Re: Re: [CH] DO NOT use the soap and listerine bug spray!!

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>Jerry Baker's formula is 1 cup liquid dish soap, 1 cup antiseptic mouthwash
>and 1 cup chewing tobacco juice that has been steeped like tea.  Put all of
>these ingredients in a 20 gallon hose end sprayer and top off the sprayer
>with warm water.

Two very important things.

1. It is extremely important to heat the tabacco juice to a temperature
that kills the tobamovirus!

2. Anytime you apply a spray that has soap as a component, DO NOT spray
when direct sunlight is hitting the plants!  Spray in the evening or, do as
I do, berserk that I am, get up at least an hour and a half before sunrise
and spray.  If you spray in direct sunlight your plants' leaves will
crinkle and shrivel, turn yellow, fall off and possibly perish.

In Chiles,

Doug



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