About benefical mites, I forgot to mention having hypoaspis miles present in your medium as they do WORK on any unwanted bugs in your growing medium.
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Fungus Gnats
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I grow in an old house. Fungus gnats live in the plumbing. Recently poured Gnatrol into all the drains to see if that helps.
plutosmoke
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diamatetuous earth, does it not work?
Ask for the predatory mite macrocheles robustulus.
I don't think it will help the cause but I can't get sciency about it or anything, sorry.
check this vid out, they are so aggressive: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5l0E68BTtsUThanks for the tip, I'll give them a look see.
Damn, that's so metal. Somebody needs to dub over some Lamb of God on that video.
A terrific waste of time. Let the biological controls do all the work, you have better stuff to be doing
if the plumping isn't that old and you can use something like draino - go to home depot and buy this shit in a black bottle comes plastic wrapped
its some heat burning type liquid formula, 10 bucks made for grease and hair, to unclogg shower and sink drains, not toilets. and im pretty sure it'll rape any gnats in ur pipes, as unbelievable as that is, since there isn't a food source in ur water pipes lol
no.
but yes if you feed over 1000ppm and without sugars.
at 600 ppms you might kill a few but never your whole colony.
Just replenish every week with a new compost tea, easy.
If the plumbing is already that fuct and old then draino will absolutely wreck it. It is a very pH basic chemical and eat up old cast iron and copper piping that is already probably barely held together.
Any plumber will tell you to never use that product.
all i know is this shit works like a charm.
67.6 oz. Hair and Grease Drain Opener
i live in house from 1925 here in socal, that product was recommended to me from the city that has a very tight mandates on these old houses.
10$ resolution verse the 180 from a roto rooter.
67.6 oz. Hair and Grease Drain Opener
i live in house from 1925 here in socal, that product was recommended to me from the city that has a very tight mandates on these old houses.
10$ resolution verse the 180 from a roto rooter.
As long as soil moisture is maintained, bennies will survive... maybe not thrive but they can survive...
I can't find the report, but oregon, the state did a test on MYCO products.
Off shelf shit like OGTEA and OBGIOWAR, and stuff from lines, like piranha.
The test was for spore counts. For instance if you look at Great White from plant success they claim so many spores per gram.
Oregon tested that and found quite alarming results.
Most off the shelf products contained no spores or 1/32nd the amount advertised.
I recommend you don't take the lazy, expensive, uneducated route.
People don't realize that so many companies are taking advantage of them, selling snake oils, and bullshit products... Because theres no standards or professionalism in this industry... so these fools got smart and took lead with marketing and fake promises.
So many nutrient companies are posers. IF they really had ur best interest in mind, they would stop selling fucking water.
Same goes for Bennies. You need to make COMPOST TEA.
AACT Air Activated Compost Tea.
If you don't specifically use compost in your tea, its vermitea.
Anyways, if you need help with compost tea thats a whole new world, but thats the way to go about having benneficial populations in your medium.
go to the organic subforum and look up the sticky threads, amazing knowledge and its old, but still holds down.
now if you are a lazy asss smuck and really won't do the work and invest into compost tea, because lets face it, that shit is the best there is period, you have another choice.
EM-1 Known as Effective Microorganisms is a product eye highly recommend and make all my clients use.
ITs so fucking good, they make an edible version you drink.
ITS so fucking good you can spray where your stupid cat or dog pissed and the microbes will literally eat the odor causing shit away.
I don't recommend OGTEA anymore, and if you want the BEST COMPOST TEA.
Dr Earth products. Look no further. SuperActive™ Soil & Seed Inoculant This product tested higher than anythign else from oregon, infact the product exceeded by a ridiculous amount the claimed spore count.
All my dr earth experiences have been nothing but excellent.
i can't find the report but heres an article from it
ODA finds big problems with little organisms
Off shelf shit like OGTEA and OBGIOWAR, and stuff from lines, like piranha.
The test was for spore counts. For instance if you look at Great White from plant success they claim so many spores per gram.
Oregon tested that and found quite alarming results.
Most off the shelf products contained no spores or 1/32nd the amount advertised.
I recommend you don't take the lazy, expensive, uneducated route.
People don't realize that so many companies are taking advantage of them, selling snake oils, and bullshit products... Because theres no standards or professionalism in this industry... so these fools got smart and took lead with marketing and fake promises.
So many nutrient companies are posers. IF they really had ur best interest in mind, they would stop selling fucking water.
Same goes for Bennies. You need to make COMPOST TEA.
AACT Air Activated Compost Tea.
If you don't specifically use compost in your tea, its vermitea.
Anyways, if you need help with compost tea thats a whole new world, but thats the way to go about having benneficial populations in your medium.
go to the organic subforum and look up the sticky threads, amazing knowledge and its old, but still holds down.
now if you are a lazy asss smuck and really won't do the work and invest into compost tea, because lets face it, that shit is the best there is period, you have another choice.
EM-1 Known as Effective Microorganisms is a product eye highly recommend and make all my clients use.
ITs so fucking good, they make an edible version you drink.
ITS so fucking good you can spray where your stupid cat or dog pissed and the microbes will literally eat the odor causing shit away.
I don't recommend OGTEA anymore, and if you want the BEST COMPOST TEA.
Dr Earth products. Look no further. SuperActive™ Soil & Seed Inoculant This product tested higher than anythign else from oregon, infact the product exceeded by a ridiculous amount the claimed spore count.
All my dr earth experiences have been nothing but excellent.
i can't find the report but heres an article from it
ODA finds big problems with little organisms
