How to use neem oil. Do you just spray it un cut. Some of my figs react to my lighting different then others and just want to try it. Where do you get it and use it

I just used it on a fig (El Molino) that seemed to have a rust problem.  All the leaves were in really bad shape.  I sprayed right from the bottle, per the directions.  The then sprayed another 5 days later.  The new leaves that have emerged since the spraying look great, and the plant as a whole, does look much better.  It is on my deck with really intense sun and heat.  I sprayed early morning, then tried to keep it shaded as best I could for about a week.  I was just guessing, but I maybe I got lucky.

If you get pure oil you cut it one TLB spoon per gal,or as the directions say.I use it on my tomato plants,and trees,to prevent fungus,rust,and mites.Works Great.

Victor, did you get my PM?
Vito

Richard, last year I used it on my fig trees to fight off sour beetles. With all the rain we had the figs were souring badly and the beetles were every where. I watching them closely this year but so far it's been fairly dry and no sign of them yet. Since the crop was ruined last year I decided to experiment. I sprayed all my trees with a mixture of Malathion, Neem oil, and bleach. My thoughts were that the Malathion would kill all the adults it came into contact with. The Neem oil inhibits and interrupts their procreation routine and the bleach was to kill of any yeast present which is what the beetles spread to the trees and causes souring. Was the experiment a success?  I would say yes. Four days later most of the adults were gone, those that we still present were sitting on the figs but seem disorientated and not reproducing. On the fifth day I repeated the spraying and that got rid of the rest of them for the rest of the season. Figs were still spoiling from all the rain but there were no beetles on them. I did finally get to eat a few figs. This year the only problem so far is rust. This winter I will do a my friend suggested and spray them and the ground beneath them with Bordeaux mix several times while dormant.
"gene"

Richard - What is happening to your figs that would make you want to use Neem?

Thanks for posting this question. I was just searching Amazon for neem oil sprays yesterday. My ficus religiosa (Bodhi tree) fig and tulsi basil were thick with black scale insects on the tips, bug "cows" which were actively being attended to by lots of ants. It took a while to rub and wash them all off with fingers and the hose. I'd like to spray with neem oil to keep them from coming back, but since the basil is a food, how safe is the neem oil to eat? I hope the ants don't move the scale insects to my other fig trees.    

I use a combination of neem oil and pyrithrins.  The label says that it is safe to eat right up to day of harvest (but who would?) and I have had no problems with burned leaves despite the heat wave and lack of rain we have had for the past 2 weeks. The big problem I am facing this year is a leaf legged stink bug looking type thing with a bright yellow stripe across the middle of the back.  They are sucking the life out of terminal buds and blueberry clusters. I have seen little evidence of the pyrithrins actually killing these bugs as you can soak them and they just fly off. I don't see as many on the figs and berries after spraying but I have come to the conclusion it is because they do not like the taste rather than they are being killed off. I have also seen more white fly than in the past 10 years. This is the first year I have had to spray regularly. Up until now all that's been necessary is late winter/early spring clean up spraying and that was it.