Hope they work well for you! Mine sat clear for a couple of days, but as soon as the first bugger got stuck, the rest followed! 
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We live near the coast in Southern California, so no need to move gardening indoors. But we do have a lot of citrus that brings in fruit flies when we harvest. The Terro refillable fruit fly traps (looks like an apple) takes care of the problem for us.
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Those “apples” work great for fruit flies, but they are not useful for eradicating fungus gnats. The yellow stickies take care of the gnats like a charm (these gnats are low flying black buggers:
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well, time for an update on my citrus plants.
The two lemons that were on the tree when I brought it inside back in October actually ended up ripening - they were delicious. Once we picked those, the plant started flowering almost immediately. There are now dozens of tiny lemons on there. If they all really remain and start growing, I’m going to have to work out a system to stake/support the branches.
As for the kumquat - when I brought it inside, it had one small green fruit on it. As I waited and waited for it to ripen, it has gotten very large (like, the size of a lemon). It is ripening very slowly, and is sort of a yellowish orange color now. I have the plant next to the lemon tree, and I’m starting to wonder if some cross-pollination occurred and the fruit is really a hybrid of sorts 
The plant flowered in late fall and now has two small additional kumquats ripening.
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My citrus tree is really struggling inside. I removed some of the mini citrus on it so so much energy didn’t go to growing the fruit. I do remember though when I bought the tree this time last year that most of the choices in the green house were pretty leaf bare and the nursery expert said that was pretty normal - they sort of go dormant in the winter. Crossing fingers it eventually bounces back! It was GORGEOUS with leaves in the summer!
Our basically unused piano in the sun porch has turned into my plant “shelf”. I’ve got multiple indoor plants thriving there and after the holidays planted some parsley and cilantro seed which is growing now.
I also set up a propagation station on my kitchen windowsill to get some new plantings going.
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This is the first year that mine don’t look almost dead by this time of year. They always bounce back as soon as I can get them outdoors in the spring. I think they just need to survive the winter indoors - not thrive.
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Those yellow sticky traps have been great! There are still. a few flies around, but soooo many got caught on the traps. They are quite useful and affordable.
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Glad they worked for you! 
The negative reviewers either had fruit flies (ineffective) or did not wait a few days to see the action.
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Good guide for those looking to add a plant to a place where there is not a whole lot of direct sunlight.
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I am very new to the indoor gardening and have a question about the Dieffenbachia plant.
I’ve had mine and while it looked healthy enough, it also started to look like a palm tree
with bare stem and many leaves at the top.
I talked to a colleague of mine and she assured me that all I needed to do is cut
the top with the leaves off and put it either in soil or water, and also to cut the remaining bare trunks into small chunks and do the same. Well, I did that and it’s been a month with no sign of any roots coming in.
Should I just give in and throw it out and just get a new one?
Yes, exactly @abasket!
Seems the recommendations are for more sun, fertilizer and maybe pruning new top leaves so that it gets bushier!
I was thinking about the fertilizer, and someone also mentioned the growth lights.
Maybe the roots don’t grow much in winter?
Thank you!
I had to say goodbye to my beloved lemon tree today. We are moving (hopefully in March), so I had to re-home it. S bought it for me several years ago and every year I posted the annual “harvest” (usually one large lemon) on FB.
The good news is that a friend of my now owns the lemon tree. She will not only take good care of it, but we will get updates. Both S and I feel good about that.
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Oh this makes me sad!!! I have followed your lemon tree! Maybe one of your hardest possessions to let go of!!!
You can get a 2.0 in your new home!
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Just so’s you know-- Dieffenbachia is poisonous to cats and dogs.
hello gardeners! On the indoor front, my geranium and gerber daisies are still happily flowering away. My kumquat tree is producing a few more…citrus fruits of some sort (they really seem to be meyer lemons, not sure what is going on there). My lemon plant made a ton of lemons, then dropped most of them in the last couple of weeks. There are about a dozen left. Hoping at least one or two make it to ripening.
I’m starting to think about my outdoor plans for this year. We put in a new bed at the very end of the fall and just popped a couple of plants (peonies and butterfly bush) in there so it wouldn’t be empty. This is a spot where the deer tend to hang out, so anything I plant in there has to be deer resistant. Looking at filling in the back of it with some canna lilies…
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YAY - my geraniums wintering inside survived 8 days without watering during our recent vacation. (I did give them more than usual water before leaving). I added more to my grow light area. For those left on table by kitchen window we had the wood blind down (to insulate from cold) but somewhat open.
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