fucking fungus gnat cures

[genedigger]

the diatimatious earth requires a lot to get rid of them i need to put it super thick for it to do anythin to them.

 

[sourpuss]

Diamawhatever stuff works but how to stop em from livin in the bottom holes..... haha... just get the mos dunk stuff.... like op says it works and the other helpfuls.... I got the same ingredient from the hydro store just labelled as the active ingredient in mos dunks.... dunks r much cheaper if you can find em....

 

[Bennyweed1]

Im I the only one that got a good laugh out of that rant? Your very descriptive. understand that! lol....good stuff man.

 

[Bennyweed1]

And I was meaning to ask, you reference freemasonry a few times.

Anything in particular? They/we see everything.

 

[hayday]

Im I the only one that got a good laugh out of that rant? Your very descriptive. understand that! lol....good stuff man.

Nope ,you're not not the only one.Prohibition has had me hiding plants in crazy poor growing spaces.Thrips ,spider mites and a sore back.Shit sucks

I had to make a move and a proper spot and now these damn gnats are killing me.Cloning and vegging is not a big problem but pop a seed and tears start streaming.

I put down 8 ssk seeds back in January and got one plant as the gnats ate all the tender parts.

Mosquito dunks are my saving grace,I want to try some play sand and see if that stops them from hanging in the bottoms,trimming roots.

 

[waveguide]

And I was meaning to ask, you reference freemasonry a few times.

Anything in particular? They/we see everything.

i'm so sorry for you. many evils befall a body in this world, but being a freemason, wow.

i'll give you some advice - don't try and talk innocent or civil. i'm not reacting to "shit i read on the internet" but intimate, real life transgressions. this conversation is over, and if you have any sense of remorse, you'll either quit, or go back and slice up all your buddys with a voulge or something nice and heavy and decisive so they won't do any more of that bad shit they do mmkay.

happy chopping

 

[GHGrower]

20 years gardening experience here. First off, bury the soil under a dry layer to make conditions inhospitable to fungus gnats. I may have missed it, but I didn't see any reference to mulching yet. Fungus gnats need moisture to live, so if you put down a dry 2-3 inch layer of straw mulch, they'll get choked out eventually. Mulch is also a good preventative measure. Spinosad (Saccharopolyspora spinosa) will kill the rest if you follow the instructions for 1-3 weeks. Literally wrecks the nervous systems of larva and adult fungus gnats, and other soft bodied insects.

 

[waveguide]

looks like i found the key here..

when did i start this thread? april 1 haha..

when did i start the seeds? march 2nd..

and irrc it was by the second week of april that i started to see a difference using gnatrol. the plants were all under 2" at that point, most with under a square cm of leaf.. gradually they grew a few leaves, and today, two were big enough to transplant out of the beer cups.

one of these was the "in the back" plant and i had noted that the continuing gnat survivors were often around there.. but i figured, all that gnatrol had to have permeated the cups...



...when i popped that plant out, there was a fungal layer in one corner of the bottom of the cup.. maybe a half inch or so of the soil above it had fungus in it so perhaps it was acting like a forest canopy and the gnatrol water was running right over it..

so one hopes removing that pocket eliminates the persistent gnats. now i know that that can happen and will watch for it if i see a similar locus of activity.

 

[waveguide]

another note here..

preamble:
i've dealt with a lot of bad gnats.. arid climate thing i guess, moisture attracts. NEVER have i had such a shit time.

it took ..march 1 to.. it's end june now so say i haven't seen a gnat since june 1st.. it took THREE MONTHS to get them out of a micro..

as noted above, i discovered a fungus pocket in the soil, and water i guess rolled over the top, so they kept breeding and breeding, like a nightmare, even with all the "best choice" control methods i was applying. even neem gnatrol stickies they still kept coming


then i stuck an open bottle of peppermint oil in my cab (the cheap arvensis "japanese peppermint" not piperita) - this is great as the vapors aren't strong enough to bother me or the weed but keep lots of critters out, and finally.. no more gnats!!!!!!!!!!!!

!!!!!!!!!!!

saddest looking bonsai ever, 4 months veg in a beer cup.. chewed to shit. not even big enough to take cuttings yet.

 

[Mikell]

Peppermint oil is good stuff, knocks aphids out every year.

 

[DrFever]

You know what life with gnats is a normal thing no matter how hard you try them little fuckers are there.
Only thing they bother is me hahah when i get up n personal with plants other then that i do not even bother any more i just try to keep soil little dryer
unless you sterilize your store bought soil there there ...
coffee grinds on top of soil , cinnamon better yet companion plants that ward of insects ...
Threw the years of growing only time i can see them being a issue is with very young seedlings or clones , 3 week plant and up they do fuck all to em

 

[Boyd Crowder]

http://www.biologicco.com/products/scanmask-2

scanmask aka nematodes has wiped my gnats out in literally 3 days