[lovelightpower]

sorry for lack of responsiveness lately guys.
i've been getting hammered by;
fungus gnat,
thrip,
spider mite,
broad mites.

had them all.
i tend to become a hermit when i get parasites, and keep myself to myself till i deal with the matter. but i'm still dealing with the matter, and it's been quite a while now. I'm starting to wonder if i should just chuck the cuts collection in the bin and start again, or fight the good fight and see where i end up.

think i still have broad mites and fungus gnats.

any help or advice is appreciated.

[Intimea]

Keep your room @42°C for at least 2h to kill all the broad mites...than you can help recover with aspirin.

[Green81]

LOVELIGHTPOWER, hey bro ive had similar problems as you. Have you tried going down the natural predator route? It's worked for me, also I noticed some of my older cuts I believed developed a pathogen and those cuts had to be dumped, complete lack of vigour and half the normal yields.

[lovelightpower]

well i've tried dinamec, floramite, now i'm on Bio War and my friend just passed me some predators yesterday.

[lovelightpower]

Originally Posted by Intimea

Keep your room @42°C for at least 2h to kill all the broad mites...than you can help recover with aspirin.

i have a wood fired sauna at my place, i was thinking about getting it really hot and putting them in there for a short amount of time. i heard the hotter the temp, the less time they have to be in there. is that correct?

at the moment i have them all in small pots with a clear cup over them with some cling film round it to increase humidity after using the biowar product.

i used the biowar on some other plants i put in the flowering space, then put a clear bottle over them, and that increased the humidity enough to do the job. but the smaller ones had a clear cup over them without cling film and i don’t think the humidity was enough to get the bio war working. so trying another dose, also made it a bit stronger.

[Intimea]

Originally Posted by lovelightpower

i have a wood fired sauna at my place, i was thinking about getting it really hot and putting them in there for a short amount of time. i heard the hotter the temp, the less time they have to be in there. is that correct?

Yes, it is...the principle of pasteurisation.
But idk how it will work for you...I read that 2h @42°C is the minimum required, so you might start from this point...

But remember that you also have to treat the boxes...you can't clean the plants to put them in an infected room again.

Originally Posted by lovelightpower

at the moment i have them all in small pots with a clear cup over them with some cling film round it to increase humidity after using the biowar product.

i used the biowar on some other plants i put in the flowering space, then put a clear bottle over them, and that increased the humidity enough to do the job. but the smaller ones had a clear cup over them without cling film and i don’t think the humidity was enough to get the bio war working. so trying another dose, also made it a bit stronger.

Sorry, idk what is biowar, but i'm pretty sure doing like that, you're doing almost anything...broad mites are a plague...conventional systems don't work.

For the fungus gnat, you can try with these or these

[lovelightpower]

Originally Posted by Intimea

For the fungus gnat, you can try with these or these

thanks for those links. i have tried the fungus gnat predators with success (not complete eradication though). i will maybe try again, after this round of treatment.

the nematodes thing looks great though, i'm going to try and find something similar sold in the u.k. if i can. if not i'll get it shipped from the u.s.

[lovelightpower]

this seems similar i think...
https://www.nematodesdirect.co.uk/sc...-up-to-15-sq-m

[Dank Demon]

Touch wood I have not been pestered by any nasties for years since I dropped out of the trading circles, its been bloody bliss not having to buy pesticides and having trouble free growing Hope you sort out your bugs LLP

[lovelightpower]

Originally Posted by Dank Demon

Touch wood I have not been pestered by any nasties for years since I dropped out of the trading circles, its been bloody bliss not having to buy pesticides and having trouble free growing Hope you sort out your bugs LLP

i see the appeal in not trading now. but still, there's some amazing cuts out there...