safer soap is an insecticidal soap that you can get at some home improvement stores and most nurseries and hydroponic stores.

as for your second question it depends...style of growing, veg time, etc.. use search or go to grow journals and see what other peeps are doing

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Have you ever used Tanglefoot? I heard that you should smear it around the container brim, but I've heard it's okay to put on the main stem near the soil. Is this true?

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i am having a mite problem also. i checked out differant forums and kinda made up my own mix using lemonsoap, lemon juice, cayanne pepper, tobacco juice and hot sauce. let it sit over nite, filtered it and sprayed it on my plant. heres hoping it works.

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What i have found works best is to buy a pack of American spirit cigarettes (No additives) and remove all of the tobacco, add to a quart of water and simmer for about a half an hour. Then add 1/2 quart of water (Phed of course) and spray under and all over leaves and plant. (Store leftover liquid in fridge)

Tried Neem Oil for weeks with almost no affect but this solution killed them the first time!! Voila~ it was like a miracle. see what others think but thats what worked for me and i had them bad!!

Commercial greenhousemen are very familiar with nicotine based insecticides. They are also natural and organic.

Good luck!

You will get more if you just use the AS loose tobacco.

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Ya i went the american spirits route but like seamaiden said if you go to your local smoke shop you can get loose tobacco that is of better quality and cheaper for the amount you get. yes it is all organic and you can add to it whatever you want but be aware that two spotted mites build up resistance to whatever you throw at em so be sure to do treatments every couple days till you dont see them and then a couple more times after that lol... i would have to burn down the building that had mites in it that were immune to nicotine!

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flo how long do you do the #2 treatment and how often

if you can keep your temps under control you can be done your grow before they get a chance to gain significant numbers. and if you do that then the predators will work well

that number 2 mixture that flojo has up is killing my plant so dont use it and does anyone know how i can fix my plant ?

it alomst completely dried out the leaves
and the ones that arnt dry are wilted how do i fix it