Pure Organic Neem Oil and Flora
When searching for a safe and effective product to control insects and disease in your lawn and garden, look no further than neem oil. It’s a powerful organic solution to your most difficult-to-manage infestations.
Neem oil has a dual purpose in the vegetable garden as both a pesticide and a fungicide. It works on arthropod pests that often eat your vegetables, including tomato hornworms, corn earworm, aphids and whiteflies. In addition, neem oil also controls common fungi that grow on vegetable plants.
Neem oil insecticide is often a great solution if you are having problems with insects, mites, or fungi bothering your plants. What organic gardeners love about it is that it is safe to use: It will not harm you, your kids, your pets, or your livestock. It is safe even for most wildlife, its insecticidal properties being targeted to specific pests that damage garden plants.
The great thing about neem oil is that it mainly affects plant-feeding insects that suck or chew on leaves, so beneficial insects including bees, butterflies and other pollinators that feed on nectar aren’t much affected. Other beneficials, such as ladybugs, earthworms and spiders aren’t affected either unless they’re sprayed directly with a fairly heavy dose.
As for human safety, pure neem oil is not only natural, but is actually used in many applications for our health – neem oil for skin, neem oil for hair, neem oil for dogs, and so on.
The residue from spraying your vegetables is non-toxic, but you don’t want to ingest it because neem oil can be irritating to eyes, skin and stomach, and negatively impact fertility, so as with most things we spray in our garden, don’t drink it or go splashing it all over your face.
Neem breaks down quickly without a lasting residue and has a low environmental impact. You can spray neem pretty much up to the day of harvest.
The only thing to be careful of is not to spray too close to waterways because neem oil has been shown to be toxic to fish and aquatic invertebrates.
Pure neem oil can kill soft-bodied insects and mites on contact, which is one reason why you want to spray it in the early morning or evening when the pollinators aren’t out as much, to avoid spraying them.
But that’s not the main method of action of how it controls pests.
First, neem oil repels insects and other animals directly when they encounter it on the leaves.
And when you spray it on the soil, plants can take it up systemically, which will deter insects from feeding even more.
But for those insects who do still feed, the oil contains many different components that are not going to bode well for them, the most active and well-researched being a metabolite called azadirachtin.
When a plant-feeding insect feeds on a leaf that has been sprayed with pure neem oil, the azadirachtin interferes with the insect’s hormonal system, which inhibits their eating, mating and egg-laying patterns. It also inhibits growth, which prevents larvae from molting and eggs from hatching. Because azadirachtin acts on the hormonal system, insects don’t develop resistance in future generations, thereby making it a sustainable solution.
Neem oil fungicide uses. Organic compounds in the oil spark an immune response to prevent fungal diseases such as mildew, black spot, rust, rot, scab, leaf spot and blights.
Did you know that NEEM OIL can be used as a Soil Drench?
How Does Neem Oil Soil Drench Work?
A Neem soil drench works as a systemic insecticide even on fruit trees.
This means the plant absorbs the effective ingredient in the drench (e.g.Azadirachtin), which is distributed throughout the vascular system of the plant.
When this happens, any part of the plant ingested by a pest contains the pesticide ingredient.
As a bonus, Azadirachtin also helps protect plants against fungal infections when used in this manner.
This means using Neem oil root drench can help defend your plants from soil-dwelling larvae and problems such as root rot.
Interestingly, Azadirachtin is very effective against soil-dwelling pests and pathogenic organisms, but it does not harm friendly fauna such as earthworms.
Applying Neem oil in soil for your tomato plants is an excellent idea because they are especially likely to have nematode problems.
PLEASE NOTE: Neem Oil Insecticide As A Soil Drench For Cannabis Is NOT The Best Choice.
Calro NEEM Oil Plants spray READY TO USE can be used as a Soil Drench or you can use the NEEM OIL Concentrate to mix your own Soil DRENCH.
Learn examples of some pests that neem is effective against.
The effiency of Neem Oil was experimented on the following:
Laboratory
- Tetranychidae (Spider mite)
- The greenfly of the peach tree (Myzus Mercicae)
- Trialeurodes Vaporariorum (aleurodes des serres), often called the white fly
- The thrips (Thysanoptera) of the little fruits
- Strawberries against the strawberry tree’s powdery mildew
Greenhouse
- The thrips (Thysanoptera) of the little fruits
- Potato leaf roll virus (PLRV) and potato virus Y
- The mites, greenflies, Trialeurodes Vaporarium and the black flies
Fields
- French beans against the bean flies and the locust
- Watermelons against the fruit flies
- Tomatoes against tomato fruit worms, whiteflies, thrips, cutworms (voracious leaf)
- Strawberries against the tarnished plant bug (la punaise terne)
- Broccolis, rutabagas (Swedes), radishes and cabbages against the cabbage flies (Delia Radicum)
- Onions against the onion flies (Delia Antiqua)
- The rosemary against the mites, white flies, thrips and the Eupterix Decemnota
- The apple tree against the Disaphis Plantaginea and cutworms
Organic Neem Oil Plant Spray 1L/ 5L / 25L
- Active Ingredients –Pure Organic Neem Oil and Lemongrass Oil
- Organic
- Natural
- Bio-Degradable
- Environmentally Friendly
- Non-Toxic or harmful ingredients
- Safe for use.
- Suitable for use on all commercially produced crops and plants such as but not limited to vegetables, fruit trees, house plants, landscape nurseries, hydroponics and more.
How to use:
- Can be sprayed directly on fruit as it is not harmful for humans, animals and birds
- Can be used as often as required
- Convenient, ready to use product, just spray
- Spray the leaf on top and under leaf and also on buds of fruit and flowers, make sure you cover sufficiently. Also spray around the base of the plant to stop ants from climbing on the plant.
- Product is ready to use, just shake well and spray.
VERY IMPORTANT TEST do this before you use the product >: If you want to ensure the product solution is not to strong for the specific plant, first spray a leaf to test. If the leaf turns yellow or dry after a day then you know this formulation is to strong. You can add a bit of water to dilute the strength and then test again to get the best workable solution for your specific plant.
Take note that for seedlings, young plants and herbs you need to weaken the strength of the product by adding same amount of water to mixture(50/50) to ensure that the plant do not get burned by the spray.
The Ready to use solution is effective and safe on a multiple plants in the present strength but can be made weaker as required.
VERY IMPORTANT: Spray plants before 12o’clock in morning and after 3 o’clock in afternoon to ensure that the oil contents do not burn the plant due to heat.
Calro NEEM Oil Concentrate 100ml/1L/5kg/25kg
- Cold Pressed Oil
- Organic
- Natural
- Bio-Degradable
- Environmentally Friendly
- Non-Toxic or harmful ingredients
- Safe for use.
- Suitable for use on all commercially produced crops and plants such as but not limited to vegetables, fruit trees, house plants, landscape nurseries, hydroponics and more.
- Targets pests: Many kind of insects including white flies, moth larvae, as well as mites, aphids and related organisms. This active ingredient is also active against fungal diseases.
How to use effectively:
Shake well before you decan. Add 15ml(1.5%) of NEEM OIL concentrate and 15ml(1.5%) to soap soluble to 1L warm water, stir slow. For larger batches to mix work on 1 – 1.5% of Neem oil and 1-1.5% of Soapy soluble on you total mixture for example if you want to start with normal mixture for example 100L water you will mix 1.5L(1.5%) Neem Oil to 1.5L(1.5%) soapy soluble with warm warm water, stir slow the mixture and then pour in to rest of the 100L water and mix slow. This is a strong mixture for the harder to kill insects but if you want to work more economical you can go lower on the Neem oil for example 1% which is 1L on 100L water and then test to ensure it is strong enough to kill insects. If you find the mixture to weak you can increase the % Neem oil untill you get the most effective and cost effective mixture that works.
VERY IMPORTANT: Spray plants before 12o’clock in morning and after 3 o’clock in afternoon to ensure that the oil contents do not burn the plant in the heat of the day.
Use the mixture within 8 hours, discard if not used within the 8 hours period. We suggest you just mix what you will need for the single spray for the day to ensure you do not waste product.
VERY IMPORTANT TEST do this before you use the product >: If you want to ensure the product solution is not to strong for the specific plant, first spray a leaf to test. If the leaf turns yellow or dry after a day then you know this formulation is to strong. You can add a bit of water to dilute the strength and then test again to get the best workable solution for your specific plant.
Take note that for seedlings, young plants and herbs you need to weaken the strength of the product by adding same amount of water to the ready made mixture(50/50) to ensure that the plant do not get burned by the spray. You however can do a initial 0.75% Neem Oil mixture for seedlings and herbs to ensure it is not to strong that it will burn the plants/seedlings.
Spray to top and bottom of the leaf thoroughly and also blossoms to ensure that plant is fully covered with the Neem Oil mixture. Spray also around bottom of stem to stop the ants from getting up the plant.
The Neem oil mixture will be effective on some insects on plant immediately but other insects will take 3 – 7 days for death to occur, however damage is almost reduced immediately due to the anti-feedent effect of the product.
Fungus on plants can also be managed by spraying the plant and all new leaves thoroughly. The new leaves will be clear and clean from fungus if the spray is done on a regular basis. During this period you can spray weekly until the new leaves appear free of the fungus. Thereafter every 14 days as a preventative spray program.
Under high insect infestation , apply every 7 days, under periods of low infestation, apply every 14 days in a preventative spray program. Can be applied until the day of harvest.
A Note of Caution
Each plant species can react differently to various pesticide formulas. If using Neem Oil as a foliar spray, test a single leaf before applying the spray to the whole plant to mitigate the risk of losing the plant if it responds poorly to the treatment. If using Neem as a soil drench, reduce the formula strength for the first treatment or only drench a single plant (if you have multiples of the same species) and see how the plant responds before increasing the concentration.
More info on NEEM Oil plants spray
We sprayed the rose bush that was full of aphids with the NEEM Oil plants spray. We sprayed late afternoon and the next morning we went to observe what happened. As you can see on the first photo there is a huge amount of aphids on the plant the next morning there was a lot less and the ones that was still on the stem of the rose was all dead. as you can see on the finger.