Show Us your pest Protection?

[budelight]

I recently learned the value of having bug protection on hand all the time.

Please share what you use to protect your plants so less people loose crystal covered nugs to annoyances!

Smoke Marijuana!

Hot Shot No Pest Strip Unscented

DampRid Refillable Moisture absorber (up to 250 sf - up to 45 days)

Fly Ribbon Bug and Insect Catcher

 

[SpicySativa]

Glad I don't have to breath in your grow room... Those No-Pest strips are not something to take lightly. You're breathing that shit every day, and it's NOT good for you.

My method of pest control is to grow strong, healthy plants in living organic soil crawling with predatory mites and nematodes. The only pests I've encountered in the last 5 years or so have been the occasional fungus gnat or two, which I treat with BTi. Meanwhile, my chem growing friends in town wage perpetual chemical warfare against all manor of pests...

 

[Granger2]

What Spicy sez. Keep Yellow Sticky Traps hanging always, and if you have a Thrip history, also use the Blue Sticky Traps. Observe them daily. Good luck. -granger

 

[SpicySativa]

A great quote from William Albrect:

“Insects and disease are the symptoms of a failing crop, not the cause of it. It’s not the overpowering invader we must fear but the weakened condition of the victim.”

 

[Snype]

 

[supermanlives]

neem ,azamax, hot pepper repellant homemade ,garlic repellant home made and if ya need to nuke em tobacco spray home made. never needed more. I have used nps strips before tho . I make sure issues are dealt with in veg . very rare to see a bug in my flower area. cant show ya now as I am 365 miles from da grow lol

 

[ozzieAI]

another neem oil fan boy here.....only the pure neem oil though not that hydrophobic crap...

 

[Granger2]

Ozzie, I wish I could find, in the US, something like the Neem w/emulsifier you use. I have searched [not exhaustively], and had no luck. When I get around to it, I'll also look for emulsifiers.

For now it's Cedarcide PCO Choice, predators as needed with Nematodes routinely in early bloom, Met 52 to amend coco, Azasol 1 foliar in 1st week of bloom, 2 or 3 foliars with Actinovate starting early in bloom, a thorough dousing of buds as Botritus preventive. I'll be drenching probably twice with OGBiowar Tea in the bloom that's coming up shortly.

After having the door open a LOT during room make over, I had a White Fly outbreak that my sample Qt of Mighty Wash almost completely knocked out in the one app. Followed up with Cedarcide dunk.

Too bad about Mighty Wash. Too expensive to have 3-4 gal in a bucket for dunking foliage for 100% coverage.

And always-Yellow Sticky Traps. I keep Spinosad on hand, and it has cured 2 Spider Mite outbreaks. My 1 Azasol app first week in bloom has kept them away. I'm getting a commercially available Pepper/Garlic spray conc. to have on hand. Good luck all. -granger
NOTE: I now [4-10-14] use 2-3 tsp/gal. Higher concentrations cause root damage. Best to try on expendable plants, flush, wait 7-10 days to see if they pass. Very effective repellant too. -granger

 

[RulaTone]

Thanks to friend indabunker and Baffo now i know plant vitality plus made by BAC holland. I hate doing advertising but that shit is awesome it totally eradicate mites invaders in just one or two application. I never applied it more than 3 times to get plants back to healt even if they already in flower. I also use neem from various sources and its so good too. Bioshark soil attack is just neem relabeled and sold for gold. I will show pics as soon as my camera is workin!