I don't normally comment on videos I watch that are over a month old, but this video was one of the best! Very informative and straightforward and to the point. Very helpful indeed. You're one of the best plant channels I've come across. I hope your channel grows leaps and bounds you sure deserve it.🌱❤️🌿❤️🍃❤️🌵
I also like how you took the time to like the new comments that have been added to this video. Thanks for caring and being you...not a lot of RU-vidrs do that😊
This is by far, the most informative and useful spider mite video that I've ever seen! It was very thorough and I really learned a lot from it! Thanks for another great video!
I've been watching your videos for a few months...but THIS one was so, so thorough and helpful, that it was the one that compelled me to subscribe. Thank you!
Something else to remember when it comes to spider mites, or any other pest for that matter, building a resistance to pyrethrin's is how much that particular pesticide is being used in your area. Pyrethrin's are a natural pesticide derived from chrysanthemums, so it would be easier to develop resistance as opposed to a chemically derived pesticide. In my area - farmland/agriculture - it would be much more difficult to find a pesticide that is still effective than, say, a city where pesticides are not used on a regular basis.
The hydrogen peroxide/water mix she mentions works. Fill up the pot, covering the soil and let dry out. A cup of apple cider vinegar with a drop of dishsoap next to the plant helps too.
I found a great way to get rid of fungus gnats, fungus problems. Use cinnamon, sprinkle on soil. The fungus gnats hate it, if that does not eradicate them, use aquarium gravel to top dress the soil. This suffocates them, prevents eggs from hatching. I tried the first, it helped, but they were still there. Only on one plant. Tried the aquarium gravel, they died out. Yay.
This was, by far, the most comprehensive spider mite video. Thank you so much. I have a small handheld microscope to look for pests. When I received my Alocasia Cuprea it looked a bit "off". Got out the microscope and lo and behold, caught a video of one just strolling along a leaf. I am going to re-watch the 2 videos you recommend.
@@AlohaPlantLife It is. Hooks up to my phone or computer. It wasn't really an "investment" - It was $29.99 on Amazon and I had a coupon for $4.50 off. It's not top of the line, but it does work great. I don't know if I am allowed to post a link here or not, so to be safe, I won't.
My only spider mite issue was with morning glories that I had outside last summer. I’ve never had them or thrips. When I pot my plants I use a systemic pesticide in the soil and I check the heck out of them in the store. I count myself lucky that I haven’t had problems.
Loved this video so helpful! One other tip, I discovered spider mites by misting. Light misting makes the webbing show up. I bought a fabulous croton in tree form and spider mites took over that awesome plant.
Thank you for all the information in this video. I went plant shopping after I watched it and did not buy any plants because I saw spider mites and webs on some of the plants. When I got home, I went to water my thanksgiving cactus plants and had to treat for fungus gnats!
I honestly LOVE this video and have watched it about 100 times in the last 4 weeks that I have been dealing with Thrips.... I am treating my plants just how you said to in this video but was wondering if you would ever consider doing a similar video about how you deal with Thrips. Thank you so much. LOVE your channel so much!!
I have used marathon or bonide in the soil and added diatomaceous earth as well when making up a batch of hoya soil . the bonide kills the adult mite due to uptake into the sap of the plant and the diatomaceous earth kills the larval stage.
Sadly, I’m brand new to plants and was mystified when a beautiful hibiscus bit the dust. I was just buying plants and bringing them home not knowing anything. I’ve nearly lost another hibiscus and a friend posted about having a spider mite problem. I saw that as an option on a Google search and then started learning. Thankful for your video. I have 3 majesty palms that are pretty saturated. I’d appreciate tips for those and my remaining hibiscus.
Brilliant video thank you. I have a parlour palm has been ailing for a couple of years now and I've just realised it has spider mite! The gritty feel and dusty leaves was a game changer as I've never seen webbing only yellow and brown leaflets. I have SB invigorator which i hope will work. I'm in the UK and can remember being able to buy systemic houseplant insecticide many years ago as biodegradable cards you'd push into the compost. Thanks for your videos i especially like your prayer plant ones!
You throughly cover so much important points! You are amazing and I love your videos I've learned so much plus you have confirmed many techniques I also do so it's nice to hear it works for others as well and most of all I feel I'm not cray-cray!lol!
Had one plant fail with your formula, my watermelon peperomia. It did not like the treatment at all. Backs of leaves are degrading and new leaves are deformed with black tips. Haven’t had a problem with this plant before. I hope it can be saved. All my other plants did great and have gone through two treatments. Thank you!
Great advice! Only thing that I tested and didn´t work out was H202 - I watered the soil with H202 and right after the spidermites started crawling out all alive unharmed :-( So since that moment of despair, I water the plant from the top with pesticide and this helped me a lot - the pesticided did kill them in the soil (none crawled out and the numbers started going down quickly).
Same thing is happening to me now! Which pesticide did you use in the soil? I keep finding clusters of mites crawling out and all over the pot, especially terra cotta pots and not even 99% alcohol kills them!
@@imaginarydreamer In the soil: systemic neonicotinoid - kills pests in the soil and spread through the roots to the entire plant. For mites, great one is acetamipirid (Careo Substral). For thrips: flupyradifurone is the best (Sanium System). Vertimec is also great on mites and ok on thrips and can be used in the soil. Neem oil is much weaker than these and has limited reach, but if you have nothing else available, you can use it in the soil too. It´s necessary to treat mites in the soild to be successful. Good luck. This is for the EU. However, I´m sure you can find something similar in your region.
@@SparkleInMoonlight Ah, thank you! I'll have to do more research because everything is banned here in Canada or impossible to find and I've found neem oil to be completely useless unfortunately
This is a great video! I have a question. This video is considerably more current than the one showing how to make your own homemade DIY pest spray. At that time you said you had used your spray twice and planned to use it as a preventative treatment once a month. Have you followed through with that plan and has it been a success? Or have you had reinfestation of pests which prompted you to make this video? I ask because I just spent $50 on the soaps and 1-gal spray bottle and am preparing to spray all my plants (over 200, so I'm really hoping you've been successful long-term). Thanks for all your great content. This is the most useful plant channel I watch by far. Great, concise presentation.
I don’t get spider mites when they are outside during the summer. But when they are inside my grow tent I get them. Humidity average of 70%, 2 fans going, temp about 75F
Hello! I found a moderate infestation on my beautiful bird of paradise yesterday. I sprayed the plant with a firm shower stream and then sprayed down with a mixture of rubbing alcohol, water and Castile soap and used an old makeup brush to brush down the leaves. I’ve been hoping to repot the plant recently as it has roots growing out the bottom of the pot but am worried that this may be too much stress for the plant to take on top of the spider mites. Would you suggest waiting, or repotting now?
Well, crud - I guess I was in semi-panic mode because I discovered they were infesting one of my plants and that plant was touching my peacock plant. On inspecting the peacock plant, I found mites on it. I had to trash the other heavily infested plant, but decided to treat the peacock because the infestation wasn't too bad. I started off just wiping front and back of the leaves every other day with a mix of water, vinegar and a little drop of dish soap, then spraying the leaves a couple times a day with filtered water to help keep the humidity up. However, I watched another video where they recommend getting pest spray, so I found a mite spray for house plants at the garden center today and hosed my peacock plant down with it. I'm hoping I didn't just doom the plant because no, I did NOT test a single leaf. Ugh. Prayers for my prayer plant, please. 🙏 I've got it isolated from my other plants, though, and did a thorough cleaning where it had been sitting before. I heard a life cycle of around two weeks, so I've just determined I'll keep the plant isolated for the entire month just to be sure... provided I didn't just kill it with the pest spray. Mahalo for this really detailed video!
Hello. Love your videos and the dedication you put on your plant care. Here in Portugal i can't find Castile soap and on your lattest vídeo you said that dish soap is bad for the plants. Have you ever tried it...may i use your recipe without any soap, or that way it doesn't work... Thanks.
Just try and find something with all natural ingredients and no chemicals or harsh detergents. The label on the Castile soaps says “no parabens, phthalates, lauryl/laureth sulfate, and no petroleum derivatives” if that helps
Hey there! This was very useful, thank you. I still have a problem though. I own a frangipani (or plumeria), it was very healthy but then I started noticing some yellowing on the leaves and I thought it might be some nutrient deficiency and I tried being consistent with fertilization and watering. The yellowing only got worse by the day and on closer inspection I found webbing on several leaves and concluded it to be spider mites. I searched for treatment and thus used a spray of neem oil and alcohol solution and wiped down the leaves top and bottom. On the next few days the entirety of the leaves turned yellow and brown and started falling rapidly. After watching this video, I believe that the frangipani was too sensitive to the solution. Here comes my question: At this current situation, with all the leaves - except the new growth - already fallen, what should I do to save my tree?
Yoo, Good Morning Ma'am! Thank You For Sharing Your Knowledge Ma'am! I spent hours looking for video about Spider Mites, and they were just poor parroting videos. Why your video didn't show up, I don't know, but it was recommended and ready when I opened RU-vid. You were the perfect combination with my morning coffee! 🤗 Subscribed!!! 😁 Iowa PS: In short, one of my Colocasia Esculenta leaves was magically turned into an Colocasia Esculenta Marble (a dull pattern version) and that started the investigation. That was pure magic, and so I used magic to make them disappear! 😂 Thank You For Your Information!! Now I have a much much better understanding and what I am dealing with! 🤗
I have them on my apartment balcony where my Jasmine, plumeria and maidenhair grow, and I just got a ficus shivereana for my living, and even though it’s a 3” baby, I just noticed spider mites on her too! If they’re always crawling and traveling with the wind, getting onto you, your pets, etc., then why only treat your plants for 3-4 weeks? I mean, they’re just going to keep coming, right? So it seems an endless battle!
Thank you for this video! Super helpful! Towards the end you mention treating with a "preventative spray of our choice." Do you have one that you recommend?
For your other video with the recipe: Is there any scientific research that proves that tea tree oil specifically kills the eggs and larvae? I tried looking it up on Google but I only found researches about other botanical oils, not tea tree specifically, so I wanted to know where people are getting this information from (I saw this recipe in other videos/blogs with different ratios but same ingredients) 😊
So, as I mentioned spider mites are related to ticks and other such ectoparasites, and extensive studies have been done on the effects of tea tree oil on ectoparasites in general as a whole with positive results. This is the best/most inclusive such study that I was able to find when doing my own research (hope it helps): file:///C:/Users/drea/Downloads/pharmaceutics-14-01587-v2.pdf
Was wondering why my anthurium is getting blotchy look n brown tip n stunted leaves. Tq so much. True enough there are lots of red spider mites!!! I washed it down and spray with neem oil . Hopefully they will recover!!! Tq again
Try not to panic ~ Ha! Maybe in the next life 😂 You are amazing though! I ran across this video & it was the most thorough, informative, easy to follow yet interesting video for me on this topic. I am now a follower & will be checking out your other content! Within the first few minutes of your video I knew I could trust your advice. Thank you!
Hi I know this is an old video but it is one of the very best I’ve seen on this all too common problem. I hope you wouldn’t mind responding if you see it and have a minute or two to respond. My Question: is it possible that spider mites could have possibly been transmitted via prepackaged Jiffy Peat Pellets?? Last spring I was able to find Moonflower seeds. I was super excited and put a great deal of time, love and hope into them after a spending a few years in a deep depression. The very first leaves unrolled into sad, deformed and pathetic little metaphors for my future. Every little seedling as well as $200 in dahlias were covered in stippling and webbing. I threw out my entire collection of tubers from last year. I did manage to get ONE dahlia bloom. This year I’ve ordered more and am gun shy to say the least this spring. I did not buy the peat pellets though.
You know, I’ve actually been thinking about this a lot lately in relation to bags of potting soil and most of my research suggests the answer is no. Pellets I feel like would be even less likely to have them just because of the process that they go through to be made into pellets would probably kill anything on them.
Not only do I spray my plants but before I put them back in there home place I spray down that area as well and wait till it drys then I put the plant or plants that live in that spot..... Believe me when I tell u I've seen a lot of dead flying bugs that need a break and they rested on the wrong area, lol 😜😂 I do spray the pot also that is or could be a culprit in spider 🕷️🕸️ mite Haven 😮. Just a few tips of mine, hopefully they will be helpful to someone.
I used the hydrogen peroxide water mixture to water my Bird of Paradise that has spider mites and I heard a fizzing sound from the soil. Why is that? It seems it reacted with something in the soil? Hope the plant is ok
That’s normal. The carbon molecules from the organic matter in the soil bond with the oxygen molecules in the hydrogen peroxide to form CO2 which is a gas which is why you see the tiny bubbles and hear the fizzing. It won’t hurt the plant💚
@@AlohaPlantLife no, sorry that was wrong. you have overall the best plant videos on youtube for me. you were able to hold my attention for 32 min just talking about plants and spidermites :D My attention span doesn't even last this long with blockbuster movies. 🤣🤣
In 2 plants I've got from stores like home depot (separate times) when i got home and checked their soil ive noticed they had like 2-3 spiders crawling on the soil after moving it around. They're not tiny like spider mites but literally baby spiders or a small kind of spider. Ive seen them look red/orange and black in color, and they have a big bulby belly (like the belly shape of a black widow but way smaller) are these still considered mites or just some kind of spiders? Im treating the recent plant i got and have her in a different room because of these baby spiders I've seen but i wanna know for sure what this is 😭 the plant is super healthy no webbings and nothing on the leaves either! They also crawl into the soil? I'm sure they're trying to hide but they seem to come out from the soil 😔
@@AlohaPlantLife I finally found something on Google and they're called predatory mites! They look just like spider mites but can also look visibly bigger although still small. They're carnivorous so they eat the demon mites and other stuff that bothers the plants 😈 still not 100% sure those are specifically it so treating and isolating just in case so my other plants won't get sick! I would love for you to look into those and possibly talk about them!
Thank you so much, for this info. You just prompt me to get Up and Spray my Plants. One thing I do wanna try for my Plants , is "Neem Oil" I've never tried it before. "Safe Garden Insecticidal Soap Insect Killer" is my Holy Grail, it kills on contact 💪 if I could buy this buy the Case, I would.
I just found spider mites on my Verrucosum I received a month ago😭 I have started treated with the peppermint and tea tree Castile soap with alcohol and peroxide. The leaf that was the worst is now a yellow orange and it only has 6 leaves but I am wondering if I Should I go ahead and cut that leaf off?
@@AlohaPlantLife thanks. I thought I got rid of mine on one plant about 1 years ago. Now it looks like it may be back. So was wondering if this is a new or old infestation and if I should change the soil. Thanks
The tip about testing sprays first is great advice. I killed my string of hearts by treating for spider mites. A new spray I used killed them but my plant was downhill ever until it just completely withered away. It was beautiful too 🥹🥹🥹
Brought my hibiscus indoors, this year have the webs. Last year nothing. Worried about my indoor plants are 8ft tall, can't take into shower stall. Nightmare 😢 What temperature discourages them?
So sorry to hear that. That’s the worst. Unfortunately during all my research I did, the temps at which they die are super extreme and would kill the plant.
For 3 years I have been in battle! I am exhausted, even me moving and throwing a lot of plants out didn’t help. these bastards just love my plants to much. Wish there could be one solution and I am done with them.
Honestly, I find heat to be a bigger factor than humidity when it comes to the spread of spider mites, but also if your plant is drying out too much the plant becomes distressed and they sense that and attack. And when it’s super hot out our plants start drying out more quickly than we realize and then we don’t water them as soon as we should and it just becomes this vicious cycle that spider mites love.
I put dry cups on the soil ans another container around pot and remove half the population every time, just dont make the mistake i did thinking theyd die without a plant. Bathroom mites I guess
@@AlohaPlantLife and if you can put your pot into something after spraying with neem oil or just watering the hell outta the soil the young mites will journey away as fast as possible
I use cups on the soil because a lot of service area for them to escape the wet conditions. If you can put your plant in direct sun that'll help and outside too on the ground.
*discovers Pests* “Oh shiz” *opens youtube* “oh shiz oh shiz” *posts in blog* no no no no my babies” *makes homemade Concoction* “Ok this should do it !” *panic mode in full swing* “Ok here goes nothing!” * spray locked and loaded and brushes in hand ready to scrub and nuke these pest* You: ¡¡Don’t Panic!! It’ll be ight ! Me: “oh….. uhhhh….. who’s panicking??? Not me “🥲
