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  On a side note,,, when I sprayed with cold pressed neem last spring, seemed my flowers got damaged, or at least the pistils fell off. The clarified neem doesn't do that. this is my anecdotal experience of a 1 time drenching over/under spray soaking with cold pressed. Is this the norm for cold...

  Interesting,,, thanks for squaring me away, new at this and still learning...   Have read my bottle of cold pressed carefully, as well as many articles on cold pressed. My take away was, cold pressed neem oil, once mixed with water and soap, has a half life of 2 hours(?). Nowhere have I seen...

  You might be right... On that same train of thought, why use any type of neem then,, if soapy water does the same thing, kills on contact. Whats the benefit of azadirachtin..? it is suppose to disrupt the insect life cycle/feeding/egg laying/etc, but supposedly only affects the larval stage of...

My very limited knowledge on neem oils....   As far as neem oils go.... cold pressed (includes azadirachtin) and clarified hydrophobic extract of neem oil(has no azadirachtin) are the 2 available for pest control. This confuse me slightly, as both are derived from the neem seed, and both do more...

Made some sFL mix yesterday. Took your advice and wet my peat first. Once I worked in the water the hydrophobic mix finally broke surface tension and got wet wet, I understand now. Only thing is,, If i let my plants dry up till minor droop/wilt,, then the mix is once again hydrophobic..? Guess...

From my experience once the first original set open up, for regular Jalas about 1-2 weeks more and you should have a second set.   These are some sugar rush peach baccatums seeds from the pod I started on 6/26/19. First pic is 6 days after planting seeds, next pic is right now or 10 days after...

  Oh no... better tell my girl as she insisted on a Jalapeno Gigante fantasy in the garden swing the other nite..     OP, on your first pic, just check where the leaf is rolled over that no white spider webbing is in there. But your plants look pretty healthy like others have said.   jmo

      We didn't know,,, not that there is anything wrong with that...

  Thats me, just signed up for them all and been doing my homework... lol

  Good answer, I should of known that... Was thinking it acts like a adhesive/cement and makes the mix compact easier...  

  Just a little info for those interested...  Seems at least at Home Depot, the small bags of perlite are small size granules like small bird shot size. The Big bags are much larger size granules like buck shot size or larger...   Curious, why the recommendation to rinse off the perlite dust...

Graduated from s FL soil 101 sFl  pests 101 Neem 101 germination 101 Hot Pepper basics 101   Whats next for sophomore year, I love this place...

  Damn, those Melbourne ants are persistent... What do they do once in the 15gallons of water  

Been reading Nan's thread and her soil link spoke of 'sunshine mix4', the link explained its content with 'soil wetter'.   What is soil wetter and is it needed...? Is it missing from my 'lite mix' of 7/2/1 peat/perlite/worm castings/1/2cup fertilizer/1/2 cup powdered eggshell, all per 5gal., is...

   Well, dead ants are on the plant..? But good to know neem will not usually kill ants. Might have to use some Dr Earth essential oils between neem sprays if ants persist, as ants do die from that stuff. Hopefully with no aphids on the plant ants will lose interest.    But as you say, as long...

  Well, seems ants have seriously underestimated me... lol There are thousands floating around dead in the saucers with no way out. And if they go up they get neem residue on the plant. Next weeks spray should finish them off if they are in the pots still. i'll show those little buggers whos...

  Ya, more like tropical monsoons, my lake is overflowing.   Black aphids, didn't know there was such a thing. looks like some type of dead spider on there also... Neem is more powerful than I'd imagined.   Fixed 2 problems, my ant problem, and my hydrophobic soil problem with large saucers...

This is on my most prolific early Jal plant 7 months old that has given me hundreds of pods and still looks healthy more or less although it does need a replant into a bigger pot... Sprayed it with neem a few days ago just as a preventative spray, didn't think it had any pests I could see with a...

;) Might as well call that triple action neem,, a flowering nutrient...lol   During spraying not 1 flower on any of my Nomad plants, positively none. Now 8 hours later, my first flower on the Nomad FataLii. With my luck it will probably fall off from neem stoma sun burn...   How long till neem...

  Mixed it just the way the instruction say, 2-4 tablespoons per gallon warm water for mites. 2 tablespoons per gallon for everything else. I used 3 for this batch, used 4 last batch when the broad mites were there. This was just for a preventative every 7-14 day spray,    As you know about 10...