Bonide Captain Jack's Neem Max, 8 oz Concentrated Cold Pressed Neem Oil, Multi-Purpose Insecticide, Fungicide, Miticide and Nematicide for Organic Gardening

I had bought a gardenia that was shipped to me. It arrived with some sort of small bugs that were putting pin holes in the leaves. I bought this to kill whatever it was and it worked on the unknown pin hole bug. 😆 Having burnt plants before I mixed and applied it on a cloudy day and kept the plant in a shaded area to be on the safe side. The plant is doing well and thriving! I did not notice a particularly strong scent. There was no leakage, and I've relied on Captain Jack products before. I can't remember the dosage but I mixed it in a quart sized sprayer and feel the product is a good value..because it's a consistent product and I've used CJs before. Tried and true. I didn't want to take a chance on an unknown.

Just what I needed to battle pesky mealybugs on my indoor birds of paradise. This was way more cost effective than buying the individual bottles and I love that this uses less waste in packaging. A little goes a long way and this bottle will last for many manyyyyy applications. 🪴

I've been using this product for many years now. One bottle has lasted me a very long time. And whenever I need to use it to take away the bugs, it's like 2 times I'll use it on the plants. 2 waterings and then the bugs are gone. It works really, really good. I have never had it hurt any of my plants. I've used it on delicate plants and it has worked well. I just put it in the soil when I water. The soil really well and then I put the product on top. After I've watered it, I don't spray the leaves with it or anything like that. How about it kills the bugs in the soil? And yeah, it works good. I would recommend this to anyone.

Good product, not an immediate fix though. I had an aphid problem ( not quite an infestation, but definitely on its way to causing major damage to my seedlings) that was causing an ant problem because of the sticky residue that the aphids leave behind. I diluted the product as directed on the bottle. The first morning I sprayed my plants, underside and tops of leaves. By the next morning, I had more leaf damage from the aphids... Even though the product stated to wait a few days in between applications, I used again the next morning. Still had aphid residue/presence of bugs. So for the third application (4 days after initial application) I added a little bit of liquid castile soap, BOOM, the problem was gone by that evening. I washed off the mixture with my water hose and made sure that I wiped away any leftover bug residue in case the stronger mixture was too strong, to avoid leaf damage. Separate issue with a different colored aphid, the green ones, on my sugar snap peas. They were attacking all new growth. I used the instructions on bottle, but added a half teaspoon extra and the problem was gone the next day. I probably should have waited a couple of hours then washed away the mixture because all of the new growth was somewhat wilted/damaged. But this was completely my own wrong doing! Sugar snap pease are pretty delicate, especially the new growth. But they continued to grow and the damage was minimal. Good product, worked fast. Id recommend doing your own due diligence and just play around with measurements on the dilution of this product if it doesn't seem to work after the first couple of applications. Try it out on a very small section of plant that won't be too harmful if damage is done.

Wow! My roses and fruit trees look so much healthier after just one spraying!

So much more economical than the spray bottles. Lasts forever, even though the size of the bottle has decreased

Neem _ My write up Usually Neem Must be mixed with other components because oil doesn’t stay mixed with water. Neem is the best organic product to use for pests under the ground as well as on plants above ground. I am using this Neem Max as a drench (under the ground) on my favorite plants because when used as a drench it is actually systemic. That means that the plant drinks in the Neem water resulting in its leaves and other plant parts not tasting good to pests. Most pests will starve instead of eating a leaf with Neem in it. This is very different from spraying Neem on plants. When you spray Neem on plants, it blocks the air holes on the pests’ bodies so that is why they expire. It only does this on contact. It does not work unless the Neem covers the pest completely. Neem is one of the very few things that is successful against root knot nematodes in soil! But it goes further than that. Last year I used it as a drench every month just on my favorite plants in one plant bed. Gophers got in that bed and voraciously ate up most of my plants but did not touch the plants that I had been treating with a Neem Drench. So, that’s pretty exciting stuff! I had read before this experience that caster oil deters gophers very well but I never read that Neem did that too!🤩 I Love that I don’t have to mix it with other products in order for the oil to stay suspended in the water. I should also mention that my struggling plants don’t do well with a full dose of 3-6TBS per gallon. So, what I do is give all plants that I am treating 1 Tablespoon Neem Max per gallon and do that once a week for 3 times or more. That way they don’t have to deal with too much Neem at once. Hope this helps you be successful with your plants and wishing you a Great Year of Gardening!🤩🎉🏆