Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Tropical Garden # 81, 1 by joeswife

joeswife wrote:
Rita, put a little soap and a little mollasses and some tea tree oil in your sprayer next time you power wash for mites.. Kens mix has those items plus beer, epsom salts, and ammonia in it. I add some milk for mildew and some superthrive and a mosquitoe dunk into my sprayer with the "MiX" There is a thread here on DG in the Brug forum for it.. I do however , strip all leaves that I can SEE them on, and then spray the soil as well as the stem.. new leaves grow back. If it is really nasty, use a safer product and spray.. but you can see on the label it is mostly soap. I just use some mild ivory in my stuff.
I sure do like you philos and Anthuriums you and Rachel are growing. so cute and strange! DH really likes them too.

This is a balsum jewel weed plant I started from seed on the windowsill last winter.. look at this thing it is huge! it is called plum delite from EMMA