Hit with Spider Mites, Heres what i did

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TexadaTimewarp

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Veg tent got hit with Spider Mites right before these were getting moved into flower room. Thankful to catch this before flower as i wouldnt want to mess with these in flower.

Heres what i did:

I removed all plants from tent. Defoliated the older leaves.

Then i used Doctor Doom Spider Mite knockout. It killed every adult instantly. If you use this properly, you wont damage your plants.. but if you spray to long/to close.. you will fry your leaves!

Then i blasted them with a hose.

sprayed bleach on the pots.

Bleached the tent for hours. cleaned everything.

Put plants back in tent. Put DE powder over the top of the soil, and up 2 inches on them stem. incase any tried to climb up.

Sprayed them everyday few times with Soapy Water.

Hung a NO PEST strip for a day. ( its not in a living area)

Then 5 days later after their has been lots of new growth.

I removed them from tent again.
(bleached tent for hours once again)

Defoliated every single old leaf, only leaving new growth.

Dunked them Soapy Water for a few minutes each.

Bleached outside pots once again


Put them back in tent, out DE up 2 inches of stem.

continue soapy water spray.


Will be using NO PEST strip for next week.

Will continue removing plants and bleaching room every 3 days.

7 days in... and have yet to see a mite since i started wiping out the bastards.

These will be under quarantine for another week atleast, possibly 2 just to make sure.

Cause, clone was brought in from outside... even though i sprayed it off... there must of been one bastard mite on it. never again.

Obviously you cant do this in flower. But in VEG. you can obliterate the pricks.
 
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TexadaTimewarp

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FuqStiK said:
Glad to see you caught the culprit before flowering
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When i saw spotted white specks on my leaves. i didnt mess around and got right to work. Literally was getting moved into flower tent few days after i caught it! very lucky.

this is setting back my next run a few weeks but nothing you can do about that lol
 
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Hippieryan

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Wow that’s a piss pot of work I am really hoping I don’t have that come along, I was happy to hear that it’s a no to “clones” from a outside home, I would have never considered that. Thanks, I will take your story to the bank, great info
 
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TexadaTimewarp

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Hippieryan said:
Wow that’s a piss pot of work I am really hoping I don’t have that come along, I was happy to hear that it’s a no to “clones” from a outside home, I would have never considered that. Thanks, I will take your story to the bank, great info
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Its a ton of work! in flower it would be very difficult to eradicate completely.

Theres so much doom and gloom on the forums when it comes to spider mites...

I just wanted to share my experience to show there are ways to win
 
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