Avid with Tetrasan?
I've got mites, white and not spider, on my Nepenthes. I am going to pull out the big guns and nip this in the bud. Pun intended. They are only causing problems for one plant, but i am going to treat the whole chamber. I've invested too much time and money in my collection to pussyfoot around with neem oil.
According to my research, Avid is the best adult miticide, but does not kill eggs. Tetrasan looks like a good product to rotate with it because it kills eggs and nymphs but not adults.
I do NOT want to build resistence, so I need to alternate Avid with another miticide. Is tetrasan the best option to rotate with since it has a different MOA and targets the two stages of life avid has no effect on?
Avid comes as a liquid you dilute, and tetrasan comes as a powder you dissolve. Would dissolving the tetrasan in the diluted avid solution pose any resistance risks or be too toxic to the plants? My line of thinking is that this solution would pretty much nuke everything (and be much faster) in 2-3 scheduled applications insead of applying one miticide in X applications in rotation with another in X applications. I was going to add a drop of Dawn per gallon as a surfactant.
I am aware that these are dangerous chemicals and i must use proper PPE. I'm even borrowing a respirator. I just wanted to use professional chems the first time without the headaches of OTC stuff being inneffective.
EDIT: Why do I have to spray it? Why cant i just completely submerge and saturate each plant until total saturation? That might let me skip the respirator. Also, do I need to lysol the chamber walls? Do mites live on surfaces other than plants?
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