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Moira, I use chewing tobacco which lots of people chew. I don't but lots of old timers do. I wonder which is stronger chewing tobacco spray or pyrethrum spray? Could one chew pyrethrum if one wanted to?John McAfee
Joel, I always enjoy reading your posts keep them comming. I have a
question on home made organic sprays. I use red man
chewing tobacco soaked in water and spray it on my pumpkin plants, along
with compost tea and fresh manure tea. Is there
any type of tobacco that would give me a stronger spray? Maybe with
power to kill wasps?
John
Joel has not apparently had time yet to reply, but I would be very
cautious with using tobacco extract. The active part is nicotine which
is a dangerous poison, more so when more concentrated.
A commercial nicotine extract was once sold here in NZ, but was
withdrawn from the market many years ago on the ground it was too
dangerous for the public to handle.
Rather than trying to increase the strength of your nicotine extract I
suggest you try some other material less likely to be dangerous to your
health.
Though pyrethrum, for instance, should be used with care because it
kills a wide spectrum of insects, both the good and the bad, if used
carefully to target just the insect (such as wasps) you want to kill, it
will at least not endanger your own existence.
Moira
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Tony & Moira Ryan,
Wainuiomata, North Island, NZ. Pictures of our garden at:-
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/cherie1/Garden/TonyandMoira/index.htm
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John Macafee wrote
Joel, I always enjoy reading your posts keep them comming. I have a
question on home made organic sprays. I use red man
chewing tobacco soaked in water and spray it on my pumpkin plants, along
with compost tea and fresh manure tea. Is there
any type of tobacco that would give me a stronger spray? Maybe with
power to kill wasps?
John
Joel has not apparently had time yet to reply, but I would be very
cautious with using tobacco extract. The active part is nicotine which
is a dangerous poison, more so when more concentrated.
A commercial nicotine extract was once sold here in NZ, but was
withdrawn from the market many years ago on the ground it was too
dangerous for the public to handle.
Rather than trying to increase the strength of your nicotine extract I
suggest you try some other material less likely to be dangerous to your
health.
Though pyrethrum, for instance, should be used with care because it
kills a wide spectrum of insects, both the good and the bad, if used
carefully to target just the insect (such as wasps) you want to kill, it
will at least not endanger your own existence.
Moira
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Tony & Moira Ryan,
Wainuiomata, North Island, NZ. Pictures of our garden at:-
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/cherie1/Garden/TonyandMoira/index.htm
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Tony & Moira Ryan,
Wainuiomata, North Island, NZ. Pictures of our garden at:-
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/cherie1/Garden/TonyandMoira/index.htm
Moira, I use chewing tobacco which lots of people chew. I don't but
lots of old timers do. I wonder which is stronger
chewing tobacco spray or pyrethrum spray? Could one chew pyrethrum if
one wanted to?
John
I presume even if it is not very strong the thing in the tobacco extract
which kills your insects must be nicotine, which in all but the weakest
concetration is a deadly poison to humans and other mammals.
Pyrethrum, on the other hand depends for its insect killing power on
pyrethrins, which are not a mammalian poison at any concentration,
though they may cause allergies of the hay fever type in a very few
people. You could probably chew it safely enough, but I don't imagine it
would tast particularly pleasant!
I guess the tobacco extract you use normally is not concentrated enough
to be dangerous, but you were talking about trying to increase the
concentration and this is what led me to issue a warning.
Moira
