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Whitefly Spray Recipe (Finally!)

Hi All,
Sorry for posting this so late, but I lost the original message,
and the person who wanted the recipe for the whitefly spray, so I
don't know who to reply to, so I'm sending it to the whole list.

The Whitefly and Egg Spray is a Horticultural Oil/Alcohol Spray.
It is from page 258 of Rodale's Garden Problem Solver.
It kills insects (mostly whiteflies, but maybe flea beetles too)
on contact and smothers eggs and young.

Recipe(s):      Mix 1 cup isopropyl alcohol (rubbing alcohol, or
                          70% alcohol, at store)
                with 1/2 teaspoon Volck oil
                in one quart of water total; OR

                4 cups (one quart) alcohol
                3 quarts water
                2 teaspoons Volck oil

Spray every one to two days until controlled. Saturate above and below
leaves and all plant parts.

The book doesn't say anything about this, but I would not spray on a
very hot day - the alcohol will burn. I usually spray in the late
evening just as the sun's going down.

I used this last year and saw nary a whitefly after 3 every other day
sprayings.
Good luck, and sorry again about the wait and the lack of social graces
on my part for not remembering who you are....:)
Shawn
swestaway@smtplink.coh.org
Claremont, CA  USDA9b Sunset19

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