What I do to prevent & treat pests on my Cacti in winter
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What I do to prevent & treat pests on my Cacti in winter.
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What I do to prevent and treat pests on my Cactus plants in winter 🥰❤🌵🐛
Awesome video, Lyn 😊 It's always a battle against the beasties. I've found the horticultural soap and isopropyl alcohol mixed together works great against the spider mites, it certainly put a big dent in the population I had in the grow tent. Thank you for sharing with us as always, Lyn. Have a lovely evening from Edith & myself to you and Hans ❤️🌵☀️🌼🌸🌺🏜
So happy you loved the Beastie video Daz haha, and it really is a never ending battle of the beasts on our plants, thanks so much for letting me know about the soap and alcohol, I will definitely try the isopropyl alcohol and hort soap against the mite beasties this year, thanks so much Daz for your wonderful Friendship and amazing comment and support and for watching, and Hans and I are sending you and beautiful Edith lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER to England and Singapore for a wonderful new week XXXX
I like your demonstration on how you use the diatamaceous earth. I always avoided because I thought it's just a big mess all over the place but that makes a lot of sense just tapping a bit of powder on the plant and surfaces around the plant just a little bit. I bet a person could even use a big makeup brush and easily dust the rims of pots to help pretend pests ever walking from pot to pot if pots are close to each other. That's a really cool easy concept for all houseplants.
So happy you loved the Diatomaceous earth demonstration, the Diatomaceous earth really works well at keeping the pests down, and a big powder puff make up brush is perfect for dusting the powder over the plants and rims of the pot, thanks so much for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a wonderful new week XXXX
Lyn breaking out the magic potions 💚🌵
haha, thanks so much for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a wonderful new week XXXX
Great video, Lyn! Because of you, I use 99% rubbing alcohol on all of my plants. Learned this tip from you about 2 years prior, and never looked back. I’ve got my nursery using it, too. It’s brilliant, and hasn’t caused any problems with any of our plants 👍🏽👍🏽. Sending you and Hans love and plant power from CA to the Emerald Isle!
Thats fantastic you love to use the rubbing alcohol too Ashley and that you have got your Nursery using it on the plants too, it works so well at keeping these 'beasties' away haha, thanks so much Ashley for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, and Hans and I are sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER from across the Emerald Isle to California for a wonderful new week XXXX
My experience is that Neem oil kills crassula jade and portucaria afra....😮 I use straight isopropyl alcohol instead of rubbing alcohol..rubbing alcohol tends to have additives and oils that can suffocate leaves. 2 parts water and 1 part isopropyl alcohol and 4-5 drops of dishwashing liquid in a quart spray bottle is my preferred method
Thanks so much for sharing about the Neem oil killing your Crassula Jade and portucaria afra Dave, so sorry to hear that I will stop using it on my Crassulas now as I would hate to lose any of them, thanks so much for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a wonderful new week XXXX
G'day Lyn, great hints and tips. Sending you and Hans lots of love from Ellyn and me, have a great week.🌵🌵🌵😘😗😙😍❤💋
G'day Peter haha, so happy you loved the hints and tips, and thanks so much for your wonderful Friendship and amazing comment and support and for watching, and Hans and I are sending you and beautiful Ellyn lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER to Downunder for a wonderful new week XXXX
I was leaving the Meths spraying to Captain Neem Oil until he drunk it all 🙄 He's only allowed to use Bug Clear nowdays 😁Hope you and Hans have a lovely evening 😊😊🌵🌵
hahahahahaha with Captain Neem oil drinking all the Meths Ziggy, hahaha oh my golly your comments always make me giggle so much, thanks so much Ziggy for your wonderful Friendship and amazing comment and support and for watching, and Hans and I are sending you and beautiful Jackie lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a wonderful new week XXXX
❤awesome video and channel, thanks for sharing your knowledge, I'm learning alot from you 👍
So happy you are learning a lot from my vids Johnny, and thanks so much for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a wonderful new week XXXX
Good timing as I'm spraying a few plants. Do you see water stains or mottled skins on cacti, especially young columnars, with isopropyl or neem or systemics? Do you spray each pot one by one or regular mass spraying in the greenhouse? Yes, ventilation is important. Thanks Lyn!❤
so happy that this video was good timing for you James and that you are spraying a few plants now too, I do notice the Neem oil can sometimes stain some of the Echeverias that have the powdery 'hue' on their leaves but not the cacti or other succulents, I find the isopropyl alcohol doesn't stain the cacti but I do dilute the alcohol with 30% water when spraying the Echeverias as I have noticed in the past the isopropyl alcohol can remove or stain the lovely 'hue' on their leaves if I use it neat, I mass spray all the plants in the greenhouse with a big hozelock water pump sprayer, thanks so much James for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a wonderful new week XXXX
I bought a monstroose on discount and it had so much scale. I have treated with alcahol and neem oil. Using brush to get in crevices. Will keep eye out in a week to do another round and ck I did not miss anything. Cacti scale look very different than other types of scale. Why don’t they move? They look more like dead skeletal remains. How can you tell they’re alive?
Hi Josie :-D so sorry to hear about your monstrose cactus, scale is such a pain to get rid off especially on monstose cacti that have a lot of crevices, Scale stay stationary on the cactus skin and live in their small hard outer shell and suck on the plants tissues, they look like they are dead as their scales are like little dried bumps, the good news is if you are using the alcohol and the neem you are doing everything right to get rid of these annoying little 'beasties' thanks so much for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a fantastic Friday XXXX
Great video, I use rubbing alcohol as well I still need to find a good deterent for snails and slugs,copper tape is OK but not snail _😒proof
So happy you enjoyed the video Magda, argh yes snails and slugs really do so much damage especially on my epiphytes, thanks so much for your wonderful Friendship and amazing comment and support and for watching, and Hans and I are sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a super Sunday XXXX
Your heart is so big Lyn ❤thank you for sharing your knowledge with us!!! Happy Sunday to you!
Awwww thank you so very much Sheri for your wonderful words and support and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a wonderful new week ahead XXXX
Good air circulation (like from a fan) also helps to prevent pests from even showing up!
A big fan is perfect for the air circulation especially on the windy or very cold days when the doors or windows can't be opened, thanks so much Terry for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a wonderful new week XXXX
Love the names you gave the pests, “beasts” lol. Thanks for info Lyn!
hahaha Carol, so happy you love the 'beasts' name for the pests, my friend Daz at @cactimania called them 'Beasties' ánd it made me giggle and I love to call them beasties ever since, thanks so much Carol for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a wonderful new week XXXX
Amazing collection you have there, Lynn!! 😍
So happy you love the collection, thanks so much for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a wonderful new week XXXX
Since you have poly tunnel you should look into burning some tobacco for mealybugs have seen people use it like incense and fill the whole greenhouse with smoke
WOW I will have to check that out, thanks so much for letting me know, thanks so much for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a wonderful new week XXXX
Another great video Lyn full of useful information on preventing and treating beasties! The Neem Oil is really affective! Love watching your amazing collection while you explain! Thanks for sharing! Have a great day and week my friends Lyn and Hans! Sending you both lots of love and happiness!
So happy you loved the video on treating and preventing these beasties Sylvia :-D it really is a never ending battle of the beasts haha, thanks so much Sylvia for your wonderful Friendship and amazing comment and support and for watching, and Hans and I are sending you and Paul lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER to Malta for a fantastic Monday and for a wonderful new week XXXX
Its good to have multiple options and not over use the neem because some pests can develop a resistance to it. Alcohol and diatomaceous earth are my go to.
@@BTiffney71 The Alcohol and Diatomaceous earth are brilliant to use, thanks so much for watching and for your wonderful comment, and wishing you a fantastic plant powered new week XXXX
Very helpful video Lyn 😁😁👍👍👍. What's the id on the plant you pick up at 7:54 as I have one similar but don't know what it is.
So happy you found the video helpful Jim :-D the cactus at 7.54 is a Ferocactus emoryi and thats fantastic you have this cactus too, I love the spines on these beauties, thanks so much for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a wonderful new week XXXX
@@desertplantsofavalon thanks for the plant id 😁👍👍👍
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How long should I keep them out of the sun after spraying them? I've got some black aphids on my ice plant.
Its best to keep them out the sun for at least an hour after spraying them with the alcohol, and 6 hours if using the Neem oil, I prefer to use the Neem oil towards the end of the afternoon or in the early evenings after the sun has gone down, thanks so much for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a wonderful new week XXXX
Very good to know, thanks! Plant power and a wonderful week to you too!!!@@desertplantsofavalon
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Great methods Lyn! Thank you for sharing! ❤🌵 XXXX
So happy you love the methods Vera, I always find it a bit of a dilemma dealing with pests on our plants especially as a Vegan and hate the thought of killing them, I spend hours picking off slugs and snails off the plants and putting them into the fields to save them haha, but with spider mites and mealybugs its tough and the rubbing alcohol, neem oil and diatomaceous earth are the most humane ways, thanks so much Vera for your wonderful Friendship and amazing comment and support and for watching, and Hans and I are sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER to Italy for a wonderful new week XXXX
@@desertplantsofavalon So true Lyn, as a vegan it's difficult! I always think that I have to choose between pests and my plants, lol. But I could never hurt a snail or a caterpillar. Imagine that I have read recently that there are some kinds of mites that like humid weather, they are called flat mites. Milan is really humid and some of my plants have got them. So even in humid climates plants aren't safe from mites, lol!
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Thank you for the information, & sharing your great collection.
Off topic question, you mention how your humidity stays too high in the winter , how high is too high?
So happy you loved the video Barbie :-D our humidity in Ireland is around 70% and on a sunny winter day it can raise about 95% inside the polytunnel, I open up the door and it helps to bring down the humidity to 70%, ideally cacti love to have low humidity 50% or lower, but they can take much higher humidity e.g 80% if they are totally dry in their pots during the winter, if the humidity is higher than 80% its too high if the temperatures are very very cold, but most cacti can take even 90% humidity as long as they are dry over winter and can have air circulation via a fan or window or door open to ventilate every couple of days, thanks so much Barbie for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a fantastic new week XXXX
@@desertplantsofavalon oh wow, that is very high indeed!!
I hope you & Hans are having a beautiful day 💗 🫂
Peace love and planty power 💕
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Hi lyn amazing desert as usual 😍 whatever happened to your 6ft tall opuntia brasiliensis I've not seen it in any of your videos in a while? X
Thanks so much Lee :-D I have the big Opuntia brasiliensis indoors on my Staircase for the winter haha, its the only place I can put it as it was to tall for the old polytunnel we had, hopefully this Spring we can move it out into the new polytunnel and should be able to keep it in there over next winter, thanks so much for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a wonderful new week XXXX
@desertplantsofavalon thank you so much for the reply and fingers crossed that huge cactus fits in your new polytunnel I have a 1ft one in my collection hopefully grows as big as yours one day 😀
Hope you have a lovely week x
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Great video, thanks for the advice! Im currently battling mealybugs on a succulent of mine and have used isopropyl alcohol with an ear bud to get into the crevices. I will spray it down with neem (it's indoors) if this doesn't work. 😊💖🪷
So happy you loved the video Katie, mealy bugs really are a pain, the isopropyl alcohol and the neem oil work well for keeping these pests down as much as possible, thanks so much for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a wonderful new week XXXX
Good tips.
So happy you loved the tips Bill, and thanks so much for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a terrific Tuesday XXXX
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thanks so much for your wonderful love and support and for watching, and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a fantastic day today XXXX
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thanks so much Marie for your wonderful support and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a wonderful new week XXXX
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thanks so much for your wonderful support and for watching, and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a wonderful Wednesday XXXX
Thank you for the tips! I think for beginners the hardest thing about growing plants is knowing what to do when problems arise (including pests!). Thank you for sharing 😊 Amy from Melbourne x
So happy you loved the tips Amy :-D pests on our plants are such a pain and its always a dilemma when having to deal with these 'beasties' thanks so much for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER to Melbourne for a wonderful evening XXXX
@desertplantsofavalon thank you, you too, have a lovely rest of the day! 😊
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