it is prudent practice to destroy good tissue adjacent to the gaul.
Also any open wounds created during the surgery may host a new infection of any lingering mites, therefore requiring a remedy.
one recommended treatment is to seal the area of by applying insecticide to the wound after surgery.
I' have usede 50% dilluted Outdoor chlorox in direct application into the wound. The tissue is thus killed. leaving no viable tissue for the mite. I'm not sure it the chlorox kills the mite immediately, but we have had repeated success with this. Not 100% successful.
We withhold irrigation from treated plants for at least 6 weeks. This seems to improve the effectivity of the process. Sometimes on weaker plants the chlorox treatment is lightened.
Bob
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