What are these things, and why are they on my tomato plant?(infosec.pub)

Take a minute and think. You wash dishes with it and send down the water pipes either direct into the ground or returned to the city to process and reuse. Dawn is used to clean oil off birds when it spills.

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𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘@infosec.pubOP

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1 year ago

Right. I thought about that. But I’ve also been hammered as a kid to never consume any soap ever, because it’s really bad for you, along with “my best friend ended up in the hospital because of a couple drops of soap” and other dramatic stories by the adults of yore. To be fair, the engine degreasers we called soaps back then were probably vastly different than Dawn. Also, it being safe for us, doesn’t necessarily mean it’s safe for plants, but I see your point.

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antizero99@lemmynsfw.com

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1 year ago

A couple of things.

Anything in large enough quantity can be harmful.

I’m not sure how old you are but dawn has been around since the 70s. As a product dish soap as a whole has been around since the early 1900s. I highly doubt that your mother was using engine degreaser in the kitchen in the 60s, 70s, 80s, etc.

To reiterate in case it wasn’t clear. A couple of drops of dawn or a store brand liquid soap in a large spray bottle of water will not hurt you or the plants. It will suffocate and kill the flies which is what you want. It’s also a really easy way to kill flying things that you can’t catch when they get in your house.

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1 year ago

Cool, thanks! It’s more of the country I was in when I was a kid, we didn’t have Dawn.

I use Dawn in a spray bottle to kill wasps that get into the house, so this all makes perfect sense, I just never critically thought about it before. You’ve been a great help, thank you!

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