Grizzly's Guide to Pulverizing Pests

This is one of the best post.. I mean resource to the common bastards. Thank you dude! +journAl

Yeah I have slugs, and am going to deal with them today on my outdoor girls. I think I'm going to get some Diatomaceous Earth, maybe sprinkle some salt in for good measure. The salt wont hurt my girls in small amounts, if applied directly on top of the soil?

Always try to avoid salting your garden.

I ran across this online; I think it was called "Frugal Living" or something. I thought it sounded pretty good.

Garden Tip #1 – Slugs and Snails
Slugs and snails have a huge appetite for decaying matter and soft green leaves, and they can destroy a bed of lettuce in no time flat. I am having a huge problem with slugs right now eating my lettuce. All I did to get rid of them is use beer! That’s right! Slugs and snails LOVE beer! They are attracted to the yeast that is in it.

Here’s what you do: Take a pie tin and sink it into the dirt closest to your garden or flower beds. You want the top of the tin to be level with the ground. You may have to do more than one pie tin, depending on how big of an area you need to cover. Start in the evening and pour a can of beer into your pie tin. These slimy creatures are most active at night. What’s great about using beer to get rid of your slug and snail problem is these little guys can’t swim. Bahahaha! {That was my evil laugh} Then in the morning, you are going to find your ‘beer pool’ full of snails and slugs that died a very happy alcoholic death. Just pick up the pie tin and throw it away!

Garden Tip #2 – Aphids and other soft bodied bugs
You are going to want to make a Cayenne Pepper & Garlic Bug Killer Spray. This is going to be your very own homemade pesticide in a spray bottle.

Ingredients
3 Cups Warm Water {Your water needs to be pretty warm to help dissolve the pepper}
4 Garlic Cloves
2 Heaping tsp powdered Cayenne Pepper
1 squirt Dish Soap

• Blend all of these ingredients in a blender REALLY well. You don’t want any chunks clogging up your spray bottle. Then go outside {in the evening} and spray your leaves, stems, everything. Leave the pepper spray on overnight and then hose it off in the morning. You will have aphid free plants. Repeat this process every time you start to see an infestation coming along.

Thanks for all the data folks... great information

Thanks for the thread, it helped me a lot! +Rep

I seem to have something that looks like snail tails across my new plants. Plants are only 2 weeks old and about 8 inches high but it looks like tiny, shiny snail trails across a lot of the leaves. I know I dont have any snails, any ideas?

Sorry, I have white widow plants and they are inside. I am using ebb and grow system.

@ Newgrowop: see my post above. If you have snails that should get rid of them.

I've been having one heck of a time in the last week (if it's not one thing, it's 5) with the tiny little villans on my indoor plants. I had been wondering why they were not growing any longer and why they were not looking healthy. I finally took looked at the leaves with my loupe and discovered some of the plants were just covered up with tiny little critters, sucking the life out of my plants. I've been nuking them with Organocide, one of the Raid products and I went and bought a box of Bengal "bombs" and set one off. I shutter to think about the possibility of smoking their little carcasses so I'm going to take them outside and hose them off. Man you have to be sooooo diligent with these things!!

I really appreciate this thread - I have read through it multiple times. Thanks for taking the time to post all the info. My 3 plants are 5 weeks old. I'm growing inside, in FFOF and Warrior mix. Last night I was sure my problem was mites. But now I just don't know. Whatever is there is just too small to I.D.- to even see! The leaves have stuff all over them - white (moveable) dots on top, small specks of black, tiny brown twig like things that look a little like sawdust mostly on the bottoms. I was originally thinking it was all just stuff from the soil mix blowing back onto the leaves - and probably most of it is! But there is definitely something on the attack. My leaves are being eaten. There are microscopic holes in the lower ones that you can see when you hold them up to the light and some slits/cutting type damage. Not too much spotting but a little on a few edges. A few tiny shriveled up leaves on the very bottom. A couple of leaves have the tops eaten off. I drenched them last night in an insecticidal soap. Nothing is moving on them today. I checked them out carefully. I am not sure what follow-up treatment I should use/buy because the leaves look different from any in the pictures here. I have whiteflies outside on my gardenias so I know what they look like - I haven't seen anything like what I see outside. Nothing that big. If what I saw were bugs flying around last night before I sprayed - and not just dust/perlite particles flying in the winds - then they were too tiny to ID with my eyes and magnifying glass. What cuts through the interior of the leaves, eats the outer edges and also possibly munches on the stems - that are impossible to see? The stems look a little discolored (tannish spots and some stripes) too. The leaves on top look great. I don't see anything in the dirt - on the surface that is. This is my first time growing MJ, though I do a lot of gardening in my yard. Have some issues out there but have worked hard not to cross-contaminate. Any thoughts would be very much appreciated!

Hopefully someone else will jump in here. The spotted leaves, dots and specks are most definitely bugs. There is some stuff called Azmax or something like that and it's supposed to be really tops for killing these little scumbags. I've had 3-4 plants to almost die this year from these little monsters. They won't go away and it will only get worse. Sounds like you need to buy a jewelers loupe so you can really see what's going on.

Thanks - I got a pocket microscope from Radio Shack but it is really cumbersome to get focused on a single spot. I was able to see eggs but nothing alive or with heads and bodies. Hopefully a few more sprays over the next few days and weeks and the problem will be solved. It's a disappointment for sure! I appreciate your help!

potpimp said:

Hopefully someone else will jump in here. The spotted leaves, dots and specks are most definitely bugs. There is some stuff called Azmax or something like that and it's supposed to be really tops for killing these little scumbags. I've had 3-4 plants to almost die this year from these little monsters. They won't go away and it will only get worse. Sounds like you need to buy a jewelers loupe so you can really see what's going on.

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Azamax works wonders as a foliar or a soil drench, git sum. If you are not using it proactively there will come a time when you will be using it reactively and it won't be fun I promise.

So hey people. Growing outdoors and apparently fire ants found my plants soil appealing and they're tearing me plant up. i found it bent over very wilted and moved it and fire ants poured out from below the surface. What can I kill them with that wont also kill my plant? Or maybe something that will atleast make them go away? Thank YOU!

hi there, i definitely got gnats, i drench my pot plants with neem oil straight away then the next day i laided sand at the base of the plant and im going to drench again in 5 days, am i doing the right thing or am i jumping the gun. your opinion would mean alot to me, help me out bro cheers

awesome thread...helped out alot thanks

just started these beautiful plants of white rhino and afghan. and now i noticed i have small bugs flying around my garden. I bought the grow medium at Lowe's where they keep it outside (stupid of me). can anyone help determine what might be causing this? sorry i had to use a crap camera but notice on one plant it is turning brown and dying and on the other plant its curling up and dying. PLEASE HELP

It may be fungus gnats and if so, you need to take care of them immediately if not sooner. These little faggots munch on your roots and will eventually kill your seedlings.

i have little black bugs on my plants they are tiny and you can see them easy they almost look like a half of a beatle. do you know what they could be? and are they harmfull to my plants?

I don't have the slightest idea what they might be big bootie. Can you take a pic and upload it?