tasted like neem smells, which I find rank. I mean the stuff made me gag, I can't stand the smell.
Will this go away on the male I am drying out, or will I have to just chuck it away?
This is from that thread. Thanks goes to Mace for this thread, it's extremely useful.
" Fungus Gnats
Fungus gnats like to feed on roots of the plants and organic matter. Adults and larvae live in moist, shady areas. The adults lay there eggs on top of the soil, near the base of the stem and takes about 4 days to hatch. The larvae will start by eating the root hairs of the plant then working their way up the plant, Fungus gnats like to eat organic matter so they will be stealing away nutrients from your plants, so its best to get rid of them completely.
If plants are outdoors, check the soil of plants before taking them back indoors for adult gnats or their larvae.
Prevent indoor entry of gnats by making sure there is no open windows open without screens on. Aug is a bad time for them as they are worst that time of the year.
Put sticky traps on the soil surface to trap the gnats
Put potato slices on the surface of the soil. The larvae like it and will be drawn to it.. After about 4 to 5 days, remove the potato slices with the larvae. To get rid of them you can do a lot of things like either use a NO pest strip, neem oil or putting sand on the surface of the soil will suffocate the eggs and get rid of them as well. Tobacco juice kills them, and works well for re-occurrences!
They can be in or on the soil and can fly. In order to get rid of them you can use neem oil, sand on the surface again kills them, and no pest strips catch the ones that fly. A chemical product called Zone works very well and is very powerful and works well in hydro!
Other Products which can be used in hydro and soil are:
Chemicals
Hot Pepper Wax,Safer Yard & Garden Insecticide (which can be used right to the day of harvest),GNATROL( used in hydro in the water as well as soil),Doc's Neem Pest Soap,Safer Sticky Stakes,TR-11000 Pyrethrum."
Do I count the flowering time from when I started 12/12 or do I do it from when they started to show flowers, cause the early misty is supposed to finish in 8 weeks, and its been 4 and a half weeks since they went 12/12.
I just noticed the bottom of the plants, where not much light was getting was developing small flowers that weren't really growing, so I have removed them. Hopefully, as I understand it, this will make all the main tops develop better buds (I hope this is right).
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