Mites on my Dendrobium!!!!

[bethmarie]

For action you can take immediately, try the advice from Ray's website: isolate the plant and bathe it weekly with mildly soapy water. Be sure to wash away any webbing and give the undersides of leaves a good scrubbing. This will remove all or most of the adults, but it won’t affect the eggs. To get these, you have to wait a week until they hatch, then wash again. Repeat once more a week later.

I've had repeated run ins with mites, too. I didn't have permanent success getting rid of them with home remedies, but others have. Sucrashield did the job well, after repeated applications.

[RosieC]

Originally Posted by bethmarie

For action you can take immediately, try the advice from Ray's website: isolate the plant and bathe it weekly with mildly soapy water. Be sure to wash away any webbing and give the undersides of leaves a good scrubbing. This will remove all or most of the adults, but it won’t affect the eggs. To get these, you have to wait a week until they hatch, then wash again. Repeat once more a week later.

I've had repeated run ins with mites, too. I didn't have permanent success getting rid of them with home remedies, but others have. Sucrashield did the job well, after repeated applications.

This is about what I've been doing. Except I've got mites on little seedlings that are watered a couple of times a week. So I'm washing them down with plain water every time I water, then with soapy water every couple of weeks. It's keeping them at bay, not conviced I've got rid of them yet. The plants are growing well and are healthy though with the way I'm keeping them at bay, they certainly weren't when the mites had taken hold of them.