Organic White Fly Control : How to get rid of Whiteflies & Aphids
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- We show you how to get rid of white flies and aphids organically and easily in your garden without the use of any insecticides or pesticides. Whiteflies and aphids can destroy your plants in minutes. Learn how to organically get rid of white flies and aphids.
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Facing a whitefly and aphid invasion in your organic garden? Fret not, for we have the solutions right here! Whiteflies and aphids can wreak havoc on your plants, but with our natural and organic methods, you can tackle them effectively without harming your garden's ecosystem.
🌱 Why Organic Control Matters:
Opting for organic methods ensures that you're not introducing harmful chemicals to your plants or the environment. It's safe for you, beneficial insects, and the earth!
🐞 Beneficial Predators:
Discover which garden-friendly insects can act as natural predators to keep whitefly and aphid populations in check.
💦 Natural Repellents & Solutions:
From homemade sprays to introducing specific plants that repel these pests, learn various strategies to protect your plants naturally.
🌿 Regular Monitoring & Care:
Tips on how to routinely check for early signs of infestation, ensuring timely intervention and minimal damage.
❓ Understanding the Enemy:
A quick overview of what whiteflies and aphids are, their lifecycle, and why they can be detrimental to your plants.
By embracing organic solutions, you're choosing a sustainable, eco-friendly approach to gardening. Protect your plants, yield a healthy harvest, and ensure a thriving garden free from these pesky invaders. Subscribe for more organic gardening tips and tricks!
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I find that simple garlic water sprayed once per week works great. I make enough to let the remainder sit overnight to spray a second day and it seems to last for a week or two. 2 cloves blended with a little water and filtered for a spray bottle.
does that affect the taste of your fruit and vegetables? I have whiteflies on basil and tomatoes...
That's true..
@@MJQL what’s wrong with garlic infused basil or tomatoes?
@@MJQL plants have a self cleaning property just like humans. If you have touch a bit of poop on your body, the smell will go away by itself in a few days even you don’t do anything to it. Same with plants
Finally, I found out what these things are on my plants! Thank you for sharing! ❤️
Right I lost corn due to them I hate them so tiny to rid I was wondering do they cause allergies to spark too
Removing all the lower branches at least one foot above ground. Thinning out the remaining branches and leaves to have good air circulation and 🌞 sun exposure. Feeding the plant well so is not in stress. A lot of pruning works for me.
Thanks for info
What plant are you pruning? Squash? Green beans?
Thank you, I found the manual removal with water method works fantastic. It's just time consuming but the only thing that has worked for me.
I also use the yellow sticky paper for aphids and white flies, but I did not know about the Castille soap spray! Great tip thanks!!
I use a mix of 5ml neem oil and 5ml liquid soap in 1 litre water. The soap washes off the protective coat on the aphids or white flies and the neem oil kills them. Of course, this is only when the ladybugs don't do the job sufficiently well. You may have to spray everyday or alternate days for about a week till the patch is totally free from these pests.
Neem oil will not work on it's own, you need the soap along with it. The soap alone also is only a partial job, so please add the neem oil to it. Yes, the Bronners castile in this video has peppermint and other essential oils that do most of the job, but if you're in a place like where I live and don't get this castile soap, just use your simplest liquid soap and neem oil.
Another thing that works pretty well is compost tea (or Panchagavyam) sprayed over the foliage. While making your compost tea, add a little Pseudomonas to the bucket. This actually improves the plant's resistance to aphids and other pests.
Thank you so much for sharing this my friend.
Mr. Praveen ..sorry to ask this silly question...since im in india i wont be getting cheap castillle soap..so can u suggest the soap brand u use with neem cuz i dont want to burn my plants with caustic soaps.
Thank you for sharing, this recipe works for me the best. Soap alone does not for some reason. These things are so resistant. One question, where do you get Pseudomonas-any natural source?
Eva
you can use dish wash liquid or soapnut ie rita soak 2 OR THREE IN WATER AT N MORNG SQUUEZE U WILL GET SOAPNUT WATER USE THIS
I simply mixred washing soap powder with water and sprsted on chilli plant leaves, saw good result after 3 - 4 days' sprays.
The soap spray n yellow sticky trap really worked to get rid of all the white flies in my garden.Thank you.
I didn't know about the yellow colour attraction, thank you!
I like your gardening videos very much for your sweet Indian accent, your use of organic methods for fertilising ( often from the kitchen ! Like banana skins rice , onions etc.) and your organic methods of eliminating pests like white flies. I will definitely try castile soap. So far I have been using a mix of rubbing alcohol, dishwashing soap and water. But I have to keep on spraying it almost daily or the infestation returns.
Just a note, but healthy plants have fewer (if any) problems with insects and disease. Whiteflies tend to attack stressed or otherwise undernourished and/or weak plants. If you are seeing this type of problem, the underlying cause may actually be more related to plant health than to the "symptom" of insect infestation. The quick fix is to take care of the symptom. The real solution is to FEED YOUR SOIL! If you have healthy soil, you WILL have healthy plants.
UrbanGardenFarms That is a possibility, but if you live in a hot and humid part of the country or world, whiteflies may be a problem even in the best soil and on the healthiest plants.
AU9377 Yes I would agree with this. My hibiscus plants are extremely healthy and flowering very well but the whiteflies seem to love it, they nest like crazy there. I cleared them for two consecutive years and they seem to be gone now and are not returning.
AU9377 And yes we do have a hot climate with moderate humidity as well so the whiteflies seem to thrive in such conditions
Foliar application of a good compost tea once a month will typically solve problems with whiteflies.
Thank you so much for this.
My recipe is 1ltr water+ 10ml neem oil+ 5 ml liquid soap+2clove garlic crushed+ 2 hot chillies.
If infestation is high, add some coffee powder and clove oil/ crushed cloves, strain and mix with above solution. Definitely works for white flies, aphids and mealybugs.
Can i use this without neem oil?
awesome thank you for sharing this to TH-cam this is very helpful now we can get rid of them we had this for 2 years now this will stop
My hibiscus is doing beautifully; most whiteflies gone. I made solution of jalapeños and garlic. I spray ones a week now. Thanks again. 😊
Nice to know it worked for you! Happy Gardening!
St Lucia
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Maria Lucia Gomez-Greenberg
Jalapeños?
Maria Lucia Gomez-Greenberg ratio for solution?
Thank you very much I have a prune tree full of Whiteflies so suffer of these insect
You saved my beloved spearmint! Thank you so much, and very effective video! Well done :)
Thank you for your recommendations. I am Colombian but learned to eat spicy food from my Mexican students, who taught me how to cook and love jalapeños peppers. I now make my own salsa and learned to blend 2 jalapeno peppers and a head of garlic to make a great, natural spray to get rid of whiteflies. After jalapeños and garlic are blended, I pour mixture through sieve and use liquid in sprayer. I sprayed my hibiscus plant and it is doing much better now. I will give it a spray of jalapeños and garlic again until they are all gone.
Someone gave me a recipe of soap, water, cayenne pepper, garlic, and onion. They said it works great on white flies. I sprayed my plants, and they all turned brown and the leaves fell off. Now I'm resurrecting my babies. Of course, the white flies are happy and healthy, and for some reason are more productive than ever.
Sorry to hear that! :-/ The mixture I use, very successfully, is only 1 garlic head and 2 jalapeños. After I make my smoothy in the morning, I use my blender to blend garlic and jalapeños in 2 liters of water, put the mixture through a colander, pour it into a spray bottle and spray away all the fruit flies. My hibiscus looks healthier than ever before. I wish I could figure out how to post a picture to show show you. Good luck! M
Maria Lucia Gomez-Greenberg
Maria Lucia Gomez-Greenberg, do you use an entire head of garlic with two jalapeños? Just want to make sure it’s a head (10-12 bulbs) and not just one bulb. Thanks
Las hojas de mi hibiscus tienen huecos..seguiendo tu receta para eliminar las moscas blancas..2 jalapenos y 1 diente de ajo o todo la cabeza de un ajo en 2 litros de agua ? Gracias :)
Another great one. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you so much for this information. Yes, Dr. Bronner's liquid soap is awesome for cleaning off the bugs and helping to control ongoing infestation!
Thanks for the tips!
I seem to have to spray a neem oil and water mix, or a spinosad and water mix, or an organic insecticidal soap and water mix on my plants frequently - like every few days lately. The aphids, ants, whiteflies, cabbage worms and whatever else seem to
be very hardy. I'm going to try the castile peppermint soap solution you recommended too. Thank you.
Thank you for your video! Won't the castile soap, as well as the other suggestions by commenters, interfere with the good bugs (like ladybugs, praying mantis) that eat the aphids? Hosing off, yellow tape, good pruning practices, and buying and releasing these good bugs might be a better way to go if you don't want to kill the good bugs. I hope you can give me some guidance on this. Thank you in advance.
Thank you!! I did not know washing them would work I jus did it but now u conform u was I was doing the right thing so thanks a lot!!👏👏👏👏
hi, to avoid froth forming in sprayer just add water first and soap second .... not the other way around. Voila!
This does not mix sufficiently. The soap is thick and tends to fall to the bottom. Then you have to shake it to mix it which defeats the purpose. The method he suggests is technically the standard requirement.
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Tie a little string to the water spigot as a guide for the water on low, if you don't want to sit there and hold the container sideways. But the Castile soap is brilliant.
Thank you! Great to see your suggesting the Dr. Bronners soap. wish I'd remembered to do that before my white flies took over.
thanks for sharing
Last year the white flies ruined my broccoli. I didn't know they were under the leaves until it was too late. This year I'm going to get a leg up on it. I'm going to get some Dr. Bronners right now!
I'll try Dr. Bronners! When I asked my Mama about it, she said, "Oh, yes! I used to use that in my garden all the time!"
Use 5ml shampoo + 1tbspn vegetable oil for 1 litre water and spray
This works
Thanks so much for this!!!!
Thanks for your suggestion
excellent video and thank you for the link :)
Hi great video thank you. I have castile soap but it is scented with citrus¬orange is that OK?
I do what tolka, maria, stampified do and no aphids or white flies - keep up the great job bud!
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Hello all, great video. Castle soap is great but I also use simple green and hydrogen peroxide. The white flies are completely gone. My entire palm tree botanical garden is organic. There are ways to treat without pesticides. Happy gardening.
I use the Dr. Bronner's plus a garlic clove, green onion and dried chili pepper in the sprayer bottle (mine is 1 gallon) the whole vegetables keep the sprayer from getting plugged.
DonnaldaSmolens That's a nice recipe to ward off pests. Thanks for sharing!
Spraying minestrone to your vegetables is beneficial for your plants
Thanks for the tips. I had the biggest problem with whiteflies last year. This year I haven't seen a single one.
farmboy319 I think after I removed all my white fly nests last year, I do not see them this year (at least so far) as well :) I was driving by my friend's place and there was a palm tree full of huge whitefly infestation. Looks like they move from place to place.
Was talking to my neighbor yesterday. He said that whiteflies have been horrible for the past few months. The whiteflies went away a few months ago for me lol. I guess the whiteflies like what he had more then what I had lol.
Thank you for your tips
Thanks, will try soap spray today! Whiteflies are taking over the brassica bed!
Very informative thank you
very helpful Sir, i have the castile soap, so used it asap. Hopefully they will be gone soon. I have them all over my indoor plant.
can you get the yellow sticky traps wet? thinking of both the soap and sticky traps--are the traps available on Amazon?
I loved this video. Thanks, dude!
Martin M. Show us how to grow enthusiasm properly
Can I use this for my guava tree,?
I worms go inside the guava fruit
Thank you for your suggestions, I’ve only just started to grow tomatoes and white fly are already a problem even though I’ve been using an organic bug spray. I’m going to try your recommendations now.
Glad it was helpful! Watch our other videos too!
Very helpful! Thank you!
What can be used when you do Aquaponics for the white flies?
Thanks for your help.It means a lot to me.
Glad it was helpful! Happy Gardening!
I'm going to try the castile soap method. Thank you.
did it work?
Will the neem leaves also help , if soak in warm water?
Thank you for the tips..
This is my first time with a veggie garden, so when I saw these little whiteflies flying about my tomato, eggplant and pepper plant this afternoon I took action! This evening I sprayed a mixture of dawn, alcohol, canola oil, tan listerene and water. I am taking a wild guess and combining everything I had available from each tip I read. I really hope this works!!
Did it work?
Yea, did it
Did it work
love your hibiscus, i have mine too its red and pink
+Orange Lee Yes the hibiscus color is one of the best we have. Found it after a lot of difficulty in one of the local nurseries! Red and Pink is also a nice variety!
Thanks man big help
Thanks..will try neem oil and soap. I have done panchagavya spray recently. Wil try neem oil and soap tomorrow..Its not yet as bad as what you captured here. Will do this 2-3 days once for a week
Does the Castile Soap solution helps controlling mealybugs? Can this be used by mixing with Neem oil?
I'll try that thanks
I am staying in Malaysia. I could not find any pure Castile soap. ARE there any alternatives? Can I use any soap to replaced? Thanks Sir
Thanks for sharing. My guava tree is also infested with white flies and ants. I uses water neem oil and liquid soap spray and panchgavya diluted water.
I am to task just yesterday yet to see visible outcome will post findings
Thank you good information...
Thank you for the video! how often should i spray?
Once every 2 days till they are gone!
Thanks my friend
Thanks so much
Can you tell us how to get rid of mitai
This is very helpful, Thank you!
Great new ideas , thank you for sharing
thank you, that was a great tip
Anita V Thanks, glad you liked it!
Hi. How often should i use the Castile soap?
I used seven dust on mine!! :0 I wish I would have seen this first X(
Mine hang out on the top of the leaves also, does that mean they are not white fly ever though they are white flies?
I tried using the water hose and diatomaceous earth on the dirt below. Then, neem oil spray. It curbed the white flies but not completely--which means I need to do another treatment or try something new-- like what you suggested.
Awesome! Thanks ! Liked & subbed
Question. Will the peppermint scent in the soap cause the veggies ( especially brassicas) to taste like soap when harvesting? Even after washing the veggies?
OMG the stickytraps! As I turned over the giant leaves of pervian groundcherry plants to check the progress of lacewing larvae hatching, and remove any harmful 3-lined potato beetles, I was amazed to see how many white flies would fly straight off the leaves and onto the paper. Great if your plants are in a state of crisis!
I didn't leave the trap out over night, because common green lacewings fly around in the evening pollinating plants and laying their eggs. Don't want any to get stuck!
Helpful but i didnt have the castille soap and i just used dish soap and water and trimmed at the bottom of my hollyhocks! this was helpful but it keeps on coming back? what should i do?
Reply if you can!
Thanks 🙏🏻
So I've tried several things and never thought to just spray them with water. Does it drown them? Won't they just fly off and come back? Tia
yeah spraying with water is dumass suggestion.
thanks
How often do you spray the plant to keep flush away.
Neem oil and soap is the best solution and only water is worst coz white flies spreads to others plants also... I hve experienced it.
Water alone works too in the very early stages of infection. But it has to be applied with something that creates very strong jets of water. Whiteflies are very fragile. The water washes eggs and larvae and pupas from the leaves to the ground, and damages adults and also washes them to the ground, where bacteria and other ground-bound critters take care of them. If you just mildly set your plants, no matter how thoroughly, it won't do any good indeed.
It takes a bit of effort but yields a great byproduct. This method was given to me by a San Clemente Garden store just a bit off of Del Mar. Make a earthworm composter. He mentioned than then enzyme produced by the earthworms when applied to the plants gets taken up and systemically repels the whiteflies. Sure enough it works! Spectacularly. I grew a whole variety of plants in my deck and if you have any experience with whiteflies they attack everything including rosemary bushes. One I started using earthworm compost, my own fresh brewing, they became nonexistent. Even with with neighboring bushes growing only a three feet away covered all summer with them. Only once in a while a small population would take a foothold, but only rarely. Just double down on the earthworm compost and it was a done deal. Worked well small scale for a long time. Used an old cooler with holes drilled in it and worms gathered from the backyard
Interesting, I will look into this. Thanks for sharing!
How do you apply earthworm compost to repel whiteflies?
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My question exactly!
Take the earthworm compost, a very sticky dark sludge from the sides or bottom of the cooler ( as I used ) and spread it out about an inch or so thick around the plant. In my case inside the planting pot. At this point just water it in. Subsequent watering will get more in. Like I said earlier the enzyme in the compost will be taken up by the plant and provide the protection systemically as well as give you one of nature’s best fertilizers. My experience when I lived in Southern California eliminated whiteflies and left my plants untouchable after that. lGood luck.
I don't have a garden but have managed to Finally keep two poinsettias growing tall in a planter pot on my porch. They are beautiful and today I see a few whiteflies flying around, it's early no infestation yet. I'm SOOO Angry :-(... I'm going to try the wash down and sticky tape method as you suggested. I tried the wash down & dish soap another person stated he used...that didn't work for my plants last year. Thanks again.
I had no idea what these things were called. They jump and they were all over a lot of the weeds and little trees growing in my back yard. I did some major weeding. They have been attacking my potato plant. I am hoping that by weeding I got rid of a lot of the problem. I spayed them with a peppery spray from Noreen's Garden, they did not like that! Any ways, I have been looking for natural/organic ways to kill insects. Thanks for the video. One last thing, does the soapy spray effect the soil at all? The sticky tape is an excellent idea too.
thank you very much
I grow sunflowers which attracts ladybugs and wasps who eat the whitefly and other aphyds, I also apply beuveria a microscopic fungi who feeds from the insects that eat your plants.
didnt know this. r u sure it does not have side effects
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But does fungus has any side effects?
Udayan Verma no. Theu don't make any harm to us.
When you spray the plant with water does this kill the bugs? it seems like they would just fly away & spread to other plants or fall to the ground & spread to other plants? I've always used a mixture of bit of dawn dishsoap with water in a spray bottle.. Ill try adding the neem oil next time.. Dawn also kills flees. Ive bathed my dogs with a bit of dawn & instantly kills the flees.
Hi! I have a questions about whitefly’s and the stress they can cause a plant…I currently have a Chinese Hibiscus that was pretty heavily infested. I did a heavy pruning on it mid March. Sense then, I can’t believe what I’m seeing, but all of the new growth on it is a completely different shape!! All of the old growth (old leaves) are in the classic tear drop shape. All of my new growth (new leaves) are the classic half circle on the bottom like normal but they have become tri-tipped!! Each leaf has three distinct tips on it!! It’s crazy…I’ve never seen anything like this. Have you? Could this be cause by the stress of the infestation I wonder? I’m still dealing with the infestation, however it’s not as bad as it was before the pruning. I’m fighting a loosing battle here…I have some 20 some plants that are infected…I’ve been waiting for the weather to turn so that I can get them outside and treated and then as the infestations clear up, I can bring them back inside…I’ve kind of just been trying to nurse them all through until then…I love having a sun room but man, so do the whitefly’s!!
The smaller pesky insects are real lushes.
I put out a shallow dish of wine.
Issues are typically resolved within 24 to 48 hours.
Did this work for the white flies as well? If so what type of wine did you use? I'm not a drinker so please can you be specific so I know what to ask for at the store. Thank you
we can use neem,turmeric,and with salt mixture ,have u tried
I have had disease in my bermuda lawn and been unable to fix it, almost had me beliieving it was something else. Now, I am finding out I have whiteflies, and i thinking ive had them for for a few yrs on my crepe myrtles and just never noticed. Do you think they might be the culprit for my lawn disease issues? The reason I took notice was my crepes didnt bloom this summer. I plan to hit my crepes hard in early spring with a dormant oil.
i use neem water. boiled neem leaves for 15 minutes. prepare dilute solution as per your gut feelings as per need of the plant. use sprayer which forces the white bug to fall. remove it till by force spray if required. clean the plant completely with all leaves and stems. it worked for me.
Hi.. could you please let us know how to prepare a neem oil at home?
I successfully use Neem Oil. 10 ml of oil and one ltr. and spray. It works very well
Hi I leave in Canada.
Where do you get Neem oil?
Can I get it from supermarket?
Is been oil something that people use for cooking too?
@@shahrzadghesehgoo33 Neem oil is not for cooking. It's super bitter. It's from the neem plant that is native to India. Get it at Indian food stores or online.
Neam Oil is not available in Canada but its very expansive in small bottles at natural products store. Whar else we can use which is not making holes in pocket.
Hi...very informative video...thank u...
I use WDC waste decomposer...
which is used as spray for pest control as well as applied in soil for growth...every week.
..very effective...stopped neem oil...and sprays...
My garden is 90% pest free...
Is effective on white fly. Plain WDC is sufficient.
U also have mealy bugs on tomato plant. How did u control them?
Is Castile soap organic ? Can I spray on vegetable ?
Does it matter what 'flavour' the liquid soap comes in? seeing a lot of lavender, peppermint etc.?
In my country, drought is a serious issue. By mid summer, it is illegal to use running water on plants, lawns r to wash cars.
I think the yellow sticky traps would be a better recommendation.
By the way, could u make a video giving suggestions on how to farm during extended drought? This would be really appreciated.
What i do suggest is during the rainy season do some water harvesting. If you have access to drums bottles kegs buckets. Try catching and storing those water to assist in tge dry season. I do have some simple irrigation methods on my channel that may also help. Feel free to check it out. I wish you well
I use baking soda, olive oil, Soap Nut Soap and spray the solution all over the plants regularly. Many time I use Neem oil mostly when I spray in the evening. As Neem oil damages the plant in case used in morning e.g. Tomato plant is very susceptible to neem.
Thanks for your tip!
May I ask, why the olive oil Udayan?
These guys are on my indoor tomatoes! Drive me crazy. I mixed together dish soap, water, rubbing alcohol, and some chili powder and sprayed down the plants. Hopefully tmr they will be better
Did it work?
I live close central CA where whitefly seems to be a permanent issue here. I kept doing what you said, but it's extremely difficult. I need to change all my outdoor pads on a weekly basis. I need to spray them once or twice a week (Dr. Bronners, Neem oil and peppermint oil). Whenever the weather gets warmer, for 2+ days, if I don't spray and change the yellow pads, in 2-3 days I can see whiteflies all over my plants. It's disgusting.
Try covering them. You arent killing the eggs possibly.
First wash thrly ..scnd use neem oil+liquid detergent+vegitable oil..next week use garlic water+liquid detergent+vegitable oil....next week use chemical based pesticides....thats how we do here in India
Thanks
Hey .. everyone Moniee-Mon, is listening thanks for the info vedios keep doing what'cha do best God bless ya 😇💞💯💝🙏
I just launched a carton full of ladybugs on my tomato plants infested with whiteflies and larvae. Will the Castile soap spray harm the ladybugs and their larvae?