The SECRET to get rid of plant pests
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
- It had been such a wild ride to get rid of Thrips in my plant collection. One of the worst houseplant pests you can deal with. This secret should help you finally get rid of indoor plant pests in your collection too. As long as you're consistent!
This recipe should work with most major common plant pests. Including:
Spider mites
Thrips
Mealy bugs
Aphids
Whitefly
*Scale (you need to use a hard tool to remove the protective shell first)
*Fungus Gnats: • You won't get rid of f...
Beneficial insects
Throughout filming this video I tested a few different beneficial bugs, the most effective for me has been:
STRATIOLAELAPS SCIMITU: These live in soil and eat thrips larvae and fungus gnat larvae. They do extremely well as a preventative.
AMBLYSEIUS SWIRSKII (in sachets): These bugs eat early instar stages of thrips and have been the most hardy to low in home humidity.
Other recommendations:
Green Lacewings
Orius incidiosus (summertime only)
Check out Jeff's channel @EverythingPlants !
Make your own plant shower: • this changes how I wat...
Secret concoction:
In 1L/34oz of water
2 tbls castile peppermint soap
2 tbls castile tea tree soap
1/2 tsp 3% hydrogen peroxide
1/2 cup 70% isopropyl alcohol
Use the whole batch immediately.
Alternative concoction
In 1L/34oz of water
2 tbls castile peppermint soap
(as directed) concentrated insecticidal soap
Safety: If you're using a fine sprayer the particles can get into your lungs. Because of the isopropyl alcohol content I recommend using a respirator. If you're using a concentrated insecticide you should be using full body PPE. Always follow the labels of pesticide/insecticide products.
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Guess what, thrips can go through parthenogenesis. A single female thrips can switch from sexual to asexual reproduction. So a single thrips can start an infestation. Cool 😭
Check the description for written instructions, safety tips, and more info on beneficial bugs.
Oh joy, not! 🙄
Whaaaaattt?!??? 😮
this is how you know satan is real and she hates cute houseplants. thrips, u don't need to be able to asexually clone yourselves like damn
Bugs are bugs, beneficial meh. The one place i bought one of my orange trees was like ohhhh we are organic, we dont belive in pesticides so we topped off your plant with these beneficial mites that will eat the evil other mites...Great so now instead of one bug i have 2, cool. I gave it a shot, why not right? The red mites, im not sure but they are semi-retarded, if there happens to be a white mite infestation on the same leaf they will slowly eat them, but they arent stupid they wont eat the ones that reproduce, just the juveniles which makes sense why would they kill off their only food source. BUT what if your red mites are on one leaf and the white are on another....NOTHING HAPPENS, the reds just die of starvation, looked like they were eating their own young to survive for a little while, and the whites just reproduce like nothing ever happend. Don't waste your money on this mumbo jumbo eco friendly build your own eco system story. There is a reason why it doesnt work in nature and we now have GMO and pesticides, you think you will be the one that figures it all out in their home? Nah, buy some poison, kill them all and move on with your happy life.
😀 Whatttt!!!! Love your personality new subscriber here.
Not pest related. ---- I love how much you engage and have cameos from the plant community. 😉
😊 thank you
Great video, Lee! Thrips are the absolute worst....I sure hope there isn't too much damage on your beautiful Monstera. Thanks for the shoutout!
Thanks for the great tips, Jeff.
Seen this video ages ago and since then this has been my one and only pest treatment. I now spray down every plant at the end of each month and I've been pest free for just over 1 yr 🌱 good luck and happy to have found your channel, Jeff is fabulous to watch, love his channel too 💚
New to your channel, my 8yr old daughter and I love you! 💚💚💚 We keep rewinding at about the 03:00 min mark and crack up at “What?!” Every time 😂🤣 also appreciate your plant tips 🪴
That's very sweet 😊
That's a commitment. I'm so lazy though, let's hope the thrips don't eat all my plants, my cats, and me
it is. but I'm not above throwing an entire plant in the trash and cutting my losses.
Thrips (and spider mites) are torture to anyone with plants. 🙏 to you.
Absolutely agree, these two are definitely the worst.
I find keeping my soil "living" helps prevent pests. So I do a rotation of soil enhancement. Not in any particular order: top dress with biochar/humates/glacial dust/worm castings, inoculate with bacteria/fungal spores (meant for plants), fertilize with compost tea and liquid seaweed (supposed to increase cell wall thickness to make more resistant to pests, and adding bios nutrients. No pests for 4 years now *fingers crossed*
Is it still working?
You are so funny. I love watching your videos. Entertainment while absorbing information. Brilliant.
I am huge fan of neem oil, but my personal secret was vinegar, soap and a pack of high nicotine tobacco cooked and used in a spraybottle, really effective!
I'm sitting here thinking your about your plants chain smoking cigarettes 🤣.
@@KillThisPlant I think the challenge would be to grow your own tobacco plants for this :D Keep on creating Videos! Regards!
I've managed to get pesticides from America, that aren't available here in Canada that work well with Thrips. (Note: I'm using these for indoor plants so bees are not in danger, and I'm using it responsibly.) Spinosad with insecticidal soap + Imidacloprid granules have rid me of all my plant problems. Realistically these are the only way to do it if you have hundreds of plants like I do unfortunately. Showering works well, but would take too much time for the plant enthusiast with a ton of plants.
As someone who lives in a home with damp & mould issues I'm always so nervous when I see plant people talking about raising humidity in their home 😅
You're so right about thrip extermination being all about time and effort. Just when you start to relax and think they're gone, they reemerge on a completely different plant 😤 The only thing I found worked on them is pyrethrum. I bought the concentrated version and mixed it a bit stronger than what they say on the packaging, then sprayed every plant (whether I saw signs of thrips or not) 1-2 times a week for 2-3 months. Now I haven't seen any thrips for a long time, but I still spray the plants about once a month just to be safe, and I've started treating every new plant I bring in and quarantining them for a few weeks as well. Still haven't gotten rid of the fungus gnats but at least they don't cause as much damage 🤷♀
what ive found to be true while gardening and house planting is: you will have pest now and then no matter what. just wash your plants often and keep them happy and healthy. pest are apart of the process unfortunately. its not as much about keeping them totally gone, as it is always keeping the upper hand. 🕉
i actually tried this exact mix myself and it like all other things are not full proof. also, here in our garden we are obssessed w the soil health for our plants root systems which in return give us happy and healthy plants. even a perfectly healthy plant will get a passer by pest and thats ok 😌 showers every 10 days in my home. 🙏🏼🕉 bloom vibes from Texas
Wise words!
I think people underestimate how important soil health is to assist plants in remaining healthy even with active pest problems.
I have thrips since two years. They keep coming back every spring. It’s terrible!!! I have had the flies before, which is way easier to get rid of. I will try the tips you have. They are killing all my plants over time.
The best way to prevent pests is to treat the soil with mosquito bits tea & spray your plants with Neem weekly. They only “pests” I ever see are little beneficial mites in the potting mix. Been two years planting & haven’t had thrips or any other leaf bug 😩
@@Carl-qi9iq How do you stop pests getting into your house? Do you always have the windows closed?
As I sit down at my desk this Saturday morning in San Francisco and sip my coffee, it is with great pleasure that I forgot you upload today. Ive decided to save it for later in the day when I return home so that I can enjoy it like fine wine, the edumacations is to be savored with all the senses. but no really lol ill be back
I had a bushy laniata mildly infested with thrips. Didn't want to deal with attempting to keep its shape, so I cut up every vine into cuttings and sprayed with a strong insecticide. Repeated once in a few weeks, if I remember correctly. The original leaves have some yellow spots from the treatment, but new growth has been just fine. Also, the cuttings were rooted separated from all other plants to be safe.
Try bonide sulfur. It will help with thrips spider mites and other pests. Try systemic granules for the dirt. And lastly mosquito bits will kill the larvae.
Personally having had plants for 25 years now, I don’t do the natural way when I get thrips and other stuff on my plants, i almost never get it anymore, but when I do I just use insecticide in the soil so it works systemic. Here in Norway we call it provanto, it’s tablets you put in the soil, and it has Flupyradifurone as active ingredient. Neem oil and all of that natural stuff don’t work long term in my opinion….. Flupyradifurone is considered safe, follow the label and use gloves, don’t breathe in the spray version and your plants is insect free and healthy.
I don't even have house plants bc of pests and having a teeny home but I love everything about Lee so I watch his content. This video might help though so maybe I'll try a house plant...
Let me know what plant you get!
Lee, I trust you. Do you have a recommendation?
@@CalmingSoundZZZ something inexpensive you like the look of! (Not a succulent or a cactus).
Maybe a pothos, peperomia, a dracaena, or a Brasil philodendron
Great video. I have always thought that when I bring plants in for winter they are pest free but sometime around February some sort of awful medieval spontaneous generation takes place lol. So this year I started soaking every plant with a neem oil, castile soap solution every seven days and so far it has been fairly effective. If I get a major infestation I repot the plant and dispose of the old soil and scrub the pot. My big problem right now is the mamalated stink bug and I am certain we have a few spider motes. My formula is 1 ounce concentrated neem oil. 1 teaspoons castile soap per gallon of water. Sometimes I add a few drops of peppermint oil and thyme oil. I have found you have to soak every part of the plant. I wish you much luck Lee. You are so good with house plants and I have learned so much from you. Thanks as always.
Thank you for sharing your experiences with thrips. I came across the clip about the homemade insecticide last summer and I have been using it. It works, and it smells wonderful! I hope you win this battle with the thrips really soon!
Thanks for sharing! Is it similar to the one I'm using now?
@@KillThisPlant It is identical. Yes! I’m using the same ingredients, in same, suggested quantities. One thing about it is, the “inventor” says to use up the whole batch freshly made, immediately. Otherwise, if it sits around, it loses its effectiveness.
Yes my dad mentioned that, I've added it to the description. Thanks for the reminder.
I've been lucky enough to never had thrips. Pretreat most of my plants with neem. I had one thrip run opposite direction of the plants when it came in from a rescue plant. Never saw it since.
I cut Harris brand clear sticky sheets into 1” strips & lay a few on the edge of the soil to combat fungus gnats. The lg. yellow ones work as well, but are more unsightly….not that anyone cares too much about yellow things when we’re fighting a gnat war. 😂
Smart work, thanks for this ! 💪 i got close to a million pests ( think they trying to smoke tabaca )
Thank you. I used the mentioned solution for as preventive measure last growing season once every 5 or 6 weeks with minimal to no outbreaks. I did get mealybugs in a plant section that I didn’t treat. I’m getting a little anxious now because I have almost double the amount of plants. I’m going to start now and see how it works out for me.
Best of luck!
Subbed immediately xD I laughed so hard at the plant shower lmfao
I've got a dozen or so plants now, mostly aloe and some bamboo. And my prized blueberries!
Thanks for the sub!
Omg thank you!! I was just stressing about potentially needed to get rid of my schefflera yesterday because it has spider mites, and I was thinking there's no feasible way I could clean all the leaves individually, and I didn't want to use anything that smells bad on it. I am going to start doing this ASAP! Thank you! ♡
Hope you can save it!
Spider mites are the worst:(
Thank you for tips, will try for sure!
After trying all kind of recipes and insecticides i have found to love Neem oil in variying deletions. It's simply magic. Gets ride of all kind of nasty buggers even shield insects. As far as I know it works different on different pests. From blocking their breathing. To make them unable to eat or reproduce. It even helped (together with scrubing) to get rid of a nasty shield Investitions where you couldn't see the green of the steam anymore because their where so many of them
Hey lee! Would love a video on preventative measures for pests
ive been using neem oil, distilled water, a few drops of soap, and I spray my leaves down & take a cloth and wipe the tops and undersides of my leaves. this is supposed to be a pest prevention method, kills the eggs & once the bugs ingest this - kills them too :p
if only i'd known of this secret concoction a few months ago. damn near drove my partner to move out with the foul smell of neem oil filling the house every week after discovering billions of thrips covering my previously thriving purple velvet. weirdly none of the many plants around her seemed to be hit with a thrip infestation, they just love those juicy fuzzy purple leaves. they will all be getting a nice tea tree-peppermint-alcohol-peroxide soil drench though, and with that and my soon-to-be crafted portable plant shower replacing just accepting that the walls/floor around my plants as collateral damage when spraying (hi lazy), my marriage AND plant collection will be safe
I do this in combination with setting up traps to catch the flying thrips. The trap is just water with honey and dishsoap. The honey lures the thrips in, and the dishsoap traps them so they drown >:D
great idea!
I never had these Thrips, spider mites galore, never on the monstera though. Main source of infestation was i've been trying to grow orange and lemon, same as you i live in ontario canada...Very difficult. Most of my citrus trees came infested with mites, they didn't really show their tiny dandruff looking faces until a couple months in. But god when they did, it was like a rave, i was debating charging them rent. Also one of my trees had scale bugs, those are much harder to kill and more evil than mites. My quick advice from my experience so far. #1 Spray your stuff down with some horticultural oil mix when you first get the plant. Don't care where you got it - could be from the garden of eden itself, there will be bugs. #2 When you spray, wipe the leaves down with a microfibre cloth with a thick pile and then re-spray right away. #3 This is a hard one, and will take some commitment. Will this be an outdoor plant or an indoor? Unless you want to go through all that every time you bring it in (treating bugs that lay eggs in your dirt = jedi level) you have to make a black or white choice, outdoor (stays there) or indoor (stays there). I know your monstera probably loves it when you take it out on the balcony every summer, but honestly all those gains could be gone with one infestation. Plus they could get on your other plans. I would just keep it indoors, outdoors i'll just keep some potted tomatoes or something that i don't really care about and i can replace quite cheaply and quickly. My 3yo orange tree aint ever seeing the outdoors again. Knats, mites, scale, thrips, ear wigs in the soil, no way it's worth the risk. Grow lights have gotten pretty cheap, with a canadian tire 20$ oscilatting fan and a couple humidifiers you can grow some beautiful plants indoors. But ALWAYS treat newcommers like infested scumbags, just like you would in an aquarium, you don't just plop your new fish into your 1000$ tank, you isolate, monitor, treat with antibiotics etc before introducing to your tank.
Wise words! Absolutely a great strategy to keep the rest of your collection safe.
Love that you give credit and get other creators involved in your videos!
This was such an entertaining and informative video. I thoroughly enjoyed it and will definitely be using the wonder spray in my own bug battles.
I love your videos. Cheers for them!
This is the best plant page ❤️
Thank you!
That plant shower is awesome! That is my main problem is committing to spraying consistently because of the mess it makes and because of how many plants I have in my affected room. I was spraying a mixture of dish soap, neem oil, peppermint and blended a few cloves of garlic ( sulphur is a bug killer) that I made tea of. It worked but the thrips came back a week later. The plant shower is a game changer!
I just found your channel and was thrilled to see the recommendation for pest control since that is the exact one I use! I do have a question, however about a cast iron plant I bought online. I sprayed it and put it in isolation. Then I bottom watered it and saw two small (very small) caterpillars in the remaining water. The bigger one was dark green with white dots in a line down the top. I just sprayed the plant again and put it out on the patio. I guess I should repot it or do you think more spraying will be enough. I also noticed a few (less then 10 in the last week or so) small moths in the house lately which at first thought might be coming from flour or something like that….but I freeze those products and store little in the cupboard. No moths in the flour. I couldn’t figure out where they came from till I saw the caterpillars in the water. What would you do for this plant now? Thanks
THANK YOU SO MUCH - I feel like this tip is so helpful, definitely remembering this video whenever the next infestation happens. Also, 3:26 was hilarious 😂
i'm on such a thrip hate journey right now. feel like they've taken so much from me. i hate thrips
I uh.... wiped down my Alocasia with Lysol wipes when I had a spider mite outbreak. Killed all the mites and none of the leaves. I really don't know how smart that is but hey it worked?
This is so surreal. I just spent the last 3 weeks binging your videos to build my first keyboard. 🤯 I went with:
-keychron v3
-gazzew bobagum silent linears
Thanks for the videos!
(And to your comment, it might be fine, I do worry about the other chemical ingredients listed on the wipes especially if they're scented. Glad it worked though!)
@@KillThisPlant Brilliant build! And that's hilarious I've watched so many of your videos lately
That's wild! Can I dm you somewhere? I have one RUclips question about one of your video formats I wanted to try and adapt for my channel.
@@KillThisPlant Yeah! hit me up on twitter or Instagram and we can exchange discords!
@@HipyoTech appropriate it! I messaged you on Instagram (hopefully it didn't go into hidden messages).
I have trips every year thanks too the nearby corn fields which attracts them. I use actual pesticides on heavily affected plants. And a mix of natural soap(currently an all-cleaner), alcohol and hydrogen peroxide 3% to keep them in check throughout the season. Trips are the worst.
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It makes sense. Predators don't want to eliminate a population. That would be detrimental to them.
For the moment, I don't have thrips, the only pests I have are fungus gnats but with yellow traps and BTI (bind torture incinerate or bacillus thurigiensis israelensis) I am almost get rid of them.
I had a monestera for two weeks, it was in quarantine. Went to check it, yep thrips. I cleaned all the leaves, put it outside away from all my plants. Sprayed it down good with Captain Jacks's Dead Bug. I was very angry. Cut away all of the damaged leaves. Thrips are gone, so are most of the leaves.
That one video of the Pest mixture saved my collection from spider mites 😅
Instead of bying multiple bottles of castille soap, I'd recomment buying peppermint and teatrea essential oils and using a neutral soap like plain castille soap, grated marseille soap or pine soap instead.
If you're iffy about buying EOs, I hate to tell you but that's in those recommended soaps anyway, and in a great portion of all your cosmetics. It's just a compound of a plant. Just don't buy from a pyramid scheme, obviously. It'll be way more cost effective and lasts many times more than the pre-scented soaps.
I brought the mf's to my apartment a while back on a rescue plant that had been abandoned. I was cautious, but didn't know well enough what to look for at that point. Still dealing with them. Not a single tradescantia has survived them in my care yet, so finding them in my triving Zebrina was devastating. Doing everything I can to save her now. My syngoniums have also been particularly prone to thrips, so I've been more vigilant with them. I don't know, maybe it's finally time for systemic prevention...
You are my plant-hero 😍 I can’t believe I have all of these things in my home already and haven’t combined them yet. Pests better watch out next season! Thank you for sharing 💕🌿🍃
I absolutely LOVE your sense of humor! Lol & I really love ur videos! They've been SUPER beneficial for me and my house plants. I use a similar mixture, minus the castel soap. Instead I've always just used the original dawn soap. Lol either way it does work but yet again, I've not really had any bad infestations thank you Jesus! Just spider mites but it took care of them and that was including me wiping down the leaves front to back with alcohol. So my question is, what exactly does the castel soap do, smother them out or something? Just curious. Thank you for all your videos! I watch every time you upload. Hope you have a great day!
I need to learn more about thrips. I keep staring at my monstera leaves 👀…shaking them…spraying them with water. My spider mite infestation last summer traumatized me. Their infantry decimated my beautiful elephant ears. Not this year pests…not…this…year!
You can do it!
Love the good infos the humour and the cameos with others, your videos are great, thank you so much !
I usually use neem, with washing liquid as emulsifier.
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I have neem! What washing liquid do you use
You're the cutest thang on the youtubes.
Haven't had a pest problem with my fam yet, but I'll keep this in mind on my Plant Parent Playlist. 👍🏿
Random thought from this video: THRIPS MONSTERA could be a dope name in the rap/hip-hop genre. Maybe we need an artist out there seriously rapping about plant care, because it's 2023 and anything is possible. 🤷🏿♂️
Lol I'll check Spotify
I literally just noticed an infestation of thrips this video was perfect thank you 😭
Oh no. I hope you can get rid of them quickly
Anyone know if the secret concoction can be used on outdoor plants and vegetable gardens?
Can thrips get in your hair, clothes and furniture?
@@linkonabe220 they only eat plant tissue. Sometimes you can bring thrips to new locations if they jump on your clothes/hair but they won't stay there.
Rip floors 😂 the soap killer works on fungus gnats too!
Dawn dish soap combined with white vinegar and water in a spray bottle.
Interesting! Lots of ppl mentioned vinegar.
I love your videos so much! All the spraying and that will do wonders. Neem, dawn, hydrogen peroxide, iso. etc.
You mentioned in your video how they fly and transmit and can sustain freezing temps for a long amount of time.
They are in the soil. I've kept known contaminated soil in -20* sustained temps all winter and they would survive.
Have you tried diatomaceous earth? I mix it in with all my new soil for transplanting or new plants from seed. If I bring a new plant home, I dust in it the DE. For additional support I will use mosquito bits in the soil and also top dress.
I haven't seen a thrip, gnat, or another pest in a long time since I learned this. DE is like flour, you'll make a mess the 1st few times but its harmless to pets, and humans.
I haven't used DE before but I do have concerns about it losing it's effectiveness after being water.
Do you reapply? What have you noticed?
@@KillThisPlant I haven't had to reapply at all. I pretty much hit all my plants in a afternoon with a dusting, top layered, and replanted a few plants that I found had the main infestations. Repotting those with a mix of the DE made a huge difference. Any new plants I will add DE to my soil mixtures. If you lay down a bunch of DE around your plants. A bunch is not a lot. Put some in your hand and blow it into your plants. Then make a spray bottle of Dawn dish soap- lightly spray your plants and the undersides. If that doesn't kill them, the DE will finish them off. For extra- the mosquito bits will stop any chance. I hope this make sense. Its worked for me for over 3 years.
The mosquito bits work pretty well, but I found were much for effective making a tea out of them then watering with that once every 2 weeks. Get a few fish filter bags and put the mosquito bits in there and make a tea.
Please make sure you wear a mask as DE dust is very damaging to one's lungs!
10/10 informative and hilarious! Thank you!
I just found your account and i love it! I think I may have overwatered my monstera 😭 but I’m genuinely not really sure what’s going on! I don’t know if I need to start over or replant it! This is my first plant! Any advice?
Pull the plant out of the pot and inspect the roots. feel to see if theyre firm. Smell to see if theyre rotting.
Thanks!
No solution, more of a complaint. I thought I was good with the mealybug problem. They killed several plants and I fought them as best I could. I thought I won the battle. Then several months later I found them on my manjula pothos which was on the opposite side of the room where I last saw them. I have a shorts video on my page to show the plant. Anywho, I threw out the entire plant with the pot and moss pole. They must’ve been living in the soil because the plant didn’t have mealybugs prior. The plant was doing very good before this happened and I decided I didn’t want to fight the pest. I’ve been fighting mealybug since 2020 and I don’t want to do that anymore. I’ll replace the plant first when it comes to them. Aphid and other pests seem to be easier to get rid of. I live in an apartment and have a house in GA. When I’m in GA, I bring my plants because I can care for them better. The negative is, I bring them back to NY since that’s where I live and GA is a vacation home for now. So frustrating because I have so many more options in the house vs the apartment. Anywho part 2, im rambling. Thanks for the informative and fun video.
I got recommended these bugs but i dont have enough plants and the stores i was looking at didnt have small packs so i just kinda.. gave up lmao. I only have 4 plants in soil and the rest are just in water :,) So much money just down the drain. Fuck the thrips
OMG these are great ideas. I've been battling aphids on my hibiscus which currently lives indoors. I need that plant shower
Go for it!
after my first bout with spider mites, I realized I enjoy cleaning my plants and killing pests. I shall try your mixture out for the sake of it on one of the suss looking plants I got recently
its great! Seems to kill on contact, smells nice, and deters them from returning.
Can you spray on a peperomia caperata? I’m afraid to ruin the leaves.
I had a massive thrips infestation, I spray the leafs with a mixture of water, soap and neem oil. It helped to keep the infestation in check but I haven't been very consistent with it. I have also found that having fewer plants has helped a lot, to only have plants in your collection that you love and bring you joy as there is no need in having too many plants which makes it so much harder to kill pests and care for them all.
pyrethium is my first choice. malathion when all else fails.
I had it .I sprayed some insecticide for plants and everything is fine .they died and my plants are safe
@3:27 absolutely lost it laughing
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Great video Lee! I have been researching thrips for a while and like you, realize it’s a combination of tool to get rid or these pests. A few things I suggest you could add to your toolkit…. Blue Sticky pads do help catch bugs also I lightly shake a dusting of diatomaceous earth on the soil to prevent the adults from developing. The lint roller is a fabulous idea too - glad you included it. Keep the videos coming!
I actually did use blue stickies throughout filming this video but they seemed to be the least effective. I really only noticed the occasion fungus gnat getting caught.
DE can be great. I do use beneficial soil mites so I worry it'll affect them. When you use DE do you feel you need to reapply after waterings? how often?
Thanks!
@@KillThisPlant I hear ya’ about the blue stickies. Mostly gnats and soil bits but a few pests. They make me feel like I’m doing something at a minimum 😊
As far as the DE…I try to water strategically so I’m only disrupting part of the soil area. Once it dries a bit I reapply. I only do it for 2 -3 weeks until the cycle is interrupted although there is usually lots of residual DE in the pot and it can’t hurt! I’m game to try anything. I have a copy of your mix with peppermint soap and will give it a try when I am next under siege 🦟 thanks!!
Bro stop making me develop a crush on you
Ive looked at all my plants, I dont notice any pests but I do notice those small long marks as if something scratched the leaf, Does neem oil do the same job?
Glad I found your channel man, I like your sense of humor and you provide great information. Definitely subscribing. ✌🏽
Awesome, thank you!
@@KillThisPlant I just purchased my first monstera from Walmart recently. It seems healthy, just needs a bigger pot. I was wondering if I should prune the short, smaller leaves. There's a lot of small leaves, I thought it would possibly grow faster if I prune them but they're healthy so I wasn't sure. Any advice would be appreciated.
Do you spray everyday for 10 days and then every 5 days?
gonna have to try this, nothing worked and i ended up losing or getting rid of like 70% of my plants and taking healthy ish cuttings from the ones i could/really loved. worked to reduce the numbers but I've seen more show up since. I'll need to stay vigilant and try this on top of the diatomaceous earth i've been applying
You are amazing... my favorite videos to watch and have inspired me to be a plant mom...i watch hundreds of videos, but only follow your advice.. trying this concoction now because I've tried everything else. Thrips destroyed my prized monstera, now looking my other 2 and killing my prized BOP now
Captain Jack’s Deadbug Bonide spray got rid of my thrips!!!!! 💚
Hi Lee! Dos that spray work on mealy bugs too? I’ve been using neem oil & water, but the smell is awful and isn’t really working. 🤪
Yes, the alcohol in particular would be the main killer. You can even increase it to a 90% alcohol solution.
Is it bad for the plant if the mixture is also sprayed onto the soil? New at removing thrips, so just looking for some advice 😊
A little is fine. As it is rubbing alcohol, it is not good for your roots.
Is hemp peppermint soap okay? That's the only thing I can find from the dr. Bronners brand
I’m sure it’s fine.
Does this work for most pests or just thrips?
We have Bug clear ultra, or provanto in the UK.. thrips aren’t a big deal with these.. spider mites are the one that are tricky …too many pushing neem oil and such is the why most pests get out of hand.. use the systemic save time, stress and your plants
I LOVE Provanto. When I first got plants I thought I was going to be an all-natural earth goddess... then thrips happened and I tried the natural route a couple of times and then I got Provanto. Never going back.
@@saraloe4702 yep same here😆.. I have way too many plants to be messing around for weeks with something that can be solved in a few squirts
Imidacloprid will get em!
Do you have any vids on how to grow these plants from a stick? I have purchased three so far and they are not doing well... well at least this last one had two pretty leaves so it is sitting in dirt, but the leaves eventually started dying so I cut them off. HELP!
I have a video about growing adansonii wet sticks. Might be helpful.
@@KillThisPlant None for Delicisiosa? The stick I have at least had two leaves but they died. I don't want to waste anymore money on these, but can't find large form in stores.
@@tranquilitywithdd sorry. Not specifically but the process would essentially be the same.
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@@KillThisPlant Ok, thanks
Gimme dat sweater, bro... And that sprayer, too
Sprayer is in the description.
Do you ever use systemics (like bonide systematic granules)??
They are banned for consumers in Canada
What about completely hydroponic plant? Monstera to be exact? Would this still be the solution
Yes. Just try not to get too much of the solution into your hydro water. Also yes to your tiktok question. The Leca queen has some good videos on adding stakes to semi-hydro plants.
Diatomaceous earth?
I was recommended Diatomaceous earth against pest, what do you think about it?
It works but on watering the soil you may have to re-apply. Having a lot of plants makes this a challenge.
😂!!!
I hate thrips so much, so thank you for this today. Just needed to laugh before I go on my crazed thrip killing spree. 💀
If you only have the pepermint soap, can you just do 4 tbsp?
Yes
Thrips suck soooo much! I was able to deal with them using spinosad.
I have a combination of plants in a heavy decorative bowl. It sentimental since i recieved it as part of a close family members funeral.
Ive found a few tiny bugs on the leaves recently. Of course the bowl has no drainage hole.
Im upset about the idea of trying to take the planta out and repot, and worried if i dont i will drowned the plant truing to treat it. I also have no confidence in my ability to seperate the plants.
Any suggestions?