I just planted two germinated seeds into soil, yesterday. I then covered the soil with plastic wrap and placed into my grow. Well this morning I removed the plastic to air the plant a bit, well when I removed the plastic covers from the plants about 5-6 of the little buggers bombarded my face and went up my nose and in my eyes~! So I immediately removed the two new plants (that I had set up with my other 6 plants, all with a different- non-bug soil....) the other 6 were uncovered and I observed one of the escaped buggers flying around em.... now I'm worried I just introduced a flippin metropTlitis of bugs into my grow..... W......T.......F....... I just bought this "new" soil!!! Jezus just like a bad date, never good when you go home with bugs...... IMHO

So anyway, I have been a succussfull shroom grower for a while, and one thing I need to do is sterilize my grow medium/ shroom food (rice). I fill pickle jars with vermiculite and rice, then place in pressure cooker. I cook the verm and rice to kill of any foreign molds/floating stuff/ anything bad in the mix. I then allow the substrate to cool, then introduce spoors and continue with my operation. So I was thinking, I just bought this huge bag of bug-infested soil, do you think i could put the soil in clean non-used jars, pressure steam it for a bit to kill everything, let cool for a day, then use?!? Do you think this would work, or do you think the high heat would degrade some of the soil/ natural nutrients?
PurpleRoot Reviewed by PurpleRoot on . Another Gnat problem!!! I might have an idea, can you check and give your opinion~! I just planted two germinated seeds into soil, yesterday. I then covered the soil with plastic wrap and placed into my grow. Well this morning I removed the plastic to air the plant a bit, well when I removed the plastic covers from the plants about 5-6 of the little buggers bombarded my face and went up my nose and in my eyes~! So I immediately removed the two new plants (that I had set up with my other 6 plants, all with a different- non-bug soil....) the other 6 were uncovered and I observed Rating: 5