I was told today that my ex used Lily Miller Tomato Fertilizer on the brugs that were left at the house, after they turned yellow, and he'd packed up all my other ferts. And I was told that they greened back up. I know that brugs & tomatoes are in the same family.
Home Recipes for Brugs/Dats
I'm glad this thread got bumped as it has lotza good information for the newbies just starting out. Very good info on this thread.
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Thank so much for the bump tonyjr, great read! and I've been looking for some of these answers. BTW, I have a lovely huge bird's nest fern that inadvertently got left in the rain with the plastic pot set inside a ceramic one with no drainage. Very waterlogged and was having a heck of a time getting it straightened out. The H2O2 (1 1/2 tsp/gal) has worked like a charm. She's coming around great.
I know what you mean , with the rain we have had .
I bought a case at the dollar store . 3 bottles of it in a 5 gallon bucket of water .
Then I used a plastic pitcher and watered everything . The bad thing was where it dripped off pitcher and bucket , it cleaned the cement . Now I am going to buy the 35% stuff and use in a hose end sprayer .
From what I saw , once you mix it it needs to be used in a couple of hours it stopped making bubbles on the dirt but I mixed it ,used about 1/2 and when and ate lunch . [burger & fries ] . When I got back to it - no bubbles , so I added more .
H2o2 simply is water H2O with an extra mollecule of oxygen.
Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) is made up of two hydrogen atoms and two oxygen atoms.
H2O2 looks like water (H2O), but that extra oxygen molecule makes this natural water additive one of the most powerful oxidizers known to man.
It is formed in nature by the action of sunlight on water.
Time to bump this thread up again.
Judy
Thank you
Ant posion
By the way - I saw a program on TV that said
- Home made posion-- Mix grape jelly - boric acid , and dry cat food together . Break the dry cat food into small pieces - all most a powder and then make little balls . The ants will carry it back to their home .
Anyone know if it will hurt cats ? [ not catapillars ]
The warning on the boric acid says it is harmful to humans, dogs, cats, bird, bees etc. I have used thick sugar water with the boric acid, put it in a cottage cheese container with a couple of small holes in the top made with an ice pick I heated via the stove eye..... worked GREAT.
Judy
I'm new here and I hope you can help. I have three brugs, this is year two, last year they had some blooms in October, just when I moved them inside for the winter. Now it;s JUly they are back out side and are infested with what seem to be whiteflies (living on the undersides of leaves which look sickly and some are turning yellow and falling off. The whitelfies or aphids are also eating my tomoatoes Some new growth but no blooms.
I tried ladybugs and now am trying garlic barrier. Any ideas are much appreciated.
Thanks,
janet
Welcome Janet, I'm by no means the expert here but I'd say go get yourself some Neem oil and your problem will be gone overnight. Neem works wonders for me.
Or use Bayer Rose 2-in-1 every 6 weeks to stop and prevent further insect damage to your Angel's Trumpets. Insects love Brugs.
Judy
Janet
Sounds similar to alot of the recipes, but I use in a hose sprayer-
Seaweed Extract, Fish Emulsion, Mollasses, Vitamin B - and when pests are visable a dash of pesticide..spironad..spinorad..or I can't remember the name...Don't have to use the pesticide very often..but the Seaweed I use every other week, although I've lapsed a month till yesterday...and still fairly pest free...
can't say enough for the Seaweed, fish emulsion and mollasses...I have had the best pest free garden this summer ever..I did some research on the seaweed because I was pretty amazed..and have put some interesting reading together if this link goes through...The seaweed is at the top..There is tons of other stuff below it. Good luck
http://davesgarden.com/journal/ed/index.php?tabid=1923
Rj
Awesome thread!
When you use lady bugs , put them in refrigerater a couple of hours and release some after sun goes down . If you release them during day , most just fly away . Release at bottom of plants and they will crawl up plant looking for food .
I don't know about useing bayer 2-1 for tomatoes - I would not do it .
Either 1/2 tablespoon of IVORY or Palmolive dish soapin a gallon of water or 1/2 tablespoon ofrubbing alcohol- mist plants in evening - The soap smothers them and the alcohol was the wax off their bodies and they dehidrate .
Good luck
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My 'recipe' lol is plain ol cinnamon. It is supposed to have natural antifungal properties. I have used it on mid section cuttings that want to rot from the top down. Just dip the top of the cutting in cinnamon and let dry and plant as usual. Doesn't always work but have had more success than failures. An orchid grower told me that they used it on orchids for fungal problems.
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I find this recipe interesting:
1 gallon tepid water
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon household ammonia
1 teaspoon Epsom salt
1 teaspoon saltpeter
I am a chemist, and this is how I guess you would interpret this recipe:
1tsp baking powder: when in contact with water this releases carbon dioxide (which of course plants use to grow by making sugars or cellulose)
1/2 tsp household ammonia (ranges from 5 -10%, let's assume 10% in this case): 10% * 2.5 ml (1/2 tsp) / 4000 ml (1 gallon) = 0.00625% nitrogen (as ammonia)
1 tsp epsom salt (this is magnesium sulfate with it's density: 2.66g/ml): 2.66g/ml * 5ml (tsp) / 4000 ml (1 gallon) = 0.33% magnesium (as magnesium sulfate)
1 tsp saltpeter (Potassium nitrate with density: 2.109g/ml): 2.109g/ml * 5ml / 4000 ml = 0.26% potassium (as potassium nitrate)
So if you were looking at this like a plant fertilizer the numbers would be:
0.00625 - 0 - 0.26
With 0.33% magnesium which apparently I've heard brugmansias like.
The potassium seems extremelly high, it's normally added at about 0.02-0.03% (when you dilute your plant food, like miracle grow). So this is 10 times more than what's usually added (assuming all of the potassium in potassium nitrate is available for use by the plant)
I think it's best if this is added to plants in the morning so they can utilize the carbon dioxide.
If you're adding this formula at night, I think maybe Hydrogen peroxide should be substituded in the place of baking powder, since this supplies the plant with oxygen and oxygen is used at night by plants
I don't have the salt peter, so I think i'm going to substitute it with kelp growth enhancer I have handy. It's mostly has just potassium as the main nutrient anyway. But at a more safe level: around 0.03%
I'll go do that right now
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;) Just the best basic advise right here.
omg, sugarweed how are ya? long time! rj