Vine weevils

Title: Vine weevils
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BalletBarb
Rank：none Posts：1456 From：United Kingdom Register：18/11/2008 10:19:15	Date Posted：28/01/2018 03:45:13Copy HTML Last year and the year before I got infested by the things, so I tried some nematodes but they weren't very effective. It turned very cold the day after I watered them in and I'm blaming this, also they were very expensive. Does anyone have a (preferably non-chemical) solution which may stamp the little blighters out altogether, or at least keep them under control. I se I have them in my over-wintering pelargoniums. I've spent a fortune on new compost thinking to wash the roots and re-pot them; I think my home made stuff may be infested too. I don't like chemics - but may have to resort to them if I can't find anything less invasive.
cristaltipps	Share to: #1
Rank：none Posts：916 From：United Kingdom Register：14/11/2008 03:02:54	Re：Vine weevils Date Posted：30/01/2018 11:36:03Copy HTML BB i remember a discussion back in the old MSN days you have to have the patience of a saint to get rid of them without chemicals, i think i would just give in and get some proprietary weevil killer and be done with it. Best of luck fighting the lill blighters off.
BalletBarb	Share to: #2
Rank：none Posts：1456 From：United Kingdom Register：18/11/2008 10:19:15	Re：Vine weevils Date Posted：03/02/2018 05:37:50Copy HTML My local garden centre owner could have sold me a rather expensive bottle of weevil killer but he suggested I try uprooting the cuttings and washing the roots and re potting them in new compost and a new container. So I bought some fresh compost from him as I don't trust my own now, which was much cheaper. I have done as he suggested and so far the re potted plantlets look fine. Fingers crossed. I have used this method for years (taking cuttings every autumn) and its always w.orked well for me, so I think it must have been the compost I used this last year which was at fault. When (if) the weather dries up I'll spread my home made compost on a sheet of plastic and let the birds have a good scratch in it - pity I no longer have hens. I don't think I;ll make any compost for a year or two after this.
MeGnome	Share to: #3
Rank：none Posts：810 From：Wales Register：10/11/2008 04:04:44	Re：Vine weevils Date Posted：06/02/2018 01:40:26Copy HTML Have tried nematodes and you do need to use them at a minimum temp which worked in a heated greenhouse. This was on about 100 young cuttings taken from previous years plants which we composted rather than tried to get a second year out of. Repotting works. I did this one year, spreading the old compost out on a bench and squashing every weevil I found .. very satisfying but also took a while Far worse than vineweevil was white fly. We would open greenhouse door and it was like it was snowing when you disturbed the plants. Cured this by letting off a couple of chemical smoke bombs with the door shut (let them off and get out quick). I dislike using chemicals but sometimes it saves a lot of hard work if you have a lot of plants to look after.
BalletBarb	Share to: #4
Rank：none Posts：1456 From：United Kingdom Register：18/11/2008 10:19:15	Re：Vine weevils Date Posted：11/02/2018 11:24:03Copy HTML Chemics can be a real boon, but I think most people prefer to manage without them these days (I remember my Mum was a dervish with the DDT when I was a child, I must have ingested loads of the stuff). The cuttings are still looking healthy but I wouldn't say they've grown much. They're just on window ledges and I don't water them much during the winter but I'm wondering if its time to start.
MeGnome	Share to: #5
Rank：none Posts：810 From：Wales Register：10/11/2008 04:04:44	Re：Vine weevils Date Posted：12/02/2018 01:25:17Copy HTML Time to increase watering when you see the first signs of new shoots/leaves appearing and a little liquid feed as watering washes out any nutrients. The white deposits at the base of pots and in the trays is the washed out nutrients.