Omelet wrote:
> In article >,
> "gloria.p" > wrote:
>
>> Omelet wrote:
>>> After contending with small numbers of them for a long time, I finally
>>> seem to have gotten rid of the suckers. ;-) Trick was to totally
>>> eliminate ANYthing that could attract them!
>>
>> We had a major infestation a few months ago but they weren't
>> fruit flies, they were fungus gnats,

>> My garden center expert told me that it was due to overwatering,
>> causing fungus in the soil which the gnats fed on. Unfortunately
>> I wasn't able to get rid of them w/o throwing away the plant.
>> Luckily it was the only one of all the indoor plants affected and
>> we haven't seen any gnats since. It was a beautiful plant and I
>> was sad to have to trash it.
>>
>> gloria p
>
> You could have just put it outdoors? :-(

Temperatures were in the single digits that week. (This week,
too.) :-(
>
> I wonder if covering topsoil with pine mulch would help control that?
>

Not sure about mulch but everything I heard and read said
repotting with new soil usually makes the condition worse.
Letting it dry out (probably enough to kill the plant) seemed
to be the only option. I just hastened the process.

gloria p