This Organic Pest Control Remedy Is A SCAM! 3 Natural Insecticides That WORK And One That DOESN'T!
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- In this video, I tested four popular natural and organic insecticides and pest control remedies promoted by organic gardeners, with surprising results! I found 3 natural insecticides that work and one organic pest control remedy that didn't work at all and is a total scam!
TABLE OF CONTENTS
0:00 Testing Natural Insect Control Methods
1:51 Pest Control Method #1: Dish Soap
5:17 Pest Control Method #2: Cold Pressed Neem Oil
7:21 Pest Control Method #3: Natural Pyrethrin
10:53 Pest Control Method #4: Organic Spinosad
13:43 Smothering Oil Test
15:09 Grading The Natural Insecticides: Final Results!
18:23 Adventures With Dale
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Neem Oil isn't meant to be a contact killer. It's for preventing the reproduction and growth of insects. My go to is a combo of dish soap and neem oil. I used this to get my asparagus beetles under control by spraying down the foliage and soaking the soil. One application and I haven't seen any asparagus beetle damage in almost a month.
I also add a splash of vegetable oil. I've found it helps the neem and soup stick to leaves longer. It also gives them a neat shinning lol
This is precisely the problem: if you're mixing neem with dish soap, then you aren't evaluating the neem oil. You can't emulsify it in soap if you actually want to test its effectiveness. I am using it correctly - it just that it isn't effective, and that's the truth. On its own, the neem appears to provide no benefit at all, at least within the 60-90 minutes the insects were exposed to it.
Even if we assume that within 24 hours the neem would have some effect, why would I use something that takes an entire day to have an effect when these other three things work within minutes and cost a tiny fraction of the cost? Furthermore, the neem has the most downsides. The odor is horrendous, it covers your plants in a disgusting film, the neem film coats the fruits so everything has to be washed to get that film off...it's expensive and doesn't work well at best, and it's completely ineffective and ruins the harvest at worst. I can't with any good faith recommend anyone use it when those other 3 solutions are orders of magnitude more effective, way cheaper and don't leave nasty films and odors behind.
@@TheMillennialGardener Sadly still displaying a lack of understanding how neem works. You *did* use it incorrectly.
Just as was stated above and several times, neem oil isn't a contact killer but you expect it to be in your test.
It won't kill adults (and softbodied insects) no matter how long they are exposed - which often times barely feed on plants (depending on the type of insect), mind you. But their larvae do: Potato beetles, cabbage butterflies etc.
You're testing it in expectation to be a fire-and-forget method, which it precisely isn't.
It's apparently just not the kind of effect you want to have. So how good is a critique if the reviewer visibly demonstrated multiple times that he
1) doesn't understand the product or how it's used
2) has wildly different expectations from what is promised
3) comes to an inconclusive verdict, but refuses to admit that it's user error => "It doesn't work *for me* so it must be a scam, I can't be the variable at fault".
Come on, you're better than this.
If you wanted to redeem your halfhearted review, pick a spot where you know potato beetles have laid their eggs and spray these plants once a week, come back with another review. You can skip on the dish soap if you want to - even if it helps with adults (like you perfectly demonstrated) and an even distribution through emulsion, it's not needed to disrupt the evolving larvae.
On a slightly different note:
I'd usually expect the "drop dead on spot" mentality coming from the impatient and chemical/synthetics friendly side of gardening.
There's a time and place for all of these methods, but TBH I tend to act with methods that kill indiscriminately in a matter of minutes as a last resort - even if it's just dish soap. I like to keep my beneficials alive and healthy.
Integrated pest management is something more people should implement into their gardening practices.
@@TheMillennialGardener Neem oil is a preventative, not a contact killer, so yeah, your using it wrong.
Just started watching your videos, don't think ill continue, no use listening to someone that knows less than you :)
@@TheMillennialGardener
Neem for control of the baby stages of the bug. And to help stop the adults from eating the leaves and stalks.
I know for a fact adult Japanese beetles die out in less than a week with just neem oil. They eat the leaves and die out. That is the point of neem with adults.
Neem is not an instant contact killer.
You are mixing neem non-contact in with instant contact killers which is not a fair comparison.
Bonide Bon-Neem II Concentrate is a mix of neem and Pyrethrin
Make sure which plants not to spray with these products.
Hey MG, Mark from Charlotte. As a honeybee keeper, I’ve learned enough about bugs to be dangerous. Just a couple thoughts. Bugs breath through a networks or tubes that exit from the body in rows on each side of the abdomen, called spiracles. Bugs can last quite a while floating in water due to its high surface tension. But add a surface tension reducer, like soap or others like alcohol, the water can then enter the spiracles effectively drowning them . So while I’m not positive, the soap is not a contact killer, it simply provides a low surface fluid to be sucked into the spiracles to drown them. The neem oil in your experiment appears clearly to not be a contact killer, but being oil based increases surface tension preventing the solution from entering the spiracles, so instead of drowning they eventually suffocate. My only concern with soap, which I have investigated in killing moss, is certain concentrations act to dehydrate the plant, folks have said be careful not to kill the grass while trying to kill the moss, but I have not experimented. Since you love experimenting, I would love to see you try a few concentrations of soap, sprayed on plants, to see if you have a negative effect on the leaves. Good job!
Interesting. However, I was concerned that the soap simply smothered them, so that's why I did that follow-up video spraying them directly on my sunflowers. And it *still* killed them. That was so shocking to me. I'm not quite sure how it works, but it clearly does. I was honestly stunned. I always shrugged off the "just use dish soap" comments as bunk, and I was 100% dead wrong. And now I know!
I strongly advise not broadast-spraying soapy water. It can definitely harm the plants and your soil. It isn't good. For spot-treating bugs with a 99 cent spray bottle, it's awesome. Don't waste your money on insecticides for spot-treatment. But no way am I putting soapy water in a 2 gallon sprayer and hosing down my plants. I will stick to Spinosad and pyrethrin for that since it doesn't harm my plants and my precious dirt.
My insect Entemology is pretty old but I was going to suggest the same as far as the soap-they suffocated. Pyrethrin was big in my days in veterinary medicine-dropped fleas and ticks on animals in their tracks. Now? They swim in the stuff and the spray one could only get from the Vet at the time is sold in WallyWorld. Heard a lot about Neem but never tried, won't bother. The other stuff-never heard of but I'm disabled and soap and water are in the budget.
Mark from Charlotte. Again, I’m on shaky ground, but I think that direct spray on you plant with the high reduction of surface tension still allows the fluid to be sucked into the spiracles effectively drowning them rather than a contact killer nerve agent of some sort. We’re just talkin semantics here, if you spray them and they die that’s good enough for everyone. I’m just pondering the mechanism
Ooops, hit send by mistake. If you have nothing to do one day (ha ha), and are curious, it might but fun to catch a bug, and use a q-tip with a little soap (no water since it will flow all over the bug) and dab a little soap on the bugs thorax, avoiding the spiracles along the abdomen and see if the soap is actually poisonous to the bug. Sorry, I’m a retired scientist and experimental playing in my lab all day is what I miss. I would do this myself, but I’m not having bug pressure to get specimens. Again, this is just curiosity, if you spray them and they die, that’s a darn good contact killer, I’m just wondering about the mechanism. Can’t help it : )
I've noticed soapy water to brown the leaves on my plants when trying to kill spotted Lantern Flies. I'm thinking it's stopping photosynthesis?
I 100%agree with Mark from Charlotte. You need to use all natural soaps like Dr. Bronner's Pure Castile Soap. Cheap soap is a detergent that will suffocate your leaves where as pure castile will not. Check into this product I think you will be pleas3ed with the readings.
Wish I thought about that I have both teatree and peppermint. I used Dawn soap and water on my flowers after seeing this and came back to see if anyone else had my same problem. Sprayed at 5am by 5pm my large zinnias leaves turned solid muddy brown and buds were gone and my cosmos and marigolds were stalks. I think you are right no photosynthesis was mention in another post.
@@BonitaBeauvais-TX Yeah, I had the same issue, but because the beetles had mostly decimated the leaves on our fruit trees I just wanted to kill all those bugs! I think why Dawn was so effective is because it actually suffocated them. Will try Dr. Bronner's and see if it will still kill those buggers!
@@BonitaBeauvais-TX 😯😔
Castile breaks down the exoskeletons of fleas too.
YES THIS PLEASE a mistake I see A LOT of people do is use the dyed and heavily toxic dish soaps in their garden like ITS LITERALLY dyed blue how can you think that's good for the garden or you PlEASE use biodegradable soaps!!!
Neem oil is a great tool against worms caterpillars etc. It's not a contact killer it's an ingestion killer and it works quite well especially on brassicas
Yes neem oil definitely works on caterpillars.They were eating my elderberry plants up and I sprayed and they were gone the next day.
100%. I'm not a fan of this experiment. He's put everything in the same category of "contact pesticide." The benefit of Neem Oil is that it doesn't kill all bugs the second they touch it, they die from eating it. So if you coat a leaf for 7 days in a row at some point a bug will come and try to eat it. It also works well for powdery mildew.
Against worms? Thats terrible
Neem oil is best used as a preventative. When the cool rainy season starts for us, I mix the neem in a 2-gallon sprayer and give the plants a coating. Before I used neem, I lost whole crops of pie pumpkins to powdery mildew. Neem has also been good at treating aphids on my pepper plants. I've never had a problem with horrendous smell and I'm spraying inside a 72'x30' high tunnel, on a ladder, over and under trellised winter squash.
I use it for rust, and powdery mildew, too.
I always learned that neem oil doesn't necessarily kill the insects but repels them.
I spray every week my cole crops there are always survivors and migration from neighborhood gardens
That is not correct either. It has to be ingested by the insect in order to work. That's why it kills only the pests and leaves other insects intact. That's why it doesn't work either the way the presenter used it. I am sorry, but the scammer is him!
Neem can be used as a soil drench. I tried it for cucumber beetles, and it worked. 1 gallon of water 2 tbsp of neem oil and a teaspoon of Castile soap mixed very well. I poured it underneath the cucumber plants which had been watered previously. The Beetle population dropped drastically after about a week. Apparently when they eat the leaves they stop feeding because of the neem oil.
I'm a new gardener. Can you explain why the neem oil drenched in the soil by your cucumbers deterred the cucumber beetles? I just bought pure neem oil & learned that they ingest it when they eat the plants. It help rid my yard plant of aphids but didn't know about putting neem oil in the soil below the plants. I am learning a lot but want to learn more.
@@lauram.511I’m fairly new to gardening as well, but if I’m not mistaken, I think they are suggesting the plant takes up the neem oil through their roots and it’s sent all throughout the plant internally. When a bug eats a part of the plant, they also ingest the neem oil. I could be wrong though.
@@Emkay6 Thank you for sharing that info that makes sense.
I'm watching this GREAT VIDEO again, as I'm having a spider mite outbreak on indoor plants. THANK YOU for conducting this experiment! At the release of the video in June, I put your info to good use on squash bugs!
Fantastic. First time viewer - an EASY subscribe, like, notifications on and a note for the algorithm that sent me. I've used Neem for years - - less and less impressed with it as I learn more. This made it quite evident - - there are much better things! Nice job on this! I'll be back for more!
This is by far the best gardening video I've watched. Dish soap! Who knew? So satisfying to hear the plop as the bugs that decimated my zuchini and melons fell to the ground dead. Thank you!
Years ago (decades ago) my AG agent told me to use dish soap to save my mother's flowering pear trees. Years later mom was still talking about how I saved her trees.
Actual testing, now that is the way to know for sure what works and what does not. Thank you!
I really enjoyed this video. I live in central Florida so my climate is a bit different and I cant follow all your advice. BUT.....your pesticide and fertilizer videos are 100 percent the BEST on YT. Thank you from Daytona Beach, Fl.
I love your videos. You have a lot of enthusiasm and share valuable information. I hear your struggles being a new gardener in Chapel Hill between pests, humidity and heat. I found your channel looking to see if I could obtain information such as this for my area! I have learned so much!!! Thank you !!!
I'm happy to hear the videos have been useful. It's tough to imagine, but it's even more brutal here in Wilmington due to the added humidity and bugs from the swampy plain we're on. If I can grow it here, you can likely grow it where you're at. Pretty much any vegetable that'll do well for me will do well for you.
A very useful and practical approach to pest control in the gardens. I am from the RTP area and pretty much the same bugs during this time of the year. After having tried the usual assortment of methods, found the lure traps to be the most effective for both Japanese beetles and stink bugs that show up in droves and pretty much decimate the entire garden if left unchecked. I still use soapy water spray but that only works with direct contact with the bugs. Like someone else mentioned, I also have noticed that the soap eventually also clogs the pores of the leaves, and depending on the type of plant and the concentrations they yellow out and fall off.
I am trying to attract the songbirds like bluebirds, chickadees, and other eastern insect-eating birds with bird-feeders and a water fountain in my environment to have multiple solutions to the bug problems. It is rather very difficult to keep all those pesky critters from free lunch in our gardens😫😫
I use dish soap for all insects. It smothers them to death quickly.
Have you tried castile soap instead of dish soap?
I like your bird idea. I want to try it, too. Some birds have varying needs though, so you might want to look up the preferences for the birds you want to attract.
I live in Cameron, N.C, about 25-35 miles from Raleigh, N.C and have a few New Guinea fowl and hoping they will help reduce the pesky problem here.
Thank you from SC . This is the best garden video on TH-cam
Thank you! I’m glad you found it helpful.
Very helpful, thank you. I really really like how you showed the effectiveness of each so it’s not just a video giving your “idea” of what works. Your effort is appreciated.
I love the video lots of good info in here. Neem is not a contact killer you're right about that. It works best on soft bodied insects and it works by coating them or smothering them so you're right about that too. So kind of an apples to oranges comparison imo but I get your point.
Thank you, your videos are excellent and I learn something every time I watch!
Thank you! I’m glad you find them helpful!
Informative video. I grow organically and have success with neem and doctor bronners soap for powdery mildew. I also use captain jacks for insects and it works great. Thank you for doing this test.
fantastic video, man! Im going to go try the soap in my garden plot now. I used Neem on aphids when i was in Florida and it only works when you put the plant inside and isolate it from getting bugs again, which explains why you have to spray the neem so many times before it actually helps. Thank you for your work!
Thanks for sharing this video on the different organic pest controls you can use I don't have a lot of bug problems just yet but I will be trying the dish soap method.
Great comparison. I prefer Safer Soap (made with potasium hydroxide and fats rather than sodium hydroxide) now that I've had a chance to use it instead of dish soap. It also fertilizes the plants if used properly in evening and not to heavily, to adequately watered plants. Not residually toxic to anything but bugs and if YOU get too much on your hands (potassium overdose symptoms). Read precautions and follow them.
Jadam Wetting Agent is the same thing, make yourself, much cheaper.
Incredible! I’ve been regularly (every 2 weeks) spraying a mixture of water/soap/neem oil. Thank you for this video.
I say save your money and skip the neem 😂
Thanks! Very revealing.
Love the Dale videos too. I had a Lab who used to also sniff when he was running in his sleep. Sometimes he would also thump his tail, and the sound would wake him up.
You’re welcome! I learned a lot, too! 😮
Great videos. Very helpful and great details, thank you!
Hello, I enjoy most of your videos. Your conclusion on Neem Oil is incorrect. Neem Oil is not meant to be a contact pesticide. The insect has to ingest the active ingredient. It disrupts the hunger cycles and reproduction. You won't actually see results instantly, it takes 2 or 3 weeks to see it work. I can provide you with plenty of scientific data or you can simply contact any agriculture extension office and they would be more than happy to provide the information. As for results that are immediate, Neem Oil will not provide it, you are correct on that front. I do like most of your videos, so keep up the good job.
I have only used neem oil as a fungicide for black spot etc. Captain Jack's is my insecticide of choice for years. Have you done any videos for controlling fungus with or without neem oil? Excellent videos.
I've always heard to use neem oil for fungal disease and the tiny insects like mites and thrips. The drop of detergent in with the neem oil is supposed to act as a surfactant, breaking the surface tension of the water and oil so the neem oil stays mixed up better. I raise Mason Bees and leafcutter bees so I usually use dish detergent and water just not detergent that's antibacterial. I also use hydrogen peroxide 50/50 with water. It has to be reapplied frequently but works well for bugs and fungal problems
Thank you for this helpful video! I was wondering should I cut off the curled leaves (which does show markings from some type of pest/s) and then spray the dish soap? I have a dwarf blood orange tree that is growing in a pot.
Thank You! I've been fighting those leaf-footed bugs and their nymphs for months with neem oil and losing the battle. I will definitely try the dish soap immediately. Have you tried using castille soap? Again, thank you.
You always seem to post the most relevant videos for me. This season I’ve been experimenting with spinosad for the first time. I’ve always just used neem and I’ve never had great results. My partner does pest control and convinced me that I can use spinosad and pyrethrin without harming the beneficial insects as long as I apply it in the evening. I should have listened to him years ago because this stuff works and my garden is so much healthier now!
I also do an occasional plant wash with dr bronners in my 2 gallon sprayer and I think that makes a big difference.
Spinosad and pyrethrin are real insecticides. Neem oil is bunk lore. Plain and simple. What's incredible about it is neem oil is far more expensive, too! Whoever started that scam was a talented marketer 😂 Unfortunately, there is always some amount of fallout using pesticides, but I can tell you spraying in the evening, my garden is an oasis of bees and dragonflies every single day. It's crazy how many bees and dragonflies I get, so clearly they are thriving. I think the method is working at protecting our friendly neighborhood insects.
Spinosad does not work on aphids
What do you think of Dr Bronners Peppermint soap? Would the plants be safe, or do you think the Peppermint burn them?
What exactly does Dr Bronners do??
Thank you for your amazing video! I’m going use Pyrethin in my garden this year...
Thank you for all your uploads. You are incredible and a very helpful man.
I have been using dish soap mainly for aphids and gnats for a couple years now, works great. I also use the dish soap to shoot down wasps and their nest, kills them instantly.
I had no idea it would kill them faster than actual insecticides. This is why we have to experiment. You never know, even when you think you do.
Wasp are great to have in your garden. They kill caterpillars to feed their young and they pollinate.
@@jamesbarron1202 No, not when you have young kids running around.
@@acidnut I was once a young kid and we would fight wasp nest to see who was the bravest😂 That’s what we did for fun. I’m allergic to them also. I raise honeybees and they don’t have the same affect on me when I’m stung.
@@nursekillm it’s no different than oil you eat although your not eating soap. It kills by suffocating them. There’s no poisoning. Oil will do the same thing.
From what I have read, neem oil takes time to work and is effective when ingested; it is not intended to be a contact killer. That's why it's safer for bees when applied at dusk, the bees won't chew on leaves and therefore won't ingest the neem. Neem oil also works as a foliar feed and helps kill fungus.
Neem oil is good stuff when used correctly, although as your experiment proved, it can't be expected to work the same as the contact chemicals.
But what about the next days when the bees are out and nibble on the foliage won't it still hurt the bees???
@@mercedesbenzs600bash Bees don't eat foliage. There is one type, the leaf cutter bee, that cuts prices of leaves off as part of forming a nest, but none that I know of actually eat foliage.
@jennifereidebibler4358 Oh ok thanks...
I was thrilled to have discovered the dish soap method last summer to beat back all the squash bugs. I grow my winter squash up and over a cattle panel tunnel so I just kept the spray bottle with the soapy water hanging from the trellis, all ready to blast the buggers to a quick death. I hate squash bugs, can you tell? Oh, I never found that the soapy water damaged the squash leaves although I only spot sprayed as needed and never covered the whole plant with spray.
I found this information valuable. Thanks for the tests in real time.
I knew the simple, cheap dish soap method would work well. I've been using it for years. Here's another trick if you get fruit flies in the house: In a small bowl add a small amount of apple cider vinegar and a few drops of dish soap. Stir and leave it out on a kitchen counter. The vinegar attracts the fruit flies. Once they fly in for a little slip of vinegar, the fruit flies will fall in and drown. Works every time like a charm. It's cheap, low maintenance pest control that's also environmentally friendly. I guess you could use this in the garden too if you have insects that are attracted to the smell of vinegar. (BTW, vinegar also is an excellent weed killer.)
Please please use a biodegradable soap the cheap dyed dish soap is non biodegradable and will leave toxins in your garden that you don't want!!!!
I recommend Dr bronners
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0:00 Testing Natural Insect Control Methods
1:51 Pest Control Method #1: Dish Soap
5:17 Pest Control Method #2: Cold Pressed Neem Oil
7:21 Pest Control Method #3: Natural Pyrethrin
10:53 Pest Control Method #4: Organic Spinosad
13:43 Smothering Oil Test
15:09 Grading The Natural Insecticides: Final Results!
18:23 Adventures With Dale
You do realize that Neem Oil ISN’T meant to be a contact killer? It’s meant to be sprayed on leaves that are being eaten upon and it’s once those pests digest said sprayed leaves that it has the effect of killing it off. It’s a pinpoint insecticide that’s safe for all insects that may touch it after being applied provided they don’t eat the leaves as well.
Wow you are fast. My wife,Sue has a what was very healthy beautiful fig tree and noticed holes being bored into it. Now 2 months later all leaves ate dead however the tree still has green in the branches and trunk. Ant thoughts will be greatly appreciated.
Ok I read. The 3 stripped borer. No remedy against this problem. We'll dig it up,when we are ready.
Would've been great if you were able to test using eco-friendly dish soup too
Thank you very much for this tips!
Leaf footed bugs are also my arch nemesis.could not use pymethrin on small fruit like cherry tomato. After trying neem oil a few months ago with no success, I also recently found that soapy water worked great! I suggest rinsing off your plants/trees after spraying the dish soap to make sure they can breath.
So glad I listened to this video AND read the comments. I learned a lot of very good information.
Great video, I have always been curious about all these methods and their efficacy. I actually have all the ones that you tested in my storage and have used them all over the year. My experience does somewhat reflect your experiment results. Neem oil isn't that effective at all and it leaves a weird smell. A note of caution that dish soap might harm the plants. A better choice would be horticultural soap (it's available in concentrated form).
But does the horticulture soap have the same effect?
I am using Azera, which is pyrethrin, and azadirachtin. I read that spinosad (which I also have and use) doesn't kill leaf footed bugs, but you showed it does. I just bought the fogger so hopefully I am good to go in Greenville NC. Thank you for doing this experiment!
I just found your channel and I love it. I will be following from now on. As a new Vegetable Gardner your explanations were clear and so easy to understand. I am going to watch all of your videos so I can be successful in my backyard garden. Thank you so much😊
Please PLEASE do your research neem oil is not a contact killer rather it works over time after they EAT it and it messes with their hormones making them not want to eat and also messes with their reproductive system they will eventually starve or their reproductive system will not work which in turn kills them or their grubs also if you do use soap i would NOT use the one used in this video the dyes can be harmful and also it probably isn't biodegradable please please make sure your soap is biodegradable otherwise harmful chemicals may persist in your garden that you don't want!!!
My thanks to you and everyone else here on the pest abatement recommendations.
Again, thanks to all.
I have found neem oil to work very well on powdery mildew on leaves.
I am a first time gardener and I find this information to be very valuable. The most cost effective obviously is going to be the dish soap and, not surprisingly, my brother who has been gardening for years told me about that as the very first line of defense in battling pests should any show up here. Thank you for the information!
You're welcome! It was quite surprising to me as well. I'm going to keep a spray bottle with dish soap at the ready for spot-treatments from now on. I always kept a spray bottle with pyrethrin handy, but now I know I can save my money and use soap instead.
you never know what you're putting on your plants/pests when you use household dish soap. when you buy horticultural soap that is made for soft pests control, you know what you're using. it's counter-intuitive that organic proponents put all kinds of stuff in their garden, whilst pretending to be organic, whatever that means. horticultural soap is for control of aphids and whitefly.
It's a battle for your food. We will fight them on the land, sea and sky ! Death to the plant defilers !! We will prevail and harvest ! I have to keep a sense of humor as I fight the critters.
@@maxinemcclurd1288 : yes it is a battle. it doesnt help that proponents of organics make it so confusing for new gardeners, either spreading utopian lies about nature balance or come up with products that dont work or weird alternatives. i stopped wasting my time and money on composting, which gives plenty of time to look after crops. no more fertility potions to chase; just use 20:20:20 or anmonium sulphate. actually now growing lots of vegetables that i harvest in minimum time, instead of organic fairytales producing disease/pest ridden small late crops. may your efforts prosper.
First year gardener also and I am in Texas it was 110 on my guage today. I have a large container garden and have been invaded by grass hoppers. Any suggestions?
Thank you!!! Some people don’t investigate or research so they don’t use things correctly but expect results.
It made me feel less guilty seeing how many bugs you were able to collect. I was feeling like I wasn't keeping up on the pests enough, even though I was growing a ton of food. There's no such thing as a pest-free garden and your video helped me to see that.
Hi, I enjoyed this video. However, you only cover killing bugs. Deterrence is also important. I think the product that was least effective at killing will be the most effective at deterrence - neem oil. I recently saw an Indian remedy on TH-cam which you might find interesting. One litre of water + two teaspoons of sodium bicarbonate + one teaspoon of neem oil + ten drops of soap. If neem oil deters you and I maybe it will bugs !
Does it work???
I was going to ask if dish soap could be added to the neem, pyrethrin and spinosad to boost the chances of killing all pests?
I appreciate you doing this experiment, it is really helpful to see how these varies of bugs react to each pesticide. We have only lived in ENC for one year, so I am still learning a lot about the area and your videos have been very helpful! Thank you!
Did you try it???
Excellent study! I Learned some things too, also from some of the feedback you have gotten. Thank You.
Thank you so very much! Very useful video 👍 I have those same bugs and more, and they are absolutely wreaking havoc on my garden. Not for much longer 😜 though. THANKS U DA MAN!!!
The soap works by clogging a bugs pores and killing it. BUT don't use regular hand soap or dish soap. Many gardeners have killed their plants by using it. Use CASTILE LIQUID SOAP instead. It's safe on plants and has the same effect as regular soap.
NEEM though you used wrong. It's not a contact killer. It actually kills bugs from the inside as they eat the plants that were sprayed with it. It works over time but is a GREAT preventative pesticide and controls ALL plant biting insects. It also acts as a fungicide.
So yes neem is amazing. I use it on my plants every week, once a week and the pest pressure is significantly less.
Recipe?
Hi. This is Dwight. I live in Alberta Canada. In Canada we have a product called End-all. It is potassium salts of fatty acids (long chain) with pyrethrin. I was having a big problem with leaf hoppers on my grapes. I mixed End-all with neem oil and had amazing success with that mix. I am sure you must have something similar to end- all in the US.
It's the pyrethrin. Pyrethrin is what's so effective. After doing this experiment, I'd skip the neem oil altogether. In that case since it's incorporated into the product, that's fine, but I certainly will never spend any money on the cold pressed oil again.
@@TheMillennialGardener Yes, I do not find it very effective by itself but I have already spent the money so will use it up.
A-Plus video! Given the importance of these pesticides and our reluctance to use or overuse them, this was one of the most valuable gardening videos I've ever watched. Bugs are the biggest risk factor to have a harvest at all. A good scientific approach. And I'm pretty happy that the most effective item, dish soap, is also the least expensive! Thank you!
Glad you enjoyed the video! Keep in mind you probably don't want to fill a sprayer full of dish soap and spray it all over your garden since all that soap accumulating in soil can't be good long-term...but it's excellent for spot treatment. I like taking a small $1 spray bottle full of soapy water and "go hunting" in my garden for the bad bugs. I spray it directly on the bad bugs and I'm able to keep much of the population in check like that. Then, a once-weekly evening treatment of pyrethrin or spinosad helps with the rest.
@@TheMillennialGardener Yeah that sounds like the best treatment plan,have you noticed less bugs???
☺This is very helpful. I just spent the morning killing Japanese beetles off knockout roses. Now I will keep the blooms pruned until August when beetles are gone. I tried the neem oil last week. The beetles were back today 4-fold. Next year I will use the "crop trap" method, too. Thank you so much.
Pyrethrin and spinosad will kill the beetles without harming the blooms. Spray at night. It may take several treatments to keep the population under control, but it *does* work.
Comparing two different things when you compare neem oil that repels pests and spraying something that kills on contact. I tried to dish soap on my zucchini and the melon worms ate the leaves like they were going to the chair. Neem oil lasts about a week if it doesn't rain hard and 3 to 4 days even with the rain and haven't ever seen a melon worm on my zucchini nor my pumpkin since I started using it. And when you spray that much dish detergent and the bugs are covered with it they're just getting smothered. The neem oil prevents the moth from laying the eggs and the larvae or worms from eating the leaves on the plant. And the smell of the neem oil is the reason the moths don't like it.
Your unknown bug is a harlequin bug, or harlequin beetle. They are nasty little guys. They love the brassicas, but are happy to sample lots of other plants. If you see some tube looking eggs in groups (like how squash bugs lay eggs), they are from the harlequin bugs. I don't use neem as an insecticide, but I will occasionally use it as a fungicide here in Tennessee.
Thank you, great information. Glad I watched this today and feel your test was very accurate and fair. So far I only used dish soap on aphids,but did you kill squash bugs with the dish soap? I always have too many squash bugs.
Please PLEASE do your research neem oil is not a contact killer rather it works over time after they EAT it and it messes with their hormones making them not want to eat and also messes with their reproductive system they will eventually starve or their reproductive system will not work which in turn kills them or their grubs also if you do use soap i would NOT use the one used in this video the dyes can be harmful and also it probably isn't biodegradable please please make sure your soap is biodegradable otherwise harmful chemicals may persist in your garden that you don't want!!!
Love your work 😃.Thank you for this experiment. ❤️
Wonderful comparison! I have aphids on my tomatoes but I'm not too worried because the lady bugs are after them. ;) 😉 all of the insecticides you tested will kill praying mantis and lady bugs. 😞. They don't go to bed like the bees do.
I make sure that I do not spray the insecticidal soap on any other insects and I won't spray if lady budgs or praying mantises or bees are anywhere on the plant. it dries pretty quickly. I no longer use Dawn as that will damage the leaves. My aphid infestation was more than the lady bugs could eat.
I learned about the effects of dish soap as a kid playing with bugs. I feel like it's not so much toxic, but rather suffocating. It gets all over the insect bodies and prevents them from breathing, which is why, I think, it kills them so fast. Works even faster the bigger the bug is. Not so effective on caterpillars. As for the neem oil, I heard that the bugs have to consume it. So it works better with caterpillars and less on the leaf suckers. But I have less experience with that.
Dem soap dangerous even Will kill rats if they fall in water with dish soap... but will live if Fall in plain water
Thank you for this! When I did my morning rounds in my garden, I noticed I had some things attacking some of my veggies so I sat down and ordered some neem oil from Amazon and then your video popped up as I placed my order. By the end of this video, I went ahead and canceled my order of Nemo and I’m about to head outside with a sprayer with dish soap and water! Thank you so much! I love your videos!
You know you haven't made a video about companion planting. Marigolds with tomatoes is my favorite. I'm trying thyme in areas where I worry about fungus. My attempt at rasberries and my pomegranates are where the thyme is going so far.
My cycle up here in Chesapeake, VA this year has been to spray once a week beginning once the pests showed up in large numbers.
One weekend will be Spinosad.... and the next will be BT. So far so good.
I will look into that dish soap for direct contact control! Thank you!!!
Spinosad is good stuff. It is a bit pricey compared to pyrethrin, but it is very effective and a little safer for pollinators. I've been using spinosad as a worm preventative on my corn crop, and so far, so good *knock on wood*
@@TheMillennialGardener
What brand of Spinosad did you use again?
After seeing this video I went around and sprayed the army of Japanese beetles on my fruit and veggie plants. Even held one in my hand from the beginning and sprayed directly/soaked that beetle every few minutes. Not a single beetle died.
@@great0789 Their some really strong beetles,smh..
Well I live in MI so I don't have as many bugs. But this year there has been a lot of Japanese beetles. I just pick them off and drop them into a jar w/ rubbing alcohol. Kills them instantly. Of course you can't spray that on plants. Your videos are great!! VERY HELPFUL.
I applaud your efforts to make the insects "comfortable".
Interesting video, but some food for thought:
The reason why the neem oil didnt kill the bugs, is because it simply doesn't work that way.
Azadirachtin blocks the building of chitin, the hard plating. But it does jack to bugs that already have their chitin-skin built.
So what neem oil does is not kill the adults, but the larval stages before (which will also not happen straight away, as it blocks its development cycle) and discourages bugs from eating.
TL;DR: It's not the neem that doesn't work, it was your way of application and lack of understanding/research - no offense
Calling neem fake or scam in the thumbnail and title is quite clickbaity though.
100% correct
Reminds me of recipe reviews where the reviewer swaps all sorts of ingredients then says they didn’t like the recipe…
Some simple googling will return results describing how to use neem oil and how it works.
It isn’t a smothering spray.
I really enjoy most all of the other videos but the title was definitely clickbait.
The way you're describing it, it doesn't work. It's virtually useless, since the window where it could be effective as an insecticide is not reasonable. Therefore, using it as an insecticide is pointless, especially considering it costs $140-160/gallon for the stuff, on average.
Despite a total absence of direct evidence showing it works as an insecticide, why would anyone recommend it for use at that high price, considering the other three options work almost instantaneously at a fraction of the cost? in addition, neem oil has tremendous downside: terrible odor, a nasty, persistent film that coats your plants that has to be washed off or it could make you very ill, and when mixed with sunlight, it can cause severe damage to your plants. Spinosad and pyrethrin have none of those downsides at a fraction of the cost while being almost 100% effective at all stages of insect growth.
No matter how you shake it, neem oil is a poor solution. Even if you somehow catch the perfect time to apply it, the cost/benefit equation never works out with so many better alternatives. It costs a huge amount of money, and the chances of you seeing a benefit is slim to none. That's a scam in my book.
@@TheMillennialGardener 🤣 aside from the copy-paste answer this is back to "I cant possibly be the variable that is at fault".
Do a proper test, the way it is supposed to be applied or leave it be and all this is just for attention on your channel by clickbaiting. This is anything but scientific.
What's click-baity is the labels on all the neem-oil product's. They certainly got me for $20+ based off it's claims and had zero % effect on bug's after two months of spraying.
Neem oil isn’t effective on adults. It works on larvae and eggs so your ‘testing’ is misleading. FYI, insecticidal soaps meant to be used on plants are potassium based, whereas dish soaps are all sodium based (READ THE LABELS). If you use ordinary dish soap solution frequently, you will harm your plants (this is very basic information). Using garden insecticidal soaps is safer (the label will state “potassium salts of fatty acids”). No offense meant, but you are misinformed and are giving incorrect advice to your followers.
Neem oil will kill adult bugs if they eat the leaves it's sprayed on, but will not kill them on contact.
What you're saying is "neem oil isn't effective." A garden hose works on larvae and eggs. Remember, neem oil is many times more expensive than anything tested in this video, which all three other treatments are extremely effective. What we know for a fact: all 3 other items work great at killing pests, and neem oil doesn't have a significant effect, at least in the near or medium term. Then, we have the whole list of downsides for neem oil: awful odor, nasty film left behind, reactance with sunshine and scalding of leaves, which spinosad and pyrethrin won't do. It isn't a viable pest control option, and it appears people want neem oil to work more than it actually does 🤷
@@larrarain6531 will it? I’ve yet to see any evidence proving that.
For those haters of dish soap saying it hurts leaves, I have used very strong Dawn solution to kill leaf footed bugs all summer in hot South and have seen no damage to leaves. Finally have killed all because I'm not finding nemps every morning. Love your channel because you are very informative on subjects others don't cover. I would like to tell u an amazing use for neen oil. Cutter ants were destroying a bush of mine...I sprayed with neem oil and it repelled them. ( insects don't like the smell either 😋). No more damage to the plant. It does have to be done at night and only before temps are 90ish.
@@TheMillennialGardener you have not read the label that describes how neem oil works, try reading up
Thank you for showing the experiment, useful information 👍. Your videos have been very helpful! The neem oil wasn’t working in your experiment, might because it is not a contact killer, but an ingestion killer instead. I do hear it works well for soil drench or plants spray, so it makes sense that many gardeners recommend it.
I have been following the neem oil recommendations for weeks now - first time. Maybe it is meant to stink them out, but it is very disappointing so far.
Awesome information. Definitely i will be using all three if needed. Thank you!
You're welcome!
*Millennial my man. That orange and black bug you find on your kale plants loves all brassicas. That's a **_Murgantia histrionica_** aka Harlequin bug.*
*They get on my perrenial tree collards here in NE Florida. I hand smash those ones and they seem to strongly dislike peppermint - so I mix peppermint oil with some dish soap as an emulsifier and H2O and spray my affected plants with peppermint oil/soap/water spray.*
*Regarding neem oil. Its effectiveness is when the subject plant is treated with neem and then allowed to dry. Then, when the in pest comes along and ingests the neem oil it will be poisoned. I have neem but with a polyculture in the yard beneficals come in and I rarely if ever utilize it.*
Could you share the formula for your Peppermint spray? Another gardening channel recommended 2 teaspoons of peppermint oil/gallon H2O on cucumbers and beans. Unfortunately, this formula did considerable leaf damage.
Neem oil works as a hormone disrupter. When bugs ingested it , they stop eating and die from starvation. It takes a couple days to die yet stop eating immediately after the first feeding. That's how it works not by smothering them.
how long does neem stay on leaves ?I ask because I've been spraying my peaches every 7 days with one gallon to one ounce of neem and dish soap and the Japanese beetles and worms on my peaches are having a good time I see no effect on them my peaches are ruined for the year.
So glad I found this video and the one you did about neem oil just a couple weeks ago. I'm struggling with gnats in my house plants and gave neem oil a try. Nothing! My plants are slimy with spots now and the gnats are just fine. Trying steel wool now. About to through them all away. Do you know of anything that will kill the ones in the soil?
SUPER helpful! Thank you so much for doing that work for us! :o)
I mixed apple cider vinegar, aloe Vera juice and some neem drops in a spray bottle which I then used on my spinach to get rid of aphids. Worked first time last week. My spinach is starting to recover.
I used the same mixture , but without neem oil, on orange tree leaves last month. All new shoots were eaten. The tree has new shoots all over now.
Hi could please share your mixture ratios ? Thank you in advance!😊
@sallebayer_carney2460 500ml water, 5 drops need oil, 1 teaspoon aloe Vera juice, 1 teaspoon apple cider vinegar.
I use the mixture rarely now because house sparrows feed on the aphids.
Thank you Mandandi for responding, greatly appreciated...
Love Sparrows & all birds!
First of all, the type of soap is important. I use laundry soap and been using this mixed with water for years ... works perfectly on my apple and fruit trees. The only downside is that you have to respray after a rain.
Apple scab? Leaf miner? Red mites does it control bullshit
AWESOME! Thanks for the demonstration. However, I'm amazed at the number of pests you have. It's that moist humid environment I'd bet. Here in CA, it's mostly hornworms, aphids, whiteflies, and spider mites....some stinkbugs and squash bugs.
Thankyou! This video was so much more helpful than anything else I have every watched!
Thank you! I'm glad it was helpful!
A drop of soap breaks the tension of the water so the neem oil will mix
Fantastic experiments!
This is great news for every gardener, it works beautifully here in central Florida
Also try Castille Soap for any plant or tree but especially the more delicate flowers some flowers/leaves may be burned like celery
Castille Soap cured my 50+ foot mango tree of bagworm infestation, and my Gardenia of white fly
The tree has now burst forth with fresh new healthy leaves free of any pests
Add any scent Castille soap
(I like peppermint) 1/4 cup to one quart of water, spray after sundown very effective on pests eating your flowering plants and trees
Dude your channel is great . I wished I had found it sooner .you do a great job thank you .I will be watching
Great video and useful information! Thank you for making it! 😊👍
You're welcome! Thanks so much for watching!
Here in coastal SC add stink bugs to the mixture. Edit: Thanks for the testing. I've been using Bonners peppermint soap and Jack's spinosad among a number of other things such as Bt it's a job gardening organically here in the South. Living here is worth it.
I usually add peppermint oil in my spray. Several products on the market feature peppermint oil. It has the advantage of being an oil which can be advantageous in controlling bugs and the fragrances
is one I like so I don’t know how effective the peppermint oil really is but I find the fragrance more pleasing than some other chemicals used as bug killers.
Some people claim that mice do not like thé strong peppermint fragrance and will stay away. Some claim roaches do the same.
Have there ever been any valid science based tests done to verify the validity of these claims?
Neem oil is said to have some residual action so it's supposedly good for bugs that come and go which might not be on the plant when you are spraying. However, Spinosad also has similar properties and stays active for longer than neem so it is probably the superior product in that regard (though Spinosad is highly toxic to bees and other pollinators).
The main thing neem oil has going for it is its supposed antifungal/antibacteria properties making it a broad acting product. So water + soap + neem oil could be considered a general garden spray to keep plants healthy from not only pests but also diseases. The big question is how much neem oil is needed for its antifungal/antibacteria property to be seen on plants and if there isn't an alternative in that regard. I think potassium bicarbonate + oil is used to control some fungal diseases. So maybe water + soap + vegetable oil + potassium bicarbonate is a suitable alternative garden spray with broad acting performance. However, developing the right ratio of ingredients still has to be done.
Lastly, soapy water will also kill bees and such if they are hit directly, so people should still be careful when spraying.
Definitely kills bees.
I'm wondering if Neem oil nowadays has been bastardized in production like honey and olive oil....mostly HFCS and other additives......hhhmmmmm
@@afriendtoo6971 Like he said in the video, there's a difference between clarified extract of neem and pure neem oil. The clarified extract has less of the insecticidal compound. A lot of people don't know this. It makes neem much less effective as a residual insecticide. It basically becomes a smothering oil with some antifungal/bacterial properties.
@@fearlessarchangel You need cold pressed neem oil and the right proportion to not burn the plants
You deserve a small bit if praise for taking the time to produce this almost helpful video. The issue that many of your comments bring to light is Neem oil is not a contact killer. Anyone who knows anything about organic gardening will agree. You just compared Apple's to Volkswagons. While direct contact will kill insects due to the smothering effect, it is meant to disrupt a bugs natural maturitization. By doing so the mature bug will not return to feed and lay eggs to perpetuate the cycle. Direct spray of soapy water will suffocate most all bugs at any stage of maturity, while pyrethrin and spinosad are actual chemical compounds produced as an insecticide. So.. As a successful organic gardener for 50+ years, please compare apples to apples and try not to mislead people who look to you for honest reliable information. I give you a C for your effort.
You've missed the point. This is an exact apples-to-apples comparison, because the point of this video was to assess the *value* of the insecticide. The reason why I gave neem oil an 'F' is because it is a horrible value at best and totally ineffective at worst. The other three products killed pests almost instantly on-contact with no offensive odors or downsides. Neem oil, on the other hand, is several times more expensive than the other products, yet it has a *horrific* odor, terrible residue that reacts with sun and burns foliage, can make you vomit if you don't wash the residue off, and it's almost impossible to analyze if the neem oil actually is effective long-term.
Why use such an expensive product with so many horrible side-effects that cannot be verified? It makes no sense to ever use neem oil when the other products are readily available and verifiable for less money and less side effects, so neem gets an 'F.' That's why the video is useful. Neem is a fool's errand in my opinion. Use something cheaper that works and won't harm your plants.
@@TheMillennialGardener Your title then is misleading at best. Neem oil is not a contact insecticide and dish soap is not a natural organic substance. I think I've made my point to those who know how to use neem oil and it's purpose in horticulture. No need to try and draw me into a debate. Your science is flawed. And that's ok. You've proven that you have many infestations and are a good bug catcher. Happy Gardening!
Thank you for these great ideas! I use pyrethrin on my clothes to kill ticks too! I will use the dish soap and water. I think I will get the Pyrethrin around my garden too.
I don’t know if it’s been discussed yet but I think the “orange spotted bug” on your kale is a Bagrada bug. They are the reason I don’t grow brassicas in warmer temps here in my zone 9a garden. They are awful!
For lettuce and turnip greens and all the "cooler season" plants like that they can swarm and eat over night! 😭 Even with treatment you have to watch that stuff constantly! Texas, zone 9b 😩
That dish soap was such a great contact killer for those bugs! As for neem oil, I agree that they weren't that effective vs those bugs. Would you also be able to do a pest control for horn worms and aphids? I've been struggling with those and just end up wasting a bunch of water spraying them off (aphids).
Thankfully **knock on wood** I only found 4 hornworms all season so far. Luckily, they aren't extremely prevalent here, so I wouldn't be able to collect jars full of them like I could with these other pests. I can tell you for 100% certain that Spinosad and BT concentrates kill hornworms overnight, because I've used them both for outbreaks in the past and woke up the next morning to their dried up corpses hanging off my plants. Aphids are *super easy* to kill. Simply spray with pyrethrin, let the plant dry and hose off the dead aphids with a garden hose.
@@TheMillennialGardener Have you tried soapy water on the aphids?
@@beebob1279 I tried that but only ended up with really clean aphids. I would go with his pyrethrin recommendation.
Hose the aphids off with water (garden hose at flat setting works for me). Wait for the leaves to dry, then apply soapy meme oil spray every day for 3 days, then once every 3 days for a week, then once every 2 weeks for preventative measures. Just be careful with dosage (follow instructions online) and do test sprays on single leaves.
Please PLEASE do your research neem oil is not a contact killer rather it works over time after they EAT it and it messes with their hormones making them not want to eat and also messes with their reproductive system they will eventually starve or their reproductive system will not work which in turn kills them or their grubs also if you do use soap i would NOT use the one used in this video the dyes can be harmful and also it probably isn't biodegradable please please make sure your soap is biodegradable otherwise harmful chemicals may persist in your garden that you don't want!!!
I use a combination of neem oil, dish soap, and peppermint spray and it works great. Using all three together is the best method.
Very useful - together with the insights of the Beekeeper - I think I'll believe in the soap & water - worth seeing the best concentrations to kill bugs without damaging the plant or pollinators - the bugs certainly put me off North Carolina! Keep safe.
Personally, I think the dish soap worked so well because of the blue dye in it. I always bath my dogs in blue Dawn because that's what we use here on the coast to rescue wildlife that have been in oil spills & in one case a local marina had a leaking gas tank that polluted the immediate waterway.
Blue Dawn, Vinegar & salt is what I use to kill poison ivy, oak & summac in my yard. I have discovered it also works on that EXTREMELY invasive Ladder To Heaven plant. Our local DNR has urged us to kill & burn it in our area because we currently do NOT have the invasive Japanese Lantern Fly but it is sadly gaining more of a foothold in surrounding areas. Ladder To Heaven is their favorite & main food source.
As for the blur dye being what I suspect is the neurotoxin for insects here we have had Major success with in killing every insect except spiders in our house. Surprisingly, we even discovered that when sprayed directly on them, it kills bedbugs within seconds. When our movie theater opened back up after the pandemic, my daughter complained something bit her during the movie. When I inspected her waistband I not only found she had been bitten multiple times but the bedbugs were still in her clothes. I freaked out & grabbed my old faithful blue windex & within 2 seconds all of them were dead. I immediately went out to the car & sure enough, there were bed bugs where she had been sitting. I use blue windex as my upholstery cleaners & laundry stain remover anyway, so I just went ahead & scrubbed down the entire inside of the car. I was so worried I would've missed any spots they might have laid eggs in.
And the annoying part? When I called the theater to report it, they tried to claim it didn't come from there. But when I called the health dept. to report it the lady said this movie theater has an ongoing problem they have been sited for many times. And apparently for the last 10 years, so have all our hotels & the hospital.
BLEH!!! Bedbugs are just nightmare bugs! Yet another reason I won’t likely darken the door of a movie theater ever again!! 😱
I have that bs Japanese plant. I been fighting it for four years and its still spreading. Ive dug and dug it up. Ive covered it and it just keeps coming. 🤦🏾♂️ 🗣️🖕🏾🖕🏾🖕🏾🖕🏾😫😫😫😫
But will it harm the soil???
What is your ratio of vinegar, salt and blue dawn for poison Ivy.
I use Dawn dish soap (original), to kill fleas off of the many cats I rescue that are infested.
Save money ... buy Neem Leaves, crush some and soak them in vegetable oil for about 4-5 days. Then use 2-3 tblsp in a jug of water with about 2 tblsp of dish soap. Shake extremely well and then pour around your plants. It works perfectly.
It is the way that you prepare and use Neem Oil that makes the difference. I soak crushed leaves in vegetable oil at the beginning of the summer and make enough for the entire season. Just remember to dissolve the Neem Oil in water using some dishsoap with vigorous shaking.
Great video ! Thank you so much for this. Soap it is for me , I have all of these products . Hardest thing for me is white flys outside on a bush . They are getting blasted with soap tomorrow! Thank you again
Was thinking about purchasing a pure neem oil after some research but i see by your test id think soap water or something else may work better for my limited use and i find it concerning people arnt understanding what you are trying to explain i appreciate the unique information and view point you provide on your videos.
In my opinion the soap mixed with neem oil and I think peppermint oil is one of the best insect sprays. Throw in a bit of hydrogen peroxide and isopropyl alcohol and you have the ultimate insect and plant cleaning spray.
if you don't have peppermint oil, cedarwood oil will work with neem/castile.
Will that harm the soil???
In my experience dish soaps that cut grease also cut waxy protection plants create on leaves. Use a non grease cutting dish soap.
Like what?
THANKS !! Very interesting!!! Thank you!!
Great lessons you gave, TQ 👏🏿🙏🏿
I really like this guy, he is really helpful in alot of things. BUT, I just can't understand why he didn't do the research to understand what the real qualities and purposes are in the use of NEEM and Spinosad. By admition he says he hasn't!
Very strange Indeed. Neem isn't a contact killer, it's in the literature! Spinosad isn't either!
What you're saying isn't accurate.
1. Spinosad clearly can be a contact killer. This was proven in the video. I didn't think it was, but it is.
2. Neem oil is utterly useless. It was given 90 minutes to have some kind of effect. There was no effect, despite the other three items working almost instantaneously. You *cannot* evaluate neem oil over days in this way, because these pests cannot survive in jars for days. I tried trapping a few bugs in the jar just as an experiment before I made this video, and they all died within 48 hours doing nothing. Where is the actual data showing neem oil being effective? Not anecdotes. Not online blog posts. Actual data showing experiments proving effectiveness. No one cites any, probably because there isn't much. Even if there were, why would anyone pay an average cost of about $150/gallon for neem oil that may or may not work, where you cannot observe the effects, when the other much less expensive products work almost instantaneously, all with none of the downsides of neem oil (terrible odor, sticky film, awful taste, sunscald of plants)?
You saw the effects of the experiment. Neem oil's support base operates on blind faith. If anyone can prove it works, I'm all eyes and ears. Currently, there is no proof that I've ever seen, and I looked. If someone can prove it, then they also have to justify the cost and side effects. When does that benefit equation ever balance?