Question:
ok, what is the best way to get rid of unseen aphids and spider mites on pond plants before you bring them in for the winter? i’ve heard a few people mention they dip theirs in potasium permangenate, what else works? i can put the plants into another container when debugging, and only a few plants are actually going back in with the fish. i’m off to the pond store to buy a little aquarium heater to keep the water warm enough for hyacinths, i think i may have enough sunlight not to have to have a grow light, what do you think Jan? will a South Eastern window in the PAC NW give enough sun? thanks -laurie
Response:
Well, I debugged my hyacinths using Jan’s recipe. . .am I supposed to keep their water heated too? I figured indoor temps would make it okay. How warm is the water supposed to be? And by the way, what’s a Golden Orfe. . .anybody? — Bahnee in Craig, CO Attitoad is Everything!
Response:
>ok, what is the best way to get rid of unseen aphids and spider mites >on pond plants before you bring them in for the winter?
The Procedures of Wintering Plants, by JJ, PGON This is what I did last year, and what I started last weekend. I moved all the tropicals (the urn too) that I’m going to bring inside into rubbermaid totesl, under my deck. I’ve started spraying them with this bug recipe: 1 gallon water 1 Tablespoon veggie oil 1 tsp dishwashing liquid (Dawn) 2 Tablespoons liquid seaweed extract concentrate (optional) I did not add the seaweed ext. as I had not had any problems with mites and didn’t inside either. Spray every 3rd day, 3 times. After the 3rd treatment I’ll hose off the ones to go in the patio pond with some goldfish. Last winter I had absolutely no bug troubles. But I do recommend if you buy any new house plants that they go thru debugging & quarantine (like new fish) before you put them by the pond plants. I had the plants & P.pond under a 300 watt halogen light. The water hyacinth was in the urn that only had a skeeter fish or two in it. It’s roots were in contact with the soil. I think with water hyacinth the major things to consider are strong light, either good sunlight directly by a window or close overhead lighting and the other is not to be in a container with fish that eat their roots, i.e., goldfish &/or koi, and lastly, to debug them. I did lose some, but I had eleven make it thru the winter. Bahnee, I did not heat the water. Water in the P.pond averaged 63-65F in the winter. I imagine the urn w/hyacinths got a tad warmer since it wasn’t right on the floor and a smaller amount of water. To anyone new, you can see pictures of my living room in winter at my website. ~Keep ‘em Wet!~ jan/Tri-Cities WA Zone 7 Remove Z to e-mail See my ponds: http://home.earthlink.net/~alanjordan1/jjspond/index.html
Response:
To the recipe below I highly recommend you do not do this treatment where the plants will be in the sun for long periods. A little morning sun is fine. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text ->1 gallon water >1 Tablespoon veggie oil >1 tsp dishwashing liquid (Dawn) >2 Tablespoons liquid seaweed extract concentrate (optional) >I did not add the seaweed ext. as I had not had any problems with >mites and didn’t inside either. >Spray every 3rd day, 3 times. >~Keep ‘em Wet!~ >jan/Tri-Cities WA Zone 7 >Remove Z to e-mail >See my ponds: >http://home.earthlink.net/~alanjordan1/jjspond/index.html
Response:
ok, what is the best way to get rid of unseen aphids and spider mites on pond plants before you bring them in for the winter? i’ve heard a few people mention they dip theirs in potasium permangenate, what else works? i can put the plants into another container when debugging, and only a few plants are actually going back in with the fish. i’m off to the pond store to buy a little aquarium heater to keep the water warm enough for hyacinths, i think i may have enough sunlight not to have to have a grow light, what do you think Jan? will a South Eastern window in the PAC NW give enough sun? thanks -laurie
Response:
Well, I debugged my hyacinths using Jan’s recipe. . .am I supposed to keep their water heated too? I figured indoor temps would make it okay. How warm is the water supposed to be? And by the way, what’s a Golden Orfe. . .anybody? — Bahnee in Craig, CO Attitoad is Everything!
Response:
>ok, what is the best way to get rid of unseen aphids and spider mites >on pond plants before you bring them in for the winter?
The Procedures of Wintering Plants, by JJ, PGON This is what I did last year, and what I started last weekend. I moved all the tropicals (the urn too) that I’m going to bring inside into rubbermaid totesl, under my deck. I’ve started spraying them with this bug recipe: 1 gallon water 1 Tablespoon veggie oil 1 tsp dishwashing liquid (Dawn) 2 Tablespoons liquid seaweed extract concentrate (optional) I did not add the seaweed ext. as I had not had any problems with mites and didn’t inside either. Spray every 3rd day, 3 times. After the 3rd treatment I’ll hose off the ones to go in the patio pond with some goldfish. Last winter I had absolutely no bug troubles. But I do recommend if you buy any new house plants that they go thru debugging & quarantine (like new fish) before you put them by the pond plants. I had the plants & P.pond under a 300 watt halogen light. The water hyacinth was in the urn that only had a skeeter fish or two in it. It’s roots were in contact with the soil. I think with water hyacinth the major things to consider are strong light, either good sunlight directly by a window or close overhead lighting and the other is not to be in a container with fish that eat their roots, i.e., goldfish &/or koi, and lastly, to debug them. I did lose some, but I had eleven make it thru the winter. Bahnee, I did not heat the water. Water in the P.pond averaged 63-65F in the winter. I imagine the urn w/hyacinths got a tad warmer since it wasn’t right on the floor and a smaller amount of water. To anyone new, you can see pictures of my living room in winter at my website. ~Keep ‘em Wet!~ jan/Tri-Cities WA Zone 7 Remove Z to e-mail See my ponds: http://home.earthlink.net/~alanjordan1/jjspond/index.html
Response:
To the recipe below I highly recommend you do not do this treatment where the plants will be in the sun for long periods. A little morning sun is fine. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text ->1 gallon water >1 Tablespoon veggie oil >1 tsp dishwashing liquid (Dawn) >2 Tablespoons liquid seaweed extract concentrate (optional) >I did not add the seaweed ext. as I had not had any problems with >mites and didn’t inside either. >Spray every 3rd day, 3 times. >~Keep ‘em Wet!~ >jan/Tri-Cities WA Zone 7 >Remove Z to e-mail >See my ponds: >http://home.earthlink.net/~alanjordan1/jjspond/index.html
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