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Red Spider Mite?? HELP!!!
When I got home today, I saw that 2 of the new shoots out of twelve of my jasmine looked like they'd been cut off near the soil. When I looked closer, I saw a little bug - i crushed it so quickly i dont remember much about it, other than it was small and a rusty colour. is this a red spider mite? i saw some bug killer at the store that said it would get rid of all types of mites, is it worth me doing this? if there was one, is there likely to be loads more? i have looked, both on the surface and on the plant and not seen anything.
if anyone can help, let me know thanks all! |
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Red Spider Mite?? HELP!!!
danny22 wrote:
When I got home today, I saw that 2 of the new shoots out of twelve of my jasmine looked like they'd been cut off near the soil. When I looked closer, I saw a little bug - i crushed it so quickly i dont remember much about it, other than it was small and a rusty colour. is this a red spider mite? i saw some bug killer at the store that said it would get rid of all types of mites, is it worth me doing this? if there was one, is there likely to be loads more? i have looked, both on the surface and on the plant and not seen anything. if anyone can help, let me know thanks all! red spider mite are seriously small - barely visible - and come in large numbers so probably not the bug that you squashed. -- CTC Right to Ride Rep. for Richmond upon Thames |
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have done some reading, lots of places say red spider mites are too small to be seen, and this was about a millimeter long, and have since seen another. could it be something called fungus gnat i have read about? i have seen a couple of flies around the room, could these be from the same source?
the soil in the pot is still damp. it has been for a while since i was told to water it well by someone apparently more ill-informed than i am, and as a result i think some of the roots might be starting to rot. obviously, first thing i wanna do is not water the plants, and let the soil dry out. would it be worth putting the pots near, but not too near, to a radiator? im worried these sick little things are going to damage the only-just regrowing plants!!! |
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Red Spider Mite?? HELP!!!
danny22 writes
When I got home today, I saw that 2 of the new shoots out of twelve of my jasmine looked like they'd been cut off near the soil. Sounds like slug or snail damage. When I looked closer, I saw a little bug - i crushed it so quickly i dont remember much about it, other than it was small and a rusty colour. is this a red spider mite? No, as someone else has said. And red spider do not bite shoots off. They are sap suckers. Your bug may well have been a beetle which feeds upon plant eating bugs - its worth not rushing to kill something until you are sure what it is and what it is doing. i saw some bug killer at the store that said it would get rid of all types of mites, is it worth me doing this? if there was one, is there likely to be loads more? i have looked, both on the surface and on the plant and not seen anything. if anyone can help, let me know thanks all! -- Kay |
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its jasmine polyanthum. my concern, anne, was to dry the compost, not boil the roots as you so sarcastically said. some of us are still learning.
either way, the plants are out of direct sunlight and ill let the compost dry off before watering again. some people suggest putting potatoe lumps on the soil for a few hours to draw any larvae of the soil to identify if it is fungus gnat. anyone had experience of doing this? and if so did it work? |
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On 17/2/08 18:13, in article , "Anne
Jackson" wrote: The message from danny22 contains these words: its jasmine polyanthum. my concern, anne, was to dry the compost, not boil the roots as you so sarcastically said. some of us are still learning. It matters not a whit what your intentions were, the result would be the same! What amazes me is the fact that some people don't bother to find out what a plant's requirements are, _before_ problems arise! I'm afraid one of the problems - especially for beginners - is that they see a lovely plant, want to own it but all too often, can't find a member of staff to tell them how to look after it. Too many garden centres are just plant supermarkets and you probably wouldn't ask the girl at the Tesco checkout how to cook your monkfish - or not with any expectation of expert help! -- Sacha http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk South Devon 'We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.' |
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says... its jasmine polyanthum. my concern, anne, was to dry the compost, not boil the roots as you so sarcastically said. some of us are still learning. either way, the plants are out of direct sunlight and ill let the compost dry off before watering again. some people suggest putting potatoe lumps on the soil for a few hours to draw any larvae of the soil to identify if it is fungus gnat. anyone had experience of doing this? and if so did it work? OK, Jasmine polyanthum is all but indistructable, neither red spider nor fungus knats are eating the stems, if that was a clean cut then it was probably a slug if it was discoloured near the break probably fungal, keep the plant cool and light, give water when dry but do not leave stood in water and keep your fingers crossed that the roots have not been damaged by the waterlogging -- Charlie Pridham, Gardening in Cornwall www.roselandhouse.co.uk Holders of national collections of Clematis viticella cultivars and Lapageria rosea |
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Red Spider Mite?? HELP!!!
On 18/2/08 03:21, in article , "Anne
Jackson" wrote: The message from Sacha contains these words: On 17/2/08 18:13, "Anne Jackson" wrote: The message from danny22 contains these words: its jasmine polyanthum. my concern, anne, was to dry the compost, not boil the roots as you so sarcastically said. some of us are still learning. It matters not a whit what your intentions were, the result would be the same! What amazes me is the fact that some people don't bother to find out what a plant's requirements are, _before_ problems arise! I'm afraid one of the problems - especially for beginners - is that they see a lovely plant, want to own it but all too often, can't find a member of staff to tell them how to look after it. Too many garden centres are just plant supermarkets and you probably wouldn't ask the girl at the Tesco checkout how to cook your monkfish - or not with any expectation of expert help! That is true, but with access to the Internet, all the necessary advice on the care of house plants is there at your fingertips, as it were... Indeed and the same could be said for gardening, in which case urg becomes redundant. But actually 'talking' to people with experience is so valuable, IMO. Some of the advice is conflicting on the internet and on here and reading the internet alone, you have no idea how much is simply gleaned from others and stuck onto a site. Here, you might get conflicting advice but at least you know it's real experiences and can sift through it to make your own mind up. The people I feel sorriest for on urg are those who come here expecting failsafe answers to every garden query, as if gardening were an exact science! There are so many variables at work in gardening - not least the gardener! - that it makes it all the more fascinating. -- Sacha http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk South Devon 'We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.' |
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Red Spider Mite?? HELP!!!
On Feb 18, 3:21*am, Anne Jackson wrote:
The message from Sacha contains these words: On 17/2/08 18:13, "Anne Jackson" wrote: The message from danny22 contains these words: its jasmine polyanthum. *my concern, anne, was to dry the compost, not boil the roots as you so sarcastically said. *some of us are still learning. It matters not a whit what your intentions were, the result would be the same! What amazes me is the fact that some people don't bother to find out what a plant's requirements are, _before_ problems arise! I'm afraid one of the problems - especially for beginners - is that they see a lovely plant, want to own it but all too often, can't find a member of staff to tell them how to look after it. *Too many garden centres are just plant supermarkets and you probably wouldn't ask the girl at the Tesco checkout how to cook your monkfish - or not with any expectation of expert help! That is true, but with access to the Internet, all the necessary advice on the care of house plants is there at your fingertips, as it were... Well, this guy tried to do just that - ask a question on an internet forum and obtain advice - and got his nose cut off... Many people buy a plant, or are presented with a plant, and rely on the advice on the label, and why wouldn't they? Trouble is, I have often seen very different house plants in stores (not necessarily garden centres, who seem a little better) bearing exactly the same label with the same generic advice. Some of us are still feeling our way around gardening, you know ;-) Cat(h) |
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Red Spider Mite?? HELP!!!
Anne Jackson wrote:
Why is it considered easier to ask in a forum that to use a search engine to find the answer oneself, though? Laziness? Google search (pages in English only): "Red spider mite" "jasmine" - 692 hits "bug" "jasmine" - 297000 hits Why didn't you try that to find out how many hits there were? Laziness? Sometimes it's not that easy to limit searches to something which won't give a shedload of hits - you have to know the right question to ask. Asking athe same question in a forum will soon pare down the answers to a usable level. -- Jeff (cut "thetape" to reply) |
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the point, i think, is that asking for help in these forums offers advice from people who may have had experience of certain problems before, while the internet is usually a tangled mess of twenty thousand answers to a single question.
its nice to interact with people and share experiences and learn from them on a common ground. otherwise whats the point in these forums? might as well just not have them and use search engines instead |
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Red Spider Mite?? HELP!!!
Anne Jackson wrote:
Google search (pages in English only): "Red spider mite" "jasmine" - 692 hits "bug" "jasmine" - 297000 hits Whereas "jasmine polyanthum + red spider mite" gives only 87. And "jasmine polyanthum" "bug" gives 187 hits But "jasminum polyanthum" "bug" gives 393 hits So you still need to pose the correct question. The point is that no matter if it's 87 or umpteen thousand hits, the OP got a sensible answer from this group in a dozen replies. He could still be working his way through Google, and never come up with the right answer because to most people "bug" and "slug" are not the same thing, and a search on "bug" would not find "slug" - the probable cause of the OP's problem. It's never a bad idea to do a Google search first... We are agreed on that. -- Jeff (cut "thetape" to reply) |
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Red Spider Mite?? HELP!!!
On Feb 18, 7:20*pm, Anne Jackson wrote:
The message from "Cat(h)" contains these words: What amazes me is the fact that some people don't bother to find out what a plant's requirements are, _before_ problems arise! I'm afraid one of the problems - especially for beginners - is that they see a lovely plant, want to own it but all too often, can't find a member of staff to tell them how to look after it. *Too many garden centres are just plant supermarkets and you probably wouldn't ask the girl at the Tesco checkout how to cook your monkfish - or not with any expectation of expert help! That is true, but with access to the Internet, all the necessary advice on the care of house plants is there at your fingertips, as it were... Well, this guy tried to do just that - ask a question on an internet forum and obtain advice - and got his nose cut off... Why is it considered easier to ask in a forum that to use a search engine to find the answer oneself, though? *Laziness? Judging from the rows I have seen develop in this forum over good/bad advice given, I would have thought that the very purpose of this type of forum was to exchange ideas, experience and provide advice. I have often asked pretty silly questions here, and been very glad of the sometimes basic, but to me useful answers I have got. There is a big difference between being too lazy to google, and simply not knowing enough to google intelligently. Not to mention the need to know enough to separate the wheat from the chaff in an internet search. I have often googled *after* enquiring here. Many people buy a plant, or are presented with a plant, and rely on the advice on the label, and why wouldn't they? Trouble is, I have often seen very different house plants in stores (not necessarily garden centres, who seem a little better) bearing exactly the same label with the same generic advice. My 'generic' advice would be to let the compost dry out, before giving the plant any more water. *More houseplants are killed by over-watering than by any other method... Some of us are still feeling our way around gardening, you know ;-) Whilst conditions for garden plants can vary widely, depending on a on a variety of circumstances, soil conditions, temperature, etc. the same is not necessarily true of houseplants. * * Not true. An overly sunny windowsill will bake a plant which would thrive on a shadier and more humid bathroom sill. I used to have lots of houseplants, once, and have experienced the differences location can make by trial and error, involving much killing of lots of different plants (due to a variety of problems, not all identified). Anyway, surely, it is no harm to treat the innocent poster with a little kindness? A good dead rarely goes unpunished ;-) Cat(h) |
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