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Mayes
I find that it eliminates mealys in one spraying.
A customer used it on spider mites last week and eliminated them in one night.
To use it as an insecticide mix one ounce concentrate in a quart of water, and spray on with a NEW spray bottle.
You need to use non-chlorinated water (or it kills the microbes) and plastic absorbs chemicals so use a new sprayer. Do not even use the same bottles and sprayers you use for fertilizers. They have chemicals in the mixes that can affect the microbes in the Worm Tea. All Phosphates kill beneficial microbes in your potting mix. Another reason to stay away for the high phosphate mixes called 'bloom boost'.
I am trying to experiment with the use of fertilizer and Worm Tea, but first indications is that it is not necessary.
I have a Lady slipper on my desk that lost its flower 3 weeks ago (hydroponic without drainage - article to follow), and the small pup has grown from 1 to 3 inches in that time and a second pup has appeared. I never had that much growth from a slipper before.
I had said I was going to photograph the same two Loveknot pictured above because the worm tea one had grown a half inch bigger than the other in only 4 weeks of growth. Remarkable grown for a miniature.
My wife watered both with worm tea last week (only second time for the one and first time for the other) and in the week the formerly control plant caught up to the other and its leaves puffed out fuller.
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jerry
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