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1st insect battle! fungus gnats!

pinkkpearls
9 years ago

So I think i bought soil that already had them in it bc those little #$%@$ were everywhere. After DE, neem, etc. i took to near boiling water (granny said get it as hot as possible without cooking roots) and slowly soak the soil to kill larvae, set out dish liquid cups around indoor seedlings to catch adults.

Within a day or two, didn't even see any adults flying around except their dead bodies floating in the cups, all larvae killed (i use clear solo cups for my transplants so i can see root activity and can see larvae dead bodies), and lost only one moon vine seedling - accidentally got hot water on stem and it fell over. All others didn't even flinch! Granny is good and process used no chemicals!!!!

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