Mighty Mint Peppermint Plant Protection Spray for Insects, Gnats, Fungus, Mites, and Disease, 16 oz

I think that the active ingredients will expire before I ever need to use the full bottle — if at some point it stops being effective I would definitely repurchase, and I recommend it often. This has killed mealybugs, soil mold, mites, and fungal disease that came in with new plants. The sprayer produces a relatively fine mist (with some occasional larger droplets), so it’s easy to get a thin layer of product over the leaves and soil in 2-3 sprays. Because you need so little product and only need to reapply after like a week if the issue persists, I have felt safe using it on epiphytic plants and not seen any negative effects to their leaves. In many months of use, I haven’t had any recurrence of pest issues it has solved.With regard to some things I’ve seen in negative reviews:The bottle says *shake it before using* because different ingredients have different densities when left to settle and if you don’t shake before using your spritzes may not contain ingredients in a ratio that would be effective.Flowers and tiny buds are delicate, and this product contains a certain amount of alcohol and soap… even spraying those things with water can cause rot, and the only thing I can think of that would not be problematic is something like nitrogen bloom spray in a fine mist. I have in occasion seen baby leaf buds shrivel when spraying this on my jasmine plant, but new buds form 2-3 days later just fine and it’s often ok if they only get hit with one spray from a few feet away instead of being close up. So don’t spray your flowers with this, spray leaves/trunk/stem areas and the top of your potting medium. You also don’t need that much, I generally only do 1-2 sprays and I do it from a 2+ feet away to get a finer mist and reduce droplets getting on the plant. If you see droplets, you can also wipe them down. You can also spray it on a cloth and wipe down stems near flowers if there’s really a big problem, but I would avoid doing that often and avoid doing it to the leaves because you *don’t* want to get a thick/concentrated enough layer on there that it might suffocate the plant.The smell is strong but relatively pleasant and dissipates within an hour or few. I am migraine-prone and find I tolerate it well even during times when I have a headache. There is a certain kind of herbal smell that makes me nauseous, but this is not something that triggers me.The bottle does come with a sprayer, and the sprayer DOES unscrew quite easily in like one 360 degree turn if you grip the ridged part screwed into the bottle… it’s baffling to me that some woman would post an angry video and review about it being terrible for the environment because she didn’t think she could unscrew the top since it has inner teeth, but she never even tried to do it and the teeth are obviously there to help prevent accidental unscrewing and leakage (there is also more than one way to reuse a plastic bottle — people repurpose soda and water bottles into things like sprouting containers all the time, because it is literally hazardous to try to reuse those kinds of plastics for food). The instructions on the bottle even provide guidance to rinse the inside of the bottle before recycling it, so there is a clear statement from the brand on the packaging that the sprayer does unscrew and the plastic they’re using is recycleable in at least some municipalities (though very little plastic sent for recycling is actually able to be recycled, whether due to that type of plastic being difficult-to-impossible to recycle, limitations of the recycling facility, or that there is no market for the recycled form of that plastic… stuff like aluminum has a much higher recycling rate, and if you really were being environmentally friendly you would avoid online shopping, buy the ingredients to make this yourself locally, and put it in a locally purchased glass or aluminum spray bottle). That kind of greenwasher-marketing-induced rage distracts from things that do much more significant damage to the environment/climate, like animal agriculture and compounds like polyvinyl acetate that act like microplastics in the environment and are ubiquitously used in laundry/dishwasher pods and and those laundry detergent sheets claiming being water-free and coming in a recycled box makes them “eco-friendly”.No spray is going to eradicate your fungus gnats if you continue providing an environment that is hospitable to fungus gnats… it can’t magically get into soil and kill all the eggs, it will just help if it’s on surfaces they come into contact with and possibly deter them. If you want to get rid of your gnats, spray a light layer on top of the soil but also you need to let the dirt dry out on all your plants and water more sparingly than you normally do. The less frequently the soil is super moist, the less hospitable it will be to gnats. They also like to lay eggs in drain trays (when water drains from the soil into the tray, it has nutrients from the soil in it and the part of the tray under the pot is often moist for longer periods of time) so you should clean drain trays and the undersides of pots periodically. If you have a really bad fungus gnat problem, you may need to de-pot your plants, put the soil on a foil lined baking tray, wet it with some boiling water, and bake it for 40 mins at 350 to kill the eggs (the eggs are hard to kill and my understanding is it takes at least 30 mins at temps above something like 150 degrees) before letting it cool and repotting your plant.A LOT of things are specifically toxic to cats, especially essential oils; as obligate carnivores, there are just a lot of plant compounds their liver cannot process (they need roughage in their diet, but they will only really try to eat greens and don’t have taste receptors for things like sweetness). For example, citrus oils are particularly toxic to them and are often ingredients in pet shampoos, many ignorant pet owners have caused organ failure to their cat by shampooing them with fancy “natural, safe, and nontoxic” pet shampoos containing citrus oils and (side note: healthy cats are very good at self-cleaning, they only need washing if they are physically soiled or have some infection, and their body temperature is high human fever temperature so you can also give them hypothermia by using a water temperature that is comfortable to you and by not drying them well enough). Fragrance in general can be irritating to a lot of organisms (including people) — the whole reason mint and rosemary are in this kind of product is because they include chemicals those plants produce for self-protection. Neem oil, the perennial favorite “cure-all” for people who frequently kill plants, is also toxic to pets (and people, in cases of accidental ingestion) and the pesticide extract in the unrefined stuff is toxic to bees. Typically the biggest risk with essential oils around cats, other pets, or babies is that they could breathe in or eat the concentrated oil, though with cats I would be additionally wary about skin contact because that is a common vector for essential oil poisoning for them.Yes it’s terrible for your pet to get sick, but there are tons of domestic animals, this is not a pet care product, and you have a responsibility as a pet owner (and an obligation to your pet!) to do research on what is and isn’t ok to have in your home environment. If you are using products containing essential oils in your home, you should keep your pets away until the scent dissipates and the product has had plenty of time to dry down (and avoid any fragrance products around babies). Because this product also contains soap, I suspect licking something it has dried on won’t taste very good (I’m not interested in putting it to the test, though).

This actually works much better than I thought it would!! And it smells nice. I used it on a plant with a pretty bad infestation of those pesky gnats, and I also placed one of those sticky gnat traps in the soil (it's yellow, looks like a star). Took a few days to work but it seems to have gotten all of them! I also proactively sprayed the rest of my house plants so the gnats didn't have a better place to go.

Worked great on tomato plants, not so well on eggplant and cucumber.

Smells fantastic but not terribly effectiveDidn’t hurt my plants but didn’t take care of pests

Smells great and significantly reduced our gnat population. Will buy more!

Is working pretty good

Very strong PLEASANT scent, doesn’t linger very long, did seem to get rid of spider mites on my Philodendron Dean McDowell!

loved the smell and worked for a long time, but didn’t completely get rid of the gnats. ended up doing a bug mom in my place.