Green Poison XL Outside

@Weird_Jimmy,Sounds very nice!!! And you seem to be ready more than ever to keep your plants happy healthy and strong. I also use herbs around my outdoor grows to help deter pests. Keep up the amazing progress. Cheers!

@HAPPY91, I have a multi-faceted approach to dealing with the incredibly amazingly vast and diverse cavalcade of insects that visit my patio garden every year. I avoid ANY chemicals around the plants, but I do occasionally spray a perimeter of barrier insecticide around the area. But that actually has minimal effect. I grow a variety of herbs primarily in my garden. multiple basil varieties, and some other herbs. Most of these herbs are pest deterrents by themselves. Only a few different species of insects ever bother most of my herbs. So this plant will be placed in the middle of my herbs. I also use Neem oil, but NEVER will spray it on any plant that is for consumption ever. Its organic yes, yet toxic and understudied. Neem is a wonderful perimeter/barrier treatment. It evaporates quickly though and requires frequent area sprays. I keep it in a 1 gallon pressurized sprayer and spray the concrete area around the plants, the rack the plants sit on, and even the sides of the pots themselves. When I have aphids I knock the evil little critters off with a small pressurized spray of de-chlorinated water. Then I use H2O2 with Dawn soap mixture on the undersides of leaves and saturate the soil. If they are a particularly evil group of demon aphids I use Dr Jacks Bug Juice. Unfortunately anything chemical, even spinosad, that I've sprayed on vegetable blossoms, kills that blossom. For leafing plants, even organic sprays, halt the growth node growth for a few days, so I will avoid spraying anything on the Green poison except the de-chlorinated water or a weak soap/H2O2 solution followed by a rinse. I will even attack the aphids with tweezers. Ive grown on the patio for years and I'm ready to do battle with mother nature.

@Weird_Jimmy, Get those yellow sticky traps all around and also look for local birds that eat those pests and buy a bird feeder with there favorite foods. I notice birds really help a lot and the sticky traps work great for all the smaller little buggers!

@Organic_LarF, the temperature isn't the issue, if it was, the only place that might be stable is another state. its been raining or totally cloudy all but 4 days total since it was planted 19 days ago. glad it isnt suffering from over saturation. The pot its in has really good drainage. Thanks for taking the time to actually read my diary.

@Crawlndog, Thanks buddy!