Need a home made organic insecticide spray recipe

my girls got infected and i need a good home made thrip spray recipe
plus any help on keeping them away

thrips are a bitch after they take over. my advice would be to chop, clean, and start fresh because i personally hate battling bad infestations. i found my thrips were hiding inside the bamboo poles while i sprayed, crazy right?

BUT, i'm sure that is not really an option here...

By home-made do you mean natural, and food based? If so you need to make an infusion. Recipes are all over the internet, and options include hot peppers, rosemary, sesame, mint and many other natural products. Cut with a home surfactant like peppermint bronners.

TIPS: -buy an electric yogurt maker, they are great for infusing!
- do a test run to figure out the highest concentration they can take.
- spray either in the dark, or just as the lights come on
- atomizers work well for busy people.
-spray, clean, spray again. then spray every three days for a couple weeks.

dammit the bamboo sticks is when this all happend. i put a couple sticks in the soil for some plants about week or 2 ago and bamm this shit
i dont want to cut yet im 5weeks into flowering. its War! i found a recipe on the net that im trying out hope it works. thanks for the reply and tips

2 TBSP minced garlic
1 teaspoon minced jalapeno
1/4 teaspoon liquid soap(if using super concentrate use even less, it's just used to get the other stuff to stick to the plant)

mix it all up with some water.... shake,shake, and shake some more... strain out all the bits of garlic and pepper. take left over liquid(concentrate) and mix into one gallon of water, shake some more and put into a spray bottle and spray away!!! cheap,easy and works fantastic!

My favorite is nicotine tea. You can use old cig butts, cigars (better) or loose leaf tabacco the best if you can find it. I make a tea using tabacco, here in Costa Rica and when I lived in Florida I was able to obtain the loose leaf tabacco. Make a tea by soaking your tabacco in a container of water, place in the sun for a few hours add a few drops of Ivory dishwashing soap (this makes it stick to the plant) and spray throughly.
The nicotine will breakdown chemically within 2 to 4 hours and become completely harmless and not lend any taste to the plant at all if it is in flower. You can repeat this as often as needed but do apply for best results early in the morning or when your lights first come on. This is safe all the way up to harvest. I have used this with great success on all my growing plants, flowers, veggies, shrubs and especially my girls. Good Luck with your grow.

canefan said:

My favorite is nicotine tea. You can use old cig butts, cigars (better) or loose leaf tabacco the best if you can find it. I make a tea using tabacco, here in Costa Rica and when I lived in Florida I was able to obtain the loose leaf tabacco. Make a tea by soaking your tabacco in a container of water, place in the sun for a few hours add a few drops of Ivory dishwashing soap (this makes it stick to the plant) and spray throughly.
The nicotine will breakdown chemically within 2 to 4 hours and become completely harmless and not lend any taste to the plant at all if it is in flower. You can repeat this as often as needed but do apply for best results early in the morning or when your lights first come on. This is safe all the way up to harvest. I have used this with great success on all my growing plants, flowers, veggies, shrubs and especially my girls. Good Luck with your grow.

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Finnaly ive been asking all over this site for that tobbaco tea answer! thanks!

Does this method work good on caterpillars? they have been eating my leaves like crazy!

DANKY17 said:

Finnaly ive been asking all over this site for that tobbaco tea answer! thanks!

Does this method work good on caterpillars? they have been eating my leaves like crazy!

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I don't know how effective it is about killing the caterpillars but it will certainly deter them from eating the leaves. I did have a small problem with one plant last week from a caterpillar and one spraying it hasn't been back whether dead or just looking for unprotected plants I don't know.

May not help now, but always start misting plants as soon as they spring out with distilled water and about 3 or 4 drops of dishwashing soap in a good spray bottle. Bugs fucking hate soap, it makes them very sick and unable to conduct their destructive behavior. Plants seem to love soap. I've heard nicotine (i.e. soaked cigs, tobacco juice etc works well in conjunction). If you use a good water/soap misting from the beginning, I don't think you'll ever have a bug problem and maybe even possibly contain your current problem. Probably at a higher strength (about six drops in a quart sprayer), spray the piss out of the entire plant (especially the undersides of the leaves), soil, containers, walls of grow room etc. Do it every day. I ain't gonna hurt your plants but it sure will fuck a bug and/or other critters up! Pick the caterpillars off by sight and hand, then hose 'em down with the soap mix.

Apex3030 said:

my girls got infected and i need a good home made thrip spray recipe
plus any help on keeping them away

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I have used an organic dishsoap (good cuz it's non chemical like the other dishsoaps) and used a few drops in a little spray bottle and that drowned certain insects. But that was back in the day and I personally prefer not to spray stuff like that on my girls at anytime. If you're willing to spend a lil money, I would recommend the EcoSense Insecticide line. They have quite a few products, some are good overalls, some target other insects more than others. Looking at my receipt, I grabbed them from Home Depot for a range of $5.97-11.98 for the different products offered.

Handheld spray bottle (Classic Formula) - This bottle will kill 100+ insects and is a good overall spray. You can layer your plant with this (be sure to get bottom of leaves, too) and it will not harm or burn the plant in any way, unlike some other brands. I also be sure to hit the stalk and top soil and mix the top few inches around as some insects will lay their eggs in the top layer where there is easy access and moisture.

Granual Pellets - This is more for ground threats, such as ants, beetles, caterpillars, centipedes, spiders, and many others that you may not want in your garden/house. You can lay these around the perimeter of your plant, as well as in the top layer of the soil and it will not harm your plants in any way, nor effect flavor.

Fly Spray - While this spray has some very similar ingredients in it as those above and will help if it does hit any of those insects while being sprayed, you should direct it's use towards any flying insects, as that is why you're paying extra for that type of a spray bottle that also contains a peppermint alcohol in it that is good at killing them as well, and as great as it smells, I don't know how good peppermint alcohol is for plant leaves/buds. My thought would be to keep any form of alcohol from hitting my plants, but that's just me.

*** If your insect problem is infested to where there is no turning back and they are harming your plants at a faster rate than you can grow them, the obvious decision there will be to sacrifice your plants. I would recommend FOGGING & cleaning your room before starting anything over. Make sure everything living in there is killed off, and then BE VERY CAREFUL of what you allow into your room from then on. If the plants can be saved, I would take them OUTSIDE the room and spray down well, being sure to get the soil well (You can even dillute your insecticide into a gallon of water and pour a weak mix into your grow medium which will kill off adults, larvae, & eggs in there), and then while you're doing that outside your room, you can have a fogger or two going off and killing anything that remained in that room. Hopefully the spray will kill stuff off and when they go back in the room they will have a clean/bug free enviornment ***

Hope this helps

Any luck with the bugs yet Apex3030???

I've had good luck with just adding water in a spray bottle, putting a few garlic cloves, and leaving it out on the sun. Not only does it deter them, but it also has a potent smell. Just make sure you don't spray yourself because it smells bad after a few days of leaving it out. Just keep refilling and adding fresh cloves. Be sure to take the old ones out because they tend to break down and get really soft. Good luck!!