Kind of odd I know, but has anyone ever done this?
Every once in a while I'll get a mild spider mite outbreak. Nothing ever really serious, but usually the plant ends up in really poor shape and I've never really really gotten rid of the bastards completely.
So I got to thinking- why not kill 'em dead with gas? Here's what I'm thinking- take a plant that's ate up with spiders, put it in a super large plastic garbage bag, taping up the opening of the bag, and filling the bag with carbon dioxide. Maybe leave the plant in the bag for a couple hours. Displace the oxygen, kill everything that breathes oxygen quickly, then pull the bag apart. I'd originally thought about using nitrogen, but since I've already got a CO2 tank hooked up to my kegs, and plants eat CO2, I figure this would be better to displace the oxygen.
Am I high, or do you think this would work?
Every once in a while I'll get a mild spider mite outbreak. Nothing ever really serious, but usually the plant ends up in really poor shape and I've never really really gotten rid of the bastards completely.
So I got to thinking- why not kill 'em dead with gas? Here's what I'm thinking- take a plant that's ate up with spiders, put it in a super large plastic garbage bag, taping up the opening of the bag, and filling the bag with carbon dioxide. Maybe leave the plant in the bag for a couple hours. Displace the oxygen, kill everything that breathes oxygen quickly, then pull the bag apart. I'd originally thought about using nitrogen, but since I've already got a CO2 tank hooked up to my kegs, and plants eat CO2, I figure this would be better to displace the oxygen.
Am I high, or do you think this would work?
