Benny,
The Systemic Acquired Resistance takes some time to build depending on the crop. Aphids, Scales and other insects will come from other sources and they don't immediately die when they start to establish. But your spraying as scheduled in the instruction will keep their population from exploding so that your yard would remain relatively clean of these insect pests.
I know your citruses will soon be in full swing, so don't overdo the spraying especially when your citrus flower buds starts to open en masse:
For conventional citruses:
When more than half of your citrus buds have opened, stop spraying until the petals are starting to fall, or after 15 days of peak bloom, whichever comes first. Never mind any insect pests coming, they will all soon fall dead. After the petal fall, you can resume the spray schedule. This time, when you mix your AZ41 spray solution, you can buy the Miracle Gro (24-8-16 ) soluble fertilizer with minors and mix 1 tsp of Miracle Gro and 1/4 tsp of epsom salt per gallon of spray mix. Never exceed 1 tsp per gallon of Miracle Gro! That will give your citruses very nice shiny dark green leaves that are very clean and lovely. It will then translate into bigger, luscious looking, blemish-free fruits that are sweeter and you can be proud to take pictures of.
If you are into pure organic growing, you can replace the Miracle Gro with some of the foliar organic fertilizer along with AZ41 mixture and there is a wide range of formulations, so just follow their instructions, but instead of water volume for the mixing, you use AZ41 mixture that you normally prepare.
I know your plants have been better looking, but you will even have better looking plants and much better looking fruits this time around!
Regards,
Joe
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Originally Posted by bencelest
I discovered something new of AZ41. I discovered that AZ41 is not Systemic. An hour ago when I was admiring the countless beautiful buds of my Washington navel and the budding flowers, I saw one single twig that were full of aphids such that you can't see the leaves but overlapping one on top of each other a school of aphids- only that one particular twig. Needless to say I got me the AZ41 and sprayed the heck out of them. A bunch of them landed on my hands dead as a squirrel. Nothing moving.
Also whatever is left of the AZ41 I sprayed it on my bananas and other plants inside my glass roof top greenhouse and I noticed a few white flies flying. I was not sure where they come from but I think that they came from another yard or from the bark of my persimmon tree because there, when I sprayed them I saw some more of white flies.
Another thing that interest me though was that when I was spraying the bark of my persimmons, I saw this housefly that were crawling slowly and seemed to be disoriented and was too weak to fly . But it's been 2 minutes and still slowly crawling away from me. She was kinda high about 7 feet high so I divert my eyes for a second and I could not find her anymore. I just wonder if AZ41 can affect house flies.
The good part is I saw 2 ladybugs in my plum tree and one in my Washington navel.
I'll see if the white flies come back in 3 days or so.
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