How To get Rid of Mealybugs on your Cactus in Winter
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How To get Rid of Mealybugs on your Cactus in Winter.
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Treating Mealybugs on Cactus in Winter
Ahhh the dreaded mealybug once again 😡 Super annoying pests. It’ll probably be another bad spring/summer for pests with yet another mild winter again so far. I agree with mealies appearing out of nowhere, like they somehow sneak in from another dimension 😂 Hope you manage to get rid of them all, Lyn. Thank you for sharing with us as always. Have a wonderful evening and weekend from Edith & myself to you and Hans ❤️☀️🌵🌼🌺🌸🏜
haha Daz :-D yes I am convinced that these Beasties really do come out from another dimension haha, I checked over this whole plant with a toothcomb and strong magnifying glass when I brought it in for Winter, and check over it every week, and these Mealybugs were so big and must have bred like Rabbits to get so invasive on this big Brasiliopuntia so fast haha, the Winter has been crazy mild so far and we have noticed a few more Mealybug Beasties appearing in the polytunnel now too, I dont want to be wetting them all with Neem oil in January, it really is a never ending battle with these little Horrors, thanks so much Daz for your wonderful friendship and amazing comment and support and for watching, and Hans and I are sending you and beautiful Edith lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER to England and Singapore for a super Saturday and a wonderful weekend XXXX
Thanks for this,a year or so ago I had a seneco hawthorni delvered that arrived half dead & absolutely covered with them, that plant died but I think it was already too far gone to save when I got it., never had an issue with mealys before that but been fighting ever since to get rid of them. Got an old toothbrush, plant shampoo and cleaning alcohol in water and submerged/soaked and scrubed all the survivors with any signs the other day out of desperation-maybe I shouldn't have done that... :😟 . Will use the brush idea for the more vicious cacti and the ones with hard to reach places because of shape, and maybe wont panic so much whenever I see a mealy. The ones I think I'd struggle most to see/treat the mealys on if infected are the cacti with white wool like covering because the "wool" hides and acts like a barrier getting to the main body. Luckily the infestation is mild now and has been for awhile, just persistant. Have a great Weekend!🙂🌵🌵
So sorry to hear about your Senecio hawthorni, these Mealy bugs really are such a pain for us plant growers and can be so persistent to get rid of, yes the woolly cacti can be so hard to treat from Mealies as their white hair hides the woolly mealy bugs and their woolly nests, and its so hard to reach the mealies with the wool on the cacti, I have had to soak some of my woolly cacti in the past with the alcohol by dipping them upside down into a tub of rubbing alcohol and holding the cactus in there for about a minute, thankfully the cacti survive this treatment and it does seem to kill off most of the mealies and keep them under control, it really is a never ending battle of the bugs for us plant growers, thanks so much for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a wonderful weekend XXXX
Hi Lyn! These mealybugs are really yuk...how do they come on plants when they are inside? I always wondered!!! In 33 years living in my house I have never had mealybugs before this summer, and although I cut out parts infested with them they still managed to kill my beautiful big fuschia! I really hate them! I hope you manage to distroy them all from that enormous cactus. That's a beauty! Thanks for showing us you tips and knowledge! Have an amazing evening Lyn and Hans and hope you have a wonderful weekend! Lots of love to you both!
Mealybugs really are Yuk Sylvia :-D yes I hate these little Beasties, and I am convinced that they really do come from thin air haha, the ones on this big Cactus were so huge, its such a shame that they killed your big Fuschia, it seems to be a never ending battle of the bugs with these Mealybug Beasts, we will not let them hurt our beloved plants, thanks so much Sylvia for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, and Hans and I are sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER to Malta for a wonderful Saturday and weekend XXXX
Dear nice Lady Lyn, I am very sorry for the Plant who have the
Mealybugs, but it was very good to see how you can help the Plant to get better...
This Mealybugs is a very horrible animal and you have much work now, I lost the wonderful Epi Anguliger or another one from the way from Germany till Vienna and saw them, but in this time I don't know what to do about with the sick Epi plant... So thank you sooo much for sharing this story with us.. I hope your Plant get ready soon,
Thank you so much dear Nice Lady Lyn, and all the best for you and your Mr. Hans too!!!
Yoursincely from Renate Vienna Europa!!! Hope you can all the text understand, I am tired.. Till to the next time... Bye for now!!!! 💜💜☮️👆👍🌵🌵😲
Thanks so much dear Renate
I've had MEALY bugs to contend with this Winter too... you're not alone Lyn 🤯😚🌵 I am sad to see them on your amazing specimen, I'm sure it will be okay as it's a large cactus and can recover more easily than little cactus 🤗
So sorry that you have had to battle with these Mealybug beasties this Winter too Claire, argh they really are awful little terrors, and I swear that the Mealies on this Cactus must have bred like Rabbits to get so bad so fast, and they were the biggest Beasties I have ever seen haha, we will not let them harm our beloved plants, thanks so much Claire for your wonderful friendship and amazing comment and support and for watching, and Hans and I are sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER from across the sea for a wonderful afternoon XXXX
Hello Lyn, thank you for another educational video! I have been fortunate not to have experienced mealybugs on my small collection of cacti. They are in my kitchen window so I do see the cacti many times a day. At least if I do encounter mealybugs I know exactly what to do thanks to you! Sending you and Hans peace, love and joy for a wonderful week ahead from your friend in Georgia!
So happy you enjoyed the Beastie Mealybug video Jeff haha, thats brilliant that you have not had to encounter these little terrors on your plants, thanks so much for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, and Hans and I are sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER to Georgia for a wonderful Wednesday today XXXX
Nasty ole' buggers are at it again! You go get 'em Lyn!😛 Thank you for sharing your knowledge! Have a wonderful evening! Hugs from across the pond!🌹
haha they really are nasty 'ole' buggers, we wont let these little Beasties harm our beloved plants, thanks so much Amanda for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a wonderful weekend XXXX
@@desertplantsofavalon Little Beasties! Love it Lyn! Have an amazing weekend my dear friend!🥰
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Ah a newer video , nice one as using it for reference AGAIN 😂 😂 Cheers Lyn.
So happy you loved the video Simon :-D mealy bugs are such a pain in the cactus butt cheeks haha, thats brilliant you are using the vid for reference, thanks so much for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER from Belfast to Dublin for a super Saturday XXXX
Great tips Lyn, horrible little bug /gers 😂🌵🌵🌵🌵⚘😘👍👊
haha so true Peter :-D they really are, we won't let them attack our beloved plants, thanks so much for your wonderful friendship and amazing comment and support and for watching, and Hans and I are sending you and Ellyn lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER to Downunder for a wonderful weekend XXXX
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These little nasties just don’t take a break! Even in winter, they don’t go dormant. 😖 I hope you get them all, Lyn.
These awful Mealybug nasties really are such a pain for us plant growers, and it is a never ending battle of the beasties haha, thanks so much Ana for your wonderful friendship and amazing comment and support and for watching, and Hans and I are sending you lots of love and happiness and CAFFEINE and PLANT POWER to Las Vegas for a super Sunday today XXXX
Thanks for sharing 💗
thanks so much Zap for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a wonderful weekend XXXX
Thank you for this video. 🤠 All of your videos are wonderful.
So happy you enjoy my videos Richard :-D and thanks so much for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a super Sunday XXXX
Yes, itseems these little beasties just come out of nowhere!! Scale & spider mites seems to be my biggest problem right now .because of scale weakening my ariocarpus so
bad, I finally lost the last fissuratus. It just didn't have enough good to live anymore. My seedlings were wiped out from the rust attack I had last spring. But I do have 4 seedlings left!! So not all of my fissuratus are done. Just the adults. These guys are just so hard to see the scale in-between the tubrecals. I have had some success in putting high risk plants in a hanging basket where I can set the pots and have no contacts with other plants. I've saved a few high risk plants this way. Good luck in the battle!!! We are getting snow today!! From Morris Park in the Ozarks, to across the emerald isle, have a wonderful day!!! Peace, Love, Plants!!!✌💖🌵🏵🌴🌺🪴🌹🌲🌷🌳💐😃👍
Oh no Clyde, so sorry to hear that you lost your last Ario fissuratus, we lost some of our Ariocarpus seedlings from the rust too, but the others are growing well and we have two of the Loph texensis seedlings from the seeds you gave us that are growing well, but all our other Loph seedlings got the dreaded rust and was gutted, thats fantastic you have four fissuratus seedlings from your Mother plant, but its still sad to lose the mature Ario's to the dreaded Scale, its such a horrible pest and our Opuntia's are always coming down with Scale too and even the Neem doesn't seem to eliminate the Scale completely, arghh these Beasties really are a pain for us, thats a fantastic idea with putting the higher risk plants up in hanging baskets, its a bit like 'Social distancing' for plants haha, thanks so much Clyde for your wonderful friendship and amazing comment and support and for watching, and Hans and I are sending you and beautiful Deb and all the pets and plants all lots of love and happiness and PEACE, LOVE, PLANTS and PLANT POWER to Morris Park in the Ozarks for a warm snowy Sunday XXXX
I have a spray bottle that I put rubbing alcohol in so I can get into fuzzy or thorny parts where mealies love to hide!
A spray bottle with rubbing alcohol is so good to spray in between all the thorns and fuzzy parts of cacti, thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching, and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a fantastic new week XXXX
I swear mealy bugs pop out unexpectedly, one day a plant is fine and next day I can spot this horrid thing out of blue lauging at me !:))) peeka-boo
haha yes I am so convinced that Mealy bugs come out of thin air haha, and the Mealies on this Cactus were so huge, the biggest Mealybugs I have ever seen haha, thanks so much Magda for your wonderful friendship and amazing comment and support and for watching, and Hans and I are sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER from across the sea for a wonderful afternoon XXXX
Now that looks to be quite relaxing 😌 although fighting the mighty mealies isn't 😞 The alcohol evaporates soon after contact? Can I do a preventative brush down Lyn?
haha yes fighting these mealies is a never ending battle, the alcohol evaporates vey fast on contact, you can definitely do a preventative brush down with mealies, you can also add the alcohol into a little spray bottle and spray down the whole plant too, thanks so much for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a wonderful weekend XXXX
Hello Lyn I've been a big fan of yours for the last four years and have fallen in love with cacti and your videos have been the biggest help from general knowledge about growing them, to starting from seeds and cuttings and even cross pollinating to get hybrids. Your biggest help has been what to do about pests but I have an unusual issue with my cacti atm. It's mealybugs but not the usual kind, these live in the soil and no matter what I've tried so far hasn't seemed to truly eradicate them. Please any advice would be very much appreciated. If you'd like to know what I have done currently is use a homemade mix of hydrogen peroxide, alcohol and dish soap diluted in water. I don't want to resort to any harsh chemicals and it's still too early in the year even for me to repot all of my plants
So happy you love my videos and have found them helpful and so happy you love cacti too, Root Mealy bugs can be such a pain for us cactus growers, and its always difficult to know what to do in the Winter when our cacti are dormant, in the Spring and Summer I water the cacti with horticultural Neem oil every month to get rid of and prevent root mealies, but in the Winter if I notice any signs of root mealies I remove the cactus from the pot and lay it on its side and then thoroughly remove every trace of soil as possible, I then spray the roots with Neem oil mixed with horticultural soap, I will then keep the cactus unpotted all through the winter and keep re spraying the roots every week to eliminate all traces of root mealy bugs, I make sure that the cactus is kept inside the house at room temperature, and because I keep the cactus unpotted the roots will dry out fast within an hour or two after being sprayed, this prevents any chances or root rot during the Winter dormancy, in very severe cases I have had to prune off the roots and then re root the cactus again in the Spring, Good luck with your cactus, root mealies are such a pain, thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a fantastic Wednesday XXXX
Great video for treating any cactus pest. Those don't look like mealies though. They look like Cochineal which only seem to affect Opuntias. For centuries Mexicans have raised and harvested Cochineal to dry, smash, and filter out a very potent dye. The dye has been used to dye clothing and foods for centuries. Even the RED from the RED COATS, and red garments from the church came from Cochineal. It my sound gross to add to food, but it is way more safe than using petroleum derived Red dye. 🤢🤮 But it has grossed people out, and many vegan activist find it wrong....so many have stopped using red dye derived from Cochineal. I went off on a tangent, but anyways....Great videos as always! 🙃🌵
So happy you loved the video Jorge :-D argh yes the dreaded Cochineal, this pest has been such a nuisance on my Opuntias and this cactus seems to always keep getting them, When I filmed this vid I thought it was normal mealies but now notice the sausage shaped nests that Cochineal have, last Summer my Opuntias were getting this a lot, and its so fast spreading too, thanks so much Jorge for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a terrific Tuesday today XXXX
I treat all my houseplants(except my Calathea) with bonide systemic granules as a preventative. It seems to have worked so far. I’m in the United States though and the systemics over here contain imidacloprid which is banned in a lot of other places
Thanks so much for sharing how you treat your houseplants with the Bonide systemic granules, insect pests are such a pain for us plant growers and a never ending battle of the bugs, thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a terrific Tuesday today XXXX
I have my cereus perovianus covered with mealy bugs 😓 i sprayed with neem oil.So far it’s ok
Oh no so sorry you have had to battle with these Mealybug Beasties too Rhea
Have you ever used a systemic cacti pesticide? And if so,, how well did it work out for you? I have never tried one (always rubbing alcohol for me) but was just curious about systemics. I hope you are well and that beasty bugs are NOT! :) Spring is coming.
So happy that Spring is on the way and counting the days haha, yes I have used Systemics in the past with good success, but sadly over the past few years the Systemics available on the market are not as strong as they used to be, as many of the effective chemicals are now banned, I have noticed that most insect pests seem to have become resistant to the newer Systemics on the market today, thanks so much for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a wonderful weekend XXXX
@@desertplantsofavalon Thanks, Lynn!! :)
Hi Lynn I was just curious if you ever tried peroxide diluted I hear this is very good
Hi Robert :-D yes I use Peroxide a lot for killing fungus and mildew on plants and seedlings, I have also used it with good success on fungus gnat larvae when watered in the soil, it works well without harming the plants, I use a 3% Hydrogen peroxide solution and dilute about 1 tablespoon of 3% H.P to 250ml of water ( half a pint ) I haven't used it on mealybugs though, but its very effective on fungus and mildews, thanks so much for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a wonderful weekend XXXX
I hear a lot of marijuana Growers use peroxide I used it today opuntia cactus one of my very large plants I'll see what happens😏
@@robertgiardini2857 Let me know how you get on with the peroxide XXXX
Question, my E Numburg is not presenting for mealy bugs that I can tell but instead has a rash; very very tiny little bumps that do not change color, still purple. When I spray with alcohol, the bumps go away. I have not been able to find any videos on what this is. What is your opinion? Are they warts? Thanks for this tutorial, it inspired me to look at my Echeverias and lo and behold! Problems (the bumps came back). Ta Ta For Now.
Yes I have noticed this too on some of my Echeveria's and the odd thing is I have not been able to work out what causes it, the only thing I can think of is a change in environment or humidity level seems to do this to some of mine, but I have not be able to definitely say its due to this, I notice it more on my coloured Echeverias like the purple and pink leaves ones, the good news is that it definitely isn't life threating to the plants, a lot of mine have had this for years on and off, I think they could be little warts that are harmless and may be due to the cells in the leaves responding to changes in temps and sunlight levels and watering levels making the cells break under the skin, its a bit of a mystery haha, thanks so much for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a super Sunday XXXX
I just spray the isopropyl alcohol all over and that's usually the end of it. Have you tried spraying instead of dabbing?
Hi Janet :-D thats fantastic you spray with the Isopropyl alcohol, yes its I sometimes put the alcohol into a spray bottle and spray down the whole plant, but I sometimes find if the mealybug nests are quite bad the pressure of spray will bounce the nests off and can spread them onto nearby plants, but the spraying is very effective especially with the cactus plants that have very tight spines or the very woolly hairy ones, thanks so much Janet for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a super Sunday XXXX
I just noticed some on my Fairy Cactus. I am hoping that I get all of them off but should I keep the cactus away from my other plants?
Hi Larima
Hi Lyn, horrible critters!! If a cactus is inside all year do they still need a dry period in the winter?
These bugs really are horrible little 'Beasties' yes its best to keep the cacti dry even when indoors in winter because watering cacti in the short winter days will encourage the cactus to keep growing and will grow stretched out and skinny at the top, if the cacti shrivel badly I will give a small amount of water just enough to prevent them from shrivelling but not enough for them to want to carry on growing, thanks so much Vixi for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a terrific Thursday XXXX
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