What Products do you recommend 4 mite control?

TreeJunkie

TreeJunkie

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Overland Park, Kansas
I've heard of several different options regarding what products perform best and as season is getting close i wanted to see what everyone has found to work the best.

Besides dormant oils/insecticidal soaps what products ie ovicides, miticides have worked greatest?
 
I was in to Helena Chem yesterday and picked up the usual....Hexygon and Avid which is what we've primarily been using in the past...Anyone else using these?

They also had a product "Forbid" available, labled for an assortment of mites....Anyone tried this?
 
I heard of using cayanne pepper for a mite/pest deterrent.

I use compost tea for just about everything.

Iv'e read some conflicting reports about compost tea effectiveness.
 
so say i've got some high dollar clients with several Alberta and blue spruce trees all showing severe damage due to spruce spider mite.....
Your cours of treatment is cayenne and compost tea? Are you serious?
I'm all for the go green/use less pesticides approach but these kind of clients want and need quick, effective results.

I do use abamectin ie...Avid. and have rotated use of this Hexygon, and another miticide....I've been told by several people it's good to change it up to avoid pest resistance as well as each product works differently targeting different maturity levels.
 
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I was in to Helena Chem yesterday and picked up the usual....Hexygon and Avid which is what we've primarily been using in the past...Anyone else using these?

They also had a product "Forbid" available, labled for an assortment of mites....Anyone tried this?

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Little late here, but yes I have used it on my Norway Spruce trees and it is effective.
 
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so say i've got some high dollar clients with several Alberta and blue spruce trees all showing severe damage due to spruce spider mite.....
Your cours of treatment is cayenne and compost tea? Are you serious?
I'm all for the go green/use less pesticides approach but these kind of clients want and need quick, effective results.

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Do you need a cert. to apply chem. where you are?

I use what works. Soap and water works for spruce spider mite and dosen't kill fish/wildlife like some other products inadvertently do.

I don't have "high dollar" clients (or gnarly overhead) They have money I guess but I charge what it's worth to do the job.

But hey, I ride my bike to alot of jobs for fun so...
 
I use abamectin and hort oil and it works great on our leylands here for spider mites that pop up all year here in the deep south.
 
Hort oil will not stimulate a resistance as Forbid will, and won't harm the applicator or non-target species.

I was wondering why it's fallen out of favor?

There's nothing more effective but soap, and that's just a little bit more labor intensive but if money's the issue...repeat bi-weekly treatments means more invoicing.
 
Benefical mites work well to,abamectin works good but kills everything,not sure about forbid being new.i like sunspray light gauge hort.oil and mpeade soap.
 
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