How To Make DIY Organic Pest Spray For Your Fruit Trees!

In this video I will explain how to formulate and apply your own dormant oil spray for fruit trees.

The goal, with properly applied dormant oil spray, is that the fruit tree is rendered free of harmful bugs as well as their eggs and fungal spores.

This recipe has been proven for me on the following fruit trees: crabapple, apple, plum, pear, quince & currants.

There are optimal time windows to apply the spray, I’ll explain what needs to happen BEFORE and AFTER the application so that you can be sure your timing is right on!

For each gallon (~4 liters) of water you add these 3 ingredients:
1 cup veg oil
1 tablespoon baking soda
1 tablespoon pure castile soap

[ShellyWason]

Thanks so much, Stacey, this was exactly what I needed. I've been intimidated by the whole idea of spraying my apple trees, but this diy organic solution makes it so accessible. Got the job done this morning!

[f.demascio]

This is EXACTLY what i was looking for.
Straight to the point, essential details & demonstration.
Thanks.

[tinytexasgarden]

Interesting. Sounds like you are using vegetable oil the same way that many would use Neem oil. Thanks for sharing. 💜

[Yuro_eatsplatez]

I boiled garlic and mixed that with dishsoap. No more critters eating my peaches. It's the first year so far and it's working great

[thevic]

Great Vid. Does this work on the leaves that have spots on them already? I just planted my first tree...so I'm new to this. Appreciate the help.

[marienovak]

I do that for my trees and my body because insect and worms and mites are coming out from my skin we got it from our tree when we tream them before and tiny mites and worms are coming out thank you so much 🙏

[GloriaGonzalez-eo]

I appreciate very much the great recommendation to be save n get read of bags n fungus from our fruit trees, I'm glad you are sharing, hope a lot of people will be very helpful, thanks

[kami]

Great info. Love that you tell us why we need to use things in your videos. My questions that I need addressed are: How often do you spay this? What about after the leaves appear, what do you use then? What do you do when the fruit appears? Hopefully you have videos on the way that will cover these topics. Thanks

[moragmillar]

Hi am new to fruit trees i have a apple tree and its never been treated because i moved into the house so i want to look after the tree really good apples 🍎

[clairestile]

Than you so much! I just planted new trees and the bugs are all over them already. They are between 4 and 6 feet tall.

[preshussunshine]

Thank for this information, I have 23 trees to spray so this is perfect

[irenemackenzie]

thanks Stacey, was just going to order a kit but will use your method instead. Kudos to your efforts to slowly
change us to appreciate nature more.

[rrbb]

Perfect! And luckily I have all the ingredients already on hand. But I think I’ll stand UPWIND rather than “downwind” as you suggest [5:20] 😂 😘

[sfred]

I love that this is organic and a win-win situation!

[subbashpatel]

Thank you for sharing. Going to use on my fruit trees this year. Will give you feed back on how this went may be in year.

[etelvinaherrera]

What can I use if my Apple tree already has baby apples? I got the tree 3 weeks ago and have a pest issue already. Please help 😮

[julesd]

Hi, I am new to taking care of fruit trees so I really appreciate your videos! Question about spraying the fruit trees... I just planted some fruit trees last summer so they are pretty small. Do I spray the whole tree or just the bark?

[vikkidestree]

Hi! Thank you so much for this homemade spray. I just ordered Casteel soap to get started. How often do I use this spray?

[benacker]

I have heard of some people simply using dish soap and water to control bugs on fruit trees.
The dormant oil sounds like a good addition to that for early in the season.

[veronicadeevers]

Thanks! I'm really new to having an apple tree. Need to do a lot of pruning this fall.