IPM Specialist Reveals The Best Ways To Prevent & Eliminate Garden Pests! (Garden Talk

[@GardenTalkwithMrGrowIt]

Thanks to Matthew Gates for coming onto the podcast today! Matthew’s KZbin- bit.ly/3255y6y Matthew’s Instagram- bit.ly/3GyhwVe Last episode we did together- kzbin.info/www/bejne/n4ivcpRpr7iHhdk

[@MrJaman0083]

D.E. Is great for organic available silica and calcium. Mix 1 Tbsp per gallon of pot and or top dress. It also inhibits algae growth media surface.

[@comfortablynumb9342]

Matt is a living encyclopedia and I appreciate all of the free knowledge he gives away. And so I appreciate this interview. Thanks Chris, you're pretty good at getting out great info yourself. And the Stash gang together is another great source of information. Y'all are killin' it.

[@Zenthanol]

Thanks for the compliment, and helping others in the comments too! Growers helping growers.

[@drakkondarkblood6638]

When I was growing in soil or coco my main pest problem was Gnats, to get rid of them I use to use beneficial nematodes & sticky traps, generally if I got gnats once I added the nematodes within a week or 2 max I'd cleared them up. Then I would just add the nematodes every couple of weeks just to make sure.

[@curlygreenleaf]

I will have to watch this 3 times to absorb all this information. Thank you, some of this information is near priceless.

[@Parialated]

Few are more knowledgeable that Mr Gates...he is for me the smartest person called Gates in the world... Much love Matt

[@stephown5374]

I had powdery mildew on one bud just before harvest, quickly cut it off and washed the rest of the plant before drying, including a water and peroxide bath, a lemon juice and baking soda bath and finally a clear water bath. Thankfully it was close enough to harvest that I was able to nip it in the bud. Gotta hate when that happens. But it's worse if you are not prepared with a plan in case it does. Great video!

[@Headies420]

Loved this podcast. Lots of great information. There is always great info but I liked hearing the pest specialists views and thoughts. Thanks Mr. Grow It!

[@SierraSkyGenetics]

Love this show man, I feel like I'm getting a free degree on KZbin. Also as a fellow Nevadan, listening to how you deal with the pest and the heat here is great info and has really helped me on my grows. 👍

[@joshmitchell8865]

I have an on and off issue with mealybugs in my indoor garden; crazy resilient and hard to get rid of. Brought them in on my sweet potatoes from the store years ago and they never left.

[@voidNvain]

Hell yeah, great episode

[@godbody9875]

DE works extremely well as long as you don't get it wet so the solution is to simply bottom water your plants every so often. You have to build up to this and cant just start overnight without your plants struggling until the roots reach the bottom of the pot. I use 10 gallon pots with huge saucers underneath and as long as you aren't required to water from the top due to recently top dressing it will completely wipe out fungus gnats. Leave it on for around a week or so then shop vac or dust it off the top of the dried / hardened soil. I on multiple occasions have wiped out entire populations where i'll go in my indoor garden and see 30-40 flying around to 0. If in flower to keep up with nutrient requirements I advise to simply use compost teas and molasses water soluble nutrient feeds during this process. One may assume they would try to find a new home but it seems they remain attracted to that soil surface and will continue trying to land on it dying in the process. Easiest/cheapest method I've ever used that actually works. Neem Castile soaps high dose peroxide and most various soil drenches all seem barely effective ( vs aphids for example ) as well as super expensive in my opinion and the amount required eventually causes more harm then good. You'd be better off just finishing the run as good as you can and saving your money.

[@timsmyth7942]

soil food web balances itself once everything is there

[@nymetsfan912]

I have the easiest way to get rid of fungus gnats. I know some others know this already but when I had them I searched the internet only to find answers that didn’t work. Top dress with a dry amendment and the top layer of soil becomes hard preventing more gnats from coming out. Use sticky traps for the residual and after a week they’re gone completely. Mosquito bits help but aren’t 100%. Use that in combination with the top dressing and the sticky traps and it’s a legit 100% way of getting rid of them.

[@thinkchair96]

Top dress with insect frass, mustard seed meal, Neem meal, or De. They hate it

[@MrGhostTube]

Agreed 100% on the Diatomaceous Earth. I use it on the deck around my pots in the bottom of the tent/greenhouse. Mostly outdoors to keep slugs and snails at bay. It's pretty cheap so if it gets damp I put more down.

[@Zenthanol]

Definitely! Two of the biggest advantages of DE is that it is cheap and great for non-flying insects and such. All about the implementation.

[@josephmoore3543]

Really appreciate all you do. Thank you

[@Stony_German]

As always a very interesting video Much love and greetings from Germany

[@3-daughter-dad]

Can you do an episode on trimming, trim bowls, bags, electric trimmers, non cannabis branded trimmers, best practices for speed and efficiency

[@ozzy_fromhell]

Let’s gooo I actually just took my plants outdoors in a green house a bought this week🔥this my first ever time growing 3 weeks in and no McDonalds but I’m loving it

[@imothy]

I had a bucket of rain water that had a bunch of mosquito larva in it, I sprinkled some mosquito bits in there and came back the next day and could see all the tiny larvae dead in the bucket, I used that water to water my plants and everything is doing well so far!

[@listerinestrips1156]

One thing that wasn't mentioned is administering silica effective in helping the plant build defenses against pests also if you are growing in soil does it kind of build a barrier in the soil?

[@thinkchair96]

Thank you gentlemen!

[@APPARENTCHOICEONE]

Molasses on fly sticky traps above ground. Im using it for the fungus knats.. Fungus knat trap

[@nymetsfan912]

I battled fungus gnats for like a month until I figured out a sure fire way to get rid of them. Top dress with dry amendments and it creates a crust on the top of the soil preventing more gnats from coming out. Use stick traps for the residual gnats and mosquito bits soaked overnight and strained out before watering. IMO you don’t even need the mosquito bits but it’s just one more thing to guarantee their demise lol

[@canariotv6167]

Great show, thanks dudes

[@APPARENTCHOICEONE]

Really great information thank you. Also I wanted to buy your book when it came out. Its time I start reading them again. Hopefully you can sign it later!

[@DroppingStones985]

Great show

[@OkieGrower75]

Matt is droppin knowledge💚👍

[@tthtonekid]

Damn great show

[@EEsGift]

Great video, this was incredibly informative.

[@Zenthanol]

Thanks! What was your favorite part?

[@DottyCatpee]

Thank you. That is exactly the kind of conversation that makes this channel the best.

[@spazzymacgee5648]

Bot

[@ct5646]

Chris what do you do to the roots after you harvest the plant? Leave it? chop up the soil?

[@ZeginMakesMusic]

Recycling the roots of a harvested cannabis plant can be a sustainable practice, and there are a few effective ways to make use of them: 1. **Composting**: Cannabis roots break down well in a compost pile, contributing organic matter and nutrients back to the soil. You can chop the roots into smaller pieces to speed up the composting process and mix them with other organic materials like kitchen scraps, leaves, or yard waste. 2. **Mulching**: Dried cannabis roots can be ground or chopped and used as a natural mulch. Spread them around your garden or potted plants to help retain moisture and provide nutrients as they decompose. 3. **Herbal Tea and Extracts**: Cannabis roots have been used in traditional medicine for their potential anti-inflammatory and pain-relieving properties. You can dry and grind the roots to make a tea or extract. However, the medicinal benefits are not as widely researched or potent as other parts of the plant. 4. **Vermiculture**: If you have a worm bin, cannabis roots can be an excellent addition to the vermicomposting process. Worms will break down the roots into nutrient-rich worm castings, which are great for future gardening. Recycling the roots in these ways not only reduces waste but also helps promote sustainable gardening practices.

[@ArizonaGrows]

Great episode.

[@GregDunne-zf2ep]

Criss your won of the few people that hasn't had spider mites you have been lucky or very careful

[@philipgood3586]

Matt big thanks for your hard work and dedication 👏 your a game changer bless

[@Zenthanol]

Glad the info has been helpful!

[@PhantomPain74]

Thanks as always 🙏

[@Crazy_Dab.610]

UVC definitely use "yellow safety glasses" I'm not sure if the other ones are good I only tried the yellow ones. You definitely don't want to feel like somebody's pouring and salt in your eyeballs for 3 hours is the worst experience of my life! And it seems like it only happened at night after I fell asleep for a little bit. Also you'll have that white Haze to everything

[@ForestFlooredOptical]

Always 🔥🔥 crushed it growmies!!

[@anhket]

very nice vid and informitive

[@Jaka-vd9gf]

So you can use UVC on the Lollipoped side of the plant? 🤙

[@GrowMyownRights]

lady bugs are great..most home garden places sell em. heck you can even freeze em and use some later..I just dump em all in. They nipped my spider mite problem 2 yrs ago.

[@nymetsfan912]

Don’t they have to be alive?? How can u use them after freezing them?

[@GrowMyownRights]

@@nymetsfan912 They go into hibernation. Of course you can't freeze them for a real long period of time. ive Gove a few weeks.. take em out rest in rm temp tap the package some and you'll see em come back to life.

[@ldt6513]

Thank you!

[@OkieGrower75]

AC Infinity has soil medium???😃😃😃 Very cool💚👍👍

[@GrowMyownRights]

I'm just going to say this. I had gotten powder mildew bad enough that they had to be tossed. instead, I brought them outside. they've been outside almost 2 wks now and no powder mildew in sight..Coastal pray as well em-5 didn't have any effect on the ladies...was on it from jump street...northing. so, outside might be another way as the nothing can compare to natural sun.

[@Crop_Culture]

Wow, this was an incredible interview! I feel smarter for having watched this.

[@GregDunne-zf2ep]

I do the same thing with sticky traps in soil and hanging its amazing how many bugs you get love your show

[@dannyarmata8878]

Matthew gates is like the bruce bugee of cannabis pests. You can tell the guy is very smart

[@jaybarker3718]

Hydro has saved me headaches and $! Soil = bugs, at least for me.

[@woodchipgardens9084]

When I planted march 1 the plants grew into bud in like 45 days and nothing attacked them, I planted like Sept once and plants grew into bud in like 45 days and nothing attacked them, very small plants in both cases, my Kale plants have aphids all the time but my cannabis never gets aphids right next to the kale, I never use pesticide, I get catapillers every year accept last year when I planted July 20 and must have missed the window for caterpillar egg laying, I never see catapiler until the buds are close to done so if you have different types of plants they attack at different times.

[@420Dreamz36]

Really want to try the diatomaceous earth but I was reading the back of it at Lowe's and it says make sure it's used outdoors and I sleep in the same room as my tents long story short I ended up going with organic shield I can see the results happening slowly but not as fast as I would like

[@420Dreamz36]

I noticed mosquito dunks lowered my pH a little bit so many questions does that happen to anybody else??

[@nymetsfan912]

Top dress with dry amendments!! It creates a crust on the top of the soil preventing more from coming out. Use sticky traps to get rid of the residual and bam, in one week not a single one.

[@nicholasheath6585]

Where can i find bt... Peope online keep saying tou can get it easy in the usa.. i have yet to find one store with it! 😆

[@ShortyYamamoto]

Has anyone ever seen actual spiderlings in soil before? Not spider mites. They never touch the plant. They stay in the soil. Very tiny but much bigger than spider mites. Brown in color. Very fast. I 1st noticed them after water a fairly dry medium. Organic soil. It was slightly hydrophobic but when all the water soaked in the spiders started coming up from the soil. Freaky! Please help!

[@APPARENTCHOICEONE]

Whats their life cycle??!

[@APPARENTCHOICEONE]

They will go where they love it. So ideal environment and watch their population. While your learning how to deter or remove I would go with something light

[@klew5988]

Sounds like soil mites. They are beneficial

[@torrunmcscaly837]

sound like springtails

[@comfortablynumb9342]

Are you sure they're spiders and not predator mites? And are spiders a problem? They eat bugs, I've never heard of them eating plants. If they're not attacking your plants they could be very good to have around.

[@JeremyGuthrie-v4p]

I just found some kind of very very small clear worm looking thing moving around in the soil ? Any idea what that is

[@Noirefleur__]

Potworms they can have a population explosion. I encountered it in my worm bin had to use dolomite lime to help get rid of them

[@jaylnt8440]

Sounds like early stage fungus gnat

[@treemanog112]

ZENTHANOL💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻

[@tracyjensen5106]

Mealy bugs! I cant shake them. Everything else is easy. Im growing in living soil so i like to keep it all natural. Im using diatamatious earth atm.

[@thinkchair96]

Tried BB foliar or wettable sulfur?

[@gygaxx69]

Man we were just talking about pest in the ACI discord lol

[@littlenugs9942]

Little tip for when you spray your ipm sprays. I've found using clean, dechlorinated water that's heated up. Increasing the water temp won't harm the plants unless you use boiling water. Keep the water temps between 80-90f and your good... If it's to hot for you then it's to hot for them. Good luck everyone

[@canariotv6167]

DE wiped out my fungus gnats in 1 day. All the flyers were on the tent floor dead the next morning.

[@kylerester8072]

What is DE I have fungus gnats

[@canariotv6167]

@@kylerester8072 diatomaceous earth. Let the top soil layer dry out and do this a day after watering so it can stay dry for a few days. Sprinkle it all over the top layer.

[@APPARENTCHOICEONE]

​@@kylerester8072I used Molasses on my little sticky traps. Now little fungus knat food traps. It mitigates and its enjoyable. Sticking them above ground.

[@APPARENTCHOICEONE]

​@@kylerester8072Also like pinky finger tip dabs of molasses

[@toddkump9902]

Fungus Gnats can be eradicated with a tablespoon of Epson Salts dissolved in a half gallon of water. Drench the top 2 inches of your soil. If they return, (babies hatching) reapply after 5 days, but once has always worked for me. Epson Salt is Magnesium Sulfate, a necessary nutrient in plant development, but Kryptonite to Fungus Gnats.

[@damioncable4568]

I tried it and it didn't help me for fungus gnats

[@HoRRiiBLe1313]

Fungus gnats needs to be treated for at least 2 weeks if you’re targeting 1 stage. And you need to treat the soil. From personal experience.

[@kr38tve]

😎👊

[@Christslove-w7r]

Termites man Termites and russet mites idk y or how but they have chewed a 8 a inch through my stock! I just bought nematoads and pyrithren I'm stressed bro

[@roberto8383jt]

What about root aphids?

[@Zenthanol]

Matthew here. I have some suggestions for Rice Root Aphids and similar species. Without knowing more about the context, I tend to see the best results using a mix of Beauveria bassiana fungus and a botanical product like pyrethrin (not permethrin, which is a synthetic version) as a drench/foliar applications. This would also work for other aphids, too. For more information check out my videos on the Zenthanol channel.

[@scottwilliams6257]

Bring them in on produce?😮 🤞pests have us surrounded it's just a matter of when.

[@willanderson5088]

20 plus years of gardening only peat or problem I ever have that’s been consistent over the years are fungus knata. Every time I think I got it they come back. Never an actual issue just annoying

[@rene9892]

You've probably already tried it but if not, try bottom watering.

[@YoungJester.]

🤘😎👍

[@joshuanelson7986]

I always know it's poison ivy when the orange catapillars are on it. Catapillars will eat anything. Freaking catapillars man 🎉😅

[@barrymcdonald9868]

BT saved my outdoor grow from caterpillars

[@imothy]

learned a lot, but not feeling any better about my IPM lol. I guess you just have to get lucky sometimes?

[@IronRangeGreens]

Cannabis aphids? Kinda a big one to not discuss

[@Zenthanol]

Matthew here: the context for this video was general pest management strategy, and was not focused only on medicinal plants. I have several presentations available on my channel for canna aphids and rice root aphids though!

[@anthonyromano8565]

Most maximal? I had to rewind and here that again.

[@jboi3838]

Spidermites have ruined my life, no matter what I do they always comeback 😭

[@alphaomega8373]

This is a doom and gloom episode :p

[@neh4pres]

what do you do about rolli pollies

[@Zenthanol]

I get this question a lot! It depends on the context but general advice includes lowering substrate moisture and free organic matter, especially plant matter that isn't very processed such as mulch helps because it eliminates shelter on which they rely, and makes things harsher for them. Without enough food these detrivorous populations quickly decline.