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Ortho® Elementals® Insecticidal Soap

Ortho Elementals Insecticidal Soap

Overview & Benefits

    Kills many indoor and outdoor insects fast.

  • This formula may be used up to the day of harvest, does not persist in the environment, and can be used for organic gardening.
  • For use on vegetables, fruit and nut trees, citrus, berries, ornamentals, shrubs, flowers, and trees in homes, gardens, and greenhouses.
  • Specially selected active ingredient: Potassium salts of fatty acids (soap salts).

Available sizes:

    24 FL. OZ., 32 FL. OZ.

How to Use

Shake container before use. Thoroughly spray insect pests to wetting on all plant parts, including undersides of leaves.

How often to apply

Repeat treatment weekly or bi-weekly if needed. May be used on edible crops up to and including day of harvest.

Where to Use

Insect pest, all plant parts, including undersides of leaves. For use indoors, outdoors, and in greenhouses on: fruit and nut trees (e.g., apples, cherries, peaches, pears, pecans, almonds); corn; soybeans; melons; tomatoes; vegetables (e.g., beans, cabbage, cucurbits, peas, potatoes); figs; small fruits (e.g., grapes, strawberry, raspberry); citrus; houseplants; ornamental and bedding plants; ornamental and shade trees (e.g., birch, evergreens, holly, oak).

Where Not to Use

Do not use on sweet peas, nasturtiums, delicate ferns. Use with care on new seedlings, transplants, and blooms. Avoid spraying during full sun.

What it Controls

Insects: Adelgids, Aphids, Caterpillars (tent), Earwigs, Grasshoppers, Lacebugs, Leafhoppers, Mealybugs, Mites, Plant Bugs, Psyllids, Sawfly Larvae, Scale, Spider Mites, Thrips, Whiteflies, and Wooly aphids*

Benefits

For organic gardening.

Controls insects indoors and outdoors..

May be used up to day of harvest.

Does not persist in the environment.

Container Type

Ready to use

Active Ingredients

Potassium Salts of Fatty Acids 1%
Other Ingredients 99%

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