Comment on The long winter is over! Bath day!
Guenther_Amanita@slrpnk.net 4 weeks ago
Make sure you don’t bring any pests inside. I did that once and thought it was a good idea.
Spoiler: it wasn’t. Some slugs got into my substrate (expanded clay balls) and ate all roots. I couldn’t get rid of them and then decided to pour boiling water into the pots because the plants were dead anyway 🤷
Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
oh I got bugs consistantly, mainly them gnat bitches.
Everyone gets treated before the fall time bring in, but yeah, my dirty secret is I always have some gnat infestation, controlled, but present. Slugs would be aweful! oh no! that sounds aweful to deal with, im guessing the boiling water did the trick? sucks you lost all your plants, I would have been devistated, im so sorry :(
Guenther_Amanita@slrpnk.net 4 weeks ago
I would say they count more as pets 🥸 They aren’t really that damaging for plants. They are more of a side effect of fungal decomposition, mostly anaerobic conditions due to overwatering, root rot or the wrong substrate.
What substrate do you use? Soil? If so, maybe try another substrate (coco coir, LECA, pon, etc.) and synthetic fertiliser. They are inert and don’t compose, so they don’t attract gnats.
It was mostly out of hate 😤
I’m glad it were just a few, and not much of worth for me.
But I learnt something.
Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
I use soil that gives me gnats! haha
I just use simple garden bed soil tbh with some fish fertilizer in summers. Ive just put these out to get rain, today I will arrange them on the covered porch for their summer life and hand water them again.
Good note though, dont leave em on the ground, slugs… truly would be aweful! Ive downsized since last year, quite a bit, so Id not like to lose what is left!