Help! Houseplants are dying from bugs!!!!? A couple of months ago I transplanted to bigger potts.Since then I...

A couple of months ago I transplanted to bigger potts.Since then I started to discern small (real small) bugs.I have found they must enjoy been contained by the potting soil.After spraying several times they come right back.The weather is cold so they cannot progress out and I have a 2year older and a 7mo. so i have to hold the plants in the vault laundry room.Ihave had 2 of these plants 8 years please assistance.
Get a pack of cigarettes and soak the tobacco from them in hose. The water will dissolve the nicotine (a systemic insecticide). Filter the tobacco out of the wet and water your plants.

You will be pious to go. It is potent stuff. In certainty, some of the leading insecticides used today are synthetic derivatives of righteous ol' nicotine.

P.S. - don't drink the water.


Did you try insecticidal soap? It kill on contact. You can find it at any garden center. Spray each plant thoroughly til the leaves are dripping and supply the soil a blast, too. Good luck!


If you can set them in the shower beside a gentle stream of hose before you spray them that might rinse out off some of the creepy crawlies, too. If you hold one of those handheld showerheads they are excellent for this purpose.
Answers:    Go to a garden center and get some Green Light systemic insecticide granule. The plant takes the stuff up, and when the bugs chew on the plant, they die.

If you're solitary seeing bugs flying around the plants, and not seeing any ill effect to the plant itself, you may solitary have fungus gnats. They're annoying, but they won't injure the plant, as they depend on fungi on the surface of the soil for what they need. A soil drench will usually clear those up contained by no time at all.