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Post by garrett on Jul 1, 2012 9:30:18 GMT -5
smiles
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Post by garrett on Jul 7, 2012 9:54:06 GMT -5
still hunting?
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Post by marielouise on Jul 9, 2012 14:26:27 GMT -5
hummmmmm have you found any? I have lots of grasshoppers want me to send you a few??? Just so you ahve some to find.
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Post by directsunlight on Jul 9, 2012 17:08:35 GMT -5
"Train with the bayonet"-- Stonewall Jackson
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Post by grapenut on Jul 11, 2012 17:05:44 GMT -5
Well, I THINK the coffee spray works on SVBs like the tobacco spray does. While I was hunting squash bugs today, one landed on a leaf directly in front of me. I gave it a good dose. Instead of flying away, it rolled down the center curl of the leaf and fell down into the other leaves and grass. I backed off and watched carefully for it to fly up or out one of the side areas and didn't see it again. I don't have a confirmed kill with the coffee spray yet, but it looks pretty promising at this point. Next time you find one of them B@$%^&*s why don't you take one, spray it and put in a box or jar so you can confirm the kill? what strength do you use? I am very interested in this as I always have coffee around Now if only I could get rid of my Gopher problem...there making my eyes start to twitch
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Post by garrett on Jul 14, 2012 16:21:56 GMT -5
get em ya'lls.
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Post by bluelacedredhead on Jul 23, 2012 22:01:56 GMT -5
SVB's got two of my Red Kuri plants but I got them, SQUISH, SPLAT!
Removed the vines, killed all the borers...hopefully, the others aren't infected.
If I remember correctly, the Old Fashioned TN Vining Punkin is resistant...I sure hope so...
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Post by garrett on Jul 24, 2012 7:48:57 GMT -5
lace i sure hope you get some punkins.
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Post by bluelacedredhead on Jul 24, 2012 20:26:27 GMT -5
Thanks Redperson. It ain't over yet...
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Post by garrett on Jul 29, 2012 13:14:32 GMT -5
be vewyyyyyyyy vewwy quiet i'm hunting weeds now.rotfl
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Post by bluelacedredhead on Jul 30, 2012 7:54:55 GMT -5
W-E-E-D-S?? OMG.....I hope you can find some plants underneath those......
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Post by garrett on Jul 31, 2012 1:02:34 GMT -5
grins
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Post by directsunlight on Jul 31, 2012 9:49:41 GMT -5
"We make war so that we may live in peace"-- Aristotle
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Post by txdirtdog on Jul 31, 2012 21:46:13 GMT -5
"We make war so that we may live in peace"-- Aristotle And we make war on weeds so that we may have peas. And maters. And squash. Etc.
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Post by txdirtdog on Jul 31, 2012 21:59:24 GMT -5
Well, I THINK the coffee spray works on SVBs like the tobacco spray does. While I was hunting squash bugs today, one landed on a leaf directly in front of me. I gave it a good dose. Instead of flying away, it rolled down the center curl of the leaf and fell down into the other leaves and grass. I backed off and watched carefully for it to fly up or out one of the side areas and didn't see it again. I don't have a confirmed kill with the coffee spray yet, but it looks pretty promising at this point. Next time you find one of them B@$%^&*s why don't you take one, spray it and put in a box or jar so you can confirm the kill? what strength do you use? I am very interested in this as I always have coffee around Now if only I could get rid of my Gopher problem...there making my eyes start to twitch Sorry Grape. Didn't see your post until now. I make the coffee spray with a 12 cup coffee maker. Normally we use 6 Tablespoons for our normal pot 'o Joe with water to the 10 cup mark, and sometimes I use leftovers of this for the spray, but if I'm making a pot just for bug spray, I use 7 Tablespoons with water to the 10 cup mark. After pouring the brewed coffee into the pump sprayer, I add a liberal pour of vegetable oil and a good heavy squirt of Dawn dish soap. I let the coffee cool so that it doesn't scorch the leaves of the plants. Close up the sprayer, shake-a-shaka then pump it up and go to town. This spray works on squash bugs, stink bugs and leaf-footed plant bugs. The bug has to be liberally dowsed with the mix, and they don't always die dead, needing an additional coating or even two sometimes. The tobacco mix kills them dead quickly and with one dose. I have not gotten a confirmed kill yet for SVB moth with the coffee mix, but the tobacco mix is a confirmed killer for SVB moths. I'm debating putting little stickers on the pump sprayer showing a red bee-like moth with "x"'s over them. I'd be an ace already. Lol.
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Post by garrett on Aug 1, 2012 11:31:15 GMT -5
aces high.rotfl
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Post by grapenut on Aug 2, 2012 7:01:31 GMT -5
Thanks for the reply TDD..I might try a mix of baca juice and coffee with a little Dawn in it...cover all my bases ya know.
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Post by txdirtdog on Aug 2, 2012 22:03:34 GMT -5
I haven't tried mixing the 2 active ingredients yet, but I bet that would work great on the bugs, Grape.
Funny that millions (possibly billions) of humans' morning wake-up ritual is downright deadly in an immediate manner to these bugs that most chemical pesticides won't bother. Somehow that just ain't right. Lol.
I have sprayed wasp spray on leaf-footed bugs once upon a time. Suckers shrugged it off and flew away. Maybe a little wobbly, but they flew off into the distance. Not sure I could survive a head to toe coating of wasp spray. But I love me coffee and it kills them. Huh.
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Post by garrett on Aug 7, 2012 13:46:20 GMT -5
get em ya'lls.
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Post by directsunlight on Aug 7, 2012 23:34:51 GMT -5
Was looking at my otherwise healthy tomatillo plant and was wondering why some branches had no leaves on them. Then I saw the pattern of... a hornworm. This is the kiss of death This one was pretty energetic-- they lunge like they're going to bite. Still, it's no match for a cinderblock.
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Post by directsunlight on Aug 10, 2012 21:50:33 GMT -5
Another hornworm was at it again-- practically stripped my great white of any foliage. A hornet was eating on it when I found it though--- mmm boy! Do they actually kill hornworms? Based on what I saw it would seem so.
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Post by gulfcoastguy on Aug 10, 2012 23:15:29 GMT -5
I wouldn't try to reclaim the hornworm from the hornet, possession is 9/10ths of the law and a wicked stinger is the other 1/10th!
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Post by directsunlight on Aug 11, 2012 14:15:58 GMT -5
I wouldn't try to reclaim the hornworm from the hornet, possession is 9/10ths of the law and a wicked stinger is the other 1/10th! lol. "If you wanted a good burial, you should've gotten yourself killed in the summer" -- from "True Grit".
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Post by garrett on Aug 24, 2012 21:08:30 GMT -5
smiles
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Post by gulfcoastguy on Aug 24, 2012 21:26:25 GMT -5
Well Hurricane Isaac might blow all the bugs away.
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Post by LinFL on Aug 25, 2012 16:15:39 GMT -5
I can only hope!
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Post by garrett on Aug 25, 2012 20:32:06 GMT -5
oh we need rain badly.
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Post by gardentoad on Aug 29, 2012 22:41:37 GMT -5
SVB's got some of my squash vines. But I do have a few squash growing. Have to figure out a way before next year of keeping the darn critters off the plants so they don't lay their eggs in the first place. May have to resort to row covers.
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