Dude, I feel your pain and good luck with the Growstone. I had really good luck with using Mosquito dunks broken up and watered in. It took about 2 weeks to virtually eliminate them when used along with yellow sticky cards.
DGC, if you can’t find Growstone locally, try pet supply stores for food grade Diatomaceous Earth (DE). DE is finer and will also shred these little fuckers when they start crawling through it. Be sure to use the food grade stuff and not the DE that goes in pool filters sold at pool stores.
I tried gnatnix and I didn’t care for it. It maybe knocks them back a little bit, but I never saw the “cutting them to bits/slow horrible bleed out” effect that I was also very much looking forward to.
I often saw them walking around in it like it was no big deal, and I continued to have gnat problems. The dust from the Gnatnix also irritated my skin a lot. It seems like it bothered me more than it bothered the gnats.
I found scraping the top layer of dirt off and throwing it away helped a lot. If you can get rid of a lot of the wigglers in the soil before they turn into fliers you will knock the population down a lot.
I’ve switched back to straw mulch and I have been hitting them hard with microbe lift and cheapo nematodes from amazon.com and I seem to have about won the battle. Beneficials seem like the way to go for gnat control.
Every time you water put a few drops of Dawn dish soap in and mix it up so you get some bubbles. A few waterings later they should be help from multiplying. At the same time get or make a fruit fly/gnat traps to get the adults. I make my own like this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLz9ZP4Bg-Y
Dude, I feel your pain and good luck with the Growstone. I had really good luck with using Mosquito dunks broken up and watered in. It took about 2 weeks to virtually eliminate them when used along with yellow sticky cards.
DGC, if you can’t find Growstone locally, try pet supply stores for food grade Diatomaceous Earth (DE). DE is finer and will also shred these little fuckers when they start crawling through it. Be sure to use the food grade stuff and not the DE that goes in pool filters sold at pool stores.
“SLOW HORRIBLE BLEED OUT”. Priceless.
I tried gnatnix and I didn’t care for it. It maybe knocks them back a little bit, but I never saw the “cutting them to bits/slow horrible bleed out” effect that I was also very much looking forward to.
I often saw them walking around in it like it was no big deal, and I continued to have gnat problems. The dust from the Gnatnix also irritated my skin a lot. It seems like it bothered me more than it bothered the gnats.
I found scraping the top layer of dirt off and throwing it away helped a lot. If you can get rid of a lot of the wigglers in the soil before they turn into fliers you will knock the population down a lot.
I’ve switched back to straw mulch and I have been hitting them hard with microbe lift and cheapo nematodes from amazon.com and I seem to have about won the battle. Beneficials seem like the way to go for gnat control.
I had good success with Microbe Lift and diatomaceous Earth. I have heard really good things about using a blow torch.
Every time you water put a few drops of Dawn dish soap in and mix it up so you get some bubbles. A few waterings later they should be help from multiplying. At the same time get or make a fruit fly/gnat traps to get the adults. I make my own like this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLz9ZP4Bg-Y