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title: "Anyone use cinnamon to combat gnats in the soil?"
description: "Anyone use cinnamon to combat gnats in the soil?"
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author: "Ambra"
published: "2026-06-28T13:49:57.727583Z"
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# Anyone use cinnamon to combat gnats in the soil?

_Posted by Ambra on 2026-06-28_

Anyone use cinnamon to combat gnats in the soil?

## 7 comments

### SuccySuccy commented on 2026-06-28

Helps a little? I find cinnamon most useful for applying to “wounds” when propping to prevent rot/disease etc

### Larry commented on 2026-06-28

Maybe helped a little the one time I tried it, what I found works best is a combo of sticky traps that you can stick right in the plant pot on a stake to catch the adults and then soak mosquito bits in water and then water the soil with that (it has BTI in it which kills the larvae)

#### Nikiller replied on 2026-06-28

This is the best way to get rid of them without introducing predators

#### BaM replied on 2026-06-28

Mosquito bits? What are these? I haven’t heard of them

#### Larry replied on 2026-06-29

They contain BTI, a bacteria that kills some insect larvae like mosquitos and fungus gnats

### Nikiller commented on 2026-06-28

Cinnamon is mostly antibacterial and antifungal, really a stretch to hope for real results on bugs

### MummaDeb commented on 2026-06-28

I found that it makes the house smell nice but that's about it.

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