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ak-51
7-10 days ago I went down to the basement and noticed that there was couple of swarms of flying ants on the ground. I quickly deduced that they were all swarming around the spots where I had spilled a little bit of blackstrap molasses. Oh I bet they loved that, tons of energy for them. They were isolated in about a 2'x2' area so I just swept them up, disposed of them and was done with it.
Today I moved some stuff from veg into flower and took clones and was generally just doing a lot of shuffling things around down there. I noticed that there was something moving in the thin layer of coco under the 4" pots that I use for veg. I looked closer and it was ants! Not the flying ants like from before, but normal worker ants. From this I inferred that at least one of the flying females had started a brood and they were making my basement their home. Fuck!
I start poking around veg and realize that these guys are all over the place. On top of the coco I can see dozens of wings that had been discarded. Picking up some pots reveals a swarm of them underneath. I know that isn't the extent of it though. I pulled a rootball out of a pot and what do I see; it looks just like an antfarm! A bunch of tunnels that they have dug out and shit! There are ants living inside the coco, in the pots of at least 5 plants. One of them I pulled out I saw a huge clutch of eggs. When I pulled that one out I saw them grab the eggs and try to take them to safety.
I shook a ton of ants out of the rootballs and swept them up. Some of the plants I just cannibalized for clones since I was doing clones anyway.
I'll do another check tomorrow and maybe come up with a more comprehensive plan to deal with these assholes.
Today I moved some stuff from veg into flower and took clones and was generally just doing a lot of shuffling things around down there. I noticed that there was something moving in the thin layer of coco under the 4" pots that I use for veg. I looked closer and it was ants! Not the flying ants like from before, but normal worker ants. From this I inferred that at least one of the flying females had started a brood and they were making my basement their home. Fuck!
I start poking around veg and realize that these guys are all over the place. On top of the coco I can see dozens of wings that had been discarded. Picking up some pots reveals a swarm of them underneath. I know that isn't the extent of it though. I pulled a rootball out of a pot and what do I see; it looks just like an antfarm! A bunch of tunnels that they have dug out and shit! There are ants living inside the coco, in the pots of at least 5 plants. One of them I pulled out I saw a huge clutch of eggs. When I pulled that one out I saw them grab the eggs and try to take them to safety.
I shook a ton of ants out of the rootballs and swept them up. Some of the plants I just cannibalized for clones since I was doing clones anyway.
I'll do another check tomorrow and maybe come up with a more comprehensive plan to deal with these assholes.
