Vegetable Oil

Marijuana Horticulture

by Jorge Cervantes

Ingredients – Fatty acids and glycerides.

Controls – Lightweight vegetable oil kills slow moving and immobile sucking insects, spider mites, and their eggs by smothering as well as generally interrupting their life cycles.

Caution – Vegetable oil does not kill as well as horticultural oil.

Mixing – Mix two drops of oil spray – no more than a one percent solution – per quart of water.

Application – Spray foliage entirely, including under surface of leaves. Stop spraying two weeks before harvest.

Persistence – Several days.

Forms – Liquid.

Toxicity – Not toxic to mammals or fish.

Safety – Wear a mask and gloves.