Pests in the garden. now what?

[Fladawg01]

This has been good for me with pests. All natural and works. Price is relatively small and you can use up to harvest. OMRI certified.

 

[Son of Hobbes]

All of the soil that is not being used I put outside in the freezing weather until I know what to do with it. Every tool, twist tie, fans not used etc. is out of there. I got some scrubbing to do.
Do you think I should scrap the seedlings and just finish out the 60 day or mores?
Two plants are 33 days and beginning to flower. I would be sad but if they got to go that's that.
I wanted to try a perpetual grow not a perpetual problem.

If you want to upgrade your "spraying," you can find paint sprayers between $20-40 at Home Depot or Harbor Freight; some of them are electric and other pneumatic (you'll need a compressor,) but they work absolutely fucking amazing for spraying cannabis.

View attachment 1724199 This has been good for me with pests. All natural and works. Price is relatively small and you can use up to harvest. OMRI certified.

Another great option!

 

[Son of Hobbes]

Still a WIP (I should have this finished sometime this quarter,) but I've got a really extensive guide I'm putting together for pesticides used with cannabis, with ingredients, whether 25(b) exempt or not, etc.

It's also really eye opening to see just how similar so many of these products are, how concentrated some of them are, etc.

 

[FullMoonparty]

View attachment 1724199 This has been good for me with pests. All natural and works. Price is relatively small and you can use up to harvest. OMRI certified.

I have all of the essential oils listed plus lavender and a few others. I'll try adding a bit to the soap mixture.

 

[FullMoonparty]

Still a WIP (I should have this finished sometime this quarter,) but I've got a really extensive guide I'm putting together for pesticides used with cannabis, with ingredients, whether 25(b) exempt or not, etc.

It's also really eye opening to see just how similar so many of these products are, how concentrated some of them are, etc.

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Dad was a chemist. He would often say something like, "All that is, is 99% water and a few drops of..."
I have most all of the essential oils listed.
I should mix a few different sprays and compare the results. Unscientifically of course because I'd have to isolate them and have a control.
Thanks! Very interesting.

 

[Son of Hobbes]

Dad was a chemist. He would often say something like, "All that is, is 99% water and a few drops of..."
I have most all of the essential oils listed.
I should mix a few different sprays and compare the results. Unscientifically of course because I'd have to isolate them and have a control.
Thanks! Very interesting.

Oh yeah dude, you can reverse engineer most products on the shelf. Even nutrients! For pennies on the dollar!

 

[FullMoonparty]

That's a pretty legit infestation. Gonna take 2 weeks of treatment. Thrips are sap suckers so you want to focus on the plants more then the dirt. You can probably strip the leaves off the oldest plants and that should remove a good amount and spray every inch of the plants and keep the fans turned up. Spray the tent and equipment and outside of the pots with iso. As for the extra soil, you're gonna want to cook it to kill the eggs. Putting it outside in the winter will make critters go dormant but they'll wake up once they warm back up

It's been about a week of spraying, and I now see only 1 critter here and there. At first, there were 3 or 4 on every damaged leaf. It's progress but I don't want to play this game all year.
The week-old seedlings are my own cross so there's no dollars lost if I toss them. Some could be male anyway.
The two that are 33 days old are also mine and are female. It would hurt to toss them.
I'll let the others finish.

 

[FullMoonparty]

Oh yeah dude, you can reverse engineer most products on the shelf. Even nutrients! For pennies on the dollar!

Black powder 75% potassium nitrate, 15% bio-char, 10% Sulphur. Cheap when sold separately.
There is a product I use to control algae and other aquatic weeds. ON a pond. It works by making nutrients from run off useless to plants by locking them out. It has only two active ingredients. Calcium derived from seaweed and Magnesium (oxide?).