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Advice WantedHelp — fungus gnats

Posted September 24, 2024 by FernLady in Gardening

I have a bunch of indoor plants in my house, and around May I brought in a new one that unfortunately was infested with fungus gnats. Before I realized the problem, several of my other plants got infested too and I’ve been dealing with the problem ever since 😣. Would greatly appreciate any suggestions.

Here’s what I’ve done:

for the badly infested plants, I threw away their original soil and repotted with new soil
I have exclusively been watering the plants using a mix of water and hydrogen peroxide as suggested on the internet
I have switched to watering at the bottom (the water tray) instead of watering at the soil
i have covered the soil on all the plants with diotomaceous soil as I read this kills small insects. I reapply whenever watering has caused it to get soggy
I put sticky traps on all the plants
I went on a vacation for 17 days and the plants were not watered at all during this time

Yet now I’m back from vacation and there are still fungus gnats. I’m at the end of my rope and I really don’t want to throw away my plants. The biggest problem right now is my monstera (per the sticky traps this one has it the worst) so I haven’t watered it in 4 weeks.

Is there something that I can use to attract them and kill them ? I can’t take it anymore 😭 I have 20 plants and some of them are barely hanging on from being so dried out

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Ishahchai

November 2, 2022

complained about how Old Cis Women (the WORST demographic, don'tyaknow) can just GET HRT

And that’s not even true! Too many doctors won’t prescribe HRT for natural menopause because conventional wisdom vacillates on the benefits v. risks. Gee, if only women’s health care research was fully funded and functional.

It reminds me of how eggs were both good and bad for your health at one point.

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Selkie

November 2, 2022

It being untrue was one of the most aggravating things about it, exactly!! They don't just hand out HRT to women going through menopause, from what I gather there are all kinds of hoops to jump through

It was PhilosophyTube so it was most likely his classic case of 'I know this isn't true, but all those brocialists who love me so much won't have a clue, because I'm so much smarter than them'. Absolute bad-faith grifter.

On the plus side, his face, body and outfits these days are absolutely hilarious to look at and have given me many a laugh aloud, so I guess we get something out of him making a public fool of himself for his fetish.

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Posted September 24, 2024 by FernLady

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