Does Azamax Affect Taste?

Many indoor gardeners are looking for organic pest control answers.  Some growers forget about certain natural resources they should be using to help avoid pests.  Natural pest guards are plants like garlic and fly eating plants.  The indoor gardener faces a mini pest that is hard to detect and multiplies rapidly.  The dreaded spider mite!  Spider mites are indoor grower’s worst nightmare.  General Hydroponics offers an OMRI listed pesticide that can kill spider mites.  The solution can be used up to the day of harvest and can be sprayed on fruits and veggies.

I have played with Azamax myself to find if the residue would leave a taste on my harvest.  The taste of Azamax will be left on your food depending on how you applied Azamax.  If you can avoid bugs the last week of harvest you should be able to effectively rinse it out of the plant.  Some growers use a final flush solution to clean their hydroponic plants.  Mixing Azamax in the nutrient reservoir is effective for preventative pest control, and quick solutions.  It is easy to put too much Azamax in your reservoir, but it is also easy to fix.  Just add more plain water to your reservoir to help offset the percentage of Azamax.

Foliar applications are the quickest way to kill bugs using Azamax.  I use 5ml Azamax per 2L of plain water for foliar applications.  Using Azamax as an organic bug spray is very effective against spider mites.  DO NOT WASTE YOUR SPRAYS!  If you spray too much Azamax on your plants you will be left with a funky tasting food.  The key is moderation and effective aiming.  Mist the whole plant very lightly from a foot away to give it a spider mite shield.  Directly spray the areas with the most spider mites.  Spray the undersides of the leaves to kill hatching babies.  Spider mites multiply very rapidly, but Azamax will slow down their reproduction.  Azamax can affect the taste of your crop if you use too much.  Follow the preventative pest control measures to move Azamax to your last resort.

Before harvest time spray your plants with plain water.  Start spraying them 2 or 3 days before harvest to rinse off the Azamax residue.  Don’t spray them under intense lighting because you will burn the leaves.  Try feeding your plant only plain water right before harvest to flush the remaining Azamax.  Finally dunk your crop in water as you cut it down to remove the rest of the dust, pests, and sprays.

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