Anyone use garlic spray on bonsai

[SouthernMaple]

So I was talking to a fellow gardner friend and they suggested I try garlic water spray as a natural pesticide/fungicide, I googled it and it says: "Natural Pesticide/Insecticide: When used as a foliage spray, garlic is effective against aphids, Colorado potato beetles, whiteflies, bean beetles, cabbage worms, spider mites, moths (including the diamondback moth), ants, and termites "

Anyone ever have luck with this?

 

[Wires_Guy_wires]

My garlic plants are plagued by aphids every year. I think that tells enough about the effectivity.
Same goes with pepper blends; insects don't have the neural connections that mammals have and don't experience any spicyness.
Tobacco has long been replaced by neonicotinoids because most insects are resistant to regular nicotine.

I think that pretty much covers most of the good old grandma recipies.

 

[pnwnovice]

I don't know about other bugs but I know a few drops of peppermint oil and dish soap mixed into water and sprayed around the house keeps spiders away, also have put cinnamon down in the path that ants where using to get into my house and haven't seen them since. Currently trying to see if a layer of cinnamon will help get rid of fungus gnats on one of my indoor plants.

 

[SouthernMaple]

I don't know about other bugs but I know a few drops of peppermint oil and dish soap mixed into water and sprayed around the house keeps spiders away, also have put cinnamon down in the path that ants where using to get into my house and haven't seen them since. Currently trying to see if a layer of cinnamon will help get rid of fungus gnats on one of my indoor plants.

peppermint oil is great I spray all my windows and doors with it to keep bugs out of my house, an insectologist told me about that, he said it disables their radar, so they just turn around and go the other way. I guess ill start putting it on my bonsai to see if it does the same thing.

 

[leatherback]

I use garlic powder in my pots in spring as soon as I get the first aphids. My trees are aphid free for 4-8 weeks after that.

 

[substratum]

When we had horses we used garlic oil to combat mosquitoes, spraying it heavily under azalea and silverthorn hedgerows, in an attempt to interrupt the larva cycle. It’s somewhat subjective as to the effectiveness. The smell of garlic was definitely in the air for months during mosquito season.

I had several plastic gallon jugs stored unsecured in a stable stall, and either a raccoon or opossum managed to chew into the jugs and enrich their diet with the oil. The stable smelled of garlic oil for several years after that.

 

[penumbra]

Currently trying to see if a layer of cinnamon will help get rid of fungus gnats on one of my indoor plants.

Worked well for me last year.

 

[Mayank]

And it'll keep the vampires away too!

 

[sorce]

And it'll keep the vampires away too!

I used it for a year and the only effect was an influx in the vampire population of the neighboring town!

Sorce

 

[Nybonsai12]

I've never heard of using it for plants but I'm not surprised how useful it is. I eat a clove of raw garlic every so often for it's many health benefits. Everyone should.

 

[Mike Hennigan]

Will keep the vampires away at the very least!

 

[Forsoothe!]

Garlic enhances/complements the flavor of dishes high in fats. Trees don't (usually) don't have enough fat to use garlic on. I don't eat a lot of my trees, but who knows what the future will bring with Greenies and socialists, et al?

 

[Carol 83]

Garlic enhances/complements the flavor of

Most everything.

 

[BobbyLane]

i use it to keep away the vampires

 

[Mike Corazzi]

Since starting this stuff, I have had NO aphids OR scale.
And it feeds,too.

 

[Anthony]

Insects only attack sick trees.
41 years no problems.
Now leaf cutters / grasshoppers ........................
Get them lush.
Good Day
Anthony

 

[Mayank]

Insects only attack sick trees.
41 years no problems.
Now leaf cutters / grasshoppers ........................
Get them lush.
Good Day
Anthony

I dont' think that is true. Have had really healthy trees that have had insects wanna chew on them because they are healthy. Case in point my fukien tea. Every other year it has some insect issue. And its still alive. Its hard enough to keep a healthy Fukien alive. If it was sick it would have crossed the rainbow bridge loooong ago.

 

[Anthony]

@Mayank ,

On this side Fukien teas sleep from November / Christmas
until February, and they suffer from root sensitivity to
temperature ranges.
Possibly like the maple, 4 years no rest and they die.

They are zone 9/8 shrubs, not Tropical.
Hope that helps.
Good Day
Anthony

 

[Mayank]

@Mayank ,


Possibly like the maple, 4 years no rest and they die.

They are zone 9/8 shrubs, not Tropical.

Really? I did not know that.