To :: I made new gnat catchers

May 1, 2012

Hi. I've been reading all the various posts and watching youtube videos and I

read where they like to follow the light and that's why they don't go back up

into the funnel (I use funnels and not plastic with holes), so I made a few and

positioned them (hopefully) so that if I get any more gnats, they will be

trapped.

Now here are a few questions (and I bet if I lived next door to you, we'd be

spinning sprouts over our heads outside and having a ball), lol

Anyway, I've been learning about larvae and that one fruit fly can lay up to 300

eggs at a time (that really grossed me out). I will not have any fruit

(especially bananas laying around during the hot weather, that much I can assure

you).

So here is what I'd like to know.

This gnat thing (laying eggs in the medium (does that happen in the cold winter

months or is it a season cycle thing? I do not have air conditioning in my

living room because it's so big and it traps the coolness because we have

ceramic tiles. Fans are good enough for us with windows open. Been doing it this

way for 20 years.

Does the fact that I don't have air condition during the summer, well will that

make any gnats lay MORE eggs or does it make no difference?

Did I position the newly created gnat catchers correctly? I put one catcher

between two newly created microgreen trays. And with my newly made sunnies, I

put a catcher right next to it.

I've never had a gnat problem but then again, this will be my first summer doing

any microgreening. And I watched a video and the guy said " If you have a lot of

medium, the roots go deep and the larvae will be trapped because they chew on

the roots "

So I have a clock of coir left (I still didn't get my sure to grow mats from

MSHYDRO and it's been over 2 weeks now so I have to use my coir.

If I take a tray and make the coir really high, will the roots go down and will

it trap the larvae?

These are questions to which I can't find any answers on youtube or on any

organic websites so naturally I come to the people on this forum.

So thank you if you (or anyone) can answer my questions.

I do know that I will have gnats during my microgreening process. That is

inevitable. But after reading if I have one gnat, I can be sure that others are

hibernating in my medium, well it's enough to gross one out.

Thanks much

Melody

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