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By Greenthumbs Garden
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can anyone tell me if paraffin oil is a safe insecticide to use with VFTs and CP in general?
I'm looking at an ecological insecticide at the garden center and its an all-rounder.
its composition is 79% paraffin oil.

any advice would be appreciated. I'm still fighting these spider mites and don't know if my other solution is really working well enough.
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By Greenthumbs Garden
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@tommyr, I'm going to try and get hold of some of this for next time. I fought the mites off eventually spraying almost daily with neem oil... I think what helped also was when winter set in and the cooler weather came.
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