Debra you sound just like me..lol Your plants are doing wonderful you sent me in the contest by the way.... We all up north have to factor in the weather too..Cant win this year..lol
I need help!!!
aww rob, ;(
Lunch!!!!!!!!!!!
Escargo!!!!!!!! Only if you get enough of them!
Slug bait,or pie pans with beer tonite under your plants!
I will send them to you Don bon apptite ; p
Friend or foe??? Everything is suspect!
Wow.. this brings back memories! I only have one brug that is a cat magnet.. and that is whiskers. The lil green inch worm things I think are tobacco worms? I've tried BT and it didn't work.. but maby I didn't give it enough time.
joeswife... Don't stress too much.. Spider mites are a given with brugs.. gotta be able to hit them with the big guns or just accept them.. If you have them.(brugs) they will come (mites) Sorry.. it's true.... I finally gave up the fight..
Kim, the county told me to use deadline for snails.. I don't have snails.. I guess with all the slugs I have to fight, there is no more room! Yeah.. they may not crawl ON the lava rock, but that doesn't stop them.. the can slime up the trunk.. easy. I've seen em go 4' up... I need to treat the flowerbed.. it's so neglected..
can't wait to see the id on that bug, i have them too..
Well if you pick them bugs and snails and saute them in some bacon grease,Yummy!!!
Your brugs will look like mine do!!!
Laughing so hard I forgot to post the picture!!!LOL
Show-off ^_^
Joyce i saw the deadline..but I have 2 cats that like to supervise while I garden ; }
Nice brug Don!
Don...:P~ ( you are such a Green Armed wonder!) I love your place.. can I come back over to smell those tonight?
Sure if the hot sun doesn't melt them!!!!
Thanks Kim
what is deadline? here is my back yard june 4th
Anytime always up late,
I see you don't have any shade,your getting quite the collection!!!!
ZZbabies....we're in the same climate....do you think we get mites more often beccause of the dryness? You say it's a "given" here, how do you deal with it? It's the first time I have large brugs and I'm not sure how to treat for those mites!
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My leaves look like lace!!! But it is not slugs! It is small green worms with a voracious appetite. Have also found some black and white worms on the brugs. One of them had over 100 of the worms on it and had skeletonized the leaves. What can you use on those worms??
I don't know Linda : ( But someone will come along that knows about the black and white worms.
Do you all spray your leaves with water everynite?
Its so hot here I have to water mine everynite,so I spray the leaves hard,until I see flower buds,about to open,then I stop until blooming is over with,then I go right back to spraying the foliage with water.
It's always pretty much windy here,so I don't have to worry about fungus getting to my plants,it would probably be better in the morning to do this.
sounds like an elm type worm or army worm.. try to use soap and water spray then rinse..
and if all else fails, look for Thuricide (Bt) at your garden center/big box store. It is formulated especially for worms/caterpillars and works very well.
Tropicman --I hand water daily with hose--both the soil and the leaves. Themoonhowl--Thank you! I will try the thuricide next week and see if that helps. Since I have both the green worms and the black white worms that might be the solution
I spray and water before work Don. If I don't the ones in pots will be weeping brugs : / then sometimes after work too!
Linda i knew someone would help!
Well the hard spray works for me,also it keeps those nasty spider mites away!
I think maybe the slugs and snails have eaten any mites around here ; } just slimed them right up...
I found a nest of teeny tiny snails today while weeding and thinning.. down went the coffee grounds and the sluggo.. ugh.. grass hoppers are having a good time eating, I catch them and kill them, most of them are very small
Debra, if your grasshoppers are very small, now is the time to use NOLO. Once they get past the nymph stage, not much works on them and the damage they do makes snail and caterpiller damage seem like nothing.
NOLO? is that abbreviated for something?
It's a brand name for a grasshopper bait. It consists of wheat bran coated with Nosema locustae spores, a protozoan that infects only grasshoppers. I've bought it at a local organic nursery. Box stores don't usually carry it.
okay, thanks!
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I have the same issues going on on several plants myself.
Some of the new growth comes out as stiff as wood, breaks off very easily. I SEE NO mites even with a magn. glass.
I am able to see red spidermites with ease, it is not my vision.There has to be an answer other than " bugs"
A deficiency ? Because it only starts with new growth , then seems to work 'down' to older leaves?
I have looked in every book I own and cannot find an answer or a fix...
HELP please!
Dedda, I'm with you! Someone...help! lol
What type of fertilizer are you using?
And does it have all the trace elements in it?
I have many mature palm trees in the same area, so in addition to the rose fertilizer I use on all my Brugs, this one is probably also getting palm tree fertilizer (it does have all trace elements )....could it be excess ferts?
Well too much fertilizer makes new growth weak and flimsy ,very acceptable to bad bugs.
I was thinking more of the lines of too much or not enough of the trace elements,might have the effect of causing the hard stems,not having a balance of something,but what that might be,is what I don't know,I've never had that problem before,but have had the too much nitrogen fertilizer with the results of weak growth and so on!
I guess a soil test is needed here!!!