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Leaf curling problem and more -- Help
- Thread starter Smashburn
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Neem will only kill insects that are sucking on the plant. Works great on aphids and not so great on whitefly, but you have to follow-up. It does absolutely nothing to ants, except if you coat them.sirex said:
The only thing that seems to be effective against ants, are sugar baits, (boric acid - which you don't want near your plants) or really nasty toxins.
lime sulphur is a pretty good general purpose spray..
It will not kill the aphids as such (well it might if you make it strong enough), but what it will do is destroy their habitat by making it inhospitable for them to continue living there.
It throws the PH on the surface of the plant out of whack so they cant survive there anymore.
Same thing it does to mites..destroys them by destroying their habitat.
the lime suplur will stay on the plant for a couple weeks.
It will not kill the aphids as such (well it might if you make it strong enough), but what it will do is destroy their habitat by making it inhospitable for them to continue living there.
It throws the PH on the surface of the plant out of whack so they cant survive there anymore.
Same thing it does to mites..destroys them by destroying their habitat.
the lime suplur will stay on the plant for a couple weeks.
