dro0py

help!!! i have these tiny tiny orange-looking critters all over every single pot i got!! i tried using raid(not on the plant, only on the pot and it was empty so i got furniture polish and killed most of them.) i wanna know what kind of bug this is and will it do any damage to my plants? and will my plants survive? what is the best pesticide to use and so on. and what kinda bug are these?!? i see some like tentacles or antennaes on them. well help me please!!!!

-droopy!~

dro0py

i didnt actually kill them, i took a napkin and wipes them off the pot after i sprayed furniture polish. oh should i go to the store and get [AVID]? i dont know but i see alot of people posting saying to use avid but im not sure. thanx
-droopy!~

TNJ82

i dont know man but i would like to say that onmypots i (only on the bottom of the pots) i got a bunch of little black insects i dont know what they are but kill them all on every pot and they just keep coming back what should i do

Panama

I'll tell what my uncle swears by in his vegetable garden. Tobacco butts in a coffee can with water. He takes a cloth and wipes the leaves and stalks of his plants and never has a bug problem.

I know it sounds kinda gross, but I guess the bugs know more than humans and won't go near that stinky tar and nicotine gunk. I asked him if it seeped into the leaves and effected the taste any any and he said that the only way it possibly could would be to feed it to the roots. (but who would want to anyway?)

Toke it easy, Pan.

TNJ82

thank you panama i think you might have just saved my crop. assuming that it works.

Delta9

I've heard that it's possable to transmit tobacco mosiac virus this way. Does anyone know anything about this?
D9

dave420

Pan has a good solution.. nicotine has been used as an insecticide for centuries. It's only banned now cause it's so deadly, one drop of pure nicotine on a large dogs skin will cause death.. 2 drops on your tongue will kill a human..just think how little it would take to kill a bug. I'd give it a try.. it's gotta be better than furniture polish, but just try to keep it away from the plant.. tobacco mosiac affects alot of plants.. i know it kills beans. Most of my experience is with vegtable gardening.. i'm still fairly new at growing MJ. The orange bugs sound like aphids or spider mites which really won't hurt unless they're on the plant, and those little black bugs of TNJ's could be almost anything which i wouldn't worry much about unless they're actually in the pot, sounds like they're just going under the pots to get out of the sun and for the moisture.