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Insecticidal Soap killing my plants?

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chrischarles

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I have been having some minor pest pronblems with my babies outdoors so i got some organic insecticidal soap for use on tomato plants and vegetables. I recently caught some earwigs red handed mucnhing on my leaves and have noticed some mites and spider webs around my plants, although they were still healthy.

Now last night I mixed about 1:10 soap to water, put it in a water bottle and shook it so i could get bubbles, I then covered my plants in the bubbles and let the bubbles dry off, which happened relatively quickly, in the morning I noticed my plants starting to wilt. Now there was some wilting on the dry tips of the bottom leaves, but nothing serious, and now the new flowers are browning out, I will post pictures ASAP so you guys can tell me if there worth saving or if their dead, any insight is appreciated

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So you have looked over the instructions on the bottle completly?are the leaves coated still,like white pastyif so then the stuff is probably blocking out sun. best possable action to take would be possibly spray your plants down with some distiled water.alternative spray i would use according most information i've been studying would be neem oil.appearently it kicks ass.

Plz lemme know if this works,also if anyone has anyother info reading this post plz drop a line
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^^^^ this... wash the plant

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Yeah there was white residue on the leaves from the soap bubles I just washed it off, I was actually going to by this Neem Oil spray instead at home depot but It said it was for "making leaves shine", didnt say anything about pest control so i wasnt sure if that was a proper solution, despite me hearing Neem Oil is excellent, Ill post pictures later tonight and keep you updated


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