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Damn tiny flies/gnats during fruiting
    #26612614 - 04/19/20 10:20 AM (3 years, 9 months ago)

First grow in this new house and this first fruiting tub has gnats suddenly on it. It’s knotted up and a few early pins. Just never seen the gnats pop up so early in a flush. Assume it’s this damn country house.


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Re: Damn tiny flies/gnats during fruiting [Re: Thedenthead]
    #26616069 - 04/20/20 06:54 PM (3 years, 9 months ago)

Bump. I’m the only one who experiences this? Lol


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Re: Damn tiny flies/gnats during fruiting [Re: Thedenthead]
    #26616080 - 04/20/20 06:57 PM (3 years, 9 months ago)

Ive grown for almost 15 years never had gnats.


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Re: Damn tiny flies/gnats during fruiting [Re: shevanel]
    #26616239 - 04/20/20 08:12 PM (3 years, 9 months ago)

One drop of peppermint oil in a water spray bottle.


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Re: Damn tiny flies/gnats during fruiting [Re: LadysKnight]
    #26616338 - 04/20/20 08:47 PM (3 years, 9 months ago)

I get them cause I live in a grape farming, wine & juice making area.
Set out some bowls with an inch of apple cider vinegar, one drop of dish
soap, suran wrap tight over the bowl, melt 4 small holes with a safety pin
just big enough for them to crawl through. Put a couple throughout your
house and in your grow area. Should help trap and kill them all.


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Re: Damn tiny flies/gnats during fruiting [Re: Thedenthead]
    #26616351 - 04/20/20 08:52 PM (3 years, 9 months ago)

Suck those bastards up with a vacuum nozzle


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Re: Damn tiny flies/gnats during fruiting [Re: FooMan]
    #26616924 - 04/21/20 06:42 AM (3 years, 9 months ago)

Quote:

rumfor69 said:
I get them cause I live in a grape farming, wine & juice making area.
Set out some bowls with an inch of apple cider vinegar, one drop of dish
soap, suran wrap tight over the bowl, melt 4 small holes with a safety pin
just big enough for them to crawl through. Put a couple throughout your
house and in your grow area. Should help trap and kill them all.




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FooMan said:
Suck those bastards up with a vacuum nozzle





Appreciate the responses. I thought about the vacuum but I had recently put a light casing on the tub due to it drying. Started a humidifier in my grow area because this house is so damn dry currently.

I’ll lay some apple cider vinegar out and report back.


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Re: Damn tiny flies/gnats during fruiting [Re: Thedenthead]
    #26616964 - 04/21/20 07:15 AM (3 years, 9 months ago)

Casing layers are IDEAL breeding grounds for fungus gnats/fruit flies. The moist material is perfect for them, your mushrooms provide food for them. If you let them go they'll completely infest that tub. I'd set that tub aside if you have others around, definitely do some household remedies (vinegar dishes, fly strips, that kinda thing) to try to keep their numbers down, but once they're in there they're not coming out until you toss that tub, not without really hurting the substrate.


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Re: Damn tiny flies/gnats during fruiting [Re: Justweed] * 1
    #26617068 - 04/21/20 08:21 AM (3 years, 9 months ago)



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Re: Damn tiny flies/gnats during fruiting [Re: LadysKnight]
    #26617128 - 04/21/20 08:51 AM (3 years, 9 months ago)

^^^ this.  :radman:  Even the shitty peppermint oil from Walmart's vitamin/wellness section in pharmacy works quite well.  Best used in conjunction with apple cider vinegar traps.  For a buck or two more you whould get the 4 pack of fly tape or a pak of those yellow sticky cards.  The oil REALLY helps, doesn't affect the myc in any way, and smells super great.  Take it from a guy who has battled them both in his cannabis grow rooms and in tubs... use at LEAST the oil and vinegar traps.  They are fucking aggressive.  Also look around the house for where they started (generally they start out in a potted plant that is full of larvae or are being attracted to a compost bin or open-top trash can.  Give them zero incentive or play.  Best of luck by the by.  Give em hell.  :pirate:


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Re: Damn tiny flies/gnats during fruiting [Re: alaskappalachian]
    #26617197 - 04/21/20 09:19 AM (3 years, 9 months ago)

Yep I had some test me a couple weeks ago, misted my subs, tubs, jars - no sign of them 2 days later. I continue to mist subs with same spray bottle cuz it smells great, excellent preventative and shrooms don't mind at all.


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