Cheers Potato. Hope it all goes well for you.
But once a week when I water I spray the DIRT (good cover don't water with it) after water has drained with 1teaspoon Malathion 50% little dish soap and 1oz. 3% H2O2 to QT.
Malathion has been banned for a long time. Dangerous shit.
If malathion is used in an indoor, or other poorly ventilated environment, it can seriously poison the occupants living or working in this environment.
LD50/LC50: Malathion is slightly toxic via the oral route, with reported oral LD50 values of 1000 mg/kg to greater than 10,000 mg/kg in the rat, and 400 mg/kg to greater than 4000 mg/kg in the mouse. It is also slightly toxic via the dermal route, with reported dermal LD50 values of greater than 4000 mg/kg in rats.
It has been reported that single doses of malathion may affect immune system response. Symptoms of acute exposure to organophosphate or cholinesterase-inhibiting compounds may include the following: numbness, tingling sensations, incoordination, headache, dizziness, tremor, nausea, abdominal cramps, sweating, blurred vision, difficulty breathing or respiratory depression, and slow heartbeat. Very high doses may result in unconsciousness, incontinence, and convulsions or fatality. The acute effects of malathion depend on product purity and the route of exposure.
Other factors which may influence the observed toxicity of malathion include the amount of protein in the diet and gender. As protein intake decreased, malathion was increasingly toxic to the rats. Malathion has been shown to have different toxicities in male and female rats and humans due to metabolism, storage, and excretion differences between the sexes, with females being much more susceptible than males. Numerous malathion poisoning incidents have occurred among pesticide workers and small children through accidental exposure. In one reported case of malathion poisoning, an infant exhibited severe signs of cholinesterase inhibition after exposure to an aerosol bomb containing 0.5% malathion.
Effects on birds: Malathion is moderately toxic to birds. The reported acute oral LD50 values are: in mallards, 1485 mg/kg; in pheasants, 167 mg/kg; in blackbirds and starlings, over 100 mg/kg; and in chickens, 525 mg/kg.
Effects on aquatic organisms: Malathion has a wide range of toxicities in fish, extending from very highly toxic in the walleye (96-hour LC50 of 0.06 mg/L) to highly toxic in brown trout (0.1 mg/L) and slightly toxic in goldfish (10.7 mg/L). Malathion is highly toxic to aquatic invertebrates and to the aquatic stages of amphibians. Because of its very short half-life, malathion is not expected to bioconcentrate in aquatic organisms. However, brown shrimp showed an average concentration of 869 and 959 times the ambient water concentration in two separate samples.
Effects on other organisms: The compound is highly toxic to honeybees.
Basically Malathion is a vile and poisonous substance that is harmful to just about everything, including you. I know it is heavily used in US agriculture, but this shit is very dangerous, especially in an enclosed space.
