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Thanks for the tips on how to quarantine with minimal space! I'm definitely team repot expeditiously! I've seen videos like this were the creator is adamantly against repotting right away or using pesticides but are constantly fighting for their lives battling new bugs and critters haha
I always repot the same day I get the plant in my mix that I make/ sanitize. Also wash and spary the plant before & after potting up. The one I don't really do is quarantine. I learned that pests will travel no matter where the plants are in the home.
PS had mealybugs show up on a plant like 6 weeks after bringing it home in the summer and now I find them on one different plant per month (so plant A that had mealybugs is rid of them but now plant K has them). I started doing what you suggested and every time I water a plant now I just spray it down with my own homemade mixture and if I think I see mealybugs the plant and area get sprayed down with pure 70% rubbing alcohol and then my mixture. I feel bad for the buggies but if they kill the plant, they also die with it so...
Wasn't the small white bugs on your Ph. Pink Princess springtales? Those are good bugs that eat rotten roots and so on in the pot I buy them to put in my terrarium to keep it healthy 🤔
Highly possible. But I wasn't sure that there were *only* springtails in there if you know what I mean. I have springtails in some of my plants currently that I've potted up in my own medium. I'm ok with that, just not on new plants since I'm not sure if anything else is in there.
All the recommendations you said are all true....but even when you have no infestation happening for a long time, for example 6-8 months, mealy bugs can just appear suddenly in your plant thats been mingling okay with your collection, you just wonder where did that come from? Maybe dormant in the soil? It still happens!😭 So what i do is check each plants closely everytime i water or just look at them and feel the leaves for dust or just peek in the underside of the leaves...my fingers are sensitive to touch than just by looking! I quarantine that specific plant right away, just leave it on the floor after taking it out from where it was with my collection....i dont use any more other treatments except for 99% alcohol industrial grade....or if that is a plant i dont love anymore, i just throw it away....i cannot risk getting more of mealy bugs infecting the others back! Yes its extreme but sometimes extreme measure is necessary....i can always buy another plant😂😂😂 and i am happy to replace it with a different kind...but make sure to check your other plants because the plNt i yhrow out might not be the primary one that started it all...these bugs are very tricky! And when youre treating them, you need to spray it again after 7 days, its a follow up treatment , sometimes i do a third time to make sure....and dont forget the top of the soil needs spraying too with each treatment
💯 it’s so true. This is exactly why I repot plants that come in to significantly reduce the possibility of the random infestation. So far, I have never had an infestation other than spider mites on a few plants. I’ve come to accept my fiddle will always have a measure of them so I just spray regularly. And sometimes throwing it out is the solution! 🤷🏽♀️ Thanks for sharing.
👋🏾 No one told me to use the vinegar about 3 years ago I had mealy bugs on 2 plants 🪴, I know the many uses of this product it might have been 80/20 water .It works!!
Honestly , I never bought beneficial bugs but I’ve seen “big” beneficial bugs in other collections that were bought and added intentionally. I personally wouldn’t keep soil from a new plant with creepy crawlers hoping they’re beneficial bugs. 😅 I know springtails are beneficial and I have those appearing in my collection but if I saw them on a plant that I just bought I would still do the same steps of repotting and isolating. It’s very hard to know for sure if some of those crawlers aren’t pests.
When i get a new plant, it gets completely stripped of the soil it's in and the whole plant gets washed. Not gonna risk mealy bugs again or any of that stuff
@luciansteph I've been doing that this year after my poor calathea last year was infested. I did have a battle with mealy bugs this year though. I don't know where they came from because at the time I didn't even have any new plants and they showed up on a plant I had for 3 years. Unfortunately I lost that one but I have its children 😊
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Thanks for the tips on how to quarantine with minimal space! I'm definitely team repot expeditiously! I've seen videos like this were the creator is adamantly against repotting right away or using pesticides but are constantly fighting for their lives battling new bugs and critters haha
I always repot the same day I get the plant in my mix that I make/ sanitize. Also wash and spary the plant before & after potting up. The one I don't really do is quarantine. I learned that pests will travel no matter where the plants are in the home.
PS had mealybugs show up on a plant like 6 weeks after bringing it home in the summer and now I find them on one different plant per month (so plant A that had mealybugs is rid of them but now plant K has them). I started doing what you suggested and every time I water a plant now I just spray it down with my own homemade mixture and if I think I see mealybugs the plant and area get sprayed down with pure 70% rubbing alcohol and then my mixture. I feel bad for the buggies but if they kill the plant, they also die with it so...
They do travel. But I hope to catch them before they get far by quarantining. 😅
Good idea to spray it regularly. Yeah these little buggers sometimes hide away until they think we’ve forgotten about them. 😅
The active growing tip is such a good one!
Right?! It's always the first thing I look for. 😊
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🪴Happy Planting🌿
Happy planting to you too! 🌱
Wasn't the small white bugs on your Ph. Pink Princess springtales? Those are good bugs that eat rotten roots and so on in the pot I buy them to put in my terrarium to keep it healthy 🤔
Highly possible. But I wasn't sure that there were *only* springtails in there if you know what I mean.
I have springtails in some of my plants currently that I've potted up in my own medium. I'm ok with that, just not on new plants since I'm not sure if anything else is in there.
@@luciansteph That's a good idea I just wanted to point out that springtales are a plus to the health of plants 😊
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All the recommendations you said are all true....but even when you have no infestation happening for a long time, for example 6-8 months, mealy bugs can just appear suddenly in your plant thats been mingling okay with your collection, you just wonder where did that come from? Maybe dormant in the soil? It still happens!😭 So what i do is check each plants closely everytime i water or just look at them and feel the leaves for dust or just peek in the underside of the leaves...my fingers are sensitive to touch than just by looking! I quarantine that specific plant right away, just leave it on the floor after taking it out from where it was with my collection....i dont use any more other treatments except for 99% alcohol industrial grade....or if that is a plant i dont love anymore, i just throw it away....i cannot risk getting more of mealy bugs infecting the others back! Yes its extreme but sometimes extreme measure is necessary....i can always buy another plant😂😂😂 and i am happy to replace it with a different kind...but make sure to check your other plants because the plNt i yhrow out might not be the primary one that started it all...these bugs are very tricky! And when youre treating them, you need to spray it again after 7 days, its a follow up treatment , sometimes i do a third time to make sure....and dont forget the top of the soil needs spraying too with each treatment
💯 it’s so true. This is exactly why I repot plants that come in to significantly reduce the possibility of the random infestation. So far, I have never had an infestation other than spider mites on a few plants. I’ve come to accept my fiddle will always have a measure of them so I just spray regularly.
And sometimes throwing it out is the solution! 🤷🏽♀️
Thanks for sharing.
👋🏾 No one told me to use the vinegar about 3 years ago I had mealy bugs on 2 plants 🪴, I know the many uses of this product it might have been 80/20 water .It works!!
That’s fantastic! Thank you for sharing tip 🫶🏽🪴
Do you put the vinegar in their water? Or spray it on?
@ 🙅🏽♀️ not in the water. just spray! No root contact. That could mean 💀🪴
@ No it was 80 percent water 💧 solution 20 vinegar
What’s your plant mixture?
Depends on the plant. Some have soil and some don’t. I have a video about my soilless mixture on my Patreon. : www.patreon.com/posts/113373890?
When looking at the soil, is it possible to confuse the good bugs for pests? Are the beneficial soil bugs big enough to see crawling around?
Honestly , I never bought beneficial bugs but I’ve seen “big” beneficial bugs in other collections that were bought and added intentionally. I personally wouldn’t keep soil from a new plant with creepy crawlers hoping they’re beneficial bugs. 😅 I know springtails are beneficial and I have those appearing in my collection but if I saw them on a plant that I just bought I would still do the same steps of repotting and isolating. It’s very hard to know for sure if some of those crawlers aren’t pests.
@@luciansteph good point! Thanks, girl and thanks for all the other helpful info
@@bigmama1202 no problem. 😉 thanks for asking! 🪴
When i get a new plant, it gets completely stripped of the soil it's in and the whole plant gets washed. Not gonna risk mealy bugs again or any of that stuff
That’s what I’m talking about! 👏💯
@luciansteph I've been doing that this year after my poor calathea last year was infested. I did have a battle with mealy bugs this year though. I don't know where they came from because at the time I didn't even have any new plants and they showed up on a plant I had for 3 years. Unfortunately I lost that one but I have its children 😊