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03-03-2008, 10:30 PM
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 The Best Stuff Ever!!! I took all my newly bought chids and looked at the medium... REPOT!!! So.... I grab one orchid, clean it, repot. Noooo biggy. Next one,,, piece of cake  . Then I grab The Burr. Dee Luce.  OMG.....Everything known to man and then some was in that thing....I'm talking snails with no shells, beetles, ants and yours truly, La Coo ka ra cha cockroach I bout passed out. Luckily I had made a batch of Brookn's dishsoap recipe in a big arse bowl and soaked them in it first. NO JOKE, It kills critters on contact. Even slugs and snails. I think it has to do with the extract. Don't know. All I know IT WORKS, I LIKE IT AND I'M STICKING TO IT.... Brookn, your mad science pays..... 
__________________ Jenny~  Last edited by articuno75; 03-03-2008 at 10:33 PM.      |
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03-03-2008, 11:59 PM
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| Brookn's Dish Soap Recipe 10 drops dishsoap 1.8 ml cinnamon extract (about 1/2 tsp.) 2 cups tepid water adjust ingredients as needed. This is great for cleaning leaves, bacteria and fungal infections, bug teterrant, and now bug and slug killer ! 
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03-04-2008, 12:49 AM
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| Oh wow, I think I would have had a cow. I have a pretty strong stomach for worms, etc., outdoors- But critters in a pot would freak me out! (except fungus gnats, maybe!) You soaked them before un-potting them and then found the dead critters? ewwww- I'm gonna use that recipe.....writing it down right now...  Thanks Jenny- and Brookn, too!
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03-04-2008, 11:32 AM
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| It was gross. But watching the critters surface and scramble for their very lives, only to go into a death rattle and fall back into the mix. It was creepy, but great. Pest free botanicals is all I care about.  I do have to make a note...It doesn't work on silverfish. (When I say everything was in that pot I meant it.) It slowed it down and stunned it, but didn't kill it. Man,,,, it was a fast littler booger too. 
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03-04-2008, 12:54 PM
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| Jenny that was soo funny!! Yes mad science pays, you saw my bellina and Penang Girl? They looked cruddy until I stared my recipe on them. I have a pulled muscle in my, well arse (and a pinched nerve, I fell on the ice), right now, so leaning forward to type hurts, but I had to respond. I HATE bugs, especially slugs, so I am glad that the recipe worked well for bug slaughter. I am still laughing, nobody here but the dogs and they are looking at me funny. I have to sit way back from the desk and lean to one side of the chair to be able to sit and read the posts, and now I am laughing like a mad woman, I must look very strange hee hee.
__________________ "If nature ever showed her playfulness in the formation of plants, this is visible in the most striking way among the orchids. They take on the form of little birds, of lizards, of insects, a man, a woman, sometimes like a clown who excites our laughter. They represent the image of a lazy tortoise, a melancholy toad, an agile, ever-chattering monkey. Nature has formed orchid flowers in such a way that, unless they make us laugh, they surely excite our greatest admiration." Jacob Breynius |
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03-04-2008, 01:16 PM
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| OMG. You should have seen me. It was something out of a Tom & Jerry cartoon with the Nanny woman jumping on a chair and everything! It was NASTY!  Hilarious, but seriously nasty. We're going through the ice now lights flickering and everything. I hope you get to feeling better soon! 
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03-04-2008, 02:39 PM
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| Oh Jenny that is the grossest thing I have even heard!! EEEWWWWWW!!! What kind of grower would send a plant out in that condition??? Pick some bugs off for heaven sake! I don't want to think about what their greehouse must look like. Eeeewww again.
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03-04-2008, 06:20 PM
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| I'm with you PhalPal....maybe it's ok for outside growing (my outdoor cymbids have roaches in them...gish...) but for the house!?!?!?. Here in Australia we have these giant roaches, about an inch long which I occasionally enounter in one of my outdiir orchids. They freak me out!
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03-04-2008, 06:22 PM
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| I so did not want to know that. I'm going to have nightmares now.
__________________ Jenny~ |
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03-04-2008, 08:14 PM
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| Boy, am I ever glad I read this thread  I would like to think my three cats would go after any creepy-crawly, but I always squirt-gun them if they so much as go near the orchids. So I guess I really can't rely on them!I've repotted a few and have had no problems, but I still have not touched the Burr.(which is sitting in my bedroom--ugh! cockroaches-double ugh!)  At least I know what to do and have Brookn's recipe. THANK YOU BROOKN & JENNY!!!
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03-04-2008, 09:24 PM
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| UGH maybe I'm not brave enough for orchids. I don't think I would have handled that as well as you Whew thank goodness for clear plastic containers!!!!
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03-04-2008, 09:33 PM
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| When it got that serious, I had my lovey dovey and son dive in to the rescue! Ain't nooooo way I was touching it, I'm chicken. What I would do is dip the plants pot and all, wait a few minutes, remove plants from dip, then they would depot it and remove the media. (Just in case there were any more) I would turn brave again and repot with fresh~good stuff.
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03-04-2008, 10:11 PM
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| ONLY an inch Kevin ???? I get 1 1/2" to 1 3/4" monsters in my GH regularly, that's what was eating my Rossioglossum and Coelogyne bulbs. I have several roach baits in there now and regularly spray roach surface spray to keep the buggers at bay. No idea how they get in.  The States only has little tackers, when I was living the the accommodation block at Johns Hopkins they were everywhere from the Asian students cooking in their rooms. We had to vacate the rooms once a month for fumigation. Ozzie roaches are REAL roaches.
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03-04-2008, 11:18 PM
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| Haha articuno75 I have the opposite relationship with my mom! When I go home from school, if there's a bug, I run for mommy! Even at 20!! I can't help it!!
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03-05-2008, 12:10 AM
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I think that's what terrorized me as a child. Try taking a shower and have this two inch black creepy crawly come out of the drain hole then fly at your face when your 9 yrs. old! I screamed and jumped out of the tub. LoL. Thing was I jumped staight into the shower curtain and pulled it down on top of me. Still gives me the E B G Bs......EEEwwww.
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03-05-2008, 01:26 AM
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| was the orchid kept outside where you bought it? if not, that's kind of scary that they would have so many pests inside. Sounds like you need some sort of buggy predator, like a frog, or a toad, or a praying mantis, or a duck (they like slugs), or....  ...ok, that might be a bit excessive |
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03-05-2008, 03:21 AM
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| Ahhh one of the joys of living in the UK Biggest bug we get are dragonflies, and there just great to watch I do hate slugs and snails though, but a spade or bamboo cane, and a torch, and I can be out there all night in the summer protecting the garden  |
