Tobacco on Cactus: San Pedro Meally Bug Annihilation Campaign
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- Опубліковано 23 кві 2022
- I've treated meally bugs on san pedro cactus successfully in the past using tobacco. This time I'm attempting to completely eradicate an infestation using a three pronged approach, fumigation, spraying and watering with tobacco tea. If I'm successful, all cactus I acquire in the future will be either quarantined, treated or both. I did some reasearch on pre-chemical age treatment in greenhouses and all of these strategies were used regularly in the old days.
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I love smoking tobacco! I haven't smoked any today.... I will do this to christen my greenhouse that is almost complete! I may put a couple more herbs in there, but tobacco as a base!!! Great videos, Sir!
When you wrote "stop looking at it" i zoomed in and realized its in the shape of a perfect 3
Great information, thank you!
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Great information and a very nice herd of cacti, I would add. I am not very good at their names, yet we share many of the same ones.
Cochinea.. I recently got lady bugs to knock some of mine back, might try tobacco next, thanks, mainly been using isopropyl water and diatomaceous earth. Thank you for this valuable info, hopefully one day I'll have a greenhouse that I too can fumigate.
Great video, thanks Steven. As I'm unable to buy bulk tobacco like that here in New Zealand, since I saw your last video I bought tobacco seeds and have a dozen young tobacco plants growing now with leaves bigger than my spread fingers. We're experiencing autumn ATM but I'm told the plants will survive the winter outside and then take off in spring. I'll be harvesting and drying the leaves to make my own insecticide.
Nice TPC. I was trying to find your video from a year or two ago when you showed that and other cactus growing in biochar but still haven't found it. Life's too short yeah? All the best.
I got some hopi tobacco seeds to grow this year. I need to get them started. ua-cam.com/video/PXibtDi1220/v-deo.html
@@TeamWachuma Thanks for the reply and the link. Good stuff.
I have been looking for a cactus that looks like the one you said it belongs to your friend and like water.
How do you make the tobacco tea? How does it kill insects?
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TMV is what stops me on this one for sure
When I spray my plants I literally just use warm water and Dawn dish soap it works really well for me.
i use that on aphids and even earwigs, so seems like it would work. I'm mroe skeptical it would work on those fluffy egg sacks though. Do you think it kills those?
@@SkillCult It seems to work but I do spray my plants about once a week because I have dozens of new plants coming in and out of the greenhouse weekly.
Wow so many cacti!!! Would you ever consider selling one?
I do sell cactus, but mostly small seedlings for now. I will start propagating and selling some of the best ones soon. I'm propagating King Tubby now.
All the best, hopefully that nicotine juice does the job.
I’ve been struggling with managing root mealies ☹️
How strong did you mix the tea that you watered with?
At this point I would go for Pyganic, a pyrethum extract with omri approval. It seems to be effective and proably cheaper in the long run if you have to treat a lot of cactus. If you have a large collection that is infested, it might be really hard to use enough to kill them all though. I was not able to finish them off in the end. what did finish them off was last winter. Apparently they don't like freezing over and over. I did damage and lose some cactus too, but hey, no mealies! Onle a few managed to survive that I brought into the greenouse in the fall. but I hope to be meallie free by the end of this winter. I think tobacco works, it will just take a lot to treat a lot of soil. treating the cactus is no problem. saturating a bunch of big pots tho...