Eeeek! webs on cuttings!

I just noticed another big leaf was starting to curl and I saw thin webs in some of the leaves of my growing brug cuttings. Can I use raid? Doris

I would use safers soap if I were you. Raid is a little harsh. Spray them daily with safers until the spider mite is gone, then weekly.

I agree with brugcrazy, don't use the Raid. I have a friend who did that and her brugs curled up and died.

Thanks for the information. I will get out tonight and see if the local nursery has any safers soap. Any thing I can do in the meantime? Like set my cuttings outdoors for a few minutea, it's like 20 degrees outside? Or just wait, which might be better. Thanks again for the help, Doris

Don't set them outside. If you can't get the soap, just a good shower might help. I use several commercial products on my brugs, all the way from Bug's Be Gone to products I have purchased from Garden's Alive and other places. Right now I'm using Mavrik and Pyola. I never stick to the same product for any length of time because I don't want the mites to become immune to whatever I'm using. Whatever you use, be sure to get the undersides of the leaves and the trunks. Good luck. Those little critters can make life miserable for us all.

I thought I'd be able to get out tonight to the nursery, but I won't have my car til tomorrow. Two more leaves have curled since this morning. I'll try to wash them, I have 2 pots with 6 each in them, each ranging from 6 leaves down to 3. Otherwise I can spray Pam, or hair spray, room freshener? I can't lose these brugs now! Lemon juice?

Habanero spray!!! Simply boil a handful up-cool,strain, pour into a bottle and spray. Of course I think Cala has some more colorful recipes when she arrives....

You can mix water and alcohol half and half and add a squirt of dish soap. Be sure to spray under the leaves because that's where the mites live.
brugie and everyone, if you use chemicals, it's best to alternate with each spraying, that way they don't get immune. Use at least three different classes of chemicals like an organophosphate, pyrethroids and carbamates. There doesn't seem to be a resistance to the natural pyrethrins, neem products or the Safer's soap.

Ahh, Calalilly...I have a few bottles of Neem oil...90% concentration. I saw your post..or I believe it was your post where you could wash your gums with this...so far my wife hasn't kissed me in a few days, but on the plus side I have noticed a decrease in the amount of mites. I tried the alcohol as well. Mixing everclear and water at 50/50...get back later with that one....

Thanks all, I'll do the alcohol thing tonight and get to the nursery tomorrow. Thanks all! Doris

Doris, put a few drops of dish soap in a sprayer with water and spray that on them for now. It will help.

Why don't you just cut off the leaves and dispose of them? Then tomorrow you can look for the Safers or whatever. It's painful to look at damage.

Oh Liz, why didn't we all think of that?? That's what I do. Gee, getting senile in my old age, hee hee. Just pick the leaves off and dispose in the garbage.