Any cold pressed neem works. I'm pretty sure its the cold pressed that will stay liquid even in chilly weather. Alot of the neem will turn solid and you need to warm the bottle. That Dr Bonners soap,,, is a great spreader/sticker giving better coverage. Always add 5 or 10 drops to the mix. Unless your using a culture of bacteria in the spray. Soaps and oil residue can kill them off... And it helps keep the oil suspended in the water better. Always shake often with whatever you use. BTW that soap is a castile soap and might work great as a wash by its self. Plants like a wash with a soap. You can see the softness in the leaves if you wash with it opens the pores, or stomates, followed up by a rise 20 minutes later... You got a happy plant. The soap will suffocate or disrupt the skin on the mites. Soap em up good and that rise will wash off alot of the eggs and mites. I use safers soap alot like that. It great if you got the space to do it. Yea neem will kill them in veg. Flower too,,IF you can soak it into the water-repellent buds. And you don't mind smoking oils. I've used neem on flowers before,, just really early like 2 weeks in. But I'd use an oz to a gallon for starter to see how plants take it. If ok,, and should be,,,up it just about 1/4 oz and spray the fuck out the rest. You don't want to overdo neem to much. It is an oil, and doesn't dissipate very fast,,, and repeated coats can turn your leaves brittle and clog all the Stomates. Plants need three things, food light and CO2. clog the stomates and your cutting it air off. Neem is a gardeners friend for sure. For spider mites I use azamax, which is made from neem.
All this talk and here I got problems. I don't see a bug one on the plants in my nursery,, which btw I had to switch over to the HID light,, I got too many plant in that tent. So they moving on up. I have a mess of clones that I was going to give away,, but I kind of don't want to now. I know I can kill the bugs on the cuts,,, but what about the damn soil. And I don't want these things going out of here..... Least till I grow out one and see that it's ok.
Speaking of the dirt...
Hell ya, I'm going to dust the suckers with the DE. I ordered a sprayer or should I say a '''''''duster''''''.. I plan on hitting the soil really good,, turn it into the top 1/2" and coat it again. Then dust the cuts like it's sevin dust on roses.......
Have used that word 'duster''since way back.. Dummy Dust,,, tried that acouple times and always kicked myself in the ass 10 minutes after saying why did you do that you stupid MFer............ Living in a step van parked in the Bay Street parking lot on Santa Monica Beach, I spent afew summers there .. Not in the van,, cops towed it off after about 4 months. It was a cool van,, little cook stove, toliet and put a water bed in it..... Went in the front door of Santa Monica High School... Seen lines 10 miles long everywhere,, said fuck it,, went to the beach, next day same lines so did the same thing, even went the third day and still lines,, I had planned on telling my teachers I was in line to see a consular is why I was a no-show but I didn't bother with the school on the fourth one,, went straight to the beach. And straight to the beach from then on out........ I did get my GED,,, I was in the first class at the Sacramento County Jail to get them. They even had me tutoring dudes for the test. I did go alittle to a continuation school,,, pick up that weeks work and leave type classes. Test once a week.. Well, thats more typing than I've done in this whole journal.. I'm outta here..............
BBQ and Swin kicking off today.........