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Mealy bugs (questions about roots, and garlic in soil?)
    #14569056 - 06/06/11 11:45 AM (12 years, 7 months ago)

My cacti collection had a pretty nasty mealy bug outbreak recently. It got my bridgesii pretty hard, and my loph/periskiopsis graft started wilting, so I think it had some in the roots. I used rubbing alcohol to get the ones I could see, sprayed the cacti with a mix of dish soap, water, and hot sauce (I didn't boil it first, should I have?). I washed the soil off the roots and the plants are ready for repotting, and I have a couple questions:

Should I spray the roots with the mixture of soap/hotsauce? I don't think so but I want to double check. Also, I read about people sticking a clove of garlic with the root part cut off into the soil, and it prevents mealy bugs from attacking the roots. I was wondering if anyone has done this and if it effects the alkaloids in the cactus? I read about people putting mothballs in the soil, but if garlic works i'd rather do that.

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Re: Mealy bugs (questions about roots, and garlic in soil?) [Re: Sanguine]
    #14570714 - 06/06/11 06:12 PM (12 years, 7 months ago)

enviromentally friendly solutions would be introducing predator insects (not just 1 or 2 though, like buying them) or rubbing them away by hand.

if you consider chemical treatment though, here's what I found:
Tokuthion - 5ml/10l water
Chlorpirifos - 100ml/10l
Confidor - 10ml/10l
Malathion - 25ml/10l

these are the most common used products I think. each one of these will take care of the infestation alone.

source: succulents.co.za


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Re: Mealy bugs (questions about roots, and garlic in soil?) [Re: Sanguine]
    #14573239 - 06/07/11 08:15 AM (12 years, 7 months ago)

I have some mealy to deal with too at the moment. :shakefist:
Just set up a new greenhouse, so nothing is going in there until the roots have been thoroughly cleaned and treated with a neem oil spray as a preventative to further infestations, with regular future sprayings. Sucking insects really don't like this stuff, so it will hopefully keep red spider mites away too.


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