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Dormant oil for aphids on Meyer Lemon Trees?

What is the safest dormant oil to use -we have aphids on our new Lemon Meyer Trees! Thanks

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    9 years ago
    Favorite Answer

    Safer® insecticidal soap or Neem® oil.

    They're not dormant oils but are eco-friendly...readily available...and certain death for aphids and many other garden-hostile bugs.

    Source(s): Older than dirt Zone 7 gardener.
  • jeffd
    Lv 6
    9 years ago

    My opinion the product would be Bonide All Seasons Dormant Oil,

    http://www.naturehills.com/product/bonide_all_seas...

  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    you should use cleansing soap and/or the hose to spray them off, yet i am going to at least one hundred% make certain that you'll always proceed to conflict them. the most ideal chemical you should use is termed Malathion. it truly is stinky stuff, in spite of the undeniable fact that it extremely works. you'll stumble on it at backyard centers or perhaps Wal Mart in the course of the gardening season. the foremost to fulfillment is that the spray ought to get on each and every leaf floor, exceptionally the undersides of the leaves.....if some are in a position to live to inform the tale they are going to repopulate very right away. It likely isn't a nasty idea to spray back in a pair weeks....shop a close eye on the tree after the first spraying and in case you note any signal of survivors, spray back.

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