How to get rid of Mealy Bugs

whether you're new to growing succulents or a seasoned pro there will come a time when you'll encounter mealybugs they're white soft bodied insects mushy and red like blood when squashed and they hide their eggs in fluffy cotton like marshmallowy white excretion and they suck on your precious beautiful succulents if captain check your succulents will go to succulent heaven or will they in this video i would like to share with you the reason why i love mealybugs sometimes hello there my name is liz a self-confessed succulent addict welcome to my channel growing succulents this is my colorada linciana this is actually one of the two that i initially bought and this one is growing healthily so it's got one plant the main plant or the mother plant and now it's got a baby see got a little baby there and i think there should still be one on the other side now you tell me how many is there hang on i haven't seen this so it's not one or two so two maybe i'm going to inspect this underneath nothing just dry leaves and that one there dry leaves so this one is a very strong plant it doesn't get attacked by a mealybug so i haven't had any problems with it although in saying that the baby here i can see some white uh uh okay see that part there that's signs of mealybug i think the mealybug just tried to uh mark it so it's been marked so anything that's been marked i always checked the following day just to make sure that the mealybug doesn't get to it so this is one of the two this is my other colorata linzayana this was the one that got attacked by milibug and what happened it had a central plant like the other one of course so this is number two say for example the other one was number one so colorata lindsayana one is healthy colorada lindsayana ii was attacked by milibug and also root rotted but when it root rotted it started growing again so from the base of the plant okay um it so it died root rotted like something like this got attacked by mealybug and of course if there's mealybugs or that white stuff there in the tip and so now they try and eat it and then we had rain and of course it rotted so i'll just take this all off so you can see so that's plant that the tip of the plant that's gone so anything that's sort of dark like that there's no more hope for that one but that one too they're all dead dead you can't grow babies from that but when it initially got attacked by milibug and rootwatered i was able to save it on time and i got a whole heap of leaves from it and i will show you later on what those babies look like now because they've grown so from this one plant i've got many leaves that i've grown successfully and this one now it grew again and put out all these babies so these are now babies and then now this has rooted so i just pulled it off from there see that fresh uh so that came off from there so i'll just put this up here and then another one i pulled off from the other side i don't know if you can see it anyway from there somewhere so now these are still healthy plants but you can see that the dark spots there on the tip uh that's okay i can see a little tiny mealybug sort of running over there mini mini mini anyway so this one i'm separating this and i'm gonna spray this uh with my special spray i'm going to talk to you about that later on but then this one now if i just leave this as is that's just going to continue to rot so you can see that there are just some plants that just the mealybug just loves don't know why so it's got nothing to do with uh how you water them or don't water them whatever you spray in them some plants are just weak and some plants are strong so this is a good demonstration of same plant i bought them at the same pla same time and i assumed that they were grown at the same time and they were put in the same soil and although one is more out in the open and this one was in the open as well this was supposed to be my mother plant which i'm gonna harvest and everything but anyway the mealybug got to it and then root rotted so now this one now i have to remove this as well because that whole thing see look see so that that one is already dead so but this one i'm still gonna be able to save it and you can see look at the mealybug look at that see look at that see those white flap there you pull it off okay so that one that is millie bug i'm gonna squash it it's just to show you hang on there you go so it's got melee bug inside so now this one i'll put it away okay that will still grow provided i clean it up and treat it before i put it away and let the baby grow so hang on just keeps falling off i'm gonna put you more here okay that one's dead dead all of that dead most of this got to be thrown away but this one's now see that one there again that showing mealybug happening there they're having a party look i'm gonna pull some up oops okay i can see one sort of running around but anyway but that i'm not going to waste time on that we just pulled the whole thing off okay make sure see more mealybug underneath and that one just break that off there you go so the mother that's all gone so this whole plant i'm just going to throw them out um and save this one so from one plant so millie a mealybug sorry colorado lindsayana felinzayana number two was able to put out one two three four five babies now i've got from it and i'll just leave that there for now and i'll take you to the other root i mean the leaves that i've grown from it so and this is now my baby colorada ave lindsay anna so i've got one two three four five six seven so far that's left here i already got two as well that i've given away to someone and then that one did not take and that one did not take so uh how many is that one two three four five six seven nine ten fourteen so from one plant that uh got attacked by mealybug i've got 14 plants in the span of 12 months so one year one year i got 14 plants from one plant and so far the other one i only got two this is sometimes the reason why i love mealybug oh hang on wait a minute this one has got another mealybug there see look at that so we better treat that okay i'm gonna go get my special thing to treat that so after we have a case of mealybug and root rot what leaves can i keep and what can i throw away so anything that's sort of rotted like this ones you can see it's translucent that is not going to grow so even that one we throw it away this one you'd think that would still be a healthy leaf it's not because of the tip it's already gone so once it's blackened like that that is not gonna grow a baby anything that all of this get thrown away throw all of that away that one okay if that part is intact and all the way through the leaves down to the bottom here it all looks sort of the same like that sort of solid then you can keep it and that might still grow so i tend to keep those ones but in this case this one now that's got some translucency so that's just or see the water as you squeeze it as i squeeze it so that's not going to grow anymore so we throw it away so we'll see what else so all of these are gone those ones see all the mealybug see the mealybug infestation they're all the white fluffy cottony things that's all mealybug so we throw it in the bin or rubbish this one it's sort of 50 50 so this one i still give it a chance uh that it might grow because um although that's black that might still have a chance of growing so i still give it a chance but chances are that's going to rot away i look so just ready black things on that that's no good no good this one might be good see look nice healthy nothing no mark no mealybug so put it away into the growing pot okay so that one we just run our fingers through just to make sure there's no mealybug so another two more uh probable growers that one's no good hang on i dropped it okay so you get the whole idea so out of this slot that one see it's got a red tip that might still grow so i got a few here now and then see this one now look the ones are actually growing uh it's got some roots look see the roots coming out so hopefully that will grow some pups as well so these are the leaves that i've collected so what i like to do is take some methylated spirits so just put a little bit here hang on i just turned it on so just a tiny bit and i will dip the ends because that's where the mealybug was so just dip the ends here just put it over here to dry okay so even on the table we just leave it there so those ones that's uh got some roots growing dip it in there because i can see a little bit of trace of mealybug just to be sure that you're not bringing in some mealybugs so you get the idea so even that one so there's i think one mealybug floating so that would kill them and if you leave it for about 10 minutes basically till the methylated spirit dries up you rinse it off with water so but anyway so you get the idea and so now this one's now we are going to so we'll pretend that it's ready um dried up so now that's nice and dry and what i do is uh spray it with water so i'm gonna spray the whole thing with water and then i'm just going to put this away and let it dry up so i've got a tissue so i'm going to put my leaves to dry up there and i'll even put the label and put it away and wait for it to grow so i'll put it somewhere where it's uh there's no direct sunlight hitting it so with these big plants now what i like to do with these ones is before i let them dry up and put it in the soil see this one i'm just inspecting so that's still good it looks like it's gonna die but it's not so that one is still good basically oh look i i pulled off a root but it doesn't matter so you can see the root it's also got some little traces of mili bug so a little fluffy there you go so and there'll be some mili bug all through that there as well so again what i like to do is just pull off the bottom leaves see you can't see the mealybug sometimes so you think there's nothing there but see that one i suspect that could be a mealybug but it's not but then still if i just dip this in methylated spirit before i put it away to grow so that's basically what i do so i'm gonna pull a couple more off and if i can feel some resistance then i don't pull it off but see another bit of mealybug there that bit there so that's also mealybug so again uh i'm gonna spray this with methylated spirit more mealybugs so look look millybug infestation that corner there so just spray it and once the mealybug um get hit by the methylated spirit it kills them instantly and then of course i'm going to leave this for 10 minutes into my drying rack here so i just leave it there for 10 minutes and this one's already getting um so all through that i can pull them off leave it there and let that dry up and say look mealybug infestation see so pull them off that throw them away see look the mealybug the minute they get hit look what happens to them that just okay so that just goes to show you look at that it just melts away it strips the white coating and the mealybug itself it just disintegrates and look inside see the mealybug there that already got hit because it's in the bottom here look what happened to it that is one big mealybug now that is just gonna die so that one still looks like intact but that's already dead see look at that so that one is just all gone soft as well so that's what happens to them when they get hit by the methylated spirit and then once it dries off like this see that's already dried off you can see that it's getting hit by me by the method that's being affected so if you leave it what's going to happen to that is going to go black so i will show you some plants that i've sprayed directly with 100 methylated spirit and they um sort of burn a little bit but this one now what you do is spray it with water then i can be guaranteed that mealybug's dead so we just let that dry up this one's already dry as well so which means once it dries up the mealybug's dead we spray it with water and just let that dry up my thing is not very big we'll go reverse the other way there you go and this one's as well after cleaning it remove all of that leaves in the bottom because we can grow that there you go that still looks pretty and water again we let that dry up so this one pull that off that's good enough so are the midi bugs dead here yep no more mealybug and there you go put this one with my leaves and this lot now i just quickly rinse it with water and there you go so these are what's left of the leaves that i propagated so three months on if you don't put them in the soil they just grow and have roots and dry up and that's really and then now this one's even having aphids look at that see so if you just leave them there oh that one's nice hang on look see so and the ones that i've actually taken out and put on the soil over here look at that oh isn't that gorgeous and that one too and that one too and that one too and the other ones the bigger plants are much much bigger now but uh take my word for it they have been uh growing successfully it's just raining outside i couldn't go outside look at that so look at the babies so i got more babies so that's fa lindsayana colorata and so i've got so all up 16 17 18 so 18 um oh that one 19. oh there's a couple more here so these two as well are colorata felinsiana look at that so that's the biggest the biggest the biggest one out of that lot from the leaf that we propagated this is now three months ago so three months growth this is what's left of my colorata efl in siena cuttings i've already given a couple of them away and look at them they're even flowering and the area that was affected by the mealybug that was chewed on those are the dark spots but the center you can see the center it's perfectly formed and definitely no millie bug look at that not beautiful and the other one that's also flowering but there's still two babies have you got more babies no that's all you've got you've gone bigger though but see it's still the same plant so it's three months later this is the reason why i love mealybug sometimes this is my cevaria pvn that i sprayed with 100 methylated spirit it killed the mealybug but it turned my poor baby plants into black but that's gonna grow out of it anyway but then mealybugs are dead but this other one here so even that one so just three of them one two and three so they're all wet black but they're still okay so in time they will recover and this is the same plant this is my compact form uh pvn i sprayed it and a couple of hours later well i sprayed it with methylated spirit and a couple of hours later i rinsed it and all the mealybugs are dead uh it had some slight darkening on the edges there so but all the daily bugs are dead so it's important that you spray it with water afterwards so i would suggest spray some methylated spirit and let it dry up so it'll only take about a couple of minutes really for five minutes at the most you can rinse it off with water and you're guaranteed that it's not going to burn your plant but in saying that so this is pvn hvaria pvn i have an echeveria shamrock here which i did the same thing so i spray this with a hundred percent methylated spirit there's a couple of millibugs in it but it wasn't really all that bad the infestation so i clean up inside as well so you can see some there's still a couple of dry leaves there but the mealybug was hiding in there so i sprayed the whole thing i doused it with methylated spirit and you can still see some white on the tips of the plant that's still the methylated spirit and this one i haven't rinsed it so it actually smells really nice so anyway and it did not burn it so there you go i torture my plants so you don't have to so but still i would advise that after it dries up it's still best that you rinse it off with water so this is now a chevrilla lilacina sprayed with 100 methylated spirit there's actually no melee bug on that one but i just want to see how it's going to react if it's going to get affected we can see that it did not get affected at all so you can see traces of the the methylated spirit but the plant is still perfect this is another one that got attacked by mili bug this is a crested echeveria briar rose there's no mili bugs anymore it's all dead so there you go

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Length: 23min 30sec (1410 seconds)

Published: Fri Sep 25 2020