Please help insects are destroying my baby!

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Do you have any companion plants planted?. Tried dietametious earth?

Yeah there’s a huge grape vine structure and no what is that? Sorry newbie here lol

@Dromingo either dust the plants and the ground with food grade DE or spray the plants (but never the buds) with Neem oil of something similar and preferably organic. Are you in the US? I can post links to Amazon

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Looks like leaf miners. fly larvae they get inside the leafs and leave squiggly lines like a a snail… Food Grade DE should keep them away.

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And take the infected leafs off and dispose if they have the squiggly lines so they cant spread forgot to mention…

I got that down to doc I surgically removed all the affected areas (squigglys) and threw them away then went to drenching the plant top to bottom leafe by leaf !

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Try this it works great

Put potato slices on the surface of the soil. The larvae like it and will be drawn to it… After about 4 to 5 days, remove the potato slices with the larvae. To get rid of them you can do a lot of things like either use a NO pest strip, neem oil or putting sand on the surface of the soil will suffocate the eggs and get rid of them as well. Tobacco juice kills them, and works well for re-occurrences!

Tabacco Juice recipe

Take 3 strong ciggeretes soak them over night in water then add the hottest hot sause you can find and
Boil it for 2 to 3 miniutes, let it cool off and spray the plants 3 to 4 times a week. You can add safer soap if you like to the mixture.
(make absolutly sure you use gloves/face protection while handling and spraying)
Neem oil works very well too!!

Will

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@garrigan62
How much water do use for three cigs to make this? How much hot sauce?

i use about a half a pack and as for the hot sause just 2 or 3 oz’s

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But how much water. @garrigan62

Use 2 or 3 cups and i use ladies nylons doubled up to strain it then spray away

Will

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Thank you!

Those are good solutions Will thanks.

Your very welcome any time my friend

Will

I had a similar problem but i solved it with diatomeas earth