Outdoor>Indoor pests

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Hi I'm planning a late outdoor grow. I have a clean indoor room that I use for most of the year. I would like to know how safe it would be to have an extra space outside. Do pests easily find ways from outdoor spaces to indoor spaces? What steps should I take to prevent pests from entering my indoor garden? Any feedback would be appreciated. Thanks

 

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Last year I did a grow outside with sativas, I had about 10. They were large plants like 6 to 10 feet tall. At the onset of flowering they were covered with the broad, cyclamen mites. They destroyed 6 of those large plants in a week. I have discovered how to control them, but damn if they can get inside.

 

[stoned-trout]

tend inside gardens before outside...you can easily carry in pests on your clothes ect....yeehaw been doing inside and out for a long time...I do my inside in the morn soon as I get up then go and do outside....I don't re enter inside grow if I can ovoid it unless showered or atleast changed clothes...call me paranoid but I have avoided bugs for the most part inside even when there was pests outside /greenhouse...make sure and filter intakes too if running with air from outside....bringing plants from outside to inside daily where contamination of other plants is possible requires a good ipm program...people tend to cause their problems for the most part

 

[The Revolution]

IF you're going to be moving plants from outside in with your other girls, you need a quarantine room. Dont enter one than the other like stoned trout mentioned. IF I bring cuttings in from outside, I always snip them, wash them (light detergent, scrub with fingers over all the leaf surfaces, than dip and stick. I root these in a different room. Once I can see theyre not showing signs of mites etc, then and only then, are they allowed into my indoor room.

 

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Well no outside plants will be moved indoors, they will stay seperate, an extra clone room is a good idea. I will see that my indoor space stays clean and free from contamination. Thanks for the replies.

 

[corky1968]

Spray the outdoor plants really good a few days while getting the undersides of the leaves before bringing them inside.

 

[LyryC]

if you can let them go, clone them, clones are easily cleaned up before the propagating ensuring clean stock.

If you must save your plants.

All you have to do is a hot water treatment.

Hot water would be the best, because it allows you to hit the plants root ball cleaning the medium, not only the plant. Lots of pathogens in soil.

Look up hot water treatments.

Its a bit of work, but its 100% guarantee.

Good luck brother.