Welcome to the Growery Message Board! You are experiencing a small sample of what the site has to offer. Please login or register to post messages and view our exclusive members-only content. You'll gain access to additional forums, file attachments, board customizations, encrypted private messages, and much more!
|
 Some of these posts are very old and might contain outdated information. You may wish to search for newer posts instead.
|
 ninja cat 09
Made you look
Registered: 12/31/10
Posts: 446
Loc: Mexico 
Last seen: 13 years, 1 month
|
 Using garlic + chili peppers as pesticide on flowering plants? 
#623805 - 05/21/12 05:56 PM (13 years, 11 months ago) |
|
|
What I want to do is mix a couple habaneros with a head of garlic in about 1/2 lt of water in the blender, then filter and spray the affected plants. It has showed very promising results on a HBWR infected with whitefly, but what I'm worried about is if it'll be safe to smoke the buds after I spray?
Inhaling pepper fumes is not a pleasant experience, I don't imagine garlic-tasting bud is either, so does anybody know how long (if at all) it will take for the peppers + garlic to be degraded / eliminated from the plant?
--------------------
|
 Hawksresurrection
Registered: 12/04/08
Posts: 13,464
|
Re: Using garlic + chili peppers as pesticide on flowering plants? [Re: ninja cat 09]
#623808 - 05/21/12 06:07 PM (13 years, 11 months ago) |
|
|
The plants wont abosorb, to the best of my knowledge, the Capsaicin from the peppers. All you have to do is rinse your plants off with water and a wetting agent.
--------------------
Dude she isn't as young as she use to be.
-niteowl
|
ninja cat 09
Made you look
Registered: 12/31/10
Posts: 446
Loc: Mexico
Last seen: 13 years, 1 month
|
Re: Using garlic + chili peppers as pesticide on flowering plants? [Re: Hawksresurrection]
#623821 - 05/21/12 08:33 PM (13 years, 11 months ago) |
|
|
Thanks a bunch! Will ordinary dish soap work as a wetting agent?
Edit: silly question, of course it should, never mind :toungue:
--------------------
Edited by ninja cat 09 (05/21/12 08:45 PM)
|
Hawksresurrection
Registered: 12/04/08
Posts: 13,464
|
Re: Using garlic + chili peppers as pesticide on flowering plants? [Re: ninja cat 09]
#623880 - 05/22/12 02:16 AM (13 years, 11 months ago) |
|
|
Yes it would work. But when putting in on plants I prefer to buy the biodegradable kind. And it only takes a few drops per gallon.
--------------------
Dude she isn't as young as she use to be.
-niteowl
| |
|
|
|
Threaded
Previous
Index
Next
Edit 
Reply 
