Isn't that how Tomacco started?
Isn't that how Tomacco started?
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.
I had a bottle of nicotine nitrate solution, to be used in a spray emulsion. In the past, nicotine was a commercial pesticide.
Then why does the Federal government subsidize its production?
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.
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.
so how do I get the bed bugs to light up?
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%.
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.
This is news? I believe farmers/gardners have been using this for quite some time.
Scientists are working hard to miniaturize lighters and cigarettes, in hopes that they can get troublesome insects to become addicted and die off.
I remember grandma making tobacco water for just this purpose. Added to a flit sprayer, she used it on some crops in the garden.
Considering how the gov likes to fly over and spray pesticides on humanity, tobacco as a pesticide is a 100% sure way of killing the tomato crop.
It may also be a cheap way of getting a nicotine fix.
Breathe, breathe in the air, don’t be afraid to care....
and then the gov will wonder why more people may become addicted to smoking.
Jerry Baker has talked about this for years. As I recall he mixes with liquid soap to make it stick.
Dumb and Dumber Democrat #1: "Groovy, dude! So when the cockroach goes in, he dies. The roaches check in but they don't check out, man."Dumb and Dumber Democrat #2: "Dude! The heat doesn't kill them. It's the lung cancer."
Dumb and Dumber Democrat #1: "Oh, groovy, man! That's way betterer than DDT! No chemicals."
Together: "DOWn with DOW! DOWn with DOW!"... "Hey, man, don't bogart the joint."
I find it interesting that they are discussing tobacco pyrolysis products and using the term “green” which most people equate as safe.
It is the pyrolysis products of tobacco that constitute the carcinogens found in cigarette smoke.
Pest control agents for the garden have long been nicotine based. My MIL used nicotine on her garden 40 years ago as an old remedy for bugs. I smoked at the time and she used to badger me by telling me that what I was smoking is what she killed bugs with.
***For hundreds of years now, tobacco leaves have been used on a small scale, as a natural organic pesticide,***
BLACK LEAF-40. A great pesticide. Also great for killing lamed horses in six seconds! Deadly poison, and people smoke that stuff?