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What is best for spider mites
What is most effective for spider mites on the Impatience plant?
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What is best for spider mites
"JohnS" wrote in message ...
What is most effective for spider mites on the Impatience plant? Begin with an attack with the kitchen sink sprayer, or a spray nozzle on the outside hose. If they come back, put 2-3 drops of dish soap in a quart of water and soak the plant completely with it. Always use poison as your last resort. Always. |
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"JoeSpareBedroom" wrote in message ... "JohnS" wrote in message ... What is most effective for spider mites on the Impatience plant? Begin with an attack with the kitchen sink sprayer, or a spray nozzle on the outside hose. If they come back, put 2-3 drops of dish soap in a quart of water and soak the plant completely with it. Always use poison as your last resort. Always. Will try the soap. Just hosing plants don't get rid of them, they come rigt back. Plants are in small greenhouse and mites are problem all winter long. |
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What is best for spider mites
JohnS wrote
What is most effective for spider mites on the Impatience plant? Spider mites hate water spray. If you spray/mist the plant daily for a week they will leave. Cover the pot soil with aluminum foil while spraying so you don't saturate the plant's roots. Then you can mist the plant 2x a week. A plant in a south or west window is most vulnerable to spider mite attack. |
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"JoeSpareBedroom" wrote:
"JohnS" wrote in message ... What is most effective for spider mites on the Impatience plant? Begin with an attack with the kitchen sink sprayer, or a spray nozzle on the outside hose. If they come back, put 2-3 drops of dish soap in a quart of water and soak the plant completely with it. Always use poison as your last resort. Always. Especially on spider mites. There have natural predators that poison sprays kill. Most spider mite problems are caused by spraying. If the mites are indoors you have some different options. Read this: http://insects.tamu.edu/extension/bulletins/uc/uc-030.html -- Pardon my spam deterrent; send email to Visit my Rhododendron and Azalea web pages at: http://rhodyman.net/rahome.html Also visit the Rhododendron and Azalea Bookstore at: http://rhodyman.net/rabooks.html Cheers, Steve Henning in Reading, PA USA Zone 6 |
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"Stephen Henning" wrote in message news "JoeSpareBedroom" wrote: "JohnS" wrote in message ... What is most effective for spider mites on the Impatience plant? Begin with an attack with the kitchen sink sprayer, or a spray nozzle on the outside hose. If they come back, put 2-3 drops of dish soap in a quart of water and soak the plant completely with it. Always use poison as your last resort. Always. Especially on spider mites. There have natural predators that poison sprays kill. Most spider mite problems are caused by spraying. If the mites are indoors you have some different options. Read this: http://insects.tamu.edu/extension/bulletins/uc/uc-030.html Thank you both. I took them out this evening and sprayed real thorough with water from hose three times. Will spray them every day it's warm enough. I sprayed seedlings with hand sprayer and clean water. The greenhouse air is dry.Humidity will not stay in there. -- Pardon my spam deterrent; send email to Visit my Rhododendron and Azalea web pages at: http://rhodyman.net/rahome.html Also visit the Rhododendron and Azalea Bookstore at: http://rhodyman.net/rabooks.html Cheers, Steve Henning in Reading, PA USA Zone 6 |
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On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 00:18:32 -0500, "JohnS" wrote:
Thank you both. I took them out this evening and sprayed real thorough with water from hose three times. Will spray them every day it's warm enough. I sprayed seedlings with hand sprayer and clean water. The greenhouse air is dry.Humidity will not stay in there. Sometimes humidity is very low here where I live and what I do is line the entire greenhouse (10 x20 foot) with open milk jugs filled with water. I put them on the south side so the sun heats the water and during very mild seasons they actually heat the greenhouse at night. If your greenhouse is not holding humidity, you may not be watering properly. |
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What is best for spider mites
On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 16:26:01 -0500, "JohnS" wrote:
What is most effective for spider mites on the Impatience plant? Just hose the plant off every day from the undersides of the leaves. It will wash the mites off and no pesticide is necessary. Proper watering and fertilization for having a healthy plant is also a way to prevent insect damage. For some reason, the plants attract insects, mites, etc. when the plant is not healthy. |
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What is best for spider mites
"Jangchub" wrote in message ... On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 16:26:01 -0500, "JohnS" wrote: What is most effective for spider mites on the Impatience plant? Just hose the plant off every day from the undersides of the leaves. It will wash the mites off and no pesticide is necessary. Proper watering and fertilization for having a healthy plant is also a way to prevent insect damage. For some reason, the plants attract insects, mites, etc. when the plant is not healthy. They were healthy when put in greenhouse but soon spider mites were on them all. I spray with water and systemic but the mites are still in there. Now are spreding to the impatience seedlings. I would like to get rid of them completely. |
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What is best for spider mites
On Wed, 14 Mar 2007 00:03:28 -0500, "JohnS" wrote:
They were healthy when put in greenhouse but soon spider mites were on them all. I spray with water and systemic but the mites are still in there. Now are spreding to the impatience seedlings. I would like to get rid of them completely. What systemic did you use? |
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"Jangchub" wrote in message ... On Wed, 14 Mar 2007 00:03:28 -0500, "JohnS" wrote: They were healthy when put in greenhouse but soon spider mites were on them all. I spray with water and systemic but the mites are still in there. Now are spreding to the impatience seedlings. I would like to get rid of them completely. What systemic did you use? Ortho Systemic Insect Killer, says controls insects and mites. It worked good for small green worms on geraniums but the mites are still there. There was one call Kelthane that killed them all. They don't sell it anyplace anymore. |
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