I guess that's one blessing that our recent cold weather has brought. Mine are blooming away, with not a sign of mites yet. On the down side, I broke a couple of branches moving the big guys around, and the cuttings I brought into the house were immediately showing mite activity.
I just dunked them in the kitchen sink with soapy water, had to do it twice, but they are clean as a whistle now.
Got another soapy story, last summer when I was away in August for 10 days, my neighbor (a Masters in Hort from UF) came over to check on my plants a couple of times. He found the mites going nuts over the plants, and I had left a sprayer with soapy water sitting by them. He sprayed them so thoroughly that they were absolutely going nuts with new growth when I got home and I asked him what 'magic potion' he'd used on them. He said he just sprayed them "really thoroughly" twice while I was away.
Lesson learned, I wasn't doing a good enough job spraying them down. Soap will work better in the long run than any of the systemics, because it kills the bugs mechanically, not by poisoning them. They'll eventually get resistant to all the systemics.
