what cant vassaline do?!

Paranoid-Watcha

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• Jan 31, 2005

• #1

hey, a long time ago a heard about a kid who's grampa grew and the kid noticed a ring of vassaline around the bottem of his gramp's plants. he asked, and was told it was to keep bugs from crawling up the plant.

i tried it, to get rid of the ants i had. at first it worked but then the ants smarted up and just tap danced over the surface of the patroleum jelly i used. (maybe i shoulda used REAL vassaline)

just thought i'd share... see if anyone else had any exsperience with vassaline .... as far as growing goes

 

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vs_cliqua_x3

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• Feb 1, 2005

• #2

Thats what I did too. And it worked, but my friend said it might hurt the plant so I took it off.

 

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vs_cliqua_x3

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• Feb 7, 2005

• #3

what the hell is banana ky?

 

GMT

The Tri Guy

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• Mar 17, 2007

• #4

no, although wouldnt it soak into the stem and goo everything up? Certainly wouldn't want to smoke that in the buds.

 

Deft

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• Mar 17, 2007

• #5

They sell stuff that does the same thing but shouldent hurt plants at all, dont know the design or whats in it though so migh affect smoke.

 

Tom Hill

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• Mar 17, 2007

• #6

Screw the ants, do something about the aphids

 

Tom Hill

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• Mar 17, 2007

• #7

The presence of ants often indicates aphid infestation, they're after the honeydew.

The product Deft mentioned is called "tanglefoot" i believe.

 

Deft

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• Mar 17, 2007

• #8

Yea it was stickyfoot or tanglefoot or somthing like that, I dont have much problem with pests comign from the ground cept slugs, and I got copper stuff for them.

 

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Relik

• Mar 17, 2007

• #9

When I see ants (and usually they're bringin' in aphids, as Tom mentionned) I start by wrapping the base of the main stem with a loop of maskin' tape or something like that, it stops them for about a week but it is not a definitive solution. If I understand correctly the OP was talking about using vaseline around the base of the plant, not directly on the main stem, am I right? I'd just make a cardboard ring, cover it with vaseline and put it at the base of my plants. It would have to be changed often though...

Peace

 

PazVerdeRadical

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• Mar 18, 2007

• #10

aphids are a pain in the ass