Citric Acid

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
 

Racky

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

PadawanWarrior

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

zebracake

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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.
What's the most you can use for soil drench? Maintenance dose and infestation dose? I'm in coco hydro.
 

zebracake

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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.
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.
 

xtsho

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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.
Have at it. I wouldn't use it for a drench in coco. What's the point?
 

zebracake

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Have at it. I wouldn't use it for a drench in coco. What's the point?
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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