Sulfur for spider mites?

[rnewste]

Have you guys looked at this product?



Claims to work on Spider Mites and is safe for same day harvest on tomatoes (although I would wait a week).

From the blurb:

"""Hi-Yield Indoor/Outdoor Broad Use Insecticide with 10% Permethrin Insecticide controls a wide variety of turf, garden, and ornamental pests. Hi-Yield Indoor/Outdoor Broad Use Insecticide can be used inside homes, in home gardens for labeled fruits and vegetables, and on ornamental plants and lawns around residential, industrial, commercial, and other non-agricultural outdoor areas. Pests controlled include fleas, ticks, carpet beetles, cockroaches, crickets, mites, centipedes, weevils, and beetles indoors. Outdoor insects controlled include aphids, bagworms, cicadas, spider mites, thrips, whiteflies, ants, earwigs, fleas, ticks, mosquitoes, tent caterpillars, lilac borers, and biting midges."""

Here is the direct link:

http://www.domyownpestcontrol.com/hi...de-p-1551.html

Just another option.....

Raybo

[Heritage]

Originally Posted by rnewste

Have you guys looked at this product?

Ray, I've used permethrin in tank mixtures with other pesticides (on flower crops) but haven't evaluated it alone for miticide effectiveness. It is highly toxic to cats (I have 5 mousers) and it is a very wide spectrum pesticide that kills everything, including beneficials and bees, so I try to avoid using it on my tomatoes.

[Stepheninky]

You might could try just Neem oil, I use Garden Safe Fungicide 3 in one that is mainly neem oil. They have a spray type bottle and a concentrate. It will not instantly kill them though it messes up their reproduction. The garden safe is my first go to for insect issues , but I will admit I will use Seven or something with malathion in it as a last resort if I have to.

Usually I use the garden safe though and BT (dipel dust for horn worms / Caterpillars) then will use the seven if the damage continues or Japanese beetles are out in numbers.

I have heard people say tobacco juice works too, others say it spreads Tobacco mosaic virus to your tomatoes. IDK, I have smoked in my garden and handled plants and never had an issue with it but who knows really. Just thought I would at least throw it out there as a possible option for others to comment on.

[b54red]

I have used tobacco juice before for mites and whiteflies and it is very effective but I also worry about tobacco mosaic virus though I never got it when I used it.

The 10% permethrin is somewhat effective if you use it with a heavy dose of dishwashing soap so it will wet the little buggers. The trouble is to really be effective you need to spray every two days for at least a week and that is a lot of poison to put out so often.

Malathion is fairly effective with a soap mix but it can damage tomato leaves if it is used too strong or when the sun is shining.

I'm hoping the sulfur dust works. It was a little tricky to apply because it is hard not to get in the drift when putting it out.

[Heritage]

Originally Posted by b54red

I'm hoping the sulfur dust works. It was a little tricky to apply because it is hard not to get in the drift when putting it out.

When I can justify the extra expense I use micronized sulfur and spray it on. No dust cloud so it's cleaner to apply. Fedco carries it, strange they don't list it as a miticide...
http://www.fedcoseeds.com/ogs/search.php?item=8813

I use a different brand (Thiolux), but I think it only comes in 50lb bags.