jondamon
Well-Known Member
Hi Folks
I thought i would create this thread as i hear so often that people have bugs or caterpillars etc and they want to know of a good way to get rid of them.
The best thing i can tell anyone to do is get something with an active ingredient of SPINOSAD. There are a few products that have this ingredient. Alot of ANT insecticides carry this ingredient.
So here is what i personally use.
I live in the UK and here it is very difficult to get an insecticide with the ingredient SPINOSAD as not many people use it in things. Again here you can get ant powders that contain some spinosad but nothing i would consider using as the amounts of spinosad in a lot of the UK products is not really enough, plus there are lots of chemicals along with it.
So i choose to order the below from the USA. In total it costs me £35 for a pint of this insecticide which also includes around £22 of air fair to get it to me.
For those of you in the USA it is $19.99 for a pint of this.
I ordered my latest bottle on Tuesday of last week and it got to me today Tuesday this week. A total of 5 working days.
This perticular insecticide will work on THRIPS, CATERPILLARS, LEAFMINERS, SPIDER MITES and alot of other nasties.
IF you are using predators to help with pests then this will also not harm them too much however it may/will still harm some of them.
I believe in this product as it managed to eradicate a bout of thrips i had on my last grow.
The mix that i generally use is just a single teaspoon into 500ml of water and spray my plants. Anything that is left in the sprayer i use over the top of my medium.
This is an organic way to eradicate most of the problem pests i hear about.
Here is a link about SPINOSAD.
http://bexar-tx.tamu.edu/HomeHort/F1Column/2005%20Articles/APR3.htm
Thanks for taking the time to read this.
Any questions or comments about this product are welcomed.
J
I thought i would create this thread as i hear so often that people have bugs or caterpillars etc and they want to know of a good way to get rid of them.
The best thing i can tell anyone to do is get something with an active ingredient of SPINOSAD. There are a few products that have this ingredient. Alot of ANT insecticides carry this ingredient.
So here is what i personally use.
I live in the UK and here it is very difficult to get an insecticide with the ingredient SPINOSAD as not many people use it in things. Again here you can get ant powders that contain some spinosad but nothing i would consider using as the amounts of spinosad in a lot of the UK products is not really enough, plus there are lots of chemicals along with it.
So i choose to order the below from the USA. In total it costs me £35 for a pint of this insecticide which also includes around £22 of air fair to get it to me.
For those of you in the USA it is $19.99 for a pint of this.
I ordered my latest bottle on Tuesday of last week and it got to me today Tuesday this week. A total of 5 working days.
This perticular insecticide will work on THRIPS, CATERPILLARS, LEAFMINERS, SPIDER MITES and alot of other nasties.
IF you are using predators to help with pests then this will also not harm them too much however it may/will still harm some of them.
I believe in this product as it managed to eradicate a bout of thrips i had on my last grow.
The mix that i generally use is just a single teaspoon into 500ml of water and spray my plants. Anything that is left in the sprayer i use over the top of my medium.
This is an organic way to eradicate most of the problem pests i hear about.
Here is a link about SPINOSAD.
http://bexar-tx.tamu.edu/HomeHort/F1Column/2005%20Articles/APR3.htm
Thanks for taking the time to read this.
Any questions or comments about this product are welcomed.
J
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