How do I make garlic spray for roses to get rid of thrips?
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To be effective, you need a water soluble oil in your garlic spray and the mix must be boiled for the oils to absorb the garlic and only then will the spray be effective in attaching to the roses and wart off the pests .
Here is a formula used even by commercial growers of roses.
!. Two gallons of boiling water, into which you squeeze thru a hand clamp sieve five cloves of garlic. Then add 1/2 cup of mineral oil to this boiling mixture. If you have mites of any kind, add the equivalent of the tobacco from 3 cigarettes.
2. Boil this mixture for 15 minutes. Then let it cool down and filter it thru a rag filter removing all the larger particles. Then you can add this to a regular garden sprayer and use on roses directly. The mix keeps well for about a month, and it is very effective on all sorts of pests that want to settle onto the roses.
If you are living in an area of the country where the temperature is below 85 on daytime highs, you can also make a mix of ordinary garden sulfur to rid of mold and fungus that attacks roses. Add about 2 tablespoons to 2 gallons of water for this mix.
Smash an entire bulb of fresh garlic -put in 1 quart of water. 2 or 3 hot peppers as well (hot as you can find - habenero or scotch bonnet or something). Let sit three days.
Strain into spray bottle. add a tsp of liquid dish soap. Spray on plants. It works really well keeping flea beetles off my eggplants, though you do have to spray periodically to keep the pests at bay.
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