Have you EVER had Spider Mites?

Well, I guess it was about time we found spider mites in all the cutie plants we have here in Station 7 🙈 

It first started when I was reorganizing the jewelry table, and I lifted a plant out its planter... You know that feeling you get when you walk through a web and it's like something is clinging to you, it's light, but it's sticky, and you start panicking?

 

That's immediately how I knew. ❌

 

It does take time, but we've been treating them now for about 2 weeks using our formula, and I haven't seen or felt those little webs/mites since the first encounter.

• Fine, delicate webs 
• You may or may not see them - they're small, but definitely identifiable 🔎
• Plants begins to yellow
• Looking at your leaves, trace along their veins of their leaves - do they have white, almost salty looking grain like dots?

Sound familiar? Wanna know how I did it? Here's how: 👇

1. Remove all the damaged and dead leaves on your plant. Don't go too far down, though.
2. Take your spray bottle and pour 1 part rubbing alcohol (a solid 1/4-1/5 ish of the bottle... be generous 💁🏻♀️)
3.  Squirt 3-4 nice long squirts of dawn dish soap into your bottle
4. Fill the rest of the bottle up with water + shake it all up.
5. Starting with the top of the leaves: spray all the leaves and make sure all are moist 
6. Grab your makeup brush and this is where your laborious work comes in - consider looking down at the plant for this section! 
7. Take a leaf and support the back of the leaf with one hand. Start at the top (where it meets the stem), respray your leaf if necessary - should be damp, and using your brush, stroke the leaf down following the veins of your leaves (usually down at an angle) - this is where the mites LIVE, let's get rid of them!! 
8. Repeat step 7 for every single leaf, front and back on your plant. This step is crucial and takes the longest time.
   
9. If you have a fan, this will work WONDERS! If not, it's no big deal, but make sure to HYDRATE your plant immediately after.
10. Continue to check on your plant up to 2 weeks after this treatment, they might require additional treatments - spider mites are fiesty! 

• Showering your plant will not fully get rid of your mites. 
• Make sure none of your plants touch each other! This makes it super easy for the mites to spread.
  
• Spider mites thrive in hot, dry conditions, so make sure you keep your plants happy and healthy by consistently watering / misting them 
• A fan is favorable!
• Check in on your plants regularly :)