Guest guest Posted May 1, 2012 Report Share Posted 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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