Citric Acid

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Racky

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Does anyone know how many tsp of citric acid for 1 quart sprayer. I read 4 tsp but someone said 1 tsp
 
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Racky

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Ok Cool i did 1tsp earlier and plants handled it well. Some of the mites died but not all.
 
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PadawanWarrior

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Racky said:
Ok Cool i did 1tsp earlier and plants handled it well. Some of the mites died but not all.
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Make sure you spray more than once. I do it every other day for awhile. A week and a half or so.

I did 2 tsp per quart last time and they handled it pretty well. The Banana Kush took it a little harder though. I spray it off after like an hour a lot of times, but there's been times I didn't and didn't notice a huge difference.

I try not to drench my soil with it though since I'm doing the organic thing.
 
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zebracake

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PadawanWarrior said:
Make sure you spray more than once. I do it every other day for awhile. A week and a half or so.

I did 2 tsp per quart last time and they handled it pretty well. The Banana Kush took it a little harder though. I spray it off after like an hour a lot of times, but there's been times I didn't and didn't notice a huge difference.

I try not to drench my soil with it though since I'm doing the organic thing.
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What's the most you can use for soil drench? Maintenance dose and infestation dose? I'm in coco hydro.
 
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zebracake

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xtsho said:
None for a soil drench. It's highly acidic and can be used as a pH down. It's best used as a foliar insecticide ingredient.
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Athena IPM has .05% citric acid and says you can do up to 10ml per gallon soil drench which comes out to 50mg per gallon. Another product that's also .05% citric acid says you can do 1 fl oz per quart which is 600mg per gallon if my math is right. It's called doctor zyme but def a rip off considering it's citric acid dissolved in water lol.

It's acidic but less acidic compared to sulfuric or phosphoric acids that are used for ph down.
 
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xtsho

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zebracake said:
Athena IPM has .05% citric acid and says you can do up to 10ml per gallon soil drench which comes out to 50mg per gallon. Another product that's also .05% citric acid says you can do 1 fl oz per quart which is 600mg per gallon if my math is right. It's called doctor zyme but def a rip off considering it's citric acid dissolved in water lol.

It's acidic but less acidic compared to sulfuric or phosphoric acids that are used for ph down.
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Have at it. I wouldn't use it for a drench in coco. What's the point?
 
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zebracake

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xtsho said:
Have at it. I wouldn't use it for a drench in coco. What's the point?
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I'm dealing with root aphids. Just got some spinosad today going to apply it all day today then again in a week but want to use anything else I can in between that week. Gonna apply some beauveria bassiana fungi too once it ships.
 
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