Easy One Step - How To Get Rid Of Fungus Gnats - 100% Guarantee - Fungus Gnat Prevention

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My routine begins at 6:30. UPDATE: Water from the top when using treatment. In this episode I share how to get rid of fungus gnats and prevent fungus gnats with one easy step. First I explain about fungus gnats and then I share how to get rid of fungus gnats. This easy additional to your houseplant routine will make all the difference. I show how to make the best mosquito bits tea that will 100% get rid of fungus gnats. Hope this helps!
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[timothychang]

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[GirlMomma]

Thank you! My next step was to burn the house down to get rid of these nightmarish bugs. I will hold off and try your method first!!🤯

[Ronnee]

6:35 is where she actually starts saying what she does

[MrJuanchernandez]

Thank you! Very useful information. One comment - it was almost 7min till you started discussing the actual solution which almost led me to click away.

[johnnynick]

After trying to rid myself of these pests, I finally decided to quit raising plants and become a gnat farmer instead. Just pots with dirt all over the place. Great yields. They make cute pets too.

[maureenoconnor]

I read in an old farmers almanac to use a piece of fabric and rubber band it to the pot, so you block the drain holes from the fungus gnats, but the pot still drains. I love it!

[Theresa]

Hi Ashley, i use mosquito bits also but with cold water. I have heard that hot water will kill most of the good bacteria and not be as effective. Also top watering when you use the product will allow the tea to saturate all the soil, not just what is pulled up from the bottom. Hope this helps.

[fishnlady]

I water my plants with a solution of 3 to 4 drops of alcohol to 1 quart of water. It kills the larvae if they ever get started. It has not hurt the plants.
Bananas from the grocery store brings them in un-noticed. New plants from the nurseries also brings them in. I have used the alcohol method for 40 years with great results.

[hpeteacher]

I too make Mosquito Bits tea. I use a coffee filter, put a capful in it, fold it and staple closed. I do fill up the watering can 3 times to fill up a gallon container. Then I water my plants as normal.
Fungus Gnats are pretty smart. I find I have to do more than one thing to get rid of them.
1.) Moisture meter
2.) Only water when plants are dry
3.) Bottom watering for plants that have FG'S
4.) Spray new plants and soil with Neem oil, peppermint soap, alcohol and water spray
5.) Spray the top of the soil everytime you water your plants
6.) Apple cider traps
7.) Yellow sticky traps
8.) Bonide systemic granulars
9.) Sprinkle cinnamon on top of the soil
10.) Aerate the soil with a small rake or chopstick
11.) Hydrogen peroxide drenches
Hope that helps,
Gerry
HPEteacher
😎

[dataanalyst]

I’m a pest controller (fungus gnats not normally on the job list) and I got a fungus gnat job last week, this video has helped me understand a bit about treatments for these little beggars. Thanks

[Alejandro-khct]

Next to my plant I placed a night light with a sticky butterfly pad up against the light. It helped catch so many more.

[kaic]

The cheapest, easiest and organic way to combat fungus gnats is using "neem cake" which does come in a powder. Simply mix it in your potting mix or if your plants are already potted, mix a couple spoons of it into the top of your pot. Neem cake is the husks left over from the neem oil production. It's a natural 100% organic pesticide and also a fertiliser. Been used in India for thousands of years. I added it to my plants 2 years ago during a huge fungus gnat explosion (my 1 bed apartment looks like a horror movie, gnats all over the walls and ceilings 🤮). The neem powder fixed it and I've been gnat free ever since. I always add some whenever I'm making up new potting mix as standard additive 🙌🏼🙏🏼

[MaxineShaw_]

Breaking up the mosquito _dunks_, by the same brand, into quarters and throwing them in my regular watering can avoids the issue of the bits clogging up the spout or getting moldy on the surface of the soil. You do have to let it soak in the water overnight before use but they last a month at the minimum, are reusable and I add a little neem oil right before each watering. I lightly top water (but not drench) since eggs tend to be near the top layer, but somebody pointed out that when you've let the top of the soil dry out, the eggs will go deeper to find moist soil. So I then bottom water to make sure they don't breed at the drainage holes either. It's working great and I haven't had to use sticky traps for the adults. Neem spray kills the adults and BTI kills the eggs.

[lauriescholes]

If you have new plants, all you need to do is top dress with some nice fine sand. 1/4 to 1/2 inch is what is needed. The life cycle of the fungus gnats is 14 days. Once you top dress with SAND (rocks or pebbles wont work since the wiley little buggers can burrow past those larger items) then only water from the bottom once the soil is totally dry. GET A SOIL MOISTURE TESTER! Keeps you from watering when its not needed and over watering then causing MORE gnats. Also if you water from the bottom, the fungus gnats will start using the bottoms as access points. My hubby tried the Bit Tea and it basically over watered the plants and killed them so im not a fan. I got rid of my gnats (we had them for MONTHS cuz we kept giving them moist dirt to burrow into) simply by top dressing EVERY PLANT with sand, making sure to get it around the edges of the post and around the stems of your plants. Those gnats are sneaky and will get in anyway they can. Then I tested the moisture of my plants and they were dry all the way to the bottom, I then bottom watered them. Once they have drank what they need and drip dry about an hour, I immediately placed each one in a tray with enuf sand in it to cover the bottom of the pot. This suffocated all the babies trying to emerge from the root buffet and kept adults from finding ANY dirt to procreate in. The tea never worked for us and it killed most of my brand new, repotted babies, yet the sand did work well, as inexpensive, colorful and it happens to look very nice in the pots👍
I hope this helps someone out there

[TheMixingBowlHomestead]

I’ve had the same issue when growing my vegetable sidling indoor because most of the potting soil contains peat moss and that’s where the eggs live like forever. So, before planting anything new, I put the potting mix in a large container with drain holes (outdoors of course) and fill it up with boiling water then allow it to drain and cool before using it to plant. You might have to add some nutrients to your newly potted plant after it has acclimated to its environment. That has eliminated my issues with them little critters

[johnatyoutube]

I'm so grateful to have found your video. I've had fungus gnats for 3 months. I've tried fly paper, neem oil spray, Natria spray with pyrethrins, diatomaceous earth, cinnamon, bowls of sweetened vinegar, peroxide soaks, and combinations of these and while they reduced the numbers, they didn't eliminate the pesky little bugs. I'm praying that your treatment works and I'm trying it in the next week. I'll post back here with my results. I ordered the mosquito bits, filter nets, and sticky pot inserts.

Thanks SO much! And I love your cute saying that you started the video with. It's SO true!

[cheyennedesmet]

I swear by this mthod. Saved my sanity. I us a milk jug to mix mine and let it sit 24 hrs. I do water from the top when doing treatments since the eggs and larva are in the upper soil of the pot.

[leahsilverman]

Thank you so much. I was ready to throw out all of my plants when I found this video. It took me approximately five months to get rid of them using the fly traps and the mosquito bites! I have been rid of them now for two months.

[s.l.]

I stand by this remedy, saved my plant collections from my husband 😂😁😋

[AmandaDevon]

I’m a new plant mom so this was extremely helpful! Thank you! 🥰