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title: "I have gnats and all my plants are slowly dying idk what to do I’ve…"
description: "I have gnats and all my plants are slowly dying idk what to do I’ve switched to bottom watering and sprayed with pest spray and have sticky traps please they…"
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# I have gnats and all my plants are slowly dying idk what to do I’ve…

_Gepostet von Holly am 2024-07-28_

I have gnats and all my plants are slowly dying idk what to do I’ve switched to bottom watering and sprayed with pest spray and have sticky traps please they need help I’ve lost so many already 😭

## 10 Kommentare

### send\_nodes kommentierte am 2024-07-28

Mosquito bits!

### send\_nodes kommentierte am 2024-07-28

Also gnats don’t typically harm plants very much. The larvae might chew on plant roots a little bit, but what gnats really like is fungus in the soil, not the plants themselves. So if your plants are dying, there’s probably something else going on.

### Poison\_ivy kommentierte am 2024-07-28

I use cinnamon on the top of the soil. Natural fungicide.

#### talia antwortete am 2024-07-28

like just the cinnamon spice? or

#### Poison\_ivy antwortete am 2024-07-28

Yes

#### Holly antwortete am 2024-08-09

Like what I have in my kitchen?

### Sydnei kommentierte am 2024-07-28

is the soil still wet? or drying out regularly?

### Holly kommentierte am 2024-07-28

Some of them are damp from recent water some are dry and have to be watered. The roots are blackening and dropping leaves im at a loss and so sad about my plants I’ll try anything to save them I’m at the point of trying to toss the soil and re pot them

#### Sydnei antwortete am 2024-07-28

if the roots are dark, cut off the soft mushy ones with a sterile shears. then soak the active roots in 2:1 water/peroxide mixture. then repot or let sit in water until more roots grow. don’t give up, you can revive them. just like waterlogged and causing root rot from not enough sun/watering too often. use the app as a reminder but snooze if plants are wet

### Holly kommentierte am 2024-07-28

They are all in different rooms but it’s happening to all of them

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