Passionfruit hoppers are more like a swarm of insects and even if they do like molasses and beer there will be a swarm of hoppers on the molasses and beer and a swarm of hoppers on my cannabis plants.
I'm growing outdoors and my watering schedule is whenever it rains.
Cannabis is a weed and, as such, benefits from a wet/dry cycle. During the dry part of the cycle it forms more roots in its search for water. When it gets to the flowering stage, the more roots, the more water and nutrients you can give it which leads to a bigger harvest.
The insects @Phillybonker is talking about are a member of the leafhopper family. This specie were found no where else but Australia. Recently, in the late 1800s they began to be found in New Zealand. Now they are infesting gardens and farms there.
He has a 'guerilla' style grow going on in an area near his house. He goes once a week or so to check the plants, do any fertilizing, trimming, and hauling water from a nearby stream, etc. He has to take what he finds, as far as how wet the soil is, when he gets to the plants.
Ok. I was just answering the 'why' question. Sounds like he has less control than those of us with home gardens.
Neem oil tastes like ass bro just saying from experience. Used once tossed once. I even tried making my own neem tea from Neem cake which works great but still left a nasty taste even after bud washing.
We've got a few pests from Australia here, their wallabies broke two of my plants last season, their possums killed one of my plants this season and their hoppers are a nightmare.
Yeah I'm going to try neem seed meal and karanja seed meal next season. Apparently the karanja enhances the neem or makes it more effective somehow, so I read.
That is one of the problems with guerilla style grows which reduce the chances of a connection between the plant and a grower.
Do you make your rosemary oil soap or purchase it? I have been spraying neem oil for three weeks trying to eradicate these pesky spider mites unsuccessfully. I’m in week four of flowering.
Before I even had mites on my plants I read just about everything I could find on what to do about them on Marijuana plants.
Because if the soil is super wet it will dilute the neem oil and you will not gar as good of an effect. Will it work wet? Probably.
Not so good to be smoking anything that might have had pyrethrum in it, apparently. See Pyrethrins: A challenging cannabis contaminant
I'd rather use food grade orange oil, also a potent insecticide. Pure orange oil is limonene, a beneficial cannabis terpene. Orange oil is easy to obtain and inexpensive. Best to order in a glass bottle, since it degrades plastics. Also a great solvent for cleaning fingers and scissors.
I've been through the fungus gnat problem several times now, impossible to avoid in our locale. Have tried most things, but everything can interact with everything else (apart from the fungus gnats) .... in the case of H202 specifically, it will also kill everything else & including the benefical orgnisims in the soil; and also the beficical nematodes which eat the fungus gnat lavae.
