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LOL, just reading up on some stuff, really want to get a total kill on the mites, and willing to go to any extent to do so, short of shutting down, LOL.
Anyhow, I hit the outbreaks with some Isopropyl on the underleaves in the trouble spots, and I'll give everyone a wonderful shower in the morning again, probably do the bleach thingy in the room. I dusted the veggies with ground cinnamon and cloves with a fan. Cloves don't bother the taste IMO, enhances if anything.
So I spent my wad over at ebay ($150) and got myself a bunch of stuff, and among them was another 8,000 predators I picked up more A.cucumeris, N. californicus, P. persimilis. and A. swirskii. I've still got plenty of ladybugs.
Also, I picked up this pure crop 1 crap, it makes some bold claims, but we'll see.
Colloidal solutions, this kind of crap is right up my alley, I love biochem and fooling around with molar masses and molecular polar properties, and screwing with surfactants. This is called "nano-supramolecular surfactants", as that makes perfect sense in relation to "capturing" debris and contaminates. I suspect I might even be able to create "my own" version. (I've probably already got all the ingredients needed) (a "suspended" oil connected to a polar molecule) after looking at it very closely, maybe I'll be doing some stuff with the microscope camera once this stuff arrives.
The key will be getting the ratio's right. I suspect viscosity has something to do with all this as well.
Anyhow, I hit the outbreaks with some Isopropyl on the underleaves in the trouble spots, and I'll give everyone a wonderful shower in the morning again, probably do the bleach thingy in the room. I dusted the veggies with ground cinnamon and cloves with a fan. Cloves don't bother the taste IMO, enhances if anything.
So I spent my wad over at ebay ($150) and got myself a bunch of stuff, and among them was another 8,000 predators I picked up more A.cucumeris, N. californicus, P. persimilis. and A. swirskii. I've still got plenty of ladybugs.
Also, I picked up this pure crop 1 crap, it makes some bold claims, but we'll see.
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Colloidal solutions, this kind of crap is right up my alley, I love biochem and fooling around with molar masses and molecular polar properties, and screwing with surfactants. This is called "nano-supramolecular surfactants", as that makes perfect sense in relation to "capturing" debris and contaminates. I suspect I might even be able to create "my own" version. (I've probably already got all the ingredients needed) (a "suspended" oil connected to a polar molecule) after looking at it very closely, maybe I'll be doing some stuff with the microscope camera once this stuff arrives.
The key will be getting the ratio's right. I suspect viscosity has something to do with all this as well.
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