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Old 16-03-2006, 03:57 PM posted to rec.gardens.orchids
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Default Home made insecticidal soap for chemical sensitive folks

On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 08:55:40 -0500 in gerald wrote:

I have never used the black flag nicotine. Bottle is 20 years old.


I meant the bayer.
About the only nicotine use I've heard of recently is
nicotine smoke bombs (Good for killing off spider mites for a week)
and suspect they've been yanked from the US market as well.


The tree & shrub I use 4 oz into 2 or 3 gal.which is not on the
container, but I worked out from this article:

http://www.njorchids.org/articles/Mealybug/Mealybug.htm


Excellent, thanks.

This stuff is toxic. keep it away from people and pets, which is not
spelled out on the container.

One container (32 oz) is about enough to treat a couple thousand
orchids for a couple years.


Heh.


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Chris Dukes
Suspicion breeds confidence -- Brazil