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Magash
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Re: fungus gnats (attn: RogerRabbit and other straw loggers) [Re: I_Stain_Blue]
#5803637 - 06/29/06 03:17 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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  Some info on em
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fastfred
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Re: fungus gnats (attn: RogerRabbit and other straw loggers) [Re: Magash]
#5804330 - 06/29/06 07:00 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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Thanks Magash. Any idea how long their lifecycle is?
Unless it's longer than you would expect I can see them causing a lot of damage if they get out of control.
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beatnicknick
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Re: fungus gnats (attn: RogerRabbit and other straw loggers) [Re: fastfred]
#5952957 - 08/11/06 02:43 AM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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I saw a gnat just crawl out of one of my jars, and I'm just wondering
1) Will the dry verm layer stop them? 2) If the tops of most of my jars uncolonized, wet and nice for gnats, is it best to just fruit the jar now before it get contaminated? 3) If I only saw one, is there a chance I wont see more (Please!!!! I don't want to lost another grow to bacteria!)
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Yarrow Blues
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Re: fungus gnats (attn: RogerRabbit and other straw loggers) [Re: Oatman2000]
#10690798 - 07/16/09 09:38 PM (14 years, 6 months ago) |
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I quickly developed a serious gnat problem in my grow closet in my garage. I read RR's post about looking for house plants that may be "home" to gnats, as gnats don't live or breed in fully colonized substrate or cakes.
I realized that I had a big bag of 4 month old store bought horse manure in my grow closet. I looked in the bag and saw many gnats in there. I threw the bag away yesterday, and today my gnat problem is gone.
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pownasaurus
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Re: fungus gnats (attn: RogerRabbit and other straw loggers) [Re: Yarrow Blues]
#10692697 - 07/17/09 07:18 AM (14 years, 6 months ago) |
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So it seems like these flies can be a bother but overall they're gnat a problem.
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whimsy
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Re: fungus gnats (attn: RogerRabbit and other straw loggers) [Re: Oatman2000]
#10692730 - 07/17/09 07:32 AM (14 years, 6 months ago) |
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I had a few little gnats or fruit flies or something in my FC (nowhere else in my house though, so I have no clue where they came from) and naturally I got upset. Somewhere I read apple cider vinegar attracts them. So I put some in an old vitamin water bottle with aluminum foil on top, with a single small hole in punched in and placed that inside my FC. The flies are more attracted to the apple cider vinegar than my cakes.. so they fly into the bottle and can't get out. It totally worked. Now and then I see one flying around in there, but within an hour it's gone (drowned in the apple cider vinegar muhaha).
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