Beginner Gardening: Any plants not bothered by spider mites?, 3 by SavvyDaze

SavvyDaze wrote:
WeeNel, to be honest, I am not 100% positive they are red spider mites or the 2 spotted spider mite. The only reason I guess at red mites is because when I noticed a pretty bad infestation on a Black Coral leaf, I remember seeing something tiny, red, and moving around among the black dots, and even some nearly clear dots, and some webbing. The red one was bigger than the others. (Or perhaps it was brown and appeared red, who knows LOL) All I know is that when I noticed the infestation, I panicked, and grabbed the hose real quick. I hated holding each leaf while spraying, but I did. I even had black dots on my fingers afterwards. When I rubbed my fingers together, the dots smeared. Gross! I had to go shower LOL It was NOT dirt LOL The thing that really freaked me out was being able to see them moving...there were so many, and the underside of the leaf was dotted with white specks and felt like sandpaper. Hosing the leaves down every day, sometime twice, has removed the sandpaper feeling, but the leaf will never be the same LOL

This morning I went out to water and hose everything down about 6:30. Can I just say I want to pull my hair out? I have spider mites on everything, except Caladiums, Autumn Ferns, Japanese Painted Ferns, and the Colocasia Pink China that is only about 7 inches tall right now. My 2 Alocasia Mayan Mask and my 2 Philodendron Xanadu have them. One of my Heuchera Plum Pudding was lush and full 2 weeks ago, but this morning, it looks like someone jumped on it. It is almost flat as a pancake and the leaves are half dead. The center was exposed and I could easily see the webbing. I looked at the stems near the leaves and sure enough, it was covered in black dots. I feel like I am at the point that I need to decide which plants I am attached to, which ones I am not, and then throwing those ones away.

Mainly, I feel like tossing any plant that has tons of leaves that are hard to spray like my Giant Dianthus that is browning and looking bad. Heck, I even found them on one of my my Dusty Miller Silver Dust and Calla Lilies.

I think the I am most frustrated about what they are doing to my Colocasia Esculenta. I assume the damage is from the spider mites. I hose them down once or twice a day, but everyday I notice the black spots around the stem where it meets the leaf and then some sporadically along the leaf veins. Some of them I can actually spray off or wipe off, but some seem as if they are glued to it. Little rust colored areas start appearing at the top of the stems and then the leaves get it. This morning, there were some tiny flies all over one leaf. (See Pic) I don't know if they are good or if they might be doing damage. After the dots appear on the leaf, eventually it gets necrotic spots with yellow halos. (See Pic) Then the whole leaf turns yellow in about 2-3 days.

If you look closely at the 1st and last 2 pictures, you can see the tiny black dots and rust on the leaf veins. They don't come off! If you have any idea of what I can do to stop the damage, let me know LOL Maybe the necrotic spots aren't from the mites, but from something else. I am a loss LOL HELP!