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Treating infestation with complete repotting, rubbing alcohol, shower

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  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,385
    Spider mite can be almost impossible to eradicate from indoor plants as they move about on your clothes etc.  If you have a bad spider mite infestation, you best bet would be spider mite predators - some useful info in this link Mr Google found, but there are several suppliers:

    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    The RHS advice does not include rubbing alcohol at all.  It's quite toxic stuff so I wouldn't use it on any plant.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Obelixx said:
    The RHS advice does not include rubbing alcohol at all.  It's quite toxic stuff so I wouldn't use it on any plant.
    Neither would I 😨

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Fire said:
    Scale insects can be hard to shift. I tried white spirits repeatedly (as recommended) and it didn't work. Sorry you have had such problems.
    Methylated spirit is the one to use. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I used meths and a soft toothbrush on my fig tree but I hosed it off immediately
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,385
    Common chemical names have the same problem as common plant names and mean different things to different people.  https://www.chemicals.co.uk/blog/what-are-methylated-spirits
    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I used meths because I didn't have any white spirit and didn't want to waste my Tanquerays . I'm pretty sure any alcohol would have done . I wouldn't have used it on house plants, though. Fig leaves are tough and deciduous and the branches are woody so no real chance of permanent damage.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
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