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2bittoker
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Fungal Gnat Control
#21688872 - 05/16/15 11:50 PM (8 years, 8 months ago) |
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Just lost half of my jars out a 24 jar run to some fungal gnats that showed up out of nowhere. Got every damn infection in the book- cobweb, aspriligus, penicilium. Pulled the jars from the shelf and put them in a box and sterilized the infected ones but I gotta get these fuckers. Ive read I should use those yellow strips in my grow room and put a jar of apple cider vinegar with dish soap next to my jars. Anyone have experience fighting these pricks LOL?
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Willy Wonka
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Re: Fungal Gnat Control [Re: 2bittoker]
#21689023 - 05/17/15 12:58 AM (8 years, 8 months ago) |
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 I just saw your thread and I also just posted this: https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/21689017 I will be watching your thread for answers.
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infected_2

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They are a nightmare once they take hold.
Check all current grows for tiny larva, you'll barely notice a black pin head with thin white body but chances are they're in any cakes. If found, drowned the cake in water for 24 hours+ and then baggy and bin. The larva can be killed but it's not worth salvaging, even if u kill them all they have turned the cake to a soggy unstable mess with the holes they create. Abandon any cakes with evidence of larvae.
- Bleach all your drains. They need water sources and this is a suggest hidey hole they like,
- Move houseplants outside, no indoor soil.
- Get an electric bug zapping tennis racket to hand and fry the lil bastards everytime you see them.
- Check your garden for anything rotten, ie spent cakes being tossed as they'll take hold their and find their way indoors.
- Vinegar/Wine traps didn't work well for me but give it a shot.
- Get a spray bottle and use a lil bit of detergent and give the plants and soil in garden a spray. It's a good general bug killer for aphids etc aswell so give it a try.
You need to hit them with everything in one go to wipe out the population. They were the bane of my existence for a while, ruining my grow was bad, but the constant flies floating around ur head whilst on pc etc was irritating. Developed a habit of clapping to swat them which had me looking like a madman.
You might need to consider some downtime if it gets bad. Clear all substrate from the house, clean up house n garden and wait for them to die off.
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2bittoker
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Thanks. Luckily my silicone seals are keeping my grain jars safe. But they seriously fucked up my BRF cakes. Mold appeared in another today. Down to 11 out of 24. Deployed fly sticky tape today, cleaned everything and swatted some.
My remaining BRFs should be salvagable if they haven't already deployed spores in them yet. Dropped them in airtight box for the remained of colonization.
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PinPornProducer
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Re: Fungal Gnat Control [Re: 2bittoker]
#21691137 - 05/17/15 04:05 PM (8 years, 8 months ago) |
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I had them once when I had cakes going and just started bulk, had 1 monotub going. They ripped through every cake I had and infested my mono. I bought a bottle of shit called worry free in a spray bottle, fungus gnats are labeled as one of the many insects it kills. It worked like a charm. Sprayed directly on the cakes and sub even when fruits were present and killed the bastards within 2 of 3 treatments in the matter of a few days and the spray didn't harm the myc or fruits
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Heard about worry free spray working really well with lots of insects including the gnats and it won't harm mycelium. Worth a shot imo.
Edited by Mad Season (05/17/15 04:16 PM)
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hamloaf
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Cool man. For plants there's this shit called diecious earth. It's a powder, and you put the stuff on the floor, and on the the soil. It's organic, and is fossilized shells of tiny sea creatures. Diecious earth works by clinging to the bodies of insects, and then cutting them open until they dry out and die. Never used diecious earth for the mushroom culture before, but have always wondered how the stuff would fair with our mushroom substrates.
http://www.cleanairgardening.com/diatomaceous.html
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2bittoker
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Quote:
Mad Season said: Heard about worry free spray working really well with lots of insects including the gnats and it won't harm mycelium. Worth a shot imo.
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PinPornProducer said: I had them once when I had cakes going and just started bulk, had 1 monotub going. They ripped through every cake I had and infested my mono. I bought a bottle of shit called worry free in a spray bottle, fungus gnats are labeled as one of the many insects it kills. It worked like a charm. Sprayed directly on the cakes and sub even when fruits were present and killed the bastards within 2 of 3 treatments in the matter of a few days and the spray didn't harm the myc or fruits
Cool, Ill pick it up when I get ready to spawn to bulk.
Though the bit of cleaning Ive done as seemed to work wonders. That and I picked up some flying insect spray to use outside my grow room. Left some syurp out and sprayed bunch after they came to feast on it. Havent seen any in my grow room since.
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eatyualive
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Re: Fungal Gnat Control [Re: hamloaf]
#21691268 - 05/17/15 04:40 PM (8 years, 8 months ago) |
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hamloaf said: Cool man. For plants there's this shit called diecious earth. It's a powder, and you put the stuff on the floor, and on the the soil. It's organic, and is fossilized shells of tiny sea creatures. Diecious earth works by clinging to the bodies of insects, and then cutting them open until they dry out and die. Never used diecious earth for the mushroom culture before, but have always wondered how the stuff would fair with our mushroom substrates.
http://www.cleanairgardening.com/diatomaceous.html
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hamloaf said: Cool man. For plants there's this shit called diecious earth. It's a powder, and you put the stuff on the floor, and on the the soil. It's organic, and is fossilized shells of tiny sea creatures. Diecious earth works by clinging to the bodies of insects, and then cutting them open until they dry out and die. Never used diecious earth for the mushroom culture before, but have always wondered how the stuff would fair with our mushroom substrates.
http://www.cleanairgardening.com/diatomaceous.html
ive used it in substrates. didn't find much of a difference. didn't know you could use it for pest control.
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spaceman101
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Diatomaceous earth is useless unless it's dry and powdery. These things are the scourge of mushroom cultivation and I have yet to find a way to completely get rid of them once I already had them
I know if you have them in some cactus soil or something like that a fan blowing over them 24/7 will keep them at bay but you'll never get fully rid of them. Since your working with mushroom span this would likely do you more harm than good so
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