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Pythonking69
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Gnats...gnats everywhere. How can I get rid of them?
#26663624 - 05/10/20 11:47 PM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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my sub is still fruiting, but there are just gnats everywhere, they are breeding inside. There is polyfill so none can get in, but the more i mist to hydrate my sub the worse it gets. I put sticky fly traps and the whole thing filled up in a few days. I started spraying with peroxide water but it doesn't seem to be helping. I heard they don't damage your fruits but they always are sitting on my mushrooms and i feel like they are causing them to abort. I don't want to throw it out because I know i have a few more flushes left but these gnats are getting to me..what can I do? are there any unique solutions you guys have tried?
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Re: Gnats...gnats everywhere. How can I get rid of them? [Re: Pythonking69] 1
#26663638 - 05/11/20 12:15 AM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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take everything outside to finish fruiting ; clean , spray raid or something , start over
good luck !
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Re: Gnats...gnats everywhere. How can I get rid of them? [Re: dmppb]
#26663645 - 05/11/20 12:43 AM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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I have no idea about in a tub but if it were a plant I'd suggest praying mantis. Might be worth a shot?
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Re: Gnats...gnats everywhere. How can I get rid of them? [Re: dmppb]
#26663646 - 05/11/20 12:45 AM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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These work pretty well, it will only get the flying ones but gnats are a pain, and it takes about 3 weeks to get rid of them. Just stick one or two in your fruiting chamber and it gets alot of them. https://www.amazon.com/Gideal-20-Pack-Dual-Sided-Whiteflies-Leafminers/dp/B07QKLHH5X/ref=mp_s_a_1_4?dchild=1&keywords=sticky+fly+trap&qid=1589179371&sprefix=sticky+f&sr=8-4
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Re: Gnats...gnats everywhere. How can I get rid of them? [Re: MH5109] 1
#26663748 - 05/11/20 03:36 AM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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They will eat the pins too. One gnat lays 10,000 eggs- you can't get rid of them. I am confident they can get in thru poly too.
The only way I was able to get rid of them was by harvesting my first flushes and then dumping everything, washing tubs out, and then waiting maybe 3 weeks before spawning anything new. That solved it.
Tons of flypaper (even hung inside my tubs), red wine vinegar traps, vacuuming them out if the tubs.. I tried everything.
By the time you see gnats you have a serious infestation already.
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Re: Gnats...gnats everywhere. How can I get rid of them? [Re: oneshot]
#26663775 - 05/11/20 04:22 AM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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oneshot said: I have no idea about in a tub but if it were a plant I'd suggest praying mantis. Might be worth a shot?
Gnats are small, too small for most mantids to catch. Only nymphs (like L2 at most) would catch them, except they would eat like 5 a day at most. So the solution I see is hanging a bunch of fertile oothecae in your grow room and waiting for them to hatch, flooding your tubs with hundreds of nymphs.
Honestly sounds like a great idea! I would even consider pouring a shitton of spring-tails into tubs to prevent mold.
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Re: Gnats...gnats everywhere. How can I get rid of them? [Re: Ombisha]
#26663795 - 05/11/20 04:39 AM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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I only had mantids once in my life, but they seemed more work to keep alive than mushrooms, so not sure if it's worth it.
I'm way more experienced with tarantulas, but you'd need a shit ton of L2-L3 spiderlings to keep gnats at bay. Gnats aren't really their favorite food and tarantulas don't eat much. Also, fruiting conditions would only be suitable for some more tropical species, which are not as easy to care for as desert species.
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Re: Gnats...gnats everywhere. How can I get rid of them? [Re: poisoned]
#26663800 - 05/11/20 04:48 AM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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poisoned said: I only had mantids once in my life, but they seemed more work to keep alive than mushrooms, so not sure if it's worth it.
I'm way more experienced with tarantulas, but you'd need a shit ton of L2-L3 spiderlings to keep gnats at bay. Gnats aren't really their favorite food and tarantulas don't eat much. Also, fruiting conditions would only be suitable for some more tropical species, which are not as easy to care for as desert species.
there are some mantids which wouldn't mind the humidity, but both are just a bad idea! Both would leave a bunch of poop, shed skin and dead insects everywhere and it would inevitably get moldy.
lol, can you imagine pouring petris or something just for a nymph to fall into one?
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Re: Gnats...gnats everywhere. How can I get rid of them? [Re: Ombisha]
#26663811 - 05/11/20 04:55 AM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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yeah fucking hate gnats , my first ever mushroom i grew was from a contaminated jar (bacterial) that i buried in a pot under soil , it succeed and i put the pot in a SGFC and after first flush i realized there are gnats every freaking where i even dunked the whole pot in water after taking all shrooms for like 10hours , it lowered them but they were still there , i had to get rid of it at some point , hope you can do it
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Re: Gnats...gnats everywhere. How can I get rid of them? [Re: rezasmith]
#26663820 - 05/11/20 05:02 AM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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Don't get them in the first place and if you do burn everything with fire and start over
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Re: Gnats...gnats everywhere. How can I get rid of them? [Re: bodhisatta]
#26663826 - 05/11/20 05:11 AM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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Ombisha said: Both would leave a bunch of poop, shed skin and dead insects everywhere and it would inevitably get moldy.
Where mold grows, myc grows too. Hell, if I ever get back into arthropods I'm doing a tarantula mold grow. Just stuff it with some spawn and put it on that smartattack's planet.
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bodhisatta said: Don't get them in the first place and if you do burn everything with fire and start over
How would one approach that without a dedicated grow room? It would get tricky even in that case.
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Re: Gnats...gnats everywhere. How can I get rid of them? [Re: poisoned]
#26663873 - 05/11/20 06:06 AM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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I got gnats vs aphid flies and I have a dedicated grow room with aphid fly traps outside the chambers. I put one half a piece of sticky trap in a fruiting chamber and ended up with mold from it as it was the only non-sterile item in the chamber.
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Re: Gnats...gnats everywhere. How can I get rid of them? [Re: AlVal]
#26663878 - 05/11/20 06:22 AM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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There's no way anything in your FC is sterile. That mold came from somewhere else.
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Re: Gnats...gnats everywhere. How can I get rid of them? [Re: poisoned]
#26663947 - 05/11/20 07:19 AM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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bodhisatta said: Don't get them in the first place and if you do burn everything with fire and start over
How would one approach that without a dedicated grow room? It would get tricky even in that case.
Add a drop of peppermint oil to your spray bottle. Spray in and around the tubs/jars. It's a treatment and preventative.
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Re: Gnats...gnats everywhere. How can I get rid of them? [Re: LadysKnight]
#26664037 - 05/11/20 08:12 AM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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Lol everybody’s got these fuckers now. Hate summer!
I had an a bowl of coir I had forgotten about and the other day I noticed a couple tiny flies so I started looking around and there was a billion in the bowl.
I grabbed my iso spraybottle and sprayed the shit out of everything then threw it out and haven’t seen any since.
I’m about to buy cheesecloth to put over my manure tubs though.
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Re: Gnats...gnats everywhere. How can I get rid of them? [Re: A.k.a]
#26664057 - 05/11/20 08:22 AM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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I had a 20kg bag of loose coir which had been laying around the passed year, went and opened the bag for the first time the other day and there was a colony of little flying insects, I assume now gnats. Chucked that fucker away luckily had a few bricks to hand. Gutting lol.
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Re: Gnats...gnats everywhere. How can I get rid of them? [Re: Htaeh]
#26664087 - 05/11/20 08:47 AM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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If you got gnats, put it outside. Only way to get rid of them is to GET RID of them. At least for mushies. People say peppermint oil helps, I've used oregeno oil (also prevents cobweb!) when growing microgreens, but for mushies, I've only seen peppermint. With cannabis people use nematodes to get rid of them with some success. Peroxide will also get rid of them and the eggs, but you've gotta be vigilant with it and spray vigorously daily (1:2 mixture).
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Re: Gnats...gnats everywhere. How can I get rid of them? [Re: Justweed]
#26664147 - 05/11/20 09:41 AM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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Idk if I've dealt with the same fungus gnats as you guys, because it was easy af for me to solve. I haven't had them on my grow, but my parents had a really bad infestation from their houseplants getting moldy soil. A splash of peppermint oil in a spray bottle with some water solved it in less than a week.
Maybe they're more aggressive in hotter climates and you need to take all these extreme measures, but peppermint oil nuked the fuckers for me.
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