Quote Originally Posted by dookieface
What are the different types of organic pest control? ?
First, there's environment control. Create conditions your pests hate. Like lowering the temps to piss off the spider mites.
Next, there's Integrated Pest MAnagement. IPM is just adding a natural predator to your little ecosystem, like ladybugs, mantids, nematodes, parasitic wasps, bacteria, or a bug-attacking fungus such as milky spore.
Next, there are plant-derived chemical compounds that repel, kill, or disrupt the life cycles of pests. Pyrethrum and neem fall into this category.
Then there are things like diatomaceous earth, which abrades the bodies of flying and crawling pests until they dehydrate and die.
Trapping pests is a way to organically control them. Yellow or bright blue sticky traps are IMO necessary to any indoor gardening operation even if it's just for monitoring the buggies.
Last, there's no end to the home-remedies. I've heard of garlic, chili oil, citrus, sesame, coffee, tobacco 'tea', you name it, it's been tried.

My picks are:
1) Sticky traps
2) preventative neem spray until the 4th week of flower
3) diatomaceous earth on the surface of the soil


Use all 3 together and you've got a great preventative routine.