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D.I.Y. White Oil - Home Made its Works Well...​

D.I.Y. White Oil - home made

White Oil, a Horticultural Oil is used for controlling sucking and chewing insects like aphids, scale, mealy bug and citrus leaf miner. It's not a poison, but suffocates the pests - so they can't develop a resistance. It needs to be sprayed on both sides of leaves and stems to work properly.
Recipe

• One cup dishwashing detergent
• Two cups sunflower oil

Add to a clearly labelled jar or other container, close the lid tightly and shake until it becomes white - and presto! Concentrated White Oil.
When ready to use, dilute one tablespoon of the concentrate to one litre of water. Add to a clearly-labelled spray bottle, shake and off you go!

NOTE - please do not apply when the temperature is 30 degrees Celsius or over as it may burn your plants.



White oil is one of the most effective organic pesticides and it's easy and cheap to make your own using household ingredients. To make it use two cups of sunflower oil. One cup of detergent dishwashing detergent.

This is concentrated white oil. Just mix it up like that. Now don't forget to label the bottle.

One tablespoon full of concentrate you add that to one litre of water. Give it a good shake. And again make sure the bottle is marked pesticides. And it's ready for use.

You use white oil to control sap-sucking pests - things like mealybug aphid and scale. You apply it on woody plants - things like trees shrubs palms bamboo and cycads. You apply it when it's nice and calm and overcast. Never apply white oil when the temperature is 30 degrees or more. And to apply it - once every three weeks - cover both sides of the leaves cover all the stems right the way down to the base of the trunk.

Remember this is a suffocant - not a poison, so pests will never evolve a resistance to white oil. It's a great organic remedy. .... ..... ...... ....... ........