Marijuana Horticulture: The Indoor/Outdoor Medical Grower's Bible

directions on package.

Sulfur Fungicide
    Application: Apply in light concentration. It is phytotoxic during hot, 90°F, arid weather.
    Persistence: It stays on foliage until washed off.
    Forms: Powder.
    Toxicity: Not toxic to honeybees, birds, and fish.
    Safety: Wear a mask, gloves, and safety goggles; cover exposed skin and hair. Avoid skin, eye, ear, and nose contact. Irritates eyes, lungs, and skin.
Traps
    Ingredients: Sticky traps, such as Tanglefoot™ resins, can be smeared on attractive yellow or red cards to simulate ripe fruit. When the pests land on the fruit, they are stuck forever!
    Controls: Helps contain spider mites and non-flying insects within the bounds of the barriers. Monitors fungus gnat populations and helps control thrips. Other insects get stuck haphazardly to the sticky stuff.
    Black-light traps catch egg-laying moths and other flying insects most of which are not plant pests. Light and fan traps attract many insects including beneficials, and their use may do more harm than good.
    Sex-lure traps exude specific insect pheromones, sexual scents, of females that are ready to mate. These traps are most effective to monitor insect populations for large farms.
    Caution: Do not touch sticky substance. It is difficult to remove!

Tanglefoot
    Mixing: Follow directions on container. Smear on desired objects.
    Application: Smear Tanglefoot™ around the edges of pots, base of stems, and at the end of drying lines to form an impenetrable barrier-trap against mites and insects. This simple precaution helps keep mites isolated. However, resourceful spider mites can spin a web above the barrier. The marauding mites also ride the air currents created by fans from plant to plant!
    Persistence: It is persistent until it is wiped off or completely fouled with insect bodies.
    Forms: Sticky, thick paint.
    Toxicity: Not toxic to mammals or insects. Trapped insects and mites starve to death.
    Safety: Wear gloves.
Water
    Ingredients: A cold jet of water-preferably with a pH between 6 and 7-blasts insects, spider mites, and their eggs off leaves and often kills them. Hot water vapor and steam also work as a sterilant.
    Controls: A cold jet of water is an excellent first wave of attack against spider mites, aphids, and other sucking insects. Steam controls spider mites, insects, and diseases on pots, growing medium, and other grow-room surfaces.
    Caution: Avoid spraying fully formed buds with water. Standing water in or on buds promotes gray mold. Do not apply hot steam to foliage.
    Mixing: None.
    Application: Spray leaf undersides with a jet of cold water to knock off sucking spider mites and aphids. Apply water as a mist or spray when predatory mites are present. The extra humid conditions impair the pest mite lifecycles and promote predatory mite health. Rent a wallpaper steamer. Get it cooking, and direct a jet of steam at all grow-room cracks and surfaces.
    Persistence: None.
    Forms: Liquid, steam vapor.
    Toxicity: Not toxic to mammals, fish, and beneficials.
    Safety: Do not spray strong jet of water in eyes, up nose, or into other body orifices.
Biological Controls Predators and Parasites
    Predator and parasite availability and supply have changed substantially over the last 10 years. Today, many more predators and parasites are available to home growers than ever before. Shipping, care, cost, and application of each predator or parasite is very specific and should be provided in detail by the supplier. Make sure the supplier answers the following questions:
Latin name of the predator so there is no confusion as to identity.
Specific pests attacked.
Life cycle.
Preferred climate including temperature and humidity range.
Application rate and mode of application.
    For more information about predators check out the following web pages:
    www.naturescontrol.com
    www.koppert.nl/english
    www.entomology.wisc.edu/mbcn/mbcn.html
    By definition, a predator must eat more than one victim before adulthood. Predators, such as ladybugs (ladybird beetles) and praying mantises, have chewing mouthparts. Other predators, such as lacewing larvae, have piercing-sucking mouth-parts. Chewing predators eat their prey whole. The piercing, sucking-type, suck the fluids from their prey’s body.
    Parasites consume a single individual host before adulthood. Adult parasitoids typically place a single egg into many hosts. The egg hatches into larvae that eat the host insect from the inside out. They save the vital organs for dessert! Most