Re: CULT: Soap, Damping Off, and Gnats
- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] CULT: Soap, Damping Off, and Gnats
- From: C* R*
- Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 23:41:34 -0600
From: Christa Royer <croyer@fastrans.net>
Hi Anner
re: gnats, Hang a fly strip up in your greenhouse or where ever you are starting
plants. Works just as well as those yellow sticky strips and much cheaper.
I too, intend to try the anti-bacterial soap. Got to be more economical than
gardems alive Knockoutgnats.
I have used ChamomileTea for damping off and it work well.
Christa Royer
St. Louis Mo
zone 5
HIPSource@aol.com wrote:
> From: HIPSource@aol.com
>
> In a message dated 2/14/00 10:46:33 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> Aquaticg348@cs.com writes:
>
> << 1 tbsp antibacterial soap in a qt. water. [i use dawn] i lightly spray the
> soil with it and when the plants are 11/2 inch tall i water with it but not
> as concentrated. no more rot or damping off and it took care of knats. >>
>
> Karene, that is a useful thing to know! The fungus gnats problem was bugging
> me [tee hee hee] this evening when I went into the plant room to water things
> and sure enough, right on schedule, there were a few buzzing around, a sure
> sign of more to come. I thank you for sharing that information. Do you see
> any problems with using this several times on house plants that are not due
> to be repotted, or does one good drench of the soap solution knock the gnats
> out for good?
>
> I went ahead and redid your subject line for you. I thought that CULT was
> probably a good tag here since we are talking about cultural practices and
> problems.
>
> Anner Whitehead
> HIPSource@aol.com
>
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