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Indoor plant issue

I have a catch 22 with my indoor house plants. They like being outside on my porch and thrive there. Much better there because they actually get some indirect sunlight. I prefer them there too because then I don’t get so many fruit flies from them inside. However, it has become winter and they no longer survive in the cold. I brought my money tree in and it appears to be frozen and not doing so well. So do I keep them inside, away from Sun which they don’t like, and I get fruit flies, or, can I put them on my patio and have them suffer the cold (30* at night)? I feel like I lose either way.

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  1. AD

    I bought these yellow sticky bug sheets from Amazon & they’ve captured a TON of those little bugs & keep on working. Highly recommend.

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  2. Kirsty

    I brought everything in from my porch for winter and bought a couple of grow lights. I’ll move them back in the spring.

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  3. Christine

    Those are fungus gnats…. Watch Sheffield Made Plants on YouTube, he explains in many videos how to get rid of them. I second the grow light!

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  4. PlantLady

    Adding mosquito bits before watering and the fungus gnats will be decimated pretty quickly.

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