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WALKIE


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Cutting out rot and red spidermites
#19291452 - 12/18/13 01:29 AM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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Hey to all at the EB Garden havnt been posting for quite a while because lurking and searching has given me all the answers I have needed for ages.
Im about to remove some rot from a Trich about the size of an elongated 5cent coin in the middle of two ribs about an inch from the top of the cacti.
I have a pic but cant get it on cause the camera only has a mini hdmi out or I need a card reader and my puter hasnt got hdmi any ways hopefully a friend can take a pic on their fone and email to mecause a shitty pic is better than no pic.
I am also recently finding some red spider mites not an infest but enough to make me wory.
I went out and bought some neem oil for the RSM and some mancizeb + sulphur Fungicide (richgro brand 549g/kg sulphur and 235g/kg MANCOZEB) for drying out my cut and am going to get a scalpel ( surely can get one at the chemist? ) tomoz because its too small to use a knife.
So do I treat the RSM first then cut out the rot later or do I do both at the same time?
any help or comments will be appreciated cheers
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Mostly_Harmless
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Re: Cutting out rot and red spidermites [Re: WALKIE]
#19291524 - 12/18/13 01:56 AM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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I would rinse off the mites asap first of all with just plain water. Maybe a small topical application of neem to the area where the mites are too. Then, again asap! excise the rot and get a callous formed. And once active growth is starting, keep hitting with the neem as a systemic.
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Try rise humidity somewhere to 60-70% max, it causes them harder to spread, also some minor moisturing only to surface keeps mites away enough..
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WALKIE


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Cheers for the replys MH and Ilife.
I sat outside last night picking off as many of the RSM as I could find I didnt want to water any more because I have had some pretty heavy rains here recently and I want the pot to dry out a bit and I would be adding neem today.
Today I got my knife from the chemist and did some surgery, lucky im operating on a cacti because if it was a human they would be in so much pain. I didnt do the best job the rot got alot deeper in 24 hours and it was quite difficult to actually chop the rot out maybe my choice of scalpel was not so good either also its in a pot with other cacti, spiked the shit out of myself a million times.
So its a little hacked but if the rot comes back Im just going to chop the top 1-2 inches off.
The sulfur was fine granular and not powder which made it hard as well.
Applied the neem oil with a watering can cause cant find my awesome $40 pump spray bottle.
And I have also found other issues which I will explain later when I can get a pic up its too hard to just put in words without a pic.
Wish me luck I need it
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intelligentlife
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Re: Cutting out rot and red spidermites [Re: WALKIE]
#19296433 - 12/19/13 03:29 AM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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I know very good trick against rot.. Keep your lophophora pot size as small as possible.
Big pots store too much water to one cactus. I have planted actually lots of smaller lophs to same pots, more drinkers in one small clay pot, should avoid rot better.
Anyway, avoid always huge size of pots(and give smallest pot possible to use) when you grow lophs or so.
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LSoares
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Re: Cutting out rot and red spidermites [Re: WALKIE]
#19296453 - 12/19/13 03:44 AM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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WALKIE said: I sat outside last night picking off as many of the RSM as I could find
There's something wrong with this. Either you're a skilled neurosurgeon with the appropriate equipment or you wouldn't be able to pick ONE spider mite, let alone "many". They are simply too small. Are you sure they're not aphids or another harmless, if not helpful, mite?
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WALKIE


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Re: Cutting out rot and red spidermites [Re: LSoares]
#19300747 - 12/20/13 12:28 AM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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LSoares said:
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WALKIE said: I sat outside last night picking off as many of the RSM as I could find
There's something wrong with this. Either you're a skilled neurosurgeon with the appropriate equipment or you wouldn't be able to pick ONE spider mite, let alone "many". They are simply too small. Are you sure they're not aphids or another harmless, if not helpful, mite?
now that you have said that I did some looking around on the net and the written description is exactly the same as whats on my plants (tiny little red spider looking things with eggs that look like tiny little pearls) but you are probably right about the size thing they almost look exactly like the pictures but a little less fat and no spots or anything but I can see them easily enough to squash them with the rubber end of of a pencil or cotton bud so I dont know what they are not many around since the neem but the eggs still keep appearing and there is some in a spider web on another cacti in the same pot and what looks like a dead one in the cut I made.
My surgery wasnt good enough so im going to have to cut off the top inch or two tomorrow so I get it before it becomes a problem I think I just didnt quite get it all.
Thanks again Ilife good tip but its a Tric sp. and outside and only 1 of 6 cacti in the same pot got rot, maybe the bugs made it rot or something idk but we did have some heavy rain not too long ago.
Got to stop thinking now im recovering from a migraine and its a million degrees here atm report back tomorrow thanks for the replies so far everyone
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