Spider Mite on Brugmansia [TEST]

[southwind]

Greetings:

I am going to document an eradication program I am doing on my ornamental plants.

I am going to be trying a few products and showing effectiveness or non-effectiveness.

Some products will be more safe for plants that are injested and others not so safe.

I will update as time goes by.

Spider Mite Infestation on Brugmansia , size of plant is 8 feet tall by 10 feet wide.

Infestation has reached late stage and is effecting over all health of plant, without treatment this specimen should die within 3 months.


You can see the typical 'stipling' or tiny spots peppered over the surface of leaves.







In this you can see the individuals :the enemy.



Another specimen with no real damage, just showing a few individual 2 spotted spider mites.







First round of eradication began 8-10-08 with entire plant sprayed with ORTHENE SYSTEMIC INSECTICIDE.

ORDERING FLORAMITE TODAY.

PREPARING NEEM OIL TODAY.

PREPARING NO PEST STRIP TENT LATER IN WEEK.

 

[DIGITALHIPPY]

that floromite will get them.

 

[sarek]

Brugmansia really gets hit by SM. Since its outdoors maybe predators might be a good solution that keeps working.

 

[badmf]

Use a large sledge hammer, followed up 5 days later by fire! Never had a mite survive!

 

[southwind]

The CURE!

The CURE!

My most effective method of dealing with Powdery Mildew, Botrytis, Pythium root rot,thrips,spider mites,fungus gnats,japanes beetle, cucumber beetle,high PH, low PH,nute lockout,wilt, and those annoying buds they put on when flowered:

ONE MATCH

GASOLINE:





NO PROBLEM!

 

[southwind]

Spider Mite

Spider Mite

Here are some photos of spider mites a little more close-up.

These have been treated with ORTHENE SYSYEMIC INSECTICIDE.

As you see there are quite a few happy living ones.

 

[southwind]

more..

more..

some more closeups showing mite activity.


More coming on soon on my SOUR BUBBLE, BOGGLEGUM,and some others..

This will show [hopefully] the results with various insecticides available today.

This thread in no way replaces the SPIDER MITE AKA THE BORG sticky, but hopefully will add to it.

 

[jason1388]

Floromite..One shot kill

http://cgi.ebay.com/Floramite-SC-1oz-bottle-FREE-SHIPPING_W0QQitemZ270266459356QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item270266459356&_trkparms=72%3A1071|39%3A1|66%3A2|65%3A12|240%3A1318&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14

 

[southwind]

Floramite,Hot Shot NPS,Orthene Systemic.

Floramite,Hot Shot NPS,Orthene Systemic.

UPDATE:

Now we have everything we need to do the test.

First some more pics of mite activity:







Orthene Systemic:



Floramite:


HOT Shot No Pest Strip:




Equipment:

 

[southwind]

First Quarter Results:

First Quarter Results:

And here are the game results so far...

AUGUST 24 2008

HOME TEAM: SOUTHWIND

VISITORS: SPIDER MITES

On the field today Southwind applied NEEM OIL in STANDARD SOLUTION 3 DAYS AGO.

SCORE SO FAR:

SPIDER MITES: 10 to the 43rd power

SOUTHWIND: 0 [ZERO]

 

[luciano28]

When is the 2nd Qtr?

 

[southwind]

2nd quarter STARTS TODAY!

2nd quarter STARTS TODAY!

When is the 2nd Qtr?

THANKS MAN!!!!!

Someone noticed!

It starts today once I get back from the Doctor[kidney stones]


sw

 

[luciano28]

Ouch on the kidney stones man, my brother had those before, never seen him in so much pain when he was passing them. Good Luck with that.

Yeah I been watching this, cool thread, Im rooting for the home team man.

 

[Guest]

So if you're relating this test to pot then just ignore me but Brugs are something I know a lot about.

I have 30 brugs in my yard and in containers and don't have a mite problem in a neighborhood with mite problems. Indoor is harder yes but I have no problems with mites. I have 150+ ornamental, shrubs, perennials, and more flowers than you can throw bees at and have no problems.

The first year I got hit early on my brugs, I used insecticidal soap and it went away in 3 weeks and I picked off damaged leaves. Second year it was really bad because I had 2X the brugs. Used soap and ladybugs.

Third year I followed the online advice of a guy that's been growing brugs for 20 years. Twice a week I put the mist nozzle on my hose (old style adjustable brass nozzle) so it has a good "MIST" blast pressure but not enough to do damage and not much flow so it really is just a air blast almost. Twice a week I spray tops and bottoms of my shrubs and brugs leaves. No mites again. They moved on. They get blown off, hate moisture and go to lay eggs elsewhere. The brugmansias leaves are very large and thin so hitting them with water really makes them sag so I do it in the mornings then around noon I shake the branches to get droplets off and the leafs look normal shortly after that.

So I'm mite free using water. All that's left is to water them 9 million gallons per week and throw more fertilizer around than anfo blast.

I'm hacking a 7 foot 3 trunk ugly I have into 40 cuttings this next month and all of those will get planted along a fence. A whole row of 5 foot tall deep gold 'Charles Grimaldi' brugmansias.


But anyways, I store all of them without rootballs in a bucket. 30 trunks with no leaves in a bucket. Takes up 2 sq.ft. Pot em up next spring and they start growing. Except for the container plants that I've grow to a certain shape, those I keep potted but allow to go dormant. But no leaves for mites to set up shop over winter which is when they hit the brugs really hard. Google "bucket of brugs" and some lady has a gardenweb post about storage.

Just sharing. There are 100's of ways to do "a thing" and I like to hear em all.

 

[southwind]

Brugmansia!! Ornamental.

Brugmansia!! Ornamental.

This is great!

I would definitely like to hear further from you, as Brugmansia's and Datura's are one of my many many favorites.

SW

So if you're relating this test to pot then just ignore me but Brugs are something I know a lot about.

I have 30 brugs in my yard and in containers and don't have a mite problem in a neighborhood with mite problems. Indoor is harder yes but I have no problems with mites. I have 150+ ornamental, shrubs, perennials, and more flowers than you can throw bees at and have no problems.

The first year I got hit early on my brugs, I used insecticidal soap and it went away in 3 weeks and I picked off damaged leaves. Second year it was really bad because I had 2X the brugs. Used soap and ladybugs.

Third year I followed the online advice of a guy that's been growing brugs for 20 years. Twice a week I put the mist nozzle on my hose (old style adjustable brass nozzle) so it has a good "MIST" blast pressure but not enough to do damage and not much flow so it really is just a air blast almost. Twice a week I spray tops and bottoms of my shrubs and brugs leaves. No mites again. They moved on. They get blown off, hate moisture and go to lay eggs elsewhere. The brugmansias leaves are very large and thin so hitting them with water really makes them sag so I do it in the mornings then around noon I shake the branches to get droplets off and the leafs look normal shortly after that.

So I'm mite free using water. All that's left is to water them 9 million gallons per week and throw more fertilizer around than anfo blast.

I'm hacking a 7 foot 3 trunk ugly I have into 40 cuttings this next month and all of those will get planted along a fence. A whole row of 5 foot tall deep gold 'Charles Grimaldi' brugmansias.


But anyways, I store all of them without rootballs in a bucket. 30 trunks with no leaves in a bucket. Takes up 2 sq.ft. Pot em up next spring and they start growing. Except for the container plants that I've grow to a certain shape, those I keep potted but allow to go dormant. But no leaves for mites to set up shop over winter which is when they hit the brugs really hard. Google "bucket of brugs" and some lady has a gardenweb post about storage.

Just sharing. There are 100's of ways to do "a thing" and I like to hear em all.

 

[southwind]

2nd quarter Results

2nd quarter Results

Its time for an update:

2 weeks ago I appled ORTHENE SYSTEMIC INSECTICIDE in 2 applications 3 days apart.

HERE ARE THE RESULTS:

SPIDER MITES [VISITORS]

10 to the 12th power.

SOUTHWIND [HOMETEAM]

10 to the 30th power




As you can see the mites have been knocked down pretty good but not completely.

thee is new almost unaffected growth on these primulas, brugmansias, and verbascums, alos on my indoor cannabis plants [no pics right now]


















NEXT ROUND IS HOT SHOT NO PEST STRIPS.

 

[southwind]

?

?

As this post is a few weeks old and only has 293 hits/views I think that the interest is low enough to just go to FLORAMITE, post those results and call it quits.


sw

 

[zachrockbadenof]

yo wind.... i am checking your posts for every update... we tooo suffer the embarrassement of hemorrhoids xxxx i mean spider mites...

before the last grow in the spring,we fogged the room 3 times within 7days, then sprayed everything with dormant oil. afterwards we put D.E. on the floor, then made a paste of the D.E. and coated the sides on the buckets, once the plants has a few sets of leaves we coated the stem with petro jerry... and still they came... we tried safer soap, and they laughed as we were spraying... they seemed to enjoy the shower of neem oil... , we bought predator mites, and our spider mites scared them out of town (we got bad-ass mites)...and finally 1 week before 12/12, we bought a quart of floramite... well those fuker's ain't laughing at me no more... we sprayed 3 times... 7days after the 1st dose, thereafter about 10days into flowering...

the shit works....

 

[southwind]

yah

yah

I guess I mean that this post is for everyone..its not becuase I am bored and have nothing else to do.

Its for YOU.

So okay..since i have to test the HSNPS anyway..i guess i iwll post it.


sw

yo wind.... i am checking your posts for every update... we tooo suffer the embarrassement of hemorrhoids xxxx i mean spider mites...

before the last grow in the spring,we fogged the room 3 times within 7days, then sprayed everything with dormant oil. afterwards we put D.E. on the floor, then made a paste of the D.E. and coated the sides on the buckets, once the plants has a few sets of leaves we coated the stem with petro jerry... and still they came... we tried safer soap, and they laughed as we were spraying... they seemed to enjoy the shower of neem oil... , we bought predator mites, and our spider mites scared them out of town (we got bad-ass mites)...and finally 1 week before 12/12, we bought a quart of floramite... well those fuker's ain't laughing at me no more... we sprayed 3 times... 7days after the 1st dose, thereafter about 10days into flowering...

the shit works....

 

[southwind]

floramite

floramite

but.....i thought floramite was a one shot??

it says, or i thought it said to use once and it has 21 days residual?

i ask not to be a smartass but because i need to know..did you find that not to be true?

sw

yo wind.... i am checking your posts for every update... we tooo suffer the embarrassement of hemorrhoids xxxx i mean spider mites...

before the last grow in the spring,we fogged the room 3 times within 7days, then sprayed everything with dormant oil. afterwards we put D.E. on the floor, then made a paste of the D.E. and coated the sides on the buckets, once the plants has a few sets of leaves we coated the stem with petro jerry... and still they came... we tried safer soap, and they laughed as we were spraying... they seemed to enjoy the shower of neem oil... , we bought predator mites, and our spider mites scared them out of town (we got bad-ass mites)...and finally 1 week before 12/12, we bought a quart of floramite... well those fuker's ain't laughing at me no more... we sprayed 3 times... 7days after the 1st dose, thereafter about 10days into flowering...

the shit works....