If any y'all did not see my spider mite issue in my Driving Miss Bessie thread, here it is.
I did a little research on heat to get rid of SM's with heat. That was a big no-go. I would pretty much have to burn the plants. Then I got to looking around and realized a lack of circulation even with four fans up top.
Well, I found them on Sunday, yeah? Well, I spent a little time defoliating and swiping leaves between fingers to swipe leaves I did not want to remove. Then I put a couple Hurricane fans at soil level, aimed at the back plants where I found the SM's and I have not seen any more SM's on any plants.
Either I got lucky and caught it before it got too bad or the fans make for a bad SM environment.
I'll keep looking but am cautiously hopeful I will not find any more.

I did a little research on heat to get rid of SM's with heat. That was a big no-go. I would pretty much have to burn the plants. Then I got to looking around and realized a lack of circulation even with four fans up top.
Well, I found them on Sunday, yeah? Well, I spent a little time defoliating and swiping leaves between fingers to swipe leaves I did not want to remove. Then I put a couple Hurricane fans at soil level, aimed at the back plants where I found the SM's and I have not seen any more SM's on any plants.
Either I got lucky and caught it before it got too bad or the fans make for a bad SM environment.
I'll keep looking but am cautiously hopeful I will not find any more.
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