Hi everyone! This is my first post on the forums here, which I recently discovered. I look forward to getting to know everyone!
According to the OP, adding "a few drops to your water" will get rid of fungus gnats in your house plants. I want to give this a try, but I'd like to be sure I put in the right amount. Does anyone know if this works and how much peroxide to use in how much water? How much water do you add to the plant? Do you use it every time you water? How does it work? Does it kill them or just repel them? What affect could it have on the plants?
I have a number of pots on my window sill, including 3 miniature orange trees (calamondins), and the soil is just crawling with fungus gnats. I have tried making sure the soil dries out really well between waterings, but the plants always start dropping leaves (presumably from drying out) before the fungus gnats go away, and they come back in full force as soon as I water.
I have been putting pieces of BT mosquito dunks in my watering can, in the tray below the plants, and even crumbled over the soil, as I've heard that this should keep them from developing past the larval stage, but it doesn't seem to be working. The gnats are all over the house and driving us crazy!
Some of them were coming from one of my worm bins, and I've moved that back outside now that it has warmed up a bit, but again, the soil in my pots is still seething with the little buggers.
Anyone have any pointers?
