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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…

_Lagt ut av Holly den 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 kommentarer

### send\_nodes kommenterte den 2024-07-28

Mosquito bits!

### send\_nodes kommenterte den 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 kommenterte den 2024-07-28

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

#### talia svarte den 2024-07-28

like just the cinnamon spice? or

#### Poison\_ivy svarte den 2024-07-28

Yes

#### Holly svarte den 2024-08-09

Like what I have in my kitchen?

### Sydnei kommenterte den 2024-07-28

is the soil still wet? or drying out regularly?

### Holly kommenterte den 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 svarte den 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 kommenterte den 2024-07-28

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

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