a good pest control?

2 days now i've had little tiny bugs crawling in my planters. I need to know of a good control that i can pick up at wal-mart. I've looked around at indoor and outdoor control, but i want something that isn't gonna hurt the plants.

one of my girls is almost dead. is there anything i can do to save her and the others?

you are limiting ppl to walmart therefore if you cant get it there you're not gonna get it.

not sure about walmart but look for

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shadowology said:

2 days now i've had little tiny bugs crawling in my planters. I need to know of a good control that i can pick up at wal-mart. I've looked around at indoor and outdoor control, but i want something that isn't gonna hurt the plants.

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Neem works very well. Wal-mart should sell a concentrate and you can mix it with water in a spray bottle and make sure you cover the undersides of the leaves as well. Neem not only prevents bugs from eating your crop, but it also works as a fungicide and also prevents other pest like spidermites from destroying you plants. If they don't have the concentrate look for products with it as their active ingredient.

It wouldn't hurt to ask the people at Wal-mart for what they recommend or which is the best they have, since they are familiar with what they are selling. You don't have to tell them its for marijuana plants, just say you have a bug problem on your "tomato plants" .

Go to Lowe's or Home Depot. They have Neem-based sprays and concentrates. You generally don't have to worry about whether a mass-market product will affect the plant, but if the plant is as stressed as you say it it, try it half-strength at first.

i can get to to a lowes or menards over the weekend. any suggestions of what i can look for?

i could perhaps even check with a hardware store, if there's a few suggestions. I unfortunately don't have a lowes or home depot or such besides walmart where i live within an hour or 2 drive

Just check the ingredients. Anything with Neem in it is probably going to be the safest stuff on the shelf. It's organic, and get one that includes other natural pesticides like pyrethrins. I'm on my first grow, but I garden so I'm just treating it like any other plant. I'm using Spectricide ("Insect and Disease Control") during vegging and early flowering...t's not organic, but I don't care until I get close to harvest. Read the label on the bottle and be sure it treats mites, aphids, powdery mildew, and botrytis, and make sure you use only Neem, pyrethrins, BT, natural things like that, once you're within a month of finishing, since those things are safer to consume than the synthetic compounds.

I don't mean to make this too complicated. Just get a good plant spray that kills bugs and fungus, and when you get near the end of the grow, only use things that say they're safe to use up to day of harves (it will say just that). Get the concentrate (the kind you have to mix with water, not the ready-to-spray bottle), get the right sized sprayer for your grow, spray the tops and the undersides of the leaves, spray before you have problems (don't wait until there's a mite party in your garden), and you will be bug-free.