vastok
Well-Known Member
Is exactly what is is, find a piece of yellow cardboard cut it to the size of a playing card.
Next smear cooking oil on both sides, not a lot, just dampen it.
Bend out a paper clip, and insert to the card, and hang it at eye level in ya grow room.
Leave for a day or two.
With luck, next day you will see tiny specks (white fly) perhaps many others too.stuck to the card, trapped in the cooking oil.
Now you've just saved ya plants from these tiny vampires, sucking away at those precious juices the plant needs to grow,
change the card every 2-3 days keep hanging these up, just to monitor the effectiveness of this trick,or like me you forget month after month, but they still keep trapping the vampires.
White fly aphids, gnats, etc etc, all & some, lay their eggs in the soil and in and around plants, they love wet soil and damp plants, once hatched they make a beeline direct to the veins of your plants, and suck and suck.....
but hey have one weakness,.....the color yellow.
I learnt this trick from an elderly women, way back in 1975....God Bless Her
peace
"V"
ps even if you think you are safe, hang one up anyways..just in case
Next smear cooking oil on both sides, not a lot, just dampen it.
Bend out a paper clip, and insert to the card, and hang it at eye level in ya grow room.
Leave for a day or two.
With luck, next day you will see tiny specks (white fly) perhaps many others too.stuck to the card, trapped in the cooking oil.
Now you've just saved ya plants from these tiny vampires, sucking away at those precious juices the plant needs to grow,
change the card every 2-3 days keep hanging these up, just to monitor the effectiveness of this trick,or like me you forget month after month, but they still keep trapping the vampires.
White fly aphids, gnats, etc etc, all & some, lay their eggs in the soil and in and around plants, they love wet soil and damp plants, once hatched they make a beeline direct to the veins of your plants, and suck and suck.....
but hey have one weakness,.....the color yellow.
I learnt this trick from an elderly women, way back in 1975....God Bless Her
peace
"V"
ps even if you think you are safe, hang one up anyways..just in case