This year I got on top of pruning and prepping my trees right on time. I pruned them about a week ago. Today I made a homemade Dormant oil. I looked into commercially made Dormant oil and found it was pretty toxic. The oil I made included the following ingredients: veg oil (1 cup), gallon water, few tablespoons of baking soda, hydrogen peroxide and dr. bronners soap. I think my pear trees have blight or some microbe that turns the leaves black and curly. I hope this helps! Anyway I made the mix in a 1gal sprayer and it worked great!
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DIY Dormant Oil - Fruit Trees
This year I got on top of pruning and prepping my trees right on time. I pruned them about a week ago. Today I made a homemade Dormant oil. I looked into commercially made Dormant oil and found it was pretty toxic. The oil I made included the following ingredients: veg oil (1 cup), gallon water, few tablespoons of baking soda, hydrogen peroxide and dr. bronners soap. I think my pear trees have blight or some microbe that turns the leaves black and curly. I hope this helps! Anyway I made the mix in a 1gal sprayer and it worked great!
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I think a touch of tea tree oil in the mix might help, I'm not sure. Tea tree oil being a known bacteriacide. That would of course depend if it reacts negatively with UV or with the plant buds.
A good natural insecticide for the growing season is tobacco tea. Just steep some regular tobacco in hot water like a tea. Add a dash of natural soap and spray the bugs with it. I had worms (caterpillars) in the wild roses last year and the tobacco tea helped a lot, although I needed multiple treatments for those pernicious bastards.
i had heard of the tobacco trick before but forgotten. i think it was a native new mexican who told me. thanks! i'm going to try it this year. i'm also going to look up tea tree for plant use, sounds logical.
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