Voracious Russet Mite killer/prevention

[Bluzboy]

Due to the mild winter in Colorado and the fact I live remotely surrounded by large AG producers and family farms I had been deluged with russet mites. The winter wheat fields and alfalfa fields surrounding my residence were beset with them as well as fungus pests like stripe rust. I was battling colonies in my veg room which is rimmed by fields on three sides. I had to find a solution as I did not want them to spread to my bloom room at the opposite side of the residence which was pest free. So I find this total pyrethrum based ready to use spray, very cheap(6.99 for a 32 ounce ready to use spray bottle), made by Sevin Garden Tech called "Worry Free"(see photo). I start spraying the infected veg/foliage on the plants in my veg room where the russet mite infestations with previous ineffective immersings in Azamax and Zero Tolerance treatments had literally with hubris been laughed at by these species of mite. I spray this "Worry Free" stuff on and instantly I swear I can hear these russett mites literally screaming/wailing while they die. I gloated with great smugness over their demise and let out a testosterone based roar like a bloodied victorious Conan the Barbarian. I then used this through out my veg room and wiped the russet mite infestation out, and I mean wiped them clean from the room and my plants in 72 hours.(Another Conan victory yell here.) The stuff comes in a ready to use spray bottle or you can buy it in concentrate which is what I did after I found it worked so well. You mix 5 teaspoons to every 32 ounces of water with the concentrate. This is just a straight apparently very effective pyrethrum mite and aphid killer I just wanted to share my resolution and get feed back. The large concentrate bottle of "Worry Free" runs about 13 dollars at Wal-Mart also. See pics

 

[ttystikk]

looked it up on the interwebs- did they do a packaging design change recently? Here's what I found; want to make sure it's the same stuff;

Worry Free® Disease & Pest Control

 

[Mississip Hip]

damn! Does it kill spider mites, also?

Good find if it keeps them gone...

 

[Bluzboy]

looked it up on the interwebs- did they do a packaging design change recently? Here's what I found; want to make sure it's the same stuff;

Worry Free® Disease & Pest Control

No, that is something different named the same. The packaging is the same as I have uploaded as earlier and you can find the product at Wal-Mart in their garden center area. It will look/be packaged exactly like the pictures I uploaded.

 

[Bluzboy]

damn! Does it kill spider mites, also?

Good find if it keeps them gone...

So far, so good. It literally wiped them out, adults, larvae, nuts, and eggs all dead. Used the product once and then three days later did a Azamax treatment and no more mites.

 

[swisscheese]

Did you tear the room apart and disinfect and repaint to ensure that all the eggs are gone? If not you're just kidding yourself I've been there they will pop back up unless you really stay on top of it then they will be manageable and you will be able to finish crops at least. Regular spider mites are a walk in the park compared to these guys.

 

[Bluzboy]

Did you tear the room apart and disinfect and repaint to ensure that all the eggs are gone? If not you're just kidding yourself I've been there they will pop back up unless you really stay on top of it then they will be manageable and you will be able to finish crops at least. Regular spider mites are a walk in the park compared to these guys.

That is right about russet mites and I am not kidding myself. Of course I did not tear down the walls and repaint the inside of my Secret Jardin tent. But between pyrethium bombs used in the room outside the tent, washing the walls/tile floor with bleach, and using this "worry free" on the infestation inside the tent I have the manifestation of these russet mites eliminated from my plants and veg grow tent. I use a 5' x 5' x 80" DR150 for veg in a small bedroom at one end of the home, and an 8' x 8' x 80" DR240II for my bloom room at the opposite end of the house. If you do organic soil grow as I do, you are going to have a mites show up here and there, especially if you have 4 dogs living in the house as I do. They(mites) had never been a problem till this Spring after one of the warmest mild winters in Colorado on record. I have never had a russet mite infestation ever before till this one which stemmed from them literally being rampant in the wheat and alfalfa fields around my home. But as I have been arresting the further develpment of these mites in my grows so have the farmers in their fields too. They have been spraying and treating their fields for them just as I have been inside my home. As I stated earlier, I got the upper hand inside my grow tent and I did so with this product. I have been trying to share what worked really well against these russet mites which are the bain of all mite infestations. So if you want to be extremely clinical, no you are right, I have not wiped russet spider mites off the face of the planet nor have I probably wiped them out completely from the inside the walls of my house and there are probably russet mites living in harmony with scabies and other parasites in my septic tank. But the place these mites needed to be wiped out/eradicated, inside my tent, they have been, and this product I posted did it for 7 bucks while other products)Azamax, Zero Tolerance, Mitey Wash,) I had tried and invested in that are 3 times or more the cost of this product, were completely ineffective against this particular mites infestation. I use and have used Azamax on a regular basis as a prevention tool and would throw in use Zero Tolerance here and there in case I had mites or their nits anywhere developing a resistance to the Azamax. Never had a problem with mites at all with that strategy till this past mild winter that actually created the enviroment for this break out of russet mites in the fields all around me. Have a great week Swiss Cheese and do not burn your fingers like I just did from trying to light a pipe while I typed!
The Bluzboy

 

[Bluzboy]

damn! Does it kill spider mites, also?

Good find if it keeps them gone...

This is a great product to add to your arsenal to fight mites or aphids of any species, especially russet mites, which are just the most insidious pest/parasite infestation to have to solve and be rid of . Ciao, the Bluzboy

 

[Bluzboy]

looked it up on the interwebs- did they do a packaging design change recently? Here's what I found; want to make sure it's the same stuff;

Worry Free® Disease & Pest Control

TTYSTIKK, go to Wal-mart's garden center and you will find the right one, the one I used, and its packaged just like in the photo I uploaded and its real inexpensive. Very effective and cheap. You can't beat it and I would endorse adding some of this product to your pest/parasite prevention/kill arsenal and armory. Best regards,
Ciao, The Bluzboy

 

[ttystikk]

TTYSTIKK, go to Wal-mart's garden center and you will find the right one, the one I used, and its packaged just like in the photo I uploaded and its real inexpensive. Very effective and cheap. You can't beat it and I would endorse adding some of this product to your pest/parasite prevention/kill arsenal and armory. Best regards,
Ciao, The Bluzboy

Thanks, brother- I don't have russet mites but if/when I ever do, I want the shit that kills them dead to be sitting on my shelf, waiting for its chance...

 

[Bluzboy]

Thanks, brother- I don't have russet mites but if/when I ever do, I want the shit that kills them dead to be sitting on my shelf, waiting for its chance...

What I like about this "worry free" is that is the only "non-systemic" miticide and insect control product I could find through research and then put to practical use that actually kills, decimates and destroys a russet mite infestation or colony on the spot with the very first application as it states it will.
Best regards,
The Bluzboy

 

[kushtrees]

What's the active ingridient? Pyrethrins are relatively ineffective against russet mites at least according to studies and my personal experience, I wouldn't waste more money on p bombs trying to kill these things

 

[juggernaut]

interesting...I don't c anyone else posting that this product worked...wierd
there are def growers out there that have killed entire gardens and shutdown for sometimes over a month and this cure was out there in a hard to find spot like wallmart.
I look forward to how this works for others.

 

[Bluzboy]

interesting...I don't c anyone else posting that this product worked...wierd
there are def growers out there that have killed entire gardens and shutdown for sometimes over a month and this cure was out there in a hard to find spot like wallmart.
I look forward to how this works for others.

I do too Juggernaut. Which is why I posted this. I had never seen this product before either till a stroll through an unexpected inadvertent walk through Wal-Mart's garden center while waiting on my wife to fill a prescription and do some other shopping. I found it in the aisle where they keep their garden insect and lawn pest control products. After reading the label and finding it was simply a "non-systemic" pyrethium based miticide/pesticide I decided to try it since the low cost, 6.97 for 32oz ready to use spray bottle of the stuff, I had nothing to lose since Axamaz, Zero Tolerance, and several other miticides just seemed to do nothing to abate the infestation. And those cost me thre, four times as much money. In my situation, metaphorically, this "Worry Free" decimated the russet colony that plagued my veg tent(Jardin DR150W), it kicked butt on these mites like Ali in his prime would have done on a 90 pound wise guy threatening him with a pocketknife in an alley. How is that for creative imagery? So I then went back to Wal-Mart and bought the larger bottle in concentrate for I believe $13.97.
The concentrate, you mix 20 teaspoons to a gallon or 4 to 5 teaspoons to a 32 oz spray bottle of water and apply to underside/top of leaves and infected foliage. In my case, right as I applied the spray I could actually see the brown infestations in the veins of the leaves begin to literally disintegrate to yellow pigment. The strain of russet mite I was dealing with here would show up by turning the veins of my foliage red or russet brown first, then spreading through the rest of the leaf. The damn things are so tiny they are more like worms it seems. Under side of leaf they would show up as a brown patches with small black pock marks located near or in the red/russet discolor in underside of leaf.
This worked so well for me 14 days ago that I with confidence made a bunch of new cuttings from those previously infected plants that now after 3 days seem to be rooting beautiful and show absolutely no sign of any mite infection or disease of any kind. This inexpensive "Worry Free" pyrethium spray worked wonders for me. I had to share and see if it works for others as it has myself due to its relative cheap cost to keep around in your pest/parasite arsenal.
Please keep me appraised of how it works for you and what your opine of it is if you try some. Have a great week Juggernaut!
The Bluzboy

 

[Bluzboy]

What's the active ingridient? Pyrethrins are relatively ineffective against russet mites at least according to studies and my personal experience, I wouldn't waste more money on p bombs trying to kill these things

Its active ingredient is non systemic pyrethrin, so it is a pyethrin based miticide/pesticide that according to its manufacturer kills on contact over 150 types of mites, aphids, as well as their eggs and larvae. I scrubbed the floors and walls down with bleach and water in the room. I then p bombed the room. I scrubbed walls and floor of tent, and then applied "Worry Free" to walls and floor of tent after applying to infected plants. I have decimated the colony and I will get a pic uploaded later to show just how healthy one of my plants looks now cause you know how bad they look when infected. I may have got my wife to take a picture of them infected on her phone camera and when she gets home if she has it, I will upload that so you can compare the images Kushtrees.
Ciao,
The Bluzboy

 

[kushtrees]

I'd Love to see. I am very surprised a product at Walmart is effective against these lil bastards

 

[ttystikk]

Looking closely at the packaging, it said 'Sevin' clearly at the top of the front label. That's been an effective commercial pesticide for many years, thinking that is why it's effective vs. russet mites. Plenty of people have tried pyrethrins against them without success, so I doubt that's it.

Since you have the bottle in hand, can you check and see if it's just using 'sevin' as a brand label, or if it's also listed in the active ingredients?

 

[Bluzboy]

The label says this: Garden Tech Worry Free from the makers of Sevin.
Miticide and Insecticide - No Mixing No Measuring Kills on contact
Made from Chrysthramum Flowers
Distributed by TechPac LLC Atlanta Georgia
Usage: For ornamentals, vegetables, and fruits up to the day of harvest

Contents as follows: Pyrethrins- 0.02%
Piperonyl Butoxide- 0.20%(polyproponyl ether related compound)
Other Ingredients- 99.78%

(Piperonyl Butoxide is a synergist for pyrethrins and rotenone. By itself it does not have pesticide qualities but when combined with pyrethrins or rotnone insecticides their potency is increased considerably. It is a potent inhibitor of insect cytochrome p450 enzymes in insects which detoxify insecticides for many pests. It supresses the P450 enzyme in the insect which allows un-metabolized concentrations of pyrethrins to remain in the target insect/pests system. Its molecular formula flu H30 o5.)
This is what my research on this product and its contents listed other than the pyrethrins in it have yielded so far. The "Other Ingredients 99.78%" of unnamed contents is usually H2O/water with some Sodium Laurel Sulfate(it makes the bubbles/foam in your toothpaste) added in some cases with these pyrethrin based miticides/insecticides is what my research is showing also. Any input or thoughts from others on the ingredients or positive/negative results from use of this product, would be graciously appreciated . Hope this helps shed a little bigger light on the product for everyone.
Best regards always,
The Bluzboy

 

[ttystikk]

'from the makers of Sevin', eh? Cute... but it's interesting that this formula is the killer for russet mites, and yet nothing you listed on that label is unique- even the Piperonyl Butoxide is a common added ingredient in most pyrethrin solutions, for just the reasons you mentioned above. Maybe they just don't want to admit what's really in it. I think someone here on the Farm said that if it's sold in OR, they *must* provide complete disclosure about the contents of the solution, whether it's an active ingredient or not. That would be the proof, one way or another.

 

[Bluzboy]

I will try to research more on the product for everyone ttystikk. I got some time tomorrow to research this "Garden Tech" offshoot subsidiary company of Sevin and the product. The stuff worked great for me in aiding the destruction of the infestation in my veg room and veg tent.
Ciao,
The Bluzboy