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Breathe on your plants to make the aphids drop off!
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Author:  Dave Donley [ Jul 13th, '11, 04:28 ]
Post subject:  Breathe on your plants to make the aphids drop off!
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-07-fre ... ategy.html
Author:  Zman [ Jul 13th, '11, 09:15 ]
Post subject:  Re: Breathe on your plants to make the aphids drop off!
lol, maybe use a hand held steamer to remove them on mass? :D
Author:  Dave Donley [ Jul 13th, '11, 09:16 ]
Post subject:  Re: Breathe on your plants to make the aphids drop off!
Version 2.0 LOL
Author:  Zman [ Jul 13th, '11, 09:20 ]
Post subject:  Re: Breathe on your plants to make the aphids drop off!
I actually got 1 from catch of the day or whatever (never used it though). If i get aphids i will give that a go and see if it works or not lol.
Author:  earthbound [ Jul 13th, '11, 09:34 ]
Post subject:  Re: Breathe on your plants to make the aphids drop off!
I was sure that was going to be about bad breath..... :)
Author:  DougKlaffer [ Jul 13th, '11, 10:54 ]
Post subject:  Re: Breathe on your plants to make the aphids drop off!
That is interesting! Aphids are the only pest I've had to deal with in my litle setup, so far. I'm a bit concerned that if I go huffing and puffing on all my susceptible palnts, I could just collapse in a faint ...
Is there an suggestion about a method to use this as aphid control? A can of halitosis :support: with some moisture to raise humididty?
Author:  earthbound [ Jul 13th, '11, 11:18 ]
Post subject:  Re: Breathe on your plants to make the aphids drop off!
Interesting that they didn't seem to try our C02 as to whether it's a contributing factor to them dropping off.. CO2 would be a fair bit easier to reproduce than heat and humidity..
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