What is the best all around insect killer???

[EscapesW/420]

So I was wondering what is the best inesct killer , one that does everything !!! Caterpillar and flys, and roaches everything that will try to eat my plant or nest in it , please let me know cause it getting that time of year !!! Thanks for the help ICmag.com community , never any where else have I recieved such voluntary friendly help , quite anazing we are all trying to do the same thing , grow a F#*&@%G Plant Man. Is there website like this devoted to grwoing the best corn or watermelon you can grow , cause if there wause that would be cool to check out !!!

 

[nomaad]

I haven't found one that is that wide-spectrum. I use a couple of different products including a neem/mahogany oil product called aza-karanj, a pyrethrin product until 2 weeks into flower, BT for caterpillars and I am about to employ killer nematodes for thrips in the soil.

 

[Mr. Stinky]

sevin does a good job. toss out some slug granules as well and you will have most things covered.

bonide makes a product called "fruit tree spray". it has a few different ingredients in it including carbaryl, the stuff in sevin. if you are using a hand held pump sprayer, the fruit tree spray is probably the best buy. follow the directions, and add a tablespoon or 2 of miracle grow per gallon of spray. it has an anti-fungal agent and a binding agent as well so it should keep the botrytis at bay for a while.

just dont spray anything on them in the last 4-6 weeks.

 

[nomaad]

The product is called Endofine Plus. www.endofine.net. No more budrot since using it... that's not a scientific conclusion... but its a start.

 

[Hollaachu]

Diatomatious Earth

 

[nomaad]

D-earth is not an all around insect prevention method... not by any means. It may work for slugs and other things that may want to crawl thru or across your soil and get at your plantys... it would be like trying to cross a field of broken glass by sliding along your belly. If the pest flies, hops or has an exoskeleten capable of protecting it from the diatomes, it will not do a thing.

 

[Paddi]

Why do you want to kill insects outdoor?

Insects have eaten a lot of leaves from my girls through the years....But they have never eaten a single bud! I would say that 1 out of 10 girls gets attacked by insects in my backyard, but in the end it means nothing.

Maybe I´m lucky, I don´t know.
I´ve never seen pics of half eaten buds.
Am I wrong, is my memory playing with me....

Well, at least I find it unnecessary to kill a lot of harmless insects because a few evil ones.

Look at my growthread from yesterday. There were a lot of caterpillars in my cabbage, but none in the weed right beside the cabbages.

My 5 cent

Slugs are not insects


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[resin_lung]

Are caterpillars insects? If so I've had whole plots decimated! Never had any real issues out doors with any thing else. But caterpillars SUCK!! They stripped nearly every bud from the stems leaving only bushes of sticks! The ones I was able to save were covered in little blackish shit balls. They don't even eat the bud. They eat the outer layer of the stem that holds everything together. The immature buds were on the ground under the plants!

 

[Huey69]

Paddi you're a lucky guy then! While I'll agree that most insects don't do much damage, I've always had problems with caterpillars (different species from yours). They're the ones that eat the buds, well they eat the stems on the buds which leads to budrot

This season, I've been trying to do some preventative spraying by using Neem oil and Spinosad. I find the Neem oil to be good for most pests, while the spinosad I use for caterpillars (Neem doesn't do shit to pillars ime).

EDIT: As resin_lung mentioned, the pillars leave black shit everywhere too! It's really hard to get off the plant!

 

[Hazyfontazy]

growing basil will keep insects away

 

[nomaad]

I dunno Paddi. I think you're lucky. I have heard horror stories, especially about caterpillars and bud worms. entire crops decimated. I am taking precautions for sure... And the thrips.... I feel like the thrip damage to the leaves in the black box have contributed to a lower tolerance for molds and funguses. I see less of these things on plants with less thrip damamge. Could be that these plants are more tolerant on their own, but I can't ignore the suspicion that my above theory is at play.

 

[Paddi]

Ok bros
You´ve convinced me. I´m a lucky guy


P

 

[nomaad]

LOL

 

[SmokeyTheBear]

i would say sevin is the best all around insect killer.

 

[nomaad]

caterpillars too, STB?

 

[PazVerdeRadical]

Paddi, you are lucky for sure, besides, the place where you are at is probably not a good habitat for many of the nasty bugs, they may not even survive your latitude, who knows?

where i am at, i have seen tons of weird stuff, insects, molds/fungi. sometimes it can be bad, sometimes it is just perfect. sometimes one needs to use a little bit of repellents, and other times none at all. it also depends on location / micro-climate.

some people are just blessed with a perfect location.

much peace

 

[SmokeyTheBear]

i'm not sure, but i use sevin and have never once found a caterpillar on any of my plants.

 

[biteme]

the big problem with insects is usually not the damage they do, but what comes down the road. mature insects will eat a hole in your plant and lay eggs. larvae from this insect will then eat and shit out of the very hole the eggs were laid in and create sticky goo the entomologists often call "honey dew." this honey dew is the main attractant of many molds i never saw in the midwest usa until a couple of years ago. in fact, until a couple of years ago i never witnessed a mold or mildew on a mj plant.

peace-biteme

 

[Tirs]

Those who have caterpillar problems Dipel is an easy solution. It is a strain of the bacteria Bacillus Thurigenis that releases a toxin in the gut of caterpillars when ingested. It is harmless to other species even non target insects. Its OMRI certified for the organic crowd and can be found pretty easily under a few names.

For those looking for a more long term solution there is a pesticide called imidacloprid which is systemic so any insect that feeds on the plant gets poisoned, it targets receptors specific to insects so it is far less toxic to other animals supposedly but as with any pesticide use with caution.

 

[theratings]

I feel the pain of the bug ridden areas. It really depends like the previous poster said, because I've seen people have no problems, then other people's plants get shot full of holes, insect plant eating style. If things get real bad, I suggest using Sevin.