Update on the 3x3 bed. Lots of things needing to move along, so I decided to toss in most of the stragglers. Plants of all shapes, sizes and genetics will make up this disaster!
I am up for the challenge, its always fun to fly by the seat of your pants and battle through,
In picture order (and bed location) we have: -Grape Runtz Candy #1 (back left) -Grape Runtz Candy #2 (back right) -Badass OG Cheese (middle left) -Sherbert (middle right) Highlighters Apollo? I think is what @antheis was calling it? (front left) Special Queen (front right)
I also figure I will step up the crazy a little more and put a Ice Cream Cake S1 seedling from @TestOfOath right in the middle of the bed tomorrow, because… why the hell not?
Siilly question, are you gonna smoke, dab, juice or make some hash with the gnats!? I know the answer!! So one way out!! Take control right away so you can enjoy what gnats will never ever give you!! The pleasures this amazing plant gives us!!!
Dude that sucks, been there and can sympathize.
I would put down a lot more rice hulls. So you can’t see thru it to the soil. The DE will help as well but I would dump the hulls on literally.
I have not added any rove beetles or anything no. Also those are not the most recent pics, that was before I took those traps out and loaded the bed with hulls, so its much thicker than you saw there. Added new traps back in after I loaded it up.
Lol! Luckily there have not been any getting into the buds, I usually shake the plants to get them mobile and kill or vacuum them if I can heh. But I will most likely just be pressing rosin out of most of this tent.
You guys with the giant beds, water them from the bottom and you’ll have zero problems with gnats. Seriously.
The bottoms of most tents are water proof anyway, just pour some water in there instead. If you don’t have a waterproof bottom then put a pipe in the middle of your bed that goes down to about 1/3rd from the bottom or so and make sure you cover it with cloth and elastic.
And water LESS.
Chill with that shit mang.
Be cool.
Eventually they won’t need any watering at all, or maybe once a month.
My top soil is pure dust.
And I have seedlings in there, going strong.
You don’t even need to dig or anything, just jam it in there.
Something the width of your fist.
The water will flow down through the soil in the pipe, then once out the pipe it will get sucked upwards again and to all directions throughout the rest of the bed.
I recently got some dry ice in my clone tent to suffocate the gnats and it did a good job wiping out the adults, but a few days later the next generation was back at it. BT Granules in water, lightly misted on the surface has been the trick. Like Rogue said, too wet is counter productive, so I’m trying to apply the BT more as a surface coating than as a heavy soil drench.
I like the idea of misting rather than a drench for sure, why didn’t I think of that!!
Great tip @low_and_slow , will use that one although I never plan on getting gnats ever again
Oof ya screw these gnats… I will never buy bagged compost ever again… Especially this Whitney Farms compost that brought back the Gnat’pocolypse after I had fought them back already… Sometimes being a cheap ass DOES bite me in the ass lol.
Funny thing is my 2x4 mix was part COM lobster compost, part whitney farms and part Glacier Gold (produced in state)… I know for a fact the Glacier Gold was not loaded with gnats but instead it was loaded with good soil mites. I saw millions of them with my own eyes in my single plant jungle tent grow diary because I was topping that plant with it.
At least now I know what to never get… Wish I had not ran out of the Glacier Gold compost, that’s the only reason I bought the other shit.
outa likes, but seriously id be happy to send you some beneficials…
I understand though it is kind of inviting more potential problems by willingly bringing bugs from random online forum dude into your space
