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In the homemade brew if you add some cooking oil to it, it will be more effective. The oil will coat the bodies and suffocate them, much like the Hort oil and the soap dehydrates them. Not sure what the pepper does other than make their mouths burn like fire. Maybe burns their eyes so they can't see where the next leaf is lol. Thanks for the info, and a big thumbs up!!
So last year I decided I wasn't going to spray my fruit trees for aphids. I wanted to see how it would go if nature took it's course. My experience only applies to fruit trees. Aphids take longer to hurt them than they would veggies. Aphids showed up late spring like they always do. They hit the cherries first, then a plum tree, then a few apple trees. They ran amok for a couple of weeks before the lady bugs showed up. The lady bugs don't do #$% as far as making a dent in the Aphids. The lady bugs were around for about a week or so before I started finding their eggs on the underside of leaves. It took about another week to ten days for the eggs to hatch. The lady bug larvae went to work immediately upon hatching. While lady bugs themselves don't do #$%^ for controlling Aphids, the larvae went to town. They wiped out aphid populations branch by branch and cleaned out entire trees in a week. The larvae grew in size at a fantastic rate. It was amazing watching how fast they grew from pinhead size to 1/4" long aphid destroying monsters. Right about the time the larvae disappeared/turned into lady bugs I started finding lace wing eggs on the leaves. I never saw the lace wings in action because by time they hatched the Aphids had been wiped out. With the advent of hot weather my aphid season was over. This worked out well for my fruit trees as the are rather hardy and the infestation never got to the point of serious damage. Soft vegetables would probably be damaged very severely before lady bugs found them, layer eggs and the eggs finally hatching. All in all it was fun watching nature take its course. Was also nice not having spider mites explode in my cherry trees after spraying to control aphids.
@@TheBusyGardener The pheromone traps only work on Coddling Moths. I don't really have a moth problem (yet) but I am going to put the traps up this year just in case. As far as I know the traps don't work on Apple maggot. The apple maggots haven't found me in a serious way yet and I have been able to use Spinosad GF 120 for those... so far. My neighbor 3 doors down has an untreated and infested stand of apples so one day my turn will come. The cherry fruit fly infestation is horrible. I took down 2 wild cherry trees on my property last fall that were fully infested. I'm going to net my cherries for the next 2 years then see if the fruit flies can be managed with the spinosad. All the commercial growers around here use truly nasty stuff to controll the cherry fruit fly and apple maggots. I looked into getting the commercial sprays but even reading the safety data sheets on them felt like you just increased your risk for cancer. I have 50 or so trees growing so bagging the fruit is too labor intensive. So I'm really hoping the steps taken above end up working.
That seems like a really interesting option I might try in the future! It looks like it is ideally applied before the arrival of any pests vs treating an existing infestation.
Soapy water works just fine if you don’t have the extra money to spend. You just have to do multiple applications before sunrise. He just recommends the other stuff because he gets a small kickback from Amazon to his channel.
Brent, multiple applications BEFORE SUNRISE?!? 😴😂 I'm all about DIY (I've got a bunch of homemade methods on my channel), but the tradeoff needs to make sense to me. The insecticidal soap I used is a bargain at less than $6
Hey Joey! It's a gardening pun on the familiar "May God have mercy on your soul". I changed it to "May God have mercy on your SOIL". Get it? Soul/Soil?? Now I'm giggling over here. 😂 That said, I think we've got bigger questions to answer than what we're gonna plant in the garden this year. But the shirt was just a dad joke.
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In the homemade brew if you add some cooking oil to it, it will be more effective. The oil will coat the bodies and suffocate them, much like the Hort oil and the soap dehydrates them. Not sure what the pepper does other than make their mouths burn like fire. Maybe burns their eyes so they can't see where the next leaf is lol. Thanks for the info, and a big thumbs up!!
So last year I decided I wasn't going to spray my fruit trees for aphids. I wanted to see how it would go if nature took it's course.
My experience only applies to fruit trees. Aphids take longer to hurt them than they would veggies.
Aphids showed up late spring like they always do. They hit the cherries first, then a plum tree, then a few apple trees.
They ran amok for a couple of weeks before the lady bugs showed up.
The lady bugs don't do #$% as far as making a dent in the Aphids. The lady bugs were around for about a week or so before I started finding their eggs on the underside of leaves.
It took about another week to ten days for the eggs to hatch.
The lady bug larvae went to work immediately upon hatching. While lady bugs themselves don't do #$%^ for controlling Aphids, the larvae went to town.
They wiped out aphid populations branch by branch and cleaned out entire trees in a week. The larvae grew in size at a fantastic rate. It was amazing watching how fast they grew from pinhead size to 1/4" long aphid destroying monsters.
Right about the time the larvae disappeared/turned into lady bugs I started finding lace wing eggs on the leaves.
I never saw the lace wings in action because by time they hatched the Aphids had been wiped out. With the advent of hot weather my aphid season was over.
This worked out well for my fruit trees as the are rather hardy and the infestation never got to the point of serious damage.
Soft vegetables would probably be damaged very severely before lady bugs found them, layer eggs and the eggs finally hatching.
All in all it was fun watching nature take its course. Was also nice not having spider mites explode in my cherry trees after spraying to control aphids.
It's amazing watching natural processes work whenever possible! Thanks for sharing!
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Now if only somebody could find an amazing natural solution for western cherry fruit fly and apple maggot
@@danielnomnom2646 Can't you put up those pheromone traps for the moths/maggot?
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The pheromone traps only work on Coddling Moths. I don't really have a moth problem (yet) but I am going to put the traps up this year just in case.
As far as I know the traps don't work on Apple maggot.
The apple maggots haven't found me in a serious way yet and I have been able to use Spinosad GF 120 for those... so far. My neighbor 3 doors down has an untreated and infested stand of apples so one day my turn will come.
The cherry fruit fly infestation is horrible. I took down 2 wild cherry trees on my property last fall that were fully infested. I'm going to net my cherries for the next 2 years then see if the fruit flies can be managed with the spinosad.
All the commercial growers around here use truly nasty stuff to controll the cherry fruit fly and apple maggots. I looked into getting the commercial sprays but even reading the safety data sheets on them felt like you just increased your risk for cancer.
I have 50 or so trees growing so bagging the fruit is too labor intensive. So I'm really hoping the steps taken above end up working.
What do you think about kailyn surrounding clay
That seems like a really interesting option I might try in the future! It looks like it is ideally applied before the arrival of any pests vs treating an existing infestation.
@@TheBusyGardener yes I just got some haven't applied any yet, was going to hit it hard this spring and see what happens
Unfortunately aphids LOVE my 5-1 apple tree, I use the insecticidal soap route and that gets em, but I do have to re-spray after a rain.
The rain literally washes away the hard work 😭
Soapy water works just fine if you don’t have the extra money to spend. You just have to do multiple applications before sunrise. He just recommends the other stuff because he gets a small kickback from Amazon to his channel.
Brent, multiple applications BEFORE SUNRISE?!? 😴😂 I'm all about DIY (I've got a bunch of homemade methods on my channel), but the tradeoff needs to make sense to me. The insecticidal soap I used is a bargain at less than $6
May I ask why you push religion on your merch?
Hey Joey! It's a gardening pun on the familiar "May God have mercy on your soul". I changed it to "May God have mercy on your SOIL". Get it? Soul/Soil?? Now I'm giggling over here. 😂
That said, I think we've got bigger questions to answer than what we're gonna plant in the garden this year. But the shirt was just a dad joke.