Growing on a tight budget

[Beil]

Yeah the carrier they use delivers pretty fast.
Their products are fine for the price but there's been some bad reviews on their aftersales support.
Example, if your driver shits itself they might send you a driver and expect you to replace the broken one and stuff like that.

But pretty sure everyone knows how to put a plug on a 3 core cable and connect DC output (red and black) together..

People can be quick to call the lights chinese shit but I've had zero issues with melting wires or broken drivers or diodes.

Yeah that'd be fine for me as long as they sent something. Most stuff is from China these days anyways regardless so it's not something I actively care about too much.
It's the same with 4x4 12v stuff... people go on about buying the most/more expensive stuff, my BIL actually said if I was going to get kings stuff to kit out my 4x4 I might as well not bother.... 2.5 years later, zero dramas and spent about 1/4 of what it would cost otherwise (bonus savings from installing everything myself).

 

[Goonie Goat]

Yates success, $40 per 200ml bottle and only makes 40L. A measly 5g/L of spinosad.



Spinout - 133g/L of spinosad, approx 1.88ml per litre to match the watered down dilution of Yates Success (5g/L).

So that ends up making ~266L of solution.



Product 1 - YATES SUCCESS (200ml, 5g/L)

• Cost per bottle: $47.47
• Spray yield per bottle: 40 Litre (at 5ml/L dose)
• Cost per Litre of mixed spray: $1.19

Product 2 (500ml, 133g/L)

• Cost per bottle: $200.00
• Spray yield per bottle: ~266 Litres (at 1.88ml/L dose)
• Cost per Litres of mixed spray: $0.75

While Product 2 requires a larger upfront investment, it yields over 6 times more active ingredient and is roughly 37% cheaper to use per mixed Litre of spray.

Spinosad, the active ingredient, is a microbial insecticide that is derived from a species of Actinomycetes bacteria; Saccharopolyspora spinosa, discovered in soil samples. It is a fermented product, much like the more familiar Bacillus thuringiensis materials we have become familiar with over the years, but lasts over twice as long as the best B.t. on the market. It will provide a full week of protection for most pests on the label. It will also move through the leaf cuticle to reach leafminer larvae.

Spinosad has a broad-spectrum of activity against many of the worst vegetable pests including; the Colorado potato beetle, diamondback moth, cabbage looper, imported cabbageworms, European corn borer, fall armyworm, corn earworm, hornworms, thrips, and leafminers. Perhaps the most amazing part, is that this product works on many different types of insects (caterpillars, flies, thrips and beetles) but spares most beneficials such as lady beetles, predacious fly larvae (hover flies and midges), most parasitic wasps, lacewings, spiders, predatory mites and bugs. Which means that you may need to spray less often if you use this type of selective material, because the natural enemies will be preserved and should help moderate pest populations later in the season. It is toxic to bees when wet, but is relatively safe for them once it dries, so it should be used when pollinators are not actively foraging.