Safe pesticide?

[Discus]

BT is Bacillus thuringiensis, which kills insects. It's basically biological warfare inside your potting soil, but harmless to mammals (unless they're immunocompromised, in which case it could conceivably be a problem). Those "mosquito dunk" products you can get in the USA contain it.
Bacillus thuringiensis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[Brooke]

Coir is what they call the fine ground up particles of coconut. If you use this instead of peat you must soak and rinse to remove the salt from it just like you do for the chunky coir.

Use the raw potato to find the larvae. Once you see them you will know what they look like. I have even found a totally white fungus gnat crawling in the media. I guess he would emerge when he turned black to start the cycle all over again.

You can kill the eggs in peat if you bake it but WARNING - it stinks, a lot. I don't remember how long I had to bake it but the temp was 350 and the peat needed to be moist at the start of the baking. Again, it stinks. It was easier for me to switch than have the husband complain.

Brooke

[butterfly_muse]

I think what I might do is go ahead and repot them, get some mosquito dunks and soak them, water the new soil with the BT water, and purchase some sucrashield to help ward off the alive ones. And while I'm repotting I might soak the roots for a little bit in some soapy water, rinse them, and THEN put them in the new soil. Think that will cover it?? Lol.