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01-05-2014, 11:57 PM #11OPJunior Member
Ravaged by fungus gnats???
@Chromophore, Thanks, I appreciate any input. The soil I'm using drains fairly well. These things really became a problem when the temperatures and humidity dropped. I'm running a space heater in my veg room and the the soil dries fast. The plants will droop and sag in 36 hours after being watered if they don't get watered again. So they were getting watered about every 24 hours which, I guess, created an optimum environment for the gnats. I'm not sure how to get around that now other than by keeping the pots full of nematodes.
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01-06-2014, 12:32 AM #12Senior Member
Ravaged by fungus gnats???
I've been reading up on the best ways to get rid of these little devils as well as 200 other garden pests.
Heterorhabditis Bacteriophora also known as Beneficial Nematodes (Steinernema Feltiae) are microscopic warriors that kill soil borne pests such as flea larvae, spidermites, fungus gnat, weevils, grubs, rootworms, cutworms, and many more. These Nematodes search, find, and kill pests living in the soil. They are extremely effective, and will reproduce and spread to provide you with long lasting organic pest control. Safe for plants, pets, and people. May be applied in a mulch, with garden sprayer or watering can. Unlike other beneficial nematodes, the Steinernema Feltiae only needs to be applied every 12 - 18 months.
It sounds like the best and most natural way to rid the garden of annoying bug type pests.
Has anyone tried this?
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01-06-2014, 12:51 AM #13OPJunior Member
Ravaged by fungus gnats???
The ones I'm using are the Steinernema Feltiae. I've used them along with the mosquito dunks which I crumbled and put in the soil. I also put two dunks in a five gallon bucket and have been using it to water with since. I watered with the nematodes 10 or 11 days ago for the first time and I've pretty much explained above what I've done since and right now I don't see a single gnat flying around anymore. There was practically a cloud of them 10 days ago. So I can't say for sure it was the nematodes or the dunks but both of them together have been extremely effective.
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01-06-2014, 12:56 AM #14Member
Ravaged by fungus gnats???
Originally Posted by Lemuel714
Here's a couple of pics of what I have going on. The first two are pictures of the clones, which are in my flower room now. The third pic is of the clone in the colored bottle, and the last pic is the root system starting on the one that is in the bottle with black tape for complete darkness.
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Now, if you look at picture three, you'll see a bunch of white dots on the stem. These are actually the beginnings of the root system, and there are a couple of small roots. Picture number four shows a little of the same, but this time the roots have developed a little more. You can literally see the difference the dark has for root development, even though both are still rooting. These were both put into the water the at the same time, BTW. Picture number four with the small roots is off to a good start. For my personal tastes, the roots are still a little small, so I'll let that stay in the water a couple more days until most of the roots reach about 2" and have a nice, thick root ball.
The clones in pictures number one and two were started this way, and they seem to be doing great. A couple people have advised that I am perhaps keeping them in the veg cycle a little more than needed.... I let them stay in the veg room about a month after they were in soil so they would get nice and tall. They did, with one being around 3 ft and the other closer to 4. I was under the impression that once they hit flower they would stop getting taller and just bud out but alas, that was incorrect, so my flower closet is overflowing atm. Hey, more bud though, right?
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01-06-2014, 01:56 AM #15OPJunior Member
Ravaged by fungus gnats???
Yeah, the question was for you. Thanks for the info. I've been thinking about putting my clones in water for a while now. It looks like it will be a while before I have anything to clone again now though. I had a hermie late last spring that I caught way to late. I was really bummed about it for a while at the time although it didn't turn out to be nearly as devastating as I thought it was going to. It did provide me with a good assortment of seeds. I'm grateful for that now. It looks like you take much larger cuttings than I normally do. I usually put mine in the jiffy pellets and wait till I see roots coming out before I put the whole thing in soil. It has been taking longer and longer for the roots to appear and I've been losing over 50 percent of my clones lately (as opposed to 0 to 1 or 2 percent normally). I assume the gnats are the culprit for that now.
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01-06-2014, 08:07 AM #16Member
Ravaged by fungus gnats???
Originally Posted by Lemuel714
Since then I've learned about cloning and being able to keep the plants quite a bit shorter. (I'm bordering on close to 5' on the biggest now) Still, when I take the cuttings, I normally lop off a good sized top piece and root that - which helps stunt the height. There's a pretty decent video on YouTube called "I grow chronic". My old roommate gave me a copy of it on DVD and most of what I've learned has come from that, up until I found this site.
As of right now, I'm actually torn between staying with mother-clone and moving to just the auto flowers. Since I don't know what strains I have in mother-clone I'm just having to wait until the first harvest to test things out and see what I want to keep. One plant looks really great, and the other seems to be a great producer although slower growing. I may end up budding out the mothers and cloning from the clones just to keep stock if they are good, or perhaps killing off one of the strains if it under-performs after harvest. The reason I'm torn about going to the auto flowers, is they seem to be much easier to grow and maintain versus the mother-clone process. If I could just put fresh seed into the ground every 90 days or so and come away with enough to last me 90 days with minimal space (no need for veg and flower rooms) and have some killer smoke, that seems like the best way to go. If you're up at 150 clones though, you're probably looking for more than just personal. At any rate, the latest seeds I started were some dark devil and black cream that I ordered from overseas. I was actually quite worried about that whole process since this was the first time I had ever ordered seeds. I was very happy with the way things turned out though. If you're looking to get some great seed stock, it's an option definitely worth considering although I would break up large orders into several shipments going to different addresses and none of them at the grow location. I detailed my ordering experience here at: http://boards.cannabis.com/rhino-can...ng-online.html if you're curious about the process.
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01-06-2014, 03:55 PM #17Senior Member
Ravaged by fungus gnats???
Originally Posted by Lemuel714
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01-06-2014, 11:06 PM #18OPJunior Member
Ravaged by fungus gnats???
@ThePinkJina, I got them on ebay. Dr Pye's Scanmask...There's videos on youtube on how to use them. I did not spray them on though. I just watered with them. @Keiser, I've never heard of either of those strains, let me know how they turn out. I got my seeds from BC. I started out with 4 different strains. They were all OK. I didn't pay much for them though and all in all I was real happy with the service I got from those guys. 150 plants is a lot for me, probably 2/3 were clones and 1/3 were seedlings. Like I said, I had just had a big come up in seeds. I was getting a lot of stunted growth and on top of that I had had my veg and flowering room together for a little while when summer ended. Its a big room and I had it sectioned off so I thought I would be ok but what happened was that my flowering plants got too much light (it wasn't much) and went back into vegetative growth. (another rookie mistake) So I'm kind of backed up. I try to keep it to where I'm harvesting something every week or two and I ended up going a good six weeks with nothing so being the neurotic I am I overcompensated and planted and cloned a lot more than I usually would.
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