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Tobacco and Nicotine – Good as Pesticides
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Posted on 09/06/2012 8:41:37 AM PDT by Red Badger
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Soaking a bunch of cigarette butts in water overnight, then straining the liquid, adding 2 teaspoons of dish detergent to a gallon of water makes an effective insecticide..........
To: Red Badger
Isn't that how Tomacco started?
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posted on
09/06/2012 8:43:34 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(I'm voting for Ryan and that other guy.)
To: Red Badger
And you don’t have to buy them. Just go to any parking lot and pick up all you want. Usually in small piles where people dump their ashtrays out.
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posted on
09/06/2012 8:47:47 AM PDT
by
SkyDancer
("OF COURSE I TALK TO MYSELF - Sometimes I need an expert opinion")
To: Red Badger
I had a bottle of nicotine nitrate solution, to be used in a spray emulsion. In the past, nicotine was a commercial pesticide.
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posted on
09/06/2012 8:48:05 AM PDT
by
DBrow
To: Red Badger
Nicotine is bad for you . . . Then why does the Federal government subsidize its production?
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posted on
09/06/2012 8:48:05 AM PDT
by
Arm_Bears
(Re-distribute my work ethic, not my wealth.)
To: dfwgator
First it starts with ‘just a cherry tomato’, then you get the need for something more. Then you begin on the salad size, say it’s just a little salad tomato, then before you know it you’re wolfing down Beefsteaks two at a time............
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posted on
09/06/2012 8:49:17 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Anyone who thinks wisdom comes with age is either too young or too stupid to know the difference....)
To: Red Badger
Powder..patch..ball FIRE!
Be careful - Soaking tobacco and spraying the juice will do the same thing but can contain fungus that is contagious to tomato and potato plants - once in the soil it stays there.
To: Red Badger
Pure nicotine is quite toxic. You can extract enough from three or four strong cigars to kill someone in less than a minute. I’ve read that if you squirted a full eyedropper of pure nicotine on the skin of a rabbit it will curl up and die.
To: BallandPowder
I don’t recommend canned tobacco......
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posted on
09/06/2012 8:52:03 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Anyone who thinks wisdom comes with age is either too young or too stupid to know the difference....)
To: Red Badger
so how do I get the bed bugs to light up?
To: Red Badger
The best way to get nicotine is from wild tobacco, Nicotiana rustica. Common tobacco is about 1-3% nicotine, but wild tobacco comes in at a hearty 9%.
To: Red Badger
Deadly stuff that canned tobacco. Paw Paine used Prince Albert’s cans of tobacco in his pipe and rolled cigs, and he only lived into his early nineties. Probably had a can in his bib overlls when they found him.
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posted on
09/06/2012 8:58:40 AM PDT
by
MHGinTN
(Being deceived can be cured.)
To: Red Badger
Nicotine
is a natural insecticide.
Tobacco evolved it to keep insects from eating the plant. The mood-altering (and addictive) effects that humans get from smoking it is just a coincidence.
Of course, tobacco companies have since controlled nicotine content through selective breeding. But, man didn't invent the nicotine insecticide: nature/evolution did.
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posted on
09/06/2012 8:58:59 AM PDT
by
justlurking
(The only remedy for a bad guy with a gun is a good WOMAN (Sgt. Kimberly Munley) with a gun)
To: DBrow
In the past, nicotine was a commercial pesticide. I used a commercial nicotine-based pesticide in my home garden 25 years ago so this is nothing new. As I recall it wasn't very effective.
To: circlecity
I’ve heard that too. However, I put about a pound of cigarette butts in a gallon plastic jug, filled it with water and steeped it for about two years. Strained it out this summer for a pesticide and splashed a bunch of it on myself. Didn’t do a thing. It did make a colony of ants pick up and move though.
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posted on
09/06/2012 9:01:53 AM PDT
by
TigersEye
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To: justlurking
I can really go for a cigar or pipe right now
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posted on
09/06/2012 9:05:47 AM PDT
by
NativeSon
( Grease the floor with Crisco when I dance the Disco)
To: Red Badger
Nicotine is bad for you and apparently it has the same poisonous effect on pests, getting scientists' attention for a potential alternative to traditional commercial pesticides.This is news? I believe farmers/gardners have been using this for quite some time.
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posted on
09/06/2012 9:06:52 AM PDT
by
MEGoody
(You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
To: Red Badger
Scientists are working hard to miniaturize lighters and cigarettes, in hopes that they can get troublesome insects to become addicted and die off.
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posted on
09/06/2012 9:07:29 AM PDT
by
lurk
To: circlecity
Pure nicotine is quite toxic. You can extract enough from three or four strong cigars to kill someone in less than a minute. Ive read that if you squirted a full eyedropper of pure nicotine on the skin of a rabbit it will curl up and die.
This is one of those "gee how scary is that" statements that is extremely misleading. Plants are full of natural insecticides that are quite toxic to humans when concentrated. Even vitamins, when concentrated, can become toxic at low levels, as can many other chemicals found in vegetables. Look at the number of "toxins" in a potato.
Nicotine poisoning and overdose is quite rare, and there is no indication that ingestion at less than toxic levels has any negative health implications, and there is considerable evidence of positive benefits from less than toxic levels of ingestion.
To: justlurking
Tobacco evolved it to keep insects from eating the plant.Which begs the question why other plants did not also evolve this safe guard.
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posted on
09/06/2012 9:09:17 AM PDT
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MEGoody
(You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
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