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12-09-2009, 07:37 PM #1
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cigarette tea as a pesticide
I usually don't meddle in the organic growing section, I happen to be a devout believer in "better living thru chemistry", but the idea of using cigarette tea around mj made me have to say something here.
Tobacco is blessed with a plant disease called "tobacco mosaic virus" that can be spread to other plants, such as cucummbers (same family solanacae as tobacco) tomatoes and a bunch of other plants including marijuanna. This is why you should never smoke tobacco products in your grow area.
Since this disease is viral, there is no known cure once it takes hold of your plants. If the plants are very young you could kill them, if infected later in life it can cause stunting of growth and flower production will suffer big time. So besides the nasty chemicals found in cigarettes there lurks the potential for TMV, this is not good.
oldmac Reviewed by oldmac on . cigarette tea as a pesticide ok so i was reading about tobacco and came across that many years ago people would make a organic pesticide with tobacco and water by boiling it and straining it because bugs will eat tobacco and do not like it... would this work for mj?? it may not sound that great but it beats commercial poisons Thanks, Ron Rating: 5
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