Mealybugs! Ohhh how I hate them!
Didn't have them on the roots (tfu tfu) but ever year they attack my plants. They just love the fuzzy Echeveria and some Kalanchoes.
Mealybugs! Ohhh how I hate them!
Didn't have them on the roots (tfu tfu) but ever year they attack my plants. They just love the fuzzy Echeveria and some Kalanchoes.
Aphids don't really attack my Kalanchoes so much although I don't have many. The Echeveria flowers on the other hand.... Those and Aeonium "Swartkop" and Graptoveria "Fred Ives". Come to think of it, Fred Ives probably has also got root mealies too, the ants are very active in the soil. I think I will just cut the flower stalk and hit it with Imidaclodaprid as well
I read somewhere that you can spat the succulents with 70% alcohol and that will kill the mealybugs. At least the ones not in the soil. I am trying that on my E. Black Prince and Agavoides. I I don't think my hardcore spray works anymore...
If the Alcohol works it is gonna be an easy and cheap treatment :p
Many people like to spray a dilute of rubbing alcohol (surgical spirits) and say it works well. Just make sure that the echies aren't in the sun afterwards. It works in the roots, but then you must also change to soil because there will be eggs of these creatures in the soil. I don't bother changing the soil because I know that the ants will just go and find some more mealies somewhere else :( That's why I opt for the long-acting poison
I always wait for the afternoon when I don't get anymore direct sun on my balcony for any spraying actions. We will see. So far so good.
I just wasn't sure about the roots, if the alcohol is not too harsh. Normally I would use Oxygen Peroxide on the roots (orchids trick). Just pour alcohol though the soil (and get the whole plant happy and drunk) ?
That's good. Succulent growers usually unpot the plant and spray the roots with the alcohol then repot in fresh soil
I'll do that with succulents then. Not a problem :) I just might have the first "victim" so so hopefully it works.
Aw, I hope it isn't root mealies! Although that is the chance you take every time you bring home new plants :(
Do they look any different than the regular ones?
We will find out soon enough :p