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Dormant Oil Spray

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Dormant Oil Spray

Combine the Following:

1/2 c. fish oil

1 c. liquid detergent

1/2 c. mineral oil

Blend well. Add:

2 gallons water

Pour the liquid into a sprayer. Apply when tree is dormant, anytime from winter to late April, Prior to bud development. Be sure to cover the tree in a single spraying.
Pests this works on: aphids, thrips, mealybugs, white flies, pear psylla, red spiders, and various forms of scale.

Use it to destroys eggs of codling moths, oriental fruit

moths, assorted leaf rollers, and cankerworms.

Melissa 'Liss' Burnell, Founder of Budget101

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