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Organic Pesticides
Some of these can apply to MJ as well.
February 19, 2011
tags: Organic Fruit Tree Pesticides
by erineus
By Laurie Rappeport, eHow Contributor
updated: June 2, 2010
Growing fruit trees can offer a pleasurable hobby for a home gardener or a source of income for a professional grower. Whatever the reason, people often decide that since they have the opportunity to grow their own fruit, they will make it as healthy as possible. Today, many people prefer not to use chemical pesticides when possible. Look for organic pesticides when growing fruit trees.
Tobacco Organic Pesticide
Maul's Specific Organic Pesticide Tobacco Alcohol spray for thrips / mites etc.
Some of these can apply to MJ as well.
February 19, 2011
tags: Organic Fruit Tree Pesticides
by erineus
By Laurie Rappeport, eHow Contributor
updated: June 2, 2010
Growing fruit trees can offer a pleasurable hobby for a home gardener or a source of income for a professional grower. Whatever the reason, people often decide that since they have the opportunity to grow their own fruit, they will make it as healthy as possible. Today, many people prefer not to use chemical pesticides when possible. Look for organic pesticides when growing fruit trees.
Tobacco Organic Pesticide
- Add 1 cup of tobacco to 1 gallon of water. Leave it to sit for 24 hours. If it looks darker than the color of weak tea, add more water. Spray it on fruit trees to get rid of bugs, caterpillars, aphids and some worms.
- Place 1 tsp. of liquid dish-washing detergent into 1 quart of water, together with 1 cup of rubbing alcohol. Spray the solution on the fruit trees to get rid of ants, bagworms, blister beetles, bagworms, mites, slugs, scales and whiteflies.
- Get rid of aphids and apple borers by grinding up raw garlic and onions into a puree and soaking it overnight. Stain it and spray the liquid on the fruit trees.
- Crush up 1/2 cup of a particular species of insect. Add 2 cups of water, strain and mix 1/4 cups of the solution to a few drops of liquid soap in a spray bottle. Spray it on the infestation to rid the fruit trees of that kind of insect.
- Prevent fungus growth on fruit trees by mixing 2 tbsp. of baking soda, 1 pint of water and 1 tbsp. of vegetable oil in a spray bottle, together with 1 tbsp. of castile soap. Spray this solution on the fruit tree’s leaves every five to seven days.
- Protect the fruit trees from fungus growth by spraying a mixture of 50 percent water and 50 percent milk on the trees every three to four days.
- Plant garlic around fruit trees to keep borers away.
- Spray neem oil on the fruit trees to to make sure that ants, aphids, beetles, bagworms, boxelders, cankerworms, catterpillers, Codling Moths, weevils, mites, gypsy moths and thripes do not attack them. Neem comes from the neem tree, an evergreen tree in India.
- Spray an alcohol spray on the fruit trees to protect them from mites, whiteflies, slugs, blister beetles, ants, aphids and bagworms.
- Keep mold and mildew from growing on the fruit trees by spraying raw apple cider vinegar on the soil or the leaves around the fruit tree.
Maul's Specific Organic Pesticide Tobacco Alcohol spray for thrips / mites etc.
Take a handful of roll your own tobacco or 5 cigarettes broken apart ,dispose of all paper.If you have a Mr coffee type coffee maker.Put the tobacco in the same place the coffee would go.Run a pot of water through.While it is still hot add 1/2 ounce of dawn dish soap or similar soap and stir.After it cools to room temp add 1 oz of rubbing alcohol.Mix 5-1 water to mixture.Put in a gal. jug shake well, then put some of the finisher mixture in a spray bottle.Mist the entire plant and topsoil.Lights off until treatment is done!!! Mist the plants 3 times the first dark cycle.Every 2 hrs or so.Then before turning lights back on mist with plane water.Repeat in 10 days to get any missed eggs.Then again 5 days after the last treatment.15 days to thrips be gone.But you will not see any after day 1.
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