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What the fuck do ants like about my cannabis soil

Frog35
Frog35started grow question 9 months ago
Does anyone have a solution for ants. The other day my bucket was covered with ants so I mixed up some vinegar water and ant killer and sprayed on the bucket to try and get rid of them I may have gotten a little bit inside the drain holes on bottom sides. Will she live?
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Frog35
Frog35answered grow question 9 months ago
Should I go ahead and remove it from the flowering plants. Don't want any other plants looking like this
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damianfox
damianfoxanswered grow question 9 months ago
Looks like a heat issue. Do not let the canopy get over 84f, and make sure the leaves just barely jiggle from a oscillating fan. Yeah i wouldn't put anything but straight RO or RO with nutrients in your medium. If your soil is enriched the ants could be after a few things like crab meal etc.
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Chucky324
Chucky324answered grow question 9 months ago
Hello. Borax is deadly poison to ants. You can find it in the laundry isle. I've forgotten the exact recipe but Mr. Google will know.. You mix water, borax and sugar in a pot and heat it a bit. Put it in small trays/lids around the plants. Put some bread in the trays. The foraging ants will take the bread back to the nest and feed the queen with it. They will drink the liquid and take that back to the nest to feed the young and and pupating ants. Kill the queen, kill the hive. The ants should be gone in a week or so. Good Luck. Chuck.
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Kaptngrow
Kaptngrowanswered grow question 9 months ago
Stark verdünnter Essig ist wohl weniger das Problem, solange es nicht als Sprühnebel auf die Pflanzen kommt. Aber mit etwas zu viel Essig um den PH-Wert im Boden zu senken habe ich auch schon mal eine Pflanze gekillt. Was ist in dem Ameisenvernichter enthalten? Vielleicht war das der Killer. Gegen Ameisen wäre es besser gewesen, Zitronenschalen oder Zimt zu nehmen.
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Tmasm
Tmasmanswered grow question 9 months ago
Bem única vês que tive formigas, em meu cultivo, formigas na verdade vem ajudar, alimentar de cunchonilha e outros pragas, só temos que controla número de formigas, para não se tronar elas a praga. Control as pragas, rega com chá de ortigas, água oxigenada 10° diluída 4/1, e muitas outras, mas antes disso descobri, o real problema.
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Stork
Storkanswered grow question 9 months ago
I never had ants on the plant but try to drown them, save your orange, lemon, and grapefruit peels and scatter them around or use Cinnamon, Coffee grounds around the plant they hate that stuff, or well use your vacuum and suck them all Btw on the pic look like a light burn (fix the dli 30-40/ppfd 500-1000) 😎
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greenAF
greenAFanswered grow question 9 months ago
Did you dilute the vinegar? The only time I have seen ants 🤬 with a plant is if the plant has a disease and it produces a byproduct the ants will feed on. I have had a pepper plant catch something (forget what it's called) and it produces a black sticky substance on the leaves and the ant s feed on that. So they are not necessarily eating the leaves but They're eating the thing on or in the leaves. obviously your leaves get caught up in the mess, don't know if there is a similar process with the roots. And again, this tidbit of information is not concerning cannabis but peppers, don't know of anything similarly happening with cannabis.
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Hashy
Hashyanswered grow question 9 months ago
Fucking ants, hate em. Unfortunately I can't help you with this. Before my plants go to their Gorilla spot I put them in my garden for a week or so. Last time I must have put them near an ant nest and they was all over the plants like a plague. I didn't treat them and moved them to the gorilla spot and they was still teaming with them when I checked a week later. To be fair they didn't seem to do any damage to the plants and they made it through flower but I had to wash the buds because the odd ant had died on the buds.
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