What up guys, it's Zach again and here to show you my organic grow. On this week I'm going to be going over organic pest control because organic gardening can have its beautiful results but it can also have its downsides and you got to know how to deal with them naturally otherwise you're not really growing organically at all. The bugs I had issues with this time around were fungus nads. They basically feed off the decomposing stuff in the soil. They're really nasty because they also can affect your roots and they're just in the air and I don't want them in my garden at all. There's a few different ways to deal with them. Some people choose what's called BT which is like some kind of natural bacteria which I've heard some bad things and good things about but for the most part I think it gets the job done. For me I chose to go with nematodes. The best part is they don't harm the plant whatsoever and these are beneficial nematodes so they only get rid of the pests that you dislike. Our nematodes in the wild that are not good for plants and other things but we are working with different breeds that are only set out to target their specific types of prey. The flies got a bit out of hand before I got to them and they're really just flying around everywhere. It's really getting annoying. They're all over the soil. I had some cover crop which might have fed into the issue. You've got to remember you're dealing with live organisms here so they will arrive cold on a nice pack and you should get them into a fridge immediately unless you intend to use them right out of the package. I kept mine in a fridge overnight and I pulled them out the next morning. Comes with all the instructions you'll need to apply them. I'll go over some of the steps just now. Make sure that you irrigate the soil before application. You want to store your nematodes between 36 and 45 degrees and do not freeze them so you can store them in a refrigerator for up to four weeks. You should release them in the early morning or late afternoon when the temperatures are not extremely hot or you should turn down the temperatures and the lights in your grow room during application. All you do is add the nematodes to a bucket containing one to five gallons of water between 59 and 69 degrees. The nematodes will replicate themselves given any area so as long as the conditions are right they will live on until the pests are gone. Unfortunately I had to lack for care on my cover crop. Kind of ended up being a good nest for the bug so I removed a lot of the dying cover crop and I will try again next grow. Make sure you do a full ring around the soil so that you can get every part saturated. You want these little beasties to be able to crawl into every part of your soil. Eventually as you water they're going to reach every single int of it and they're going to crawl out looking for larvae that they crawl into through any orifice, anus, mouth or just the crevice in the side of their body if they're small enough and then they go inside and they excrete a certain bacteria that basically kills the bug from the inside out which point they feed on the inside of the insect and then they finally leave that insect and go fuck seek another living host. I must say I really wasn't sure if the nematodes were going to do the job or especially on their first application. The amount of bugs that I had flying around was insane and I just wasn't sure if this natural method was going to be enough right off the rip but four days after applying nematodes there was more dead flies than I had ever seen and I don't know if that was just because more had been populating at that time but I know for sure that they didn't continue on their life cycle and they were dropping like well flies but there were still a few hidden in this decaying cover crop. The biggest thing that I hated about these pests is the physical flies ending up everywhere all over the grow room and every corner stuck underneath the fans and everywhere so I also got these sticky traps these are really just for preference because I wanted to try to use them to catch the bugs so I didn't have to keep cleaning them up off the ground every time I walked into my grow room. After about a month I stopped seeing any bugs on my yellow strips so I haven't seen a bug since it was just in time for flowering because I didn't want any bugs to get stuck in the middle of my buds. One of the biggest challenges in their organic gardening is coming up with natural solutions to problems that would normally just take a couple squirts of poison but who wants to smoke that? Definitely not me so I like to keep my lungs pure and clean with the best buds possible. Please remember that most of this page is supported by any donations sent through patreon. I don't have many supporters there yet but since this page is not monetized that's really the only way that I can make any money off of it so if you found any of this information useful please go check me out on there and make sure you share this video with any friends who might be dealing with any pest issues in their garden. This also could apply for any organic gardening techniques not just marijuana keep the peace guys and thanks for watching.