Pings, gnats and growing mixes

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Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2000 22:36:23 +1100
From: Miguel de Salas <mm_de@postoffice.utas.edu.au>
To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com
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Subject: Pings, gnats and growing mixes

Dear all,

Just to interrupt your merrymaking, a brief question (probably requiring a
not-so-brief answer...)

I seem to have a problem with Pings and gnats (larvae eating the entire
root systems of small and not-so-small plants). Most of my Mexicans, which
suffer the most, are in a mix of equal parts of coarse and fine sand, peat,
milled sphagnum, perlite and vermiculite. The gnats love this mix.

Is there a mix, maybe with less organics, which will deter them a bit?
Maybe adding sulphur to the mix would help, without harming the plants too
much...

Ideas?

Thanks!

Miguel de Salas
mailto://mm_de@postoffice.utas.edu.au

My Homepage:
http://www.southcom.com.au/~miguel/

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