NEW! Tolumnia lucayana pink var. (Cuba)

[lotis146]

Another first for me (2nd Tolumnia in a week), a micro-miniature blooming size Tolumnia lucayana pink var. At first glance I believe this plant to be healthy even without experience. It's so so tiny!

Check it out!

[lotis146]

Okay, well now I'm sad. Just discovered tiny black round bugs (like beetles) on my other NEW Tolumnia.

Then I turn to look at this guy (both sitting on windowsill in other room cuz they all new, about foot or so apart) and there's a bunch of SUPER tiny grayish bugs crawling on the pot. These look like they could be mites to me.

Not so happy... I just watered everybody.

[UnstuckinTime]

How round are they? I have little gray bugs all over my orchids and Nepenthes, and they're just harmless springtails. They're a bit more oval. It could be nothing!!

Neem oil is my go-to pesticide, even if it smells kinda funky.

[gravotrope]

If they're on the pot when you water then I bet they're springtails...which generally don't damage plants but I have noticed that occasionally they will munch on Tolumnia roots... the easiest way to get rid of them is to soak the whole pot and plant in water...after a couple minutes they are all floating on the surface and you can just pour them off.

[lotis146]

The small round black (shiny) bugs on Tolu. Buck Hollow are still crawling after being sprayed with Bayer Advanced Natria & actually I just found couple hours after spraying on Tolu. lucayana. They look like so: (not my picture, found online but that's them) Oh yeah & when I got this there was a small white round thing stuck on the leaf, I thought it was scale. I got a q-tip picked it off and its underside was basically hollow so I thought wasn't scale insect but it did leave white/bleached spot where it sat on leaf. Now I'm thinking these are a black form of scale?




The other bugs on the lucayana are much smaller than the springtails I just had on my Phal a week or so ago (long before I had these). They weren't quite as long looking. I wish they were/are springtails. They were scurrying along.

Thanks.