Organic Weeds Growing With Neem Oil

John Weeds · Jul 31, 2015

Hello All, G'day
I started growing organic garden vegetables and weeds recently. Please shed a light on... Please see my plants picture attached here... My questions are,

1. Why it is so thin even after 8/9 weeks? Sativa? or less nutrition?
2. Everytime I used neem oil it worries me. What is the proper ratio with water?
3. For surfactant, can I use ASPA 80 (an Amway product for agriculture)? Does anyone used it before?

Yesterday, I sprayed neem oil under the leaf(may be I should reduce the concentration to 5ml/litre) with liquid handwash. Eventhough, I don't see logic in droplet creating lens effect, but here in India most Farmer I spoke to, they don't water the plants when sun is up already, normally they water it early morning or after/during sunset. I reckon, these on field farmer know something.

Thank you in advance.

derkaderk · Jul 31, 2015

Neem is an oil, so when applied and left on the leaf, the sun heats the oil on the leaf causing it to burn. All garden oil will behave this way.

I still use neem, but I use it in the evening, and then spray with plain water early as the sun is coming up to wash off the oil.

lazyfarma420 · Jul 31, 2015

derkaderk said:
Neem is an oil, so when applied and left on the leaf, the sun heats the oil on the leaf causing it to burn. All garden oil will behave this way.

I still use neem, but I use it in the evening, and then spray with plain water early as the sun is coming up to wash off the oil.

I agree spray in the evening u use neem spray every 4-6 days to keep the aphids and whiteflies away as far as your plant being thing has to be your nutes

lazyfarma420 · Jul 31, 2015

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it neem

lazyfarma420 · Jul 31, 2015

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John Weeds · Aug 10, 2015

Thanks to all... somehow, it survived, even after I didn't rinse off the neem oil in the leaves.
Well, now it is on the track...

PFA. The droplets you see are morning drizzle and rest of the day is hot above 33° Celsius. Hope it grows well...