Jay Tea
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Thank you, everyone who responded. Yeah, when I was inland more, I had spider mites, not bad, but they were present. Now that I'm more coastal, dealing with moisture, I was stoked at the idea of less mites...welcome to the land of Gnats! Oh well, thanks again!Welcome to the farm!
FGs are the bane of my existence, I find them everywhere, literally. I can go over to the sofa to smoke a joint, and I'll have one flying next to me before I know it. I haven't found good success with the usual methods, so I'm not a good person to ask about this. But, I have read an awful lot about using large numbers of nematode (gotta be fresh) to good result in problematic situations. Others have found relief by using mosquito netting wrapped all the way around the pots, so the adults don't have a way into the pots. I have observed that they simply don't establish themselves when pure perlite is the media as well.
Spraying fan leaves with pyrethrin is completely pointless in combating fungus gnats. They lay their eggs in the soil. The eggs hatch into larvae. The larvae eat the fungus that grows on the roots of the plant (hopefully the mycorrhizae you put in the soil or it could be infectious fungus). The larvae then molt into fungus gnats and spring from the soil. They fly around for awhile and mate before returning to the soil to lay eggs and die. The way they damage your plant is if the infestation is severe enough, they begin to damage the roots as they strip most of the fungus cultures from the roots. It can have the lesser effect of reducing your plant's uptake of nutrients by seriously damaging mycorrhizal cultures which aid in nutrient absorption.I tried sand, I tried perlite, I tried everything. After using gnatrol 4 times and all of the sticky traps and spraying fan leaves with pyrethrin I only see one or two gnats every once in a while. I guess I am happy just having them under control. Those little buggers will find the one drop of moisture in your house and reproduce in it. If you dont get them under control then they will stress your plant into hermie
Yeah, my first FG infestation was courtesy of a bag of Roots from the local hydro store.My latest try to combat them is to put my fox farm ocean forest in a pillow case and pour boiling water through it before I use it since they are already in the soil when you buy it.
Organic is a totally different animal and I have actually used MG Blue Bag successfully to grow cannabis when diluted a bit with coir!I will never use MG soil again, not sure about the organic kind but the reg kind has little balls of liquit fertilizer that will nute burn your plants
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