You are right, I should have mentioned that. I'll be spraying every other day for 10 days. Spray EVERY leaf surface, especially underneath. You also need to spray the entire tent, clean the trays, the pots, and treat the soil. Just don't soak your roots in the citric acid spray! I usually do a root drench with neem, just so I have something working in the soil. If you are really diligent, you can get rid of them pretty quickly.
What's the dilution for the citric acid spray?
Can I use juice from a lemon? That would be rad
In Jorge Cervantes' book he recommends to submerge the clones in a bucket with a Neem oil/H2O2 solution before moving them into the flowering room.
Citric acid is dirt cheap and available where cleaning products are sold. It's used for removing lime deposits from water boilers etc.
Can citric acid cause leaf damage to young plants? I applied 3tsp/quart and the big plants didn't seem to mind it much but my smaller plants didn't respond well. The foliage was a little damaged the next day. Not horrendously, but observable. Usually I half any recommendation for pesticide on the first application and I failed to do so with the citric acid. I'd love to apply it again because I hear it works very well. I've noticed a dramatic reduction in mite eggs present on the foliage so I'd love to get the concentration dialed in properly for small ladies.
Thanks for any info you can send my way dude.
I treated mine with 3 tsp citric acid every other day for 10 days, and it did slightly damage the leaves, but the plants recovered very quickly. This was a few weeks ago and I haven't seen a trace of mites. I'd still like to try out predatory mites, maybe next time.Can citric acid cause leaf damage to young plants? I applied 3tsp/quart and the big plants didn't seem to mind it much but my smaller plants didn't respond well. The foliage was a little damaged the next day. Not horrendously, but observable. Usually I half any recommendation for pesticide on the first application and I failed to do so with the citric acid. I'd love to apply it again because I hear it works very well. I've noticed a dramatic reduction in mite eggs present on the foliage so I'd love to get the concentration dialed in properly for small ladies.
I'm glad you made this post because I almost bought an 8oz bottle of green cleaner. Horribly overpriced product. 8oz only makes 4 gallons and it was something like $33 on amazon. That'd barely cover my flower room twice. The ingredients seem like a mix of citric acid and insecticidal soap. I fried the shit outta many plants in my attempt to use safer soap. Even at 1/2 the recommended rate it fried the hell out of plants. I noticed several reviewers on amazon reporting fried plants after application of GC. Just say no to insecticidal soap. Bad stuff and one of the key ingredients in GC. No wonder people are frying their plants using it. I've caused more damage to my plants monkeying with insecticidal soaps than any other pesticide I've used. Sorry about the rant
I almost bought some azamax until I saw the price related to it's application rate. 16oz bottle for $54.99 and it makes 8 gallons at the 2oz/gallon application rate. That's effing brutal man. I checked out azaguard and it seems like a better option for cost effectiveness @3% Azadirachtin
I also observed the same. All plants perked up quickly afterwards. 1 very sensitive strain I have took a few more days but all is well. A small price to pay for mite eradication. I'll swerve the 2tsp/qt next time and see how it treats a small test plant. If all goes well I'll hose 'em all down @2tsp/qt moving forward. I finally got in the habit of actually testing new pesticides on a control plant I don't mind damaging. Better to ruin 1 plant than the whole garden. I've suffered a total loss before monkeying with that neem oil. Of course I sprayed the whole lot of plants. Fried the foliage and lost them all. That was years ago and it still hurts. Never again. I like the refined Azadirachtin products. I can never get that neem to emulsify no matter what I do.
Ok firstly are you growing indoors or outdoors?
juice from a lemon is full of sugar and will be like feeding mold and PM....they sell citric acid where they sell pickling stuff, it might say something different, just look at the ingredients..
