I just recently had a small spider mite problem on one of my plants and tried removing them by spraying the whole plant with cold water, which came recommended in some video. I added ice cubes to the water to make sure it was as cold as possible. It worked wonderfully and the mites didn't return .I removed everything visible (nets, mites) using a paper towel.
@@gameroli2022They literally attack everything comes in there way expect plants which are repellent towards such inspects....so I used many plants placed in between my hibiscus plants which works as insects repellent......n homemade insecticide will work on them ..take 5 ml of neem oil n 5 ml of liquid detergent add too 1 litre ice water n spray in 2 days gap it will be very helpful
Leaf miners are the bane of our garden. Would be nice to have an in depth review of options to control/eliminate them! Love Chris's style of sharing information. Down to earth and super practical. Thanks!
The worst case of spider mites I've had was on a tomato plant that overwintered here in Southern California. I learned to rip out the old tomatoes before spring arrived. During the heat of summer I try to regularly spray down my plants with water in the morning, and I've planted Dara carrot, dill, fennel, and yarrow to encourage lacewings which I'm starting to see around the garden more. I also let parsley and cilantro go to seed for the same reason. The hover flies like these plants, too.
Another infirmative video...Thank you!! How about talking about leafminers...i am in FL and they are my biggest pest problem on all garden. Love to learn how to prevent, treat and prevent...thank you for sharing so much for so many.
Thanks Kevin and Chris! This info is so beneficial! I am noticing several plants suffering from spider mites in my garden, particularly boxwood. Another pest I have are leaf hoppers.
Ok the timing of this video is freaky, literally just found spider mites on my ficus umbellata about an hour ago and treated it and lost a calathea freddie to these darn mites a few days ago.
My buddy just got them like a week or two ago on some broccoli plants. I gave him some of my diatomaceous earth and he no longer has a mite problem. Give that a try too if nothing else is working.
Bad Airflow, high heat, low humidity and too much nitrogen are the 4 main reasons anyone gets spiders. I used to have them almost constantly. Once I'd dialed in the environmental parameters, it's been almost a year since I've seen one.
I have white powder on my fruit tree, herbs and veggie plants. I also had a little line of small hard brown bumps on the branch of my clementine tree. i have lots of insects in my garden. i do use neem oil. Help
Please please please FUNGUS GNATS. They are the bane of my outdoor compost in spring (once it heats up the eggs die) but using it for my indoor grow is horrible for spring. They are so annoying
4-lined plant bugs were wreaking havoc on my peppers this past month. Another great video! Chris was a fantastic addition to the team. The wealth of knowledge from both of you is awesome.
I have problems with these tiny white cotton looking bugs that cling to undersides of plant leaves. I spray them with vinegar mix to kill them. They usually appear on my distressed plants. Kill them.
I have them every year on my Angel Trumpet. I spray it multiple times with soapy water, I will add alcohol now. I did start watering it with very soapy water to make it taste bad to them. Hope that works too. Thanks!
Had some issues with spider mites at the beginning of the season but got them under control, the high humidity we have helps a lot. Flea Beatles are my biggest issue atm
Minute pirate bug is a wonderful bio control for spider-mites, aphids and thrips. Take a peek at a weedy patch near where you live, and you should be able to find a couple of the tiny adult insects among the smaller glowers (the adults also eats pollen grains). They can be quite pricey to buy online (your local garden center probably isn't carrying minute pirate bug), so looking for them outside for free is well worth it. The adult minute pirate bug can also sustain itself on flower pollen, so it won't leave your garden if it can't locate some prey immediately, unlike lacewings and ladybugs.
We tried using minute pirate bugs in our greenhouse to control thrips, and they all died in the first few days, often by just drowning themselves in any sort of standing water. A week after we released them, I could count the number of living bugs on one hand.
I have a massive philodendron that has a light infestation. These are the fuzzy white mites, not the two-spotted ones. I've used Neem oil 3-4 times but they keep coming back. I don't want to dispose of the plant. I'm using the rubbing alcohol in the spray bottle method.
Wow! Thank you! We moved into a new house and strawberry and raspberry plants started sprouting a few months ago, but I noticed spider webbing around the stems. This was so helpful
Spidermites killed my from-seed tomatillos this spring, but just today I picked up a couple at a greenhouse so I’m happy that I’ll be able to grow some still! I’ll be saving this video in case of future issues though!
I am growing Dalias and wanted to plant taller plants behind them so I purchased Hollyhocks. My Hollyhocks weren't growing so I moved the mulch and dug down a bit and the bulbs were soft and fell apart. what did I do wrong with them? 😢
I had spidermites target my outdoor plants for the first time last year because we had an extra dry and dusty summer. Fortunately I was able to get them under control. My most obnoxious and difficult to control pest is FLEA BEETLES! I have completely given up on growing any brassicas during the summer because they are so hard to keep in check. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
I grow brassicas as a winter crop, here the main problem is white cabbage moths, and growing them through summer would be a constant battle. No doubt depends on your climate, I'm in a cold temperate climate with some heavy frosts in winter and they love it. I protect them with a hoop tunnel covered in white 50% shadecloth to get the plants started in early autumn then they grow like mad through winter :)
I just got my first pest on my little raised garden: flea beetles all over my broccoli! I got a spray from a local nursery, but they seem to be coming back. Feels like all I can do is pick off and squish the ones I find, so twice a day I'm like a little monkey over my plants. :(
@@annalisa6135 foliage spray spray in the evening to prevent burning and dont spray within 2 weeks of spraying neem oil as it will clog the pours on the leaves
By far the plum curculio or stink bugs on my stone fruit spray dormant and horticultural oil in fall and before buds broke but still and I sprayed neem oil every 7 to 10 days
Started balcony gardening this year. Had 2 pests so far; leaf miners in my spinach, and some caterpilars on my red cabbage. Caterpillars were plucked off and tossed away for the birds to find, but the leaf miners are more tricky. I'm treating with a neem oil solution to see if that works.
Having major problems with white fly and slugs, especially white fly. As far as spider mites, I have tried all of the suggested remedies on my snail vines, 20 feet long so not practical to do anything leaf by leaf, but here in Phoenix as soon as it gets hot they get bad. I tried a neem oil soil drench this year and so far doing well, repeating it every week.
This was so timely for me- I searched for a video on spidermites just today! My biggest pests in the garden right now are leaf hoppers. They are killing me and there are hundreds of them! I hand-pick at least 20 a day (which takes me a good half an hour every morning), plus catch lots in sticky traps. I've tried diatomaceous earth and neem oil (which damaged the plants but did nothing to the leaf hoppers), but I finally broke down today and did some pyrethrin. I felt like I was going to throw up spraying something on my plants that could harm beneficial insects, but these leaf hoppers have spread disease to my watermelons, honeydew, cantaloupe, bananas, and probably figs. I'm at my wit's end with these little bastards!
You have to spray the neem oil when the sun isn't shining on your plants or else it will cause burns. Either in the evening, on an overcast day, or very early in the morning.
Excellent video, thank you! Are these really all options? I wonder how spider mites are controlled by farmers? I doubt they walk around huge tomato fields with soap or oil hand sprayers.. And I noticed a gallon of Neem Oil spray costs about $30 on Amazon, so if I use it throughout the season on my 60 tomato plants my home grown tomatoes are going to cost likely more than if I just buy them at a farmers market.
I live in San Diego County where it is dry and hot most of the time and so many of my mature trees have spider mites! I don't know what do do about them at that scale but I don't want to lose our trees!
Thanks, Chris and Kevin! That was very helpful. Gorgeous hollyhocks, btw. White flies really gave me a time towards the end of winter before letting plants outside.. Any advice for the future would be welcomed!.Thanks!
Thanks. In response to the question at the end about the pest giving the most trouble: it's slugs for me. They're coming out in force and devouring my baby corn plants, pumpkin and squashes, radish tops, and of course lettuces. I've been setting beer traps, laying out thorny branches, coffee grounds, and just going out every night to try to find and kill any I see but they are relentless.
Don't do beer traps - you may be calling all the slugs in your neighborhood to your yard. I've had better success with sluggo and copper tape around the beds
Great presentation. Think that I have Spider mites based on the webding she talked about. Got plants from a new dealer this year supposed to be organic. I had an infestation of oleander aphids which I’ve never seen before and now it appears I’ve got a new one from a new pest. My defense is not to buy plants from that dealer again. Love your podcast and listen to it as I’m driving in the car. Thanks for all the great information!
Chilli Thrips are my nemesis this year. I’m a rose specialist here in San Diego, and most of my clients have them, as well as the Balboa Park Rose Garden I help take care of. I’m alternating with Hachi Hachi and Conserve (spinosad) and it’s keeping them at bay, but not eradicating them.
Ive had a problem with spider mites on my beans and i have an aphid problem on my peppers. Im also currently fighting a powder mildew fungus problem on my watermelon and cucumber plants
My golden raspberry was struggling with spider mites that I had no idea about.... and only thing I did was just wash the leaves off as much as I can for Multiple days. Now it's growing new leaves and new flowers.
You can also tell if you have spider mite by finding small clusters of yellow spots in any area of the leaf. Thats the early indication you have spider mite.
I get spider mites on my beans and other soft plants. Along with mealy bugs on my jaide tree, but thanks to your advice I got rid of mealy bugs. Now to try spider mite solutions.
Excellent instructive video. Interesting to know about humidity. Does whitefly also dislike humidity as the greenhouse I use is susceptible to both. The gardener addresses this by keeping all vents open.
Spider mites love my sunflowers, beans, snap peas, basil, peppers, marigold and tomatoes🥲 There used to be some on my alocasia, but ever since moving it to a more shady spot, they somehow disappeared after many neem oil treatments. Thank you Chris!
@@SpiceyKy well, at least there are no possums, squirrels and rabbits around here 😅. Might grow them in pots and put that besides the other potted plants.
Soaps and oils are very pollinator friendly and once applied and dried will not effect polinators at all. These work by smothering the insect and not letting them breathe. True insecticdes may effect pollinators if they are systemic in action as they will go into the pollen and nectar in the flowers. Even some contact and translaminar insecticides will not effect pollinators after they have dried. Those plants actually attract predatory insects as they are usualy readily infected by pest insects.
I sprouted a couple apple trees and keep them inside over the winter this year, a few weeks ago I noticed the webbing and I ha e been battling them ever since. I can't seem to get rid of them. I have considered placing the trees outside in the cold for a few hours but I figure that would just kill my apple trees.... I don't know what to do, I ha e tried everything I can think of, home brews I find on the internet, need oil, garlic, dawn, nothing is working.
Earwigs bugs for days here. Right now just making sure i don't keep large still amounts of water. I have also cut way down on broadcast watering. I also live by a creek so i have blood sucking vampires for days I have not noticed them effecting my plats but they sure make it annoying for me to go out and take care of my plats.
I have no idea what has been muching on my fruit tree's leaves. It has little chew marks on some of the leaves. I'm especially confused because it's on the second floor balcony.
The neem oil seems to have gotten rid of the mites but the tree isn't looking great. Can i prune off the obviously dead branches and get new growth or is it a goner?
I have red spider mites in outdoor vegetable gardens every spring (Mid-Atlantic).Are they as destructive as the two-spotted spider mite, and are controls and prevention similar to the other mite species?
I have earwig/pillbug problems like you wouldn't believe. Its actually decimating my garden and getting worse every season and im almost to the point of nuking it or giving up, as trapping doesnt help.
This is great info, I would love to see an add on about "string of" house plants. I have tried a string of tears several times and ultimately always loose them. The removal methods just don't seem realistic for these types of plants. Any additional advice for these somewhat delicate succulents?
Slugs. Slugs have just been destroying my crops this year, veggies and herbs alike. I’ve been stalking the garden around 8 each night to manually pull them off plants
White fly is tops for me. Then in order, cucumber beetle, Japanese beetles (although if I grow morning glory vine, they LOVE that and mostly stay away from things I want). Lastly, when, and only when, I grow any type of squash - the dreaded vine borer moth and larvae. I have not grown squash for the last 5 years because it's too heartbreaking.
i have had a long long spidermite problem in my drumstick/moringa tree i didnt notice because we werent all time in the house so after i spotted them 9 months ago i tried to control it but the tree is somehow unable to die because when its old leaves dies there will be new ones so its somehow balancing itself any help on how to get rid of leaf miners ? i used salt,turmeric powder and a bit of water on the leaf miners it somehow woorked a bit just try it dont use alot im not sure if it can dehydrate the plant.
I’ve been fighting spider mites on my two raspberry plants for over a year now. Tried cutting them back, hosing them down, using ladybugs, and using Captain jack’s deadbug. I’ll try some horticultural oil next. Thanks for the tips!
I have been trying to fight off squash beetles. Last year, they infested my garden and spent most of my summer knocking them down. This year I have only seen a handful on my Cucumber. If I see one, there may be more. Been keeping a lookout for them. Any advice?
If all of the leaves in my entire garden have speckles like this, though I cannot see tiny webs on the plants, I am guessing I do have spider mites.; I have not been able to figure out what is causing the speckles. It’s on perennials and annuals, even on some veggie leaves. I am 6 weeks away from our first frost. Should I treat the spider mites now or hit up everything at the beginning of spring and keep a regular regiment to treat them. It makes sense that these are spider mites, we have very dry summers here.
None of these solutions have ever killed my mite problems. Sadly to my dismay a year ago i watched all of my crops go one by one as i tried these steps and kept up with it regularly. Here in colorado we get red spidermites pretty often and I've found diatomaceous earth helps a lot! Ok so I need help with grasshoppers! Huge issue here in Colorado and the only solution I found was nolo bait, which was made here in Durango. However it seems there was an issue with supply this year and I can't find it anywhere. Online or in state. Any other solutions on preventing this terrible pest from decimating my friends and my crops?
@SarahTingen absolutely. High winds in the plains so it's an almost daily process. Not to mention rain. Plus most of them shake it off when they get big enough. It would slow the problem and you'd see them avoid those areas but always temporary. Nolo bait kills them when they're young and eliminates the problem all season long. They've reached out to me and let me know it will be back in stock this season.
Every year I have problems with the spider might destroying my tomatoes. We are in Shadow hills, California where it can be hot and dry. I spray them with oils often but they keep coming back. I was wondering if I could use some sort of humidifier outside over the tomatoes. The kind with a hose attachment. I could set it to turn on every other day early in the morning. Do you think this would work?
Yep, had thrips all summer, between neem oil I'd been buying the predators some swartzski or some name bug, now back to spider mites. One keep the others down.. Have to grow in my basement so it's a constant battle. Always bleaching the environment tents ect. Spray neem oil or insecticide soaps every 4 days. Between use predatory mites. Also, pink and yellow sticky traps against the stems, then cold water sprays. Keeps the numbers low.
Rabbits generally don't like the smell of lavender. You can try growing some of it to keep them away. If that doesn't work, I've generally had good luck with chicken wire.
a method that has worked for me: drench the plant for example under the shower to emulate rain, put the plant into a clear plastic bag / put a clear plastic bag over the plant incl. pot, tie off the bag, put in quaratine (isolated window sill), and let the little suckers be smothered in humidity :) some plants react negatively to soaps and/or thus oils adding to stress and damage
I used Neemoil, it didn’t work so I took it out and washed the plant, roots, pot and new potting soil. That didn’t work because it keeps getting worse! The spider mite are a terrible. Thanks for the info.🙏🏻
Will spidermites die if you create a high humidity area? for example use a translucent plastic bag over a infected plant that you water every day Or is a chemical necessary the fight them?
I only have indoor plants, mostly orchids, and thrips randomly pop up like once a year.... I've never seen adults just the younger orange stage. It's so frustrating, but spraying them with the insecticidal soap seems to help a lot.
So I purchased a fogger and an all natural IPM solution. It has been so effective at killing aphids. I suspect it would work really well on spider mites too.
Spider mites have been my nemesis and stink bugs. I'm on an ongoing battle with these two. And just recently rolled pollies they've been eating all my seedlings.
Is the treatment the same for winter red spider mites? They have red bodies, black legs, and are easily flicked off of surfaces. In a matter of three warm days in December, they've infested my growing bags and discolored my garlic and onion shoots completely. I had been using frost cloth over them when the temperatures are in the 20s as I am growing frost sensitive plants among the alliums, but the mites have also been all over the frost cloth as well. I've applied a soapy neem oil solution spray, but after half a day they start to crawl back up the leaves. How many days of this spray's application will it take to subside this problem? Are there other non-toxic solutions to this problem?
Wow! Chris is such a stellar addition to the team! Keep making these guides!
Agreed! She's a wonderful teacher!
I just recently had a small spider mite problem on one of my plants and tried removing them by spraying the whole plant with cold water, which came recommended in some video. I added ice cubes to the water to make sure it was as cold as possible. It worked wonderfully and the mites didn't return .I removed everything visible (nets, mites) using a paper towel.
Thanks for sharing your tip dear
So just really cold water?
@@jtee9986 exactly
Does it affect plants like strawberry?
@@gameroli2022They literally attack everything comes in there way expect plants which are repellent towards such inspects....so I used many plants placed in between my hibiscus plants which works as insects repellent......n homemade insecticide will work on them ..take 5 ml of neem oil n 5 ml of liquid detergent add too 1 litre ice water n spray in 2 days gap it will be very helpful
Leaf miners are the bane of our garden. Would be nice to have an in depth review of options to control/eliminate them!
Love Chris's style of sharing information. Down to earth and super practical. Thanks!
I transplanted my peppers outdoors two weeks ago and already half the leaves have leaf miner damage. Makes me want to tear my hair out.
Agreed! Leaf miner on my greens.
hey Clarence. Try getting predators in your garden or try Beauvaria Bassiana, do some reading on this too! Hope you get them under control.
Diatomaceous Earth - food grade?
The worst case of spider mites I've had was on a tomato plant that overwintered here in Southern California. I learned to rip out the old tomatoes before spring arrived. During the heat of summer I try to regularly spray down my plants with water in the morning, and I've planted Dara carrot, dill, fennel, and yarrow to encourage lacewings which I'm starting to see around the garden more. I also let parsley and cilantro go to seed for the same reason. The hover flies like these plants, too.
It's been an ongoing war with spider mites. This is so helpful
Really appreciate the editing addition of red circling and extra pictures when describing the various symptoms and bugs
Another infirmative video...Thank you!!
How about talking about leafminers...i am in FL and they are my biggest pest problem on all garden. Love to learn how to prevent, treat and prevent...thank you for sharing so much for so many.
Thanks Kevin and Chris! This info is so beneficial! I am noticing several plants suffering from spider mites in my garden, particularly boxwood. Another pest I have are leaf hoppers.
Chris needs her own channel. We need more content for us who live in similar zones.
Zone 6a on the Great Lakes, I agree
@@LillibitOfHere If you know of any resources on this area, let me know. I've got a bunch of space in King City, Ontario I am planning/laying out.
I'm not sure it's a channel she needs, but at least a playlist with more content for growers in colder and/or wetter climates.
@@anahidkassabian4471 Yes--zones 2 to 4 would be WODNERFUL!
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Ok the timing of this video is freaky, literally just found spider mites on my ficus umbellata about an hour ago and treated it and lost a calathea freddie to these darn mites a few days ago.
My buddy just got them like a week or two ago on some broccoli plants. I gave him some of my diatomaceous earth and he no longer has a mite problem. Give that a try too if nothing else is working.
Bad Airflow, high heat, low humidity and too much nitrogen are the 4 main reasons anyone gets spiders. I used to have them almost constantly. Once I'd dialed in the environmental parameters, it's been almost a year since I've seen one.
Just that time of year
Yup exactly. You can't do anything about high heat and low humidity in Colorado, thats just life.
You are freak
I have white powder on my fruit tree, herbs and veggie plants. I also had a little line of small hard brown bumps on the branch of my clementine tree. i have lots of insects in my garden. i do use neem oil. Help
Please please please FUNGUS GNATS. They are the bane of my outdoor compost in spring (once it heats up the eggs die) but using it for my indoor grow is horrible for spring. They are so annoying
4-lined plant bugs were wreaking havoc on my peppers this past month.
Another great video! Chris was a fantastic addition to the team. The wealth of knowledge from both of you is awesome.
I have problems with these tiny white cotton looking bugs that cling to undersides of plant leaves. I spray them with vinegar mix to kill them. They usually appear on my distressed plants.
Kill them.
I have them every year on my Angel Trumpet. I spray it multiple times with soapy water, I will add alcohol now. I did start watering it with very soapy water to make it taste bad to them. Hope that works too. Thanks!
Had some issues with spider mites at the beginning of the season but got them under control, the high humidity we have helps a lot. Flea Beatles are my biggest issue atm
Minute pirate bug is a wonderful bio control for spider-mites, aphids and thrips.
Take a peek at a weedy patch near where you live, and you should be able to find a couple of the tiny adult insects among the smaller glowers (the adults also eats pollen grains).
They can be quite pricey to buy online (your local garden center probably isn't carrying minute pirate bug), so looking for them outside for free is well worth it.
The adult minute pirate bug can also sustain itself on flower pollen, so it won't leave your garden if it can't locate some prey immediately, unlike lacewings and ladybugs.
We tried using minute pirate bugs in our greenhouse to control thrips, and they all died in the first few days, often by just drowning themselves in any sort of standing water. A week after we released them, I could count the number of living bugs on one hand.
THANK YOU!!!!! I have tried and was about to give up this year... now there is hope.
How do you control mosquitoes with all the irrigation and the pond???! 😫😫😫😫
I’m in Phoenix and they are just terrible 😞
Thanks!
No problem!
Chris your green thumb intellect is simply mesmerizing! Great channel and quickly becoming my most watched. Keep up the great flow of content.
Grubs and cut worms. How would you control or prevent them??
So much great detailed info in such a short video! I’m gonna need to watch this one again with a note pad. Great video!
I have a massive philodendron that has a light infestation. These are the fuzzy white mites, not the two-spotted ones. I've used Neem oil 3-4 times but they keep coming back. I don't want to dispose of the plant. I'm using the rubbing alcohol in the spray bottle method.
Wow! Thank you! We moved into a new house and strawberry and raspberry plants started sprouting a few months ago, but I noticed spider webbing around the stems. This was so helpful
Weevil! I found one on my espalier pear tree, just sitting there. I didn’t want to kill it till I know
It’s a BAD bug. What should I do?
Spidermites killed my from-seed tomatillos this spring, but just today I picked up a couple at a greenhouse so I’m happy that I’ll be able to grow some still! I’ll be saving this video in case of future issues though!
I am growing Dalias and wanted to plant taller plants behind them so I purchased Hollyhocks. My Hollyhocks weren't growing so I moved the mulch and dug down a bit and the bulbs were soft and fell apart. what did I do wrong with them? 😢
I had spidermites target my outdoor plants for the first time last year because we had an extra dry and dusty summer. Fortunately I was able to get them under control. My most obnoxious and difficult to control pest is FLEA BEETLES! I have completely given up on growing any brassicas during the summer because they are so hard to keep in check. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
I grow brassicas as a winter crop, here the main problem is white cabbage moths, and growing them through summer would be a constant battle. No doubt depends on your climate, I'm in a cold temperate climate with some heavy frosts in winter and they love it. I protect them with a hoop tunnel covered in white 50% shadecloth to get the plants started in early autumn then they grow like mad through winter :)
I just got my first pest on my little raised garden: flea beetles all over my broccoli! I got a spray from a local nursery, but they seem to be coming back. Feels like all I can do is pick off and squish the ones I find, so twice a day I'm like a little monkey over my plants. :(
I use wettable sulphur 2 TBSP per gallon it works better than neem oil or soap - someone from the extension service recommended sulphur
Is that good for all growing zones/climates?
Forgot to ask, is that as a foliage spray or as a soil drench?
@@annalisa6135spray on leaves in the evening
@@annalisa6135all zones
@@annalisa6135 foliage spray spray in the evening to prevent burning and dont spray within 2 weeks of spraying neem oil as it will clog the pours on the leaves
Why not tell us how to make a mixture of soap and alcohol/water. What are the quantities and ratios. ??
By far the plum curculio or stink bugs on my stone fruit spray dormant and horticultural oil in fall and before buds broke but still and I sprayed neem oil every 7 to 10 days
I’ve been WAITING for you to do a video on this! You’re the expert!!
Started balcony gardening this year. Had 2 pests so far; leaf miners in my spinach, and some caterpilars on my red cabbage. Caterpillars were plucked off and tossed away for the birds to find, but the leaf miners are more tricky. I'm treating with a neem oil solution to see if that works.
Does the soap and alcohol solution work on grain mites? Not in the garden but my animal feed and the building it was stored within.
THANK YOU!!! One i’m having an issue with here in the PNW is Clover Mites… 😬 blech!
Can someone give the recipe for soapy water and alcohol mixture to use on the infestation? Thanks
My coleus have been inundated with white scale for the past two years. Also the lantana. All are in a plot covered by 50% shade cloth. Help.
I have an i festation of white flies. I would appreciate a video on how to get rid of them? My garden veggies are dying!
This video was awesome! Her knowledge and the way she laid it all out was super informative and easy to follow.. Thank you!👍🏻👍🏻
Having major problems with white fly and slugs, especially white fly. As far as spider mites, I have tried all of the suggested remedies on my snail vines, 20 feet long so not practical to do anything leaf by leaf, but here in Phoenix as soon as it gets hot they get bad. I tried a neem oil soil drench this year and so far doing well, repeating it every week.
Having trouble with fungus gnats indoors. What is the best way to get rid of them?
Spider mites, I have inside and outside, so I’ll try those methods, thanks for sharing!!!
This is great info. This is the most annoying thing, especially when we bring plants inside for winter.
This was so timely for me- I searched for a video on spidermites just today! My biggest pests in the garden right now are leaf hoppers. They are killing me and there are hundreds of them! I hand-pick at least 20 a day (which takes me a good half an hour every morning), plus catch lots in sticky traps. I've tried diatomaceous earth and neem oil (which damaged the plants but did nothing to the leaf hoppers), but I finally broke down today and did some pyrethrin. I felt like I was going to throw up spraying something on my plants that could harm beneficial insects, but these leaf hoppers have spread disease to my watermelons, honeydew, cantaloupe, bananas, and probably figs. I'm at my wit's end with these little bastards!
Did that nuclear option do the trick?
Search John Kempf spider mites
You have to spray the neem oil when the sun isn't shining on your plants or else it will cause burns. Either in the evening, on an overcast day, or very early in the morning.
Excellent video, thank you! Are these really all options? I wonder how spider mites are controlled by farmers? I doubt they walk around huge tomato fields with soap or oil hand sprayers.. And I noticed a gallon of Neem Oil spray costs about $30 on Amazon, so if I use it throughout the season on my 60 tomato plants my home grown tomatoes are going to cost likely more than if I just buy them at a farmers market.
Plenty of good and practical information! Great video.
I live in San Diego County where it is dry and hot most of the time and so many of my mature trees have spider mites! I don't know what do do about them at that scale but I don't want to lose our trees!
Thanks, Chris and Kevin! That was very helpful. Gorgeous hollyhocks, btw. White flies really gave me a time towards the end of winter before letting plants outside.. Any advice for the future would be welcomed!.Thanks!
Would a weak solution of neem oil, and tea tree oil, in a Castile soap & water base suffice ?
Thanks. In response to the question at the end about the pest giving the most trouble: it's slugs for me. They're coming out in force and devouring my baby corn plants, pumpkin and squashes, radish tops, and of course lettuces. I've been setting beer traps, laying out thorny branches, coffee grounds, and just going out every night to try to find and kill any I see but they are relentless.
Don't do beer traps - you may be calling all the slugs in your neighborhood to your yard. I've had better success with sluggo and copper tape around the beds
This is sooo good, so informative and actually easy to understand. Thanks guys 👏👏👏
Great presentation. Think that I have Spider mites based on the webding she talked about. Got plants from a new dealer this year supposed to be organic. I had an infestation of oleander aphids which I’ve never seen before and now it appears I’ve got a new one from a new pest. My defense is not to buy plants from that dealer again. Love your podcast and listen to it as I’m driving in the car. Thanks for all the great information!
Chilli Thrips are my nemesis this year. I’m a rose specialist here in San Diego, and most of my clients have them, as well as the Balboa Park Rose Garden I help take care of. I’m alternating with Hachi Hachi and Conserve (spinosad) and it’s keeping them at bay, but not eradicating them.
Ive had a problem with spider mites on my beans and i have an aphid problem on my peppers. Im also currently fighting a powder mildew fungus problem on my watermelon and cucumber plants
I have something on my citrus but I’ve treated with a copper sulfate hope it works
My golden raspberry was struggling with spider mites that I had no idea about.... and only thing I did was just wash the leaves off as much as I can for Multiple days. Now it's growing new leaves and new flowers.
You can also tell if you have spider mite by finding small clusters of yellow spots in any area of the leaf. Thats the early indication you have spider mite.
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Before the yellow, small white spots on the leaf. Looks like thrip damage
I get spider mites on my beans and other soft plants. Along with mealy bugs on my jaide tree, but thanks to your advice I got rid of mealy bugs. Now to try spider mite solutions.
Excellent instructive video. Interesting to know about humidity. Does whitefly also dislike humidity as the greenhouse I use is susceptible to both. The gardener addresses this by keeping all vents open.
Lost coast plant therapy is basically a miracle when it comes to spider mites. And it’s safe for pollinators ❤️❤️
My Grandmother always had Hollyhocks.. my house pest is the little tiny ones that look like cotton balls. What are they?
Spider mites love my sunflowers, beans, snap peas, basil, peppers, marigold and tomatoes🥲 There used to be some on my alocasia, but ever since moving it to a more shady spot, they somehow disappeared after many neem oil treatments. Thank you Chris!
Sunflowers and marigolds act as distraction crops. 💛
@@SpiceyKy I thought marigolds deter pests?
@@nunyabiznes33 No. Not all pests. Snails, slugs, rabbits, squirrels possums all love it. But it distracts them from your vegetables and fruits.
@@SpiceyKy well, at least there are no possums, squirrels and rabbits around here 😅. Might grow them in pots and put that besides the other potted plants.
@@nunyabiznes33 Just remember they are annuals. I drop a couple seeds every couple weeks instead of all at once. Then you have them all season long. 💘
I have donated far too many plants to spider mites so this is a must study video
Soaps and oils are very pollinator friendly and once applied and dried will not effect polinators at all. These work by smothering the insect and not letting them breathe. True insecticdes may effect pollinators if they are systemic in action as they will go into the pollen and nectar in the flowers. Even some contact and translaminar insecticides will not effect pollinators after they have dried. Those plants actually attract predatory insects as they are usualy readily infected by pest insects.
I sprouted a couple apple trees and keep them inside over the winter this year, a few weeks ago I noticed the webbing and I ha e been battling them ever since. I can't seem to get rid of them. I have considered placing the trees outside in the cold for a few hours but I figure that would just kill my apple trees.... I don't know what to do, I ha e tried everything I can think of, home brews I find on the internet, need oil, garlic, dawn, nothing is working.
Earwigs bugs for days here. Right now just making sure i don't keep large still amounts of water. I have also cut way down on broadcast watering.
I also live by a creek so i have blood sucking vampires for days I have not noticed them effecting my plats but they sure make it annoying for me to go out and take care of my plats.
I have no idea what has been muching on my fruit tree's leaves. It has little chew marks on some of the leaves. I'm especially confused because it's on the second floor balcony.
We get all this educational content from Chris. When will we get a simple garden tour?
When its bussin
The neem oil seems to have gotten rid of the mites but the tree isn't looking great. Can i prune off the obviously dead branches and get new growth or is it a goner?
I have red spider mites in outdoor vegetable gardens every spring (Mid-Atlantic).Are they as destructive as the two-spotted spider mite, and are controls and prevention similar to the other mite species?
I have earwig/pillbug problems like you wouldn't believe. Its actually decimating my garden and getting worse every season and im almost to the point of nuking it or giving up, as trapping doesnt help.
This is great info, I would love to see an add on about "string of" house plants. I have tried a string of tears several times and ultimately always loose them. The removal methods just don't seem realistic for these types of plants. Any additional advice for these somewhat delicate succulents?
Love this video. Hoping you do more pest videos 🤞🏻
Slugs. Slugs have just been destroying my crops this year, veggies and herbs alike. I’ve been stalking the garden around 8 each night to manually pull them off plants
White fly is tops for me. Then in order, cucumber beetle, Japanese beetles (although if I grow morning glory vine, they LOVE that and mostly stay away from things I want). Lastly, when, and only when, I grow any type of squash - the dreaded vine borer moth and larvae. I have not grown squash for the last 5 years because it's too heartbreaking.
i have had a long long spidermite problem in my drumstick/moringa tree i didnt notice because we werent all time in the house so after i spotted them 9 months ago i tried to control it but the tree is somehow unable to die because when its old leaves dies there will be new ones so its somehow balancing itself any help on how to get rid of leaf miners ? i used salt,turmeric powder and a bit of water on the leaf miners it somehow woorked a bit just try it dont use alot im not sure if it can dehydrate the plant.
I’ve been fighting spider mites on my two raspberry plants for over a year now. Tried cutting them back, hosing them down, using ladybugs, and using Captain jack’s deadbug. I’ll try some horticultural oil next. Thanks for the tips!
@@Breeda420 DE the regular kind or food grade?
I have been trying to fight off squash beetles. Last year, they infested my garden and spent most of my summer knocking them down. This year I have only seen a handful on my Cucumber. If I see one, there may be more. Been keeping a lookout for them. Any advice?
I have them in my indoor aquaponic grows. Such a pain!
San Diego has some insanely strong species of them
Recipe for the soapy alcohol spray?
Definitely have spider mite issue at the moment.
hey love your content bro, do russet and broad mites next!
If all of the leaves in my entire garden have speckles like this, though I cannot see tiny webs on the plants, I am guessing I do have spider mites.; I have not been able to figure out what is causing the speckles. It’s on perennials and annuals, even on some veggie leaves. I am 6 weeks away from our first frost. Should I treat the spider mites now or hit up everything at the beginning of spring and keep a regular regiment to treat them. It makes sense that these are spider mites, we have very dry summers here.
None of these solutions have ever killed my mite problems. Sadly to my dismay a year ago i watched all of my crops go one by one as i tried these steps and kept up with it regularly. Here in colorado we get red spidermites pretty often and I've found diatomaceous earth helps a lot!
Ok so I need help with grasshoppers! Huge issue here in Colorado and the only solution I found was nolo bait, which was made here in Durango. However it seems there was an issue with supply this year and I can't find it anywhere. Online or in state. Any other solutions on preventing this terrible pest from decimating my friends and my crops?
Did you dust the leaves or soil with diatomaceous earth
@SarahTingen absolutely. High winds in the plains so it's an almost daily process. Not to mention rain. Plus most of them shake it off when they get big enough. It would slow the problem and you'd see them avoid those areas but always temporary. Nolo bait kills them when they're young and eliminates the problem all season long. They've reached out to me and let me know it will be back in stock this season.
What proportions are the soapy water and rubbing alcohol?
Every year I have problems with the spider might destroying my tomatoes. We are in Shadow hills, California where it can be hot and dry. I spray them with oils often but they keep coming back. I was wondering if I could use some sort of humidifier outside over the tomatoes. The kind with a hose attachment. I could set it to turn on every other day early in the morning. Do you think this would work?
Haven't had spider mites in a while but thrips seem to never go away no matter what you do.
Alcohol, peroxide, and tea tree oil soap. Works great. Aphids are also attracted to yellow. Yellow cup with Vaseline next to your plant attracts them.
Yep, had thrips all summer, between neem oil I'd been buying the predators some swartzski or some name bug, now back to spider mites. One keep the others down.. Have to grow in my basement so it's a constant battle. Always bleaching the environment tents ect. Spray neem oil or insecticide soaps every 4 days. Between use predatory mites. Also, pink and yellow sticky traps against the stems, then cold water sprays. Keeps the numbers low.
Thanks for this info! Super helpful. I'm struggling with leaf miners and really adorable yet destructive rabbits. 🙃
Leaf miners 😡😡😡😡😡😡 I’m struggling with those too and spider mites😌
Rabbits generally don't like the smell of lavender. You can try growing some of it to keep them away. If that doesn't work, I've generally had good luck with chicken wire.
@@Meirstein Thanks! 🤞
Twenty years ago a spider mite infestation killed a peach tree that I had. I was away on holiday and when I came back the tree was dead.
I have a couple indoor fruit trees... how am I supposed to spray down every leaf multiple times? It'll take hours every day :(
How much and what kind alcohol, soap, water please? Thanks
a method that has worked for me: drench the plant for example under the shower to emulate rain, put the plant into a clear plastic bag / put a clear plastic bag over the plant incl. pot, tie off the bag, put in quaratine (isolated window sill), and let the little suckers be smothered in humidity :) some plants react negatively to soaps and/or thus oils adding to stress and damage
I used Neemoil, it didn’t work so I took it out and washed the plant, roots, pot and new potting soil.
That didn’t work because it keeps getting worse! The spider mite are a terrible.
Thanks for the info.🙏🏻
Will spidermites die if you create a high humidity area? for example use a translucent plastic bag over a infected plant that you water every day
Or is a chemical necessary the fight them?
My biggest pest problem here in North East Florida is Southern Army Worms. Seven spray helps. Is there an organic solution I can try ??
I only have indoor plants, mostly orchids, and thrips randomly pop up like once a year.... I've never seen adults just the younger orange stage. It's so frustrating, but spraying them with the insecticidal soap seems to help a lot.
So I purchased a fogger and an all natural IPM solution. It has been so effective at killing aphids. I suspect it would work really well on spider mites too.
Would you like to share whàt you used for your natural IPM?
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Great video! What is the ratio for the soapy alcohol spray?
Spider mites have been my nemesis and stink bugs. I'm on an ongoing battle with these two. And just recently rolled pollies they've been eating all my seedlings.
Is the treatment the same for winter red spider mites? They have red bodies, black legs, and are easily flicked off of surfaces. In a matter of three warm days in December, they've infested my growing bags and discolored my garlic and onion shoots completely. I had been using frost cloth over them when the temperatures are in the 20s as I am growing frost sensitive plants among the alliums, but the mites have also been all over the frost cloth as well. I've applied a soapy neem oil solution spray, but after half a day they start to crawl back up the leaves. How many days of this spray's application will it take to subside this problem? Are there other non-toxic solutions to this problem?