Might of slightly burned plants with neem oil

olaf687

olaf687

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I been growing 12 plants outdoors and been using neem oil for a month now with no problems. I was using the recomended dose on the bottle. I started off half strength when they were young bumping up to full strength now. I usually sprayed them around 7 pm at night. But I feel sun might still been still strong. Next time ill spray when suns setting and cut strength in half again. It was only couple tips of leaves on some plants. Will tiny burn on two leaves stress the plant to ruin harvest? They seem to be growing fantastic and grew some more today. You really have to search to find the slightly burned leaves.
 
Rob Roy

Rob Roy

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Anytime I use a fertilizer or foliar spray I try to shake the bottle from the first use until the last.

This is to remix the ingredients as sometimes they settle and stratify, which means some doses will be more water than others and some will be too concentrated. Which will fuck with your plants head until you figure it out. Plants hate to have their heads fucked with.
 
olaf687

olaf687

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Rob Roy said:
Anytime I use a fertilizer or foliar spray I try to shake the bottle from the first use until the last.

This is to remix the ingredients as sometimes they settle and stratify, which means some doses will be more water than others and some will be too concentrated. Which will fuck with your plants head until you figure it out. Plants hate to have their heads fucked with.
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Right on the money! I think what you described happened to me I was down to last of my premixed 1 gallon jug and transferred in spray bottle. I noticed alot of neem was stuck on the side of spray bottle. I shook pretty good at first but forgot to keep on shaking after each plant like I usally do. Also should i not store my pre mixed gallon outside in shed or direct sunlight? Maybe it was too warm when I sprayed it? I think combination of not watiting till about 8 pm to spray and that it wasn't shook between each plant and maybe cause the bottle was left out in sun. Anyway they look amazing ill take a pic of all them later. Ill zoom in to the slight damage on few plants. My gut says its only a minor flesh wound haha. And im very much getting too paranoid about nothing. But always live by the saying, " better be safe than sorry"!
 
olaf687

olaf687

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Rob Roy said:
Anytime I use a fertilizer or foliar spray I try to shake the bottle from the first use until the last.

This is to remix the ingredients as sometimes they settle and stratify, which means some doses will be more water than others and some will be too concentrated. Which will fuck with your plants head until you figure it out. Plants hate to have their heads fucked with.
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Also i did spray the top new growth. Should i not do this? Luckily none of top new leaves got burned but still.
 
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ky farmer

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Neem I have never heard of it burning any thing.Also I don't think neem is a fert at all but I could be wrong as I been wrong lots of times in life.lol
 
Rob Roy

Rob Roy

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olaf687 said:
Also i did spray the top new growth. Should i not do this? Luckily none of top new leaves got burned but still.
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When in doubt, a lighter mixture for foliar spraying or fertilizing is a good idea. You can always increase the dosage.

If you're spraying for bugs, I'd spray the top of the plants, mites always seem to flee to the top of a burning building so to speak.
 
Rob Roy

Rob Roy

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ky farmer said:
Neem I have never heard of it burning any thing.Also I don't think neem is a fert at all but I could be wrong as I been wrong lots of times in life.lol
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I don't use neem as a fertilizer, but the rule of thumb I use for either bug and mold sprays like neem, sulfur, etc. is the same I use for foliar fertilizers, light at first to see how THAT plant takes it.

An exception to this rule, for me, is organic pepper spray for bugs. Plants don't seem to mind a heavy dose of pepper spray, but it sure fucks the bugs up. Happy Growing and stay safe.
 
olaf687

olaf687

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I got a pic of the possible neem oil damage from 5 days ago. Again don't think it's a big deal. i will admit also 5 days ago i stupidly was giving the plants a light rain shower cause its gets really got hot here. The water droplets might of been magnified and burnt the leaves and maybe not neem oil. It also was mid early afternoon when i gave them light rain shower. It never seemed effect them before. And also to be specific i didn't spray them directly with water wand i aimed straight up into the air simulated a rain shower. But i will not do this anymore just to be safe!
 

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olaf687

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Also heres a pic of all the girls doing fantastic with more growth just fed them buddha grow roots organics this morning. Greenhouse is still in partial construction we moved the plants in the plot but fixed off the mini section of the completed side. We will be finished with middle soon so we will gradually move the pots farther down the green house for much more space between them! If haven't seen my other post I got 2 space queens, 2 afghan Kushs, 2 herijuanas, 2 Kosher kushs, 2 trainwrecks, and 2 purple kushs in 30 gallon pots.
 

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