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.

@nooor1120

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing your tip dear

@jtee9986

Жыл бұрын

So just really cold water?

@userXt

Жыл бұрын

@@jtee9986 exactly

@gameroli2022

Жыл бұрын

Does it affect plants like strawberry?

@shopaholicgirl4910

Жыл бұрын

​@@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

Wow! Chris is such a stellar addition to the team! Keep making these guides!

@leighannf.4730

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed! She's a wonderful teacher!

It's been an ongoing war with spider mites. This is so 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!

@christinesarkis4029

2 жыл бұрын

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.

@Michellegrows

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed! Leaf miner on my greens.

@4qutube234

2 жыл бұрын

hey Clarence. Try getting predators in your garden or try Beauvaria Bassiana, do some reading on this too! Hope you get them under control.

@SummerAdamsdotcom

2 жыл бұрын

Diatomaceous Earth - food grade?

Chris needs her own channel. We need more content for us who live in similar zones.

@LillibitOfHere

2 жыл бұрын

Zone 6a on the Great Lakes, I agree

@sophiophile

2 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@anahidkassabian4471

2 жыл бұрын

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.

@kathywifall6844

2 жыл бұрын

@@anahidkassabian4471 Yes--zones 2 to 4 would be WODNERFUL!

@wideeyedraven15

2 жыл бұрын

100

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.

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.

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.

@MrGRockin

2 жыл бұрын

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.

@JeagerTv

2 жыл бұрын

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.

@sigland6571

2 жыл бұрын

Just that time of year

@MrGRockin

2 жыл бұрын

Yup exactly. You can't do anything about high heat and low humidity in Colorado, thats just life.

@yogayoggie2209

2 жыл бұрын

You are freak

This is sooo good, so informative and actually easy to understand. Thanks guys 👏👏👏

This video was awesome! Her knowledge and the way she laid it all out was super informative and easy to follow.. Thank you!👍🏻👍🏻

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

I’ve been WAITING for you to do a video on this! You’re the expert!!

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!

Really appreciate the editing addition of red circling and extra pictures when describing the various symptoms and bugs

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.

@Meirstein

Жыл бұрын

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.

Plenty of good and practical information! Great video.

This is great info. This is the most annoying thing, especially when we bring plants inside for winter.

Chris your green thumb intellect is simply mesmerizing! Great channel and quickly becoming my most watched. Keep up the great flow of content.

THANK YOU!!!!! I have tried and was about to give up this year... now there is hope.

Love this video. Hoping you do more pest videos 🤞🏻

This was so helpful and informative! Thank you!!

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.

Chris, you are so great at this. Love, love, love your videos!!!!!

This absolutely great tips

Oh this is very helpful! Been dealing with those mites for years and sometimes I don't know what to do

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

spider mites are my arch nemesis.

We get all this educational content from Chris. When will we get a simple garden tour?

@JeagerTv

2 жыл бұрын

When its bussin

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.

Perfect timing!

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!

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!

Great video 😊🙏🏻 🥰

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.

@LydJaGillers

2 жыл бұрын

:-(

Lost coast plant therapy is basically a miracle when it comes to spider mites. And it’s safe for pollinators ❤️❤️

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

2 жыл бұрын

Sunflowers and marigolds act as distraction crops. 💛

@nunyabiznes33

Жыл бұрын

@@SpiceyKy I thought marigolds deter pests?

@SpiceyKy

Жыл бұрын

@@nunyabiznes33 No. Not all pests. Snails, slugs, rabbits, squirrels possums all love it. But it distracts them from your vegetables and fruits.

@nunyabiznes33

Жыл бұрын

@@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.

@SpiceyKy

Жыл бұрын

@@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. 💘

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!

@realchiknuggets

2 жыл бұрын

Did that nuclear option do the trick?

@xx7101

Жыл бұрын

Search John Kempf spider mites

@KaileyB616

9 ай бұрын

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.

Great information here !! Thank you !! 🌱

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!

Haven't had spider mites in a while but thrips seem to never go away no matter what you do.

@CaughtSmokin

Жыл бұрын

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.

@user-ju4wr6cg7i

6 ай бұрын

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.

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!

Thank you for the easy to follow and understand information

Loved this!

Spider mites, I have inside and outside, so I’ll try those methods, thanks for sharing!!!

Thank you for the detailed explanation.

Invaluable information!! thank you!!

Super helpful! Thank you so much!

GREAT VIDEO!!

Discovered scale and spider mites on my potted lemon thanks to you guys!

Chris is always awesome! Really hoping all of my plants are good now.. Haha

Very good info.

Awesome spider mite tips! Greetings from Missouri ♡

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.

Thank you Chris! Very informative. I'm battling slugs at the moment. We've had more rain in the PNW this year and I swear the slug population has skyrocketed.

Snails. They have seem to have taken over my yard this spring and I almost lost a baby artichoke! There were 10 or so on the two main leaves! I love having Chris on your channel. Thanks for adding her to your all star line up! 🤩🤩🤩

@industrialtumbleweed3849

2 жыл бұрын

I have found a beer party in the garden does wonders. I use mini aluminum bread pans, small jars like empty jam/jelly jars or solo cups. In your infected areas or beds bury the containers so the lip is just a little above the ground and fill with cheep beer. Do this at night and the next morning you will find dead slugs/snails in the containers. Another possible option is to see if there is a farm or sanctuary with domestic ducks near you that you might borrow or rent some ducks for a couple of days. They will clean out your snails very quickly.

@joeking3057

2 жыл бұрын

You can also take a hobby route with snails. Dwarf puffer fish will happily eat garden snails

I once brought home a beautiful pot full of different flower plants in there and a lill mini tree 🌲 in da middle. 😌 After a few weeks my worst nightmare happened, and it was occupied by a huge army of tiny mini spiders. 😶 I have been discouraged to grow anything at home ever since. 😔 That happened.. and meanwhile all my beautiful sweet pea plants suddenly got sick and died for some unexplainable reason, one after another.. Now finally I have planted a lill "spider plant", the one with thin long green leaves. 😌 It was very happy for week weeks in the water, growing sparingly.. now I planted it in da soil and it looks a lill sad. I hope it will adapt in it's new home soon and that it will grow big and healthy. 💖🌱

This is soooooo helpful!

hey love your content bro, do russet and broad mites next!

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.

@dreamingofitaly

2 жыл бұрын

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 video ! Thank you. !

Thanks for this info! Super helpful. I'm struggling with leaf miners and really adorable yet destructive rabbits. 🙃

@mitribvegetarian7042

2 жыл бұрын

Leaf miners 😡😡😡😡😡😡 I’m struggling with those too and spider mites😌

@Meirstein

Жыл бұрын

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.

@alwaysgofwd

Жыл бұрын

@@Meirstein Thanks! 🤞

Thank you Chris again, couldn’t have come at a better time as I just found Spider mites a couple of days ago on my tiny tiny raspberry seedling pods from an outside source. I have them growing in my seedling room by themselves so they quarantined if I can get them now. BTW Kevin- I just got my Epic seed starting 6 cell & 4 cell pods… I’ll never have to replace them again these bad boys or phenomenal! I hope your making plans for larger sizes too?

Awesome video

Great info! 👍😁

What?! How did you know I have them right now! Thank you for the video!

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

Terrific and informative. My patio is dry and hot, perfect breeding ground for spider mites, it turns out. This content gives clear measures I can try.

@Aliciagny

2 жыл бұрын

Lady bugs eat them. To solve my spider mite issue I ordered hundreds of live lady bugs online and released them in my screened in patio. It's fun and effective if you are ok with having lady bugs everywhere.

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!

Thank you for this.

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!

@ChrisBCards

Жыл бұрын

@@breeda9196 DE the regular kind or food grade?

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.

I had a spider mite infestation among my houseplants likely due to some contaminated potting mix. I had a ton of seedlings of various fruit trees (cherries, apricots, and plums) and they were just absolutely destroyed. They also went after my hibiscus plants that I had inside over the winter. Eventually I developed a 5-step cleaning methodology to at least knock the populations down a peg. 1. A VERY heavy covering of diatomaceous earth, letting it sit for about a week 2. Cleaning the leaves with warm/hot water 3. Applying insecticidal soap and then letting it sit for a few days so the eggs on the leaves would have time to hatch 4. Applying a chemical miticide 5. A repeat application of diatomaceous earth I know I couldn't kill everything, but the goal was to get the populations low enough that the plants would survive until the spring and I brought them back outside where the environment would keep the mites in check.

@chloegoesoutside

Жыл бұрын

I have a baby peach tree that got infested with spider mite and I ended up bleaching it with Clorox, rinsing thoroughly with warm almost hot water and removing the leaves. They didn't come back but my trees leaves did! My tree is indoors and is only 8 inches tall and survived.

Soo helpful thank you!$

That was top notch! I get aphids, mites, stink bugs (hardest to control), leaf miners and what I hate the most.... mealy bugs.

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? 😢

THANK YOU!!! One i’m having an issue with here in the PNW is Clover Mites… 😬 blech!

Wonderful video

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.

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!

For the past 4 or 5 years, my garden nemesis has been the spider mites. I too live in California, but in the central valley west of Sacramento. Perfect environment for them.

@yvoennsche

2 жыл бұрын

Same here inland SoCal. I am trying to mist the plants in the mornings when it gets hot, but it evaporates so fast

Having trouble with fungus gnats indoors. What is the best way to get rid of them?

This was so good. Thank you, especially for the non chemical solutions.

Thanks Chris!

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.

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.

Thank you so much for that great advice. I have found that at first if you spray the plant with a fine mist of just water using a spray bottle and then hold it up to the ligh you are more likely to spot it if there is any webbing as it is saturated with water making it more visible. I do like the way you are explaining things so I've subscribe to your channel, thank you.

This video is PERFECT for what I needed right now! I got some spider mites that are absolutely DECIMATING my chocolate mint and my oregano. I managed to propagate the mint with the one sprig that hadn't gotten infested yet, but the main plant's leaves have nearly all died. I pruned most of the dead ones off, though, (can't afford to prune them *all* off,) so hopefully what's left can grow back. The oregano isn't being hit as hard yet, but leaves are definitely dying off. I'm gonna go find a better spot for the choc mint clone so I don't lose it, too. *Love* dealing with these tiny jerks with my first ever garden (kept completely indoors) within just a few months of starting it >:(

@sophiophile

2 жыл бұрын

Don't worry, the mint will eventually recover. Nothing can kill the damn stuff hahaha. Mint is more of an invincible pest than spider mites in some people's gardens.

@selecttravelvacations7472

Жыл бұрын

Herbs dont like living indoors full time. A dry home will bring them on. They need full sun and fresh air.

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.

Thanks Chris

This was amazing info. Thanks for sharing. My horror story in thrips on my indoor plants.

Great video! What is the ratio for the soapy alcohol spray?

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 love the growth.

I have something on my citrus but I’ve treated with a copper sulfate hope it works

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

.. for spider mites I make use my 3Om garden hose to spray tap water on the UNDERSIDES of the infected plant's leaves once a week until the problem has diminished. It will come back again in a couple of months .. just repeat the water spraying.

Instead of a cloth, I have started using sellotape - I double side it, wrap.it round my fingers, and dab away. This has been mega effective for any bugs. And cheap.

@ChrisBCards

Жыл бұрын

Is sellotape the same as scotch tape

@SA-kt3wt

Жыл бұрын

@@ChrisBCards yep :)

ARBORVITAE - Ever see a row of arborvitae that just goes brown? It's usually spider mites! The best way to check for spider mites (and you should frequently check for them on arborvitae) is to shake a branch over a sheet of plain white paper. Holding the paper flat, wipe your hand across the paper. If you see multiple little streaks, you likely have spider mites. Spray the trees fast! If you wait until you begin to notice that the arborvitae is starting to look a little stressed - it's too late. The plant is lost. I own about 75 arborvitaes - lost a few before learning how to identify and control spider mites. We hates them!