Phillip HAS MOVED INSTANCESA watering can was a great purchase 😍
Side note: any other plant parents have tips on dealing with fungus gnats? My snake plant seemed to be in remission for a long time, but I think the gnats just stopped breeding when they were out of season.
I think I may go pick up some sand to put on top of the soil and see if that helps but I am getting pretty close to my wits end and throwing out the problematic plant is not off the table :(
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Thanks everyone! I’ve got plenty of options to try now. I’ll post an update with how everything goes. Thank you so much for the boost @jerry that was very helpful 😃
Michael Meese 🇪🇺@pb4000 I know the struggle, especially when some plants come inside for the winter. Depending on the intensity of the infestation, there are several approaches: if the plant can tolerate it, let the earth dry out for as long as possible or in bad cases replace it. Then we have in Germany “Yellow Cards”. They are plastic cards covered with a very sticky surface. The idea is to catch slowly all the flies by putting some around the plant, but takes some time. 1/3
@pb4000 Then, what I haven’t tested yet: Water the plants with cold coffee. The caffeine allegedly kills the juvenile maggots of the flies in the earth. Same should also work with nicotine from a tea brewed of tobacco. You can use cigarette buts, if you have a smoker around. But that smells horrible and I would get some cheap cigarettes or other tobacco. Also what could work, use brewed coffee ground and mix it in the top layer of the earth. 2/3
@pb4000 Just remembered something! Coffee ground will probably not work. I once had a plastic bag of pure coffee ground infused with mushrooms mycelium to harvest your own mushrooms at home. After the second harvest it got infected with fungus gnats… Their larvae had a field day with it.
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