Re fugus ganats

At 3:16 PM 2/24/99, VBouffard@aol.com wrote:
>Those nasty little flies are fungus gnats and they do have the potential to
>harm the roots of your developing seedlings.  There are a couple nontoxic
>methods of dealing with them:  first, yellow sticky traps, which are just
>pieces of yellow cardboard or plastic coated with tanglefoot or some other
>sticky substance.

okay I think I had some.
my son noticed one am many little naty things that had lodged themselfs in
the groove at the gro lite (holder thingy).
I guessed these were fungus gnats.
do I still need the yellow cards? or did the light do them in??
I never saw any alive just their remains.

BTW ----do seedlings need any darkness?
I mean should I leave the lite on only in the day and have them go to bed
with the rest of us??
or can I leave the light on at nite for a night lite for the rest of the
house?? and then some time during daylight as well? if I forget to turn it
on when I leave in the AM then I do so at night.
I know they need 12-16hrs but do they care if its out of syncque like me??


--leslie

Master Gardener Intern (Student),  Zone 7(a?) low of 9F this year, in
Humid, HUMID Cullman, Alabama.

"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need."
                                                             - Cicero

"If life is a process of discovering who we are, Y2K is when we find out."
                                Tom Atlee, President, Co-Intelligence Institute


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