No, it’s an actual thing. My parents also soak tobacco in water and then use it in their garden. But I don’t know if it actually does anything or not because I’m also too lazy to look it up
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jaschen306@sh.itjust.works 4 days agoI’m not sure if you’re trolling or not but I’m too lazy to search if you are.
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M0oP0o@mander.xyz 3 days ago
I am sure they think that it is the tobacco that is a insecticide and not the nicotine that was added to said tobacco…
jmill@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
They don’t add nicotine to tobacco, tobacco plants produce nicotine. That’s why people have smoked it for 100s of years.
I hadn’t heard of this, but as far as insecticides go, this sounds about as benign as possible.
M0oP0o@mander.xyz 3 days ago
Interesting, makes me very confused on why we added nicotine to tobacco on top of what is in it already (my uncle worked on a tobacco farm as a young man and did spray the stuff). I guess they really wanted that nicotine…