thcrefugee
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I recently (well still, too) was battleing a fungus gnat problem. After reading everything on here i could find, and elsewhere on the net... I started to fix the problem.
They got bad, , usually i could count 15-20 flying around, and this is in a small space.
So i set some traps that i read about, beer, wine, sugar water, soapy water, None of them worked..
I let my soils stay much drier, and they still proliferated. something was always being watered, and something was always moist enough for them i guess.
I went to the garden store here, armed with the nematode knowledge i read about, and was ready to kill these things.
I was sold Gnatrol instead, being told that it was the biological superior.
I opted not to buy the yellow sticky traps. im poor and spent a bunch on the gnatrol.
Well, the gnatrol killed the larvae, and the gnats slowed down some, but they came back quickly, as the living ones were not affected and layed many new eggs.
I got yellow sticky traps the other day and there is tons of gnats on them. they are getting filled more quickly each day.
The problem has subsided.
MORAL OF THE STORY. Get the soil larvacide, wether bacteria or nematode, and something for the living flies too. any safe spray will work too, or the sticky traps if you want to keep your vegetables more edible.
They got bad, , usually i could count 15-20 flying around, and this is in a small space.
So i set some traps that i read about, beer, wine, sugar water, soapy water, None of them worked..
I let my soils stay much drier, and they still proliferated. something was always being watered, and something was always moist enough for them i guess.
I went to the garden store here, armed with the nematode knowledge i read about, and was ready to kill these things.
I was sold Gnatrol instead, being told that it was the biological superior.
I opted not to buy the yellow sticky traps. im poor and spent a bunch on the gnatrol.
Well, the gnatrol killed the larvae, and the gnats slowed down some, but they came back quickly, as the living ones were not affected and layed many new eggs.
I got yellow sticky traps the other day and there is tons of gnats on them. they are getting filled more quickly each day.
The problem has subsided.
MORAL OF THE STORY. Get the soil larvacide, wether bacteria or nematode, and something for the living flies too. any safe spray will work too, or the sticky traps if you want to keep your vegetables more edible.
