For those of us who love plants, there is nothing more beautiful than seeing them grow healthy and beautiful. We know our plants and when we see them that their leaves begin to fall off, change color or that spots appear, we know that something bad is happening. Our plants are being eaten by some pest, what do we do?!

These pests begin to feed on the sap of the plant, causing weakness in it and different diseases that finally cause it to die.

Therefore, when we see that an insect is roaming around our plant, we must take immediate action. Our plant is in danger!

What better than to take care of it with a natural insecticide, in this way we will be sure that it will not damage the plant. It will be the same or better than a purchased insecticide, we will teach you how to make one that will be very effective.

How to make homemade insecticide for pests

With a few ingredients and without spending too much, we can make this powerful homemade insecticide to eliminate any type of pest.

We will need:

– 1/2 bar of neutral soap
– 50 ml of white or apple cider vinegar
– 1 liter jug
– Spray bottle

Preparation

1- First of all, we are going to check all the plants we have to know if they have pests or not.

2- Now we’ll start making the insecticide. We will take the jug or container that we have obtained and fill it with 1 liter of water.

3- Now we will grate the soap and put it in the water. Mix well until the water is soapy, you will realize that it will be ready because the water will be thicker and whitish. We must make sure that the soap has completely disintegrated.

4- Add the white vinegar to the water and mix.

5- Let’s see that this mixture starts to foam. Cover with the spray and proceed to spray all our plants.

How to use homemade insecticide for pests on our plants

1- It is important that we spray our plants at dusk or dusk. In this way, we will prevent the sun from burning the leaves that are sprayed, causing severe damage to them.

2- We begin to spray the leaves, where we see that the pest is found. We will do this on the surface of the leaves, underneath and on the stem. Especially at the junction between leaves and stem, as they tend to hide there.

3- Let this preparation act for about 30 minutes.

4- Then with another spray with clean water, we will spray on the parts where we have sprayed the previous mixture. In this way, we will rinse and the leaves will not be stained.

5- After 3 days, we will check the plant and if we see that there is still any remaining pest, we will repeat the operation. We will continue like this, until they are completely eliminated.

Keep in mind that being a natural insecticide, it will take a little longer to exterminate the pests. However, the result will be just as effective as using a chemical insecticide.