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[Peter Hewitt]

You said it Manders, While you are blissfully thinking all is well, the little bastards are hard at work. I have been looking for Abamectin here in South Africa, but it is only available to commercial farmers. I have been alternating with an Ovacide followed by a Malathion treatment, but got some nasty damage to some of my Drosera from the Malathion. Apparently abamectin is just the right thing.....if you can get it!

[manders]

Peter Hewitt, on 14 May 2011 - 19:20 PM, said:

You said it Manders, While you are blissfully thinking all is well, the little bastards are hard at work. I have been looking for Abamectin here in South Africa, but it is only available to commercial farmers. I have been alternating with an Ovacide followed by a Malathion treatment, but got some nasty damage to some of my Drosera from the Malathion. Apparently abamectin is just the right thing.....if you can get it!

Peter,

Theres a company over here called westlands which do a product called 'plant rescue' which contains abamectin, unless the morons at the EU have banned it in the last few weeks which is allways possible.  Maybe you can get international shipping?

[Peter Hewitt]

If I dont find a supplier here, i will have to do something like that. Abamectin is the only Chemical that does not encourage resistance.

[Simon Lumb]

Hi Guys,

Its been an interesting thread this and Ive learnt a thing or two about mites thats for sure. Regarding my problem Im more convinced that the damage isnt mite damage as a cant see a single mite even with a hand lens and as a couple of you have suggested I am inclined to think it is a fungal problem. However in my panic it did buy a couple of products (Forbid from the US and a fatty acid product from Harrods horticultural suppliers) I will keep these in the armoury along with the napalm for another day.

S

[chimanta]

Simon Lumb, on 17 May 2011 - 11:52 AM, said:

Hi Guys,

Its been an interesting thread this and Ive learnt a thing or two about mites thats for sure. Regarding my problem Im more convinced that the damage isnt mite damage as a cant see a single mite even with a hand lens and as a couple of you have suggested I am inclined to think it is a fungal problem. However in my panic it did buy a couple of products (Forbid from the US and a fatty acid product from Harrods horticultural suppliers) I will keep these in the armoury along with the napalm for another day.

S

Hello Simon
I had the same problem as well I think. I guess I "imported" the pest with a burbidgeae I bougth since it was the fisrt one to suffer. At my place they where especially keen for inermis, glabrata and jamban - so I think all the species with more soft leaves, whereas I havent have problems with lowii and other hard leaved species until then. Those wehre mites (Weichhautmilben) I have been told (Tarsonemus uand or  Hemitarsonemus very small around 0,15 - 0,3 mm as I read on google not seen them myself) followed by a fungus and lost some nice and rare plants as well 2 or 3 years ago. I used "Spomil" which contains:  1,84% Abamectin (18 g/l)  against the "Weichhautmilben".

I used "Hortosan", which contains: 22,9% Azoxystrobin (250 g/l) against the fungus with good results. First I spayed the Spomil against the Weichhautmilben, one week later Hortosan against fungus again one week later again Spomil  to kill the new born mites.

Since then every now and then I keep spraying them with Spomil - probably a bit paranoid - but once you lost some nice and rare plants.....

Urs

[flycatchers]

manders, on 14 May 2011 - 22:03 PM, said:

Peter,

Theres a company over here called westlands which do a product called 'plant rescue' which contains abamectin, unless the morons at the EU have banned it in the last few weeks which is allways possible.  Maybe you can get international shipping?

Thats a one I have not heard of before. Is it a fairly new product?

bill

[manders]

flycatchers, on 23 May 2011 - 17:10 PM, said:

Thats a one I have not heard of before. Is it a fairly new product?

bill

Nt sure bill, just picked it up a few weeks ago while looking for something to get rid of RSM, dont remember seeing it in the past.

[Dicon]

manders, on 23 May 2011 - 21:27 PM, said:

Nt sure bill, just picked it up a few weeks ago while looking for something to get rid of RSM, dont remember seeing it in the past.

I have tried this one fairly recently, against scale on a nep, I think one needs to be a bit careful with it as the PLUS in the name is a foliar feed that I think may be a bit strong for Neps as I have a few scorched leaves.............not 100% sure, but be a bit cautious particularly if you are feeding with something else at the same time!

[gardenofeden]

the fruit and vegetable version does not contain abamectin

[gardenofeden]

Update: I bought some 'Plant Rescue Bug Killer for ornamental plants' and used it on my VFTs and a Wisteria last summer. It caused really bad distortion of new growth; the Wisteria has recovered but nearly all my VFts are still a bit distorted with no proper sized traps...so my advice is do not use this product on VFTs, and would be very cautious using it at all!


Maybe I had a bad batch, if anyone has used it with no problems would be interested to hear

[mantrid]

gardenofeden, on 15 May 2012 - 21:18 PM, said:

Update: I bought some 'Plant Rescue Bug Killer for ornamental plants' and used it on my VFTs and a Wisteria last summer. It caused really bad distortion of new growth; the Wisteria has recovered but nearly all my VFts are still a bit distorted with no proper sized traps...so my advice is do not use this product on VFTs, and would be very cautious using it at all!


Maybe I had a bad batch, if anyone has used it with no problems would be interested to hear

What is the active ingredient(s) in this product?