36Gr0w;2786852 said:
I spray oils up to week 3 of flower. Once stretch is over and buds are forming I stop use neem and essential oils as part of my ipm. The next few weeks (strain and timing dependant) I lightly spray the bottom leaves with essential oils.
I also use aact and different foliars with aloe. Neem\Karanja meal top dressed with compost\ewc. Neem\Karanja meal with kelp\alfalfa meal tea foliars. Healthy soil and plants going into flower is key.
Catching up here so sorry for the late post on the IPM thing but it's important enough... Everyone should be doing some sort of ritualistic form of IPM. Get used to it, sooner or later you will need it if you grow for any length of time.
36 good to see you doing it organically. I do it that way as well. One thing I don't use yet is oils. I have them but I just don't use them. What I do is make a tea with neen cake meal & ground up kelp meal, add in pro-tetk and Fulpower - add that to a gallon of water and foiler spray until the plants are soaked everywhere.
The neem cake meal has ~40% of everything the oil has but you can spray at lights on without worrying about leaf burn from the oils. Reason I don't use the oils... my VEG room is 20/4 so lights out is in the middle of the night .. not going to foiler spray then so I do it right at lights out in the flower room. Also you can spray the above mix all the way thru to the day before harvest. It's a very light neem mix so there's no residual smell or taste to worry about. But enough to keep the critters away/at bay.
Also for folks using essential oils for foiler, add in some saponin (soap nuts or Aloe gel) - this will emulsify the oils so they are suspended in water better and you should get a better coating on the plants. Don't forget to spray the stalks too!
Saponin info bomb alert: Folks in Flint, MI should read more on the benefits!! We use soap nuts for washing clothes here at our home and other goodness.
Saponins from edible legumes: chemistry, processing, and health benefits. - PubMed - NCBI
IPM Reipe:
2 tbs of kelp meal
1 tbs neem cake meal
1/2 tsp of Pro-tetk
1 tbs fulpower
1 gallon or a little more RO water.
Spray like there's no tomorrow - FTW.
Pro-tetk is silica which helps the plant resist pests and disease (among other good things) and its organic.
Info bomb alert - Silica:
https://www.fngla.org/education-and-research/research/reports/75/finalreport.pdf
I thought I'd thro that out there for anyone that's really into foiler and IPM. Its a great habit to get into will solve a lot of problems, proactively.
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