Experiences with
PsorinumPsorinum 200 C Spider mites on blackberries:Blackberry plant is wasting and has pale leaves. After a single treatment (spraying and watering) with Psorinum 200 C, it recovered and is producing new leaves that are not infested. Blackberries, planted in spring, good growth, but then
growth stopped, and they became infested with spider mites. Today (July 7) there are no further signs (except that the leaves remain pale) and the plant is once again continuing to grow. The silver on the edge of the leaves is just the hairs of the blackberry.Psorinum: Spider mites on greenhouse cucumbers Ms S. had sixcucumbers in her greenhouse this year. She planted them, pre-grown in pots, at the end of April . By May she already had her first cucumbers. As every year, they developed well until they were affected by spider mites in June. The affected leaves had yellow spots, caused by the sucking action of the pests, which later became larger, until finally the entire leaf dried out and turned brown. In previous years, Ms S. had used beneficial organisms (green lacewings). This somewhat reduced the infestation but without completely eliminating it. This year Ms S. treated the cucumbers with a mixture of Petroleum 30 C and Psorinum 200 C, which she applied to the plants every 4 to 5 days, watering and spraying a total of 3 applications. read on... The spider mite infestation improved a little but then returned strongly again. At this stage the cucumber plants looked distinctly unwell. At the beginning of August, she tried Amblyseius 6 X, which is a homeopathic preparation from Gamasina mites. She removed the old affected leaves and watered the cucumbers 2x per week with 10 ml of remedy solution in 10 litres of water. To her astonishment, the cucumbers developed new shoots, with healthy leaves and fruit, right through to the end of September – completely free of spider mites. In previous years the cucumber plants were finshed already in August. (Edda S., Schwaigern 2013) |