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Oldguyrealy

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Had problem with White Flies in my Greenhouse.

Sprayed couple times with Neem. Still had White Flies. Yesterday Sprayed with mix of Dawn Dish Soap, Peppermint Oil and Water.

Went in there this morning everything was White. Thinking dang that didn't work. Got to looking closer. They were mostly dead. COOL!
 
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VaSmile

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From my best understanding, their is nothing chemically dangerous about dawn, it dose 2 things. 1 the cleanness stops the attraction of new bugs and 2 the oilly liquid will coat the bugs it gets on either suffocating or paralyzing it. If you apply to heavily this residue will coat and suffocate the plant. I always use dawn before reaching for chemical pest control. The white spots are either soap residue that can be wiped off with a wet cloth or light burn from a soap bubble magnifying your light in that spot. If your flies are taken care of you should be ok. An application to your perimeter will send the sterile chem signal so your site dose not attract new bugs and an application to the top of your soil should take care of lava when they mature and try to crawl out to the surface.
 
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UnknownRemedy

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VaSmile said:
From my best understanding, their is nothing chemically dangerous about dawn, it dose 2 things. 1 the cleanness stops the attraction of new bugs and 2 the oilly liquid will coat the bugs it gets on either suffocating or paralyzing it. If you apply to heavily this residue will coat and suffocate the plant. I always use dawn before reaching for chemical pest control. The white spots are either soap residue that can be wiped off with a wet cloth or light burn from a soap bubble magnifying your light in that spot. If your flies are taken care of you should be ok. An application to your perimeter will send the sterile chem signal so your site dose not attract new bugs and an application to the top of your soil should take care of lava when they mature and try to crawl out to the surface.
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I believe it also helps with soil that has become hydrophobic
 
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Oldguyrealy

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The White was dead White Flies.

It didn't seem to hurt the plants.

You look about Fungus Gnats on the Internet it says use Peroxide. Only thing it don't tell what Peroxide does to the Microbs.

Last year I figured Marigolds would be good for Cabbage, wrong. Try Onions.
 
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Oldguyrealy

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I had Spider Mites on couple plants. Used Hot Pepper Juice. It hurt the leaves that got Sprayed but took care of the Spider Mites.
 
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compassionateExotic

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botaniguard @1T per gallon of water ( use a wetting agent like yucca if foliar ) , 100% safe fungus that will eat the insect alive and when it’s dead will be it’s own trap for any bu gthat touches it will also get infected . Works great with many pests and also doesn’t have any stress to plant or resistant issues like many traditional pesticides .


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BotaniGard 22WP Mycoinsecticide

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