HELP! Any thoughts on whats wrong?

[Flexy123]

Yes bugs are hardly ever good but gnats are among those which are actually *relatively* harmless. But they are bad for seedlings because they eat on the roots, but not so much for older plants.
Gnats are almost ALWAYS a sign from over-watering because they live in wet/humid soil. So when you see them, turn down your watering. (You should always let your soil "dry out" between waterings, even if your plants start to wilt because they are dry, this is not an issue because they recover within an hour or two. I often actually only water once I see plants wilting. MUCH better than overwatering!)

Aside from watering less (which should get rid of gnats), you can also cover the top of your pots with perlite, sand etc. so they can't lay their eggs in there.

 

[RobM]

Well its still sick. Killed the bugs (stopped watering .. let dry out. And neam oil)

its flowering still. Im thnking i wana hack the lower branches away but ill just let it so its thing. No idea what the roots did what they did. Ill get a pic later but a week of phd water and sfa else

see what i get off her. If i get a oz dried ill be happy. Least i got me some clones gor next round (if my bloody mister nossles stop blocking up)

 

[stevenics]

it happens man, in the future try to be offensive and preventative when it comes to any problems you encounter during your grow, for example when i do grow with soil i keep a 1 inch layer of Diamataceous Earth on the top of the soil to stop soil born pests. the less problems you encounter during the grow the better your plants will be. in order to get truly awesome bud you have to take the plants from seedling to harvest with NO major problems and relatively no minor problems, if ph fluctuation was your worst problem then your in good shape. but if you get pests or root rot or any thing else it will always take away from your final product, but you can encounter a couple major problems and if you deal with them quickly and correctly they wont do to much harm to your final harvest. Basically just remember for your next grow to be preventative about soil pests and ph problems any whatever else, being good at being defensive is great but prevention will take you through a full grow with no problems. just keep it up bud.

 

[RobM]

yeah i've read good thing about the Diamataceous Earth.. i just could not find any locally. Ive dosed the crap out of them with neam oil. best i could do. when I started i could see things moving in the coco. not any more lol. I still have a few flying gnats but not to bothered about them. (got to get some fly paper later today)

Next grow Im going to do 1 plant in a DWC to give it a try. the other 3 will be in coco again (for my safety lol)

Could have been worse... could have been spider mite..

thanks for your help hey

 

[RobM]

Well as an update. 2 weeks into flower and i ditched it. Took a few clones but unsure if they will root.

retrospect ahould have just put it outside and ler it revert back to flower and see if it recovered.. ah well. Other plant is blooming.. 4 weeks left approx. Such is life