So I starting another grow ive pretty much decided on the lighting I’m going to use for my 5x5, I now want to spend time researching a great integrated pest management system. any thoughts or idea? I want ZERO bugs in my grow not even a tiny fly. What should I do people you guys are great!
Triple blend nematodes if you use soil.
Triple blend predatory mites and ladybugs.
That keeps me pest free.
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and knock on wood 
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do I buy the lady bugs from a store? and what do you mean by triple blend?
Check out NaturesGoodGuys dot com. Under predatory mites you’ll see the triple blend. If you find that too expensive you can get individual breeds like Swerskii (red, attackers) or Cucumeris (white, maintainers).
Usually they include a bag of ladybugs with mite orders. 
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How about outside my garden pest control, my apartment has tons of tiny roaches that loves to live under my warm tent. what should I do about that?
outside you should plant alot of Rosemary.
Catnip.
Chrysanthemums. …
Osage Orange (Hedgeapple) …
Mint.
how are these going to stop roaches from breeding under my tent
Lol. Don’t have roaches in your house to begin with?
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In my experience with apartments like that can’t handle 1000w or even close to it too - if it’s got roaches chances are it doesn’t have a great electrical system either. Usually there’s one or two breakers for the entire place that aren’t shy about popping every chance they get. If you tax the electrical system too hard someone has gotta come fix it and once they fix the blown part they’re gonna come looking for why it blew so if you’re in a less than friendly area keep that in mind
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Sounds like you should be focusing on pest control first. You should have a pest control service bomb your house once or twice before your next run or this run. Couldn’t imagine feeling confident no roaches took shits on my buds
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I couldn’t sleep if I knew I had roaches. Da fuck
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i dont know dude… you asked " How about outside my garden pest control, my apartment has tons of tiny roaches that loves to live under my warm tent."
the plants i posted are natural pest deterrents. pests hate those scents.
So much this. Half of integrated pest management is prevention. Prevention often starts outside your house/cultivation facility/shed/whatever. Keeping pests from wanting to come into the house to begin with.
If you are in an apartment, this can be a real struggle as you are probably not responsible for the exterior or common area pest management activities. Handling any kind of pests starts with preventing them from getting in by creating physical barriers.
Now they are already in so you have to do what Killa said and kill them off. For roaches that are not out in mass (sounds like you may have an infestation…) I always start with pretreating with roach baits and I place monitoring stations everywhere (like every corner, every door way, every cabinet entrance, near ever vent) so that I can see if they are coming from one area more than another. I check those monitoring stations every day and I record all that data so I can map out the space. If they are coming from everywhere all at once - there’s really nothing more to do than try and get the whole facility to be treated for them.
A tent is probably not sufficient to keep them out of your growing environment. They can fit into tiny spaces and even if adults cannot juveniles can and often will. But you could also monitor around and inside your tent to see if they are coming in. I’ve been to plenty of grows that had issues with roaches of many kinds and they can be as destructive as crickets.
So monitor. Then place baits (poison they take back to their nests). See if that reduces the numbers (this usually takes weeks/months!) and if it does, continue to monitor and put the bait closer and closer to where they are coming from until you don’t see any action on the bait. And then move to a long term bait (one that lasts like 3 months or something instead of a week) and then you can do some perimeter treatment (around the baseboards, etc) in the hallways outside your apartment (or ask your apartment what they are doing if you have good rapport).
And then you can continue monitoring outside and inside your tent - and you can use things like Borax x Sugar mixtures and that will help keep them away. I’ve even used a diatomaceous earth x borax mixture as a physical barrier around cloning tables and the like in the past to keep them back. The plants that c0dean posted are also pretty helpful for their essential oils, but you could also just get the essential oils in a spray if you wanted.
This is all assuming that you don’t have the ability to bomb/poison them or don’t want to do so.
Okay so that’s roaches. 
All the other stuff you keep out by preventing pest intrusion using screens/filters on your incoming air. And you prevent them coming from your plants themselves (checking/dipping) and then you maintain that level using the predatory mites that Spock shared. These will keep out the smaller guys (with the mites) and some of the bigger guys (with the ladybugs). But really its all about preventing pest intrusion first, monitoring to see if they are present, having preventative predatory bugs to get any that get inside, and then if your monitoring shows something that isn’t eaten by your preventative measures, adding something else that eats them OR treating for them specifically.
Probably that was way too much information… but really its called integrated pest management for a reason. 
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Roaches are your landlord’s issue. I
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Once you have roaches you might as well literally trash everything electronic. I’m dead ass serious. You can clean all you want and bomb all you want. You’ll never get rid of that horrid smell. Over the years doing cctv and low voltage work, I’ve come across many instances where I would LITERALLY door tag or refuse service due to roaches being in the home. That is one pest I absolutely don’t have any sort of exceptions for. Anytime I ever came in contact all clothes were burned. Including boots. I wouldn’t even bring my tool bags into a home till I was sure about the setting I would be working in.
those fuckers probably survived the incineration. i’ve never had a roach issue but i’ve had friends claim they are like tartigrades. they can survive literally anything haha can’t roaches survive Nuke level radiation?
cant help it if you live in the woods, everyone got roaches here.
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Similar here in Florida but if you get your place treated monthly and you get a good pest control service. The only roaches you will see are dead ones. Eventually, it will be like one dead one every few months. And none will be able to breed in your home.
These things are certainly treatable. Nothing to procrastinate with or be embarrassed of. Dirty neighbors happen. You can’t control your neighbors, but it’s treatable and pretty easy to treat.
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It wouldn’t surprise me. They actually can live without head for up to 7 days they’re an insane species.
I hated opening a wall plate or smart board to see these fuckers just literally pour out of the wall or openings. 
I do not have an infestation just a few of them here and there.