If you smoke cigarettes, especially those of you who chain-smoke, the nicotine gets on your fingers and is very hard to wash off. When you handle your seeds and plants, wear disposable non-latex, non-powdered gloves, or else you will kill your plants.

wow that's a fairly hefty statement there boy, have you any proof???

It's one thing to speculate what practices cause detrimental plant growth, but to say something on this scale is really just absurd.

When i was in college studying horticulture we were informed that when propagating plants smokers should use gloves or thoroughly wash and disinfect hands after smoking (before propagating) A few of the guys who smoked heavily and did not follow this procedure noticed a 10-15% lower strike rate in semi hardwood and soft tissue cuttings than the rest of the class, however cutting sucess rate was around the 85% mark and once they took that was it.

I think a more accurate statement would be that smokers should use proper santitary measures with their hands when cloning or dealing with clones, however mature plants are unaffected and do not require the same treatment.

We breed facts not old wives tales here at CC, please bring facts to the discussion. thanks matey.

I didn't mean it as fact... I was simply starting a discussion about something I read. You are right Simo man, I should have restated. I read on another website (and yes, it was to my surprise as well) that the nicotine on your fingers is (and I quote) "straight poison for cannabis plants." I am a new member so I have to learn how to go about making or not making "hefty" statements. I will send you the link if I can find it again.

and by the way Panama Red, cigarettes have lots of other nicotine enhancing substances that tobacco back thousands of years ago didn't have.

Its not "nicotine" on a smokers fingers.... it's tar with nicotine traces (along with thousands of other chemical trace elements).

Thanks you just confirmed what I said.

sounds like you were making a statement to me and judging by the fact would start several seeds in a 5 gallon pot, we should take everything you say with the smallest grain of salt possible IMO. Read and inform yourself cuz you found the right place for all the info you'll need.

That's complete BS. I have first had experience that says it is. Some say tobacco mosaic hits cannabis. I have never seen it. I have had tobacco mosaic destroy pepper and tomato plants but never cannabis.

I heard that a tobacco soak used as a foliar spray works very well for mite removal. Never used it cause I've never had a mite infestation.

I read the way it works is by slowing down the cns activity of the mites causing them to not feed as often, inevitably leading them to starvation. In the article I read it from stated to use it 3 times a week for three weeks to guarantee you also get the 2nd and 3rd generations.