Just purchased this product in the spray bottle ready to spray. I ha e those darn Gnats and have put out sticky traps and have caught 1000s of them yet these seems to be no end to their reproductive annoyance. How is this spray bottle going to kill all those little bastards in the soil. Wouldn't it be better if I just took the plant out got rid of all of the dirt attached to the root and then repotted???
Repotting may help slow them down if u have a bad infestation, But if your new soil has their eggs in it also they will just hatch out again. I hate the little bastards to,i have tried sticky traps and soaking neem cakes in water and drenching the soil,Letting the soil dry out, Topping with sand,and nothing seems to faze them. The sticky traps do work good at catching the adults. i've thought about using diamataceous earth but i kinda dont trust breathing it. Next im trying some stuff called sns203 soil drench that i've seen people recommend,Good luck in the battle against the little a-holes.
@@AgentWonderbread45 thanks for the follow up. I will tell you I have used the sticky traps for the last month-and-a-half and keep filling them up. It's like an endless stream of criminals filling up the jails in Los Angeles and Chicago. Oh this regard no one goes to jail in those two cities. I think these sticky traps might work better than the courts LOL I read where you could take hydrogen peroxide at a certain parts Pur water and soak your plant soil I understand that kills these little bastards also. God Bless America
One precaution. If using a bottle spray for neem oil, ensure that you immediately pour out any remaining neem oil solution in your sprayer. Otherwise, the neem oil will solidify in your sprayer mechanism and it will no longer spray. It is impossible to clean. You will be required to discard it.
Hi! I fight with fungus gnats too, and I do notice less fungus gnats ever since I started using neem oil, but I find it doesn't get rid of all of them.
@@BudgetBotany stubborn critters they are! I almost killed my ivy trying to dry the soil in all pots. For a month I was only spraying the leaves daily. Soil dry as stone, gnats disappeared. Three days after I watered my plants bum! Gnats are back...
I love this video. Right to the point and straightforward.
Thank you :)
I recommend incecticidal soap, instead of dish soap.
Won't the dish soap damage the soil and roots ?
No, it will kill some of the beneficial microbes but most likely if you have pests you don't have a good microbial balance anyway.
My rose died with the dish soap I bought insecticidal soap instead and none of my other plants died
Use Dr. Bronner’s Castle soap
I use the neem oil, and Dr Bronner soap.
Good to know! I have doctor bronners
I just sprayed the soil so that’s not enough. I should poor it in?
hi, can I use horticultural oil instead of neem oil for the soil drench?
Just purchased this product in the spray bottle ready to spray. I ha e those darn Gnats and have put out sticky traps and have caught 1000s of them yet these seems to be no end to their reproductive annoyance. How is this spray bottle going to kill all those little bastards in the soil. Wouldn't it be better if I just took the plant out got rid of all of the dirt attached to the root and then repotted???
Repotting may help slow them down if u have a bad infestation, But if your new soil has their eggs in it also they will just hatch out again. I hate the little bastards to,i have tried sticky traps and soaking neem cakes in water and drenching the soil,Letting the soil dry out, Topping with sand,and nothing seems to faze them. The sticky traps do work good at catching the adults. i've thought about using diamataceous earth but i kinda dont trust breathing it. Next im trying some stuff called sns203 soil drench that i've seen people recommend,Good luck in the battle against the little a-holes.
@@AgentWonderbread45 thanks for the follow up. I will tell you I have used the sticky traps for the last month-and-a-half and keep filling them up. It's like an endless stream of criminals filling up the jails in Los Angeles and Chicago. Oh this regard no one goes to jail in those two cities. I think these sticky traps might work better than the courts LOL I read where you could take hydrogen peroxide at a certain parts Pur water and soak your plant soil I understand that kills these little bastards also. God Bless America
One precaution. If using a bottle spray for neem oil, ensure that you immediately pour out any remaining neem oil solution in your sprayer. Otherwise, the neem oil will solidify in your sprayer mechanism and it will no longer spray. It is impossible to clean. You will be required to discard it.
Thank you for the tip!
Great information!!
Glad to hear that :)
Hi there, does it help to get rid of fungus gnats? I fight with them so long already
Hi! I fight with fungus gnats too, and I do notice less fungus gnats ever since I started using neem oil, but I find it doesn't get rid of all of them.
@@BudgetBotany stubborn critters they are! I almost killed my ivy trying to dry the soil in all pots. For a month I was only spraying the leaves daily. Soil dry as stone, gnats disappeared. Three days after I watered my plants bum! Gnats are back...
Yeah, they are so annoying! I was away and didn't water any plants for three weeks, but that still didn't get rid of them.
Ive seen suggested that bottom watering plants helps a lot with Fungus Gnats.
Hi does this kill root aphid?