🌱 Get rid of scale on houseplants ⬆️ with this easy recipe!

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🪴Scale on your houseplants? Don’t fret — houseplant expert Aaron Deacon of BIOS Nutrients is here with the solution!

Here’s how to get rid of scale – for good.

✅ Step one: pry off the adult scale from your plant – those guys are stuck on, and the only way to remove them is to pull them off (this is the only hard part)
✅ Step two: mix up Aaron’s recipe for insecticidal soap to get rid of the eggs, crawlers and baby insects.
✅ Step three: thoroughly saturate the plant stem and the tops and undersides of all the leaves

➡️ Aaron’s recipe for insecticidal soap
½ TBSP olive oil (or other vegetable oil)
2 drops of castile or natural liquid soap
1 TBSP diatomaceous earth
.25 mL (yucca extract
1 L (4 cups) distilled or filtered water (not tap)

Blend until thoroughly mixed (no visible drops of separated oil)
Pour into a spray bottle and get spraying!

[siddf]

As far as I know, if you hydrate diatomaceous earth, it basically becomes inoffensive for insects with exoskeleton. Will it be active again when dry?

[BAR-Lifted]

Does oil matter? I have more canola than olive