:( I have mites HELP ME PLEASE!!!

[MediMaryUser]

Dammit, all right, I'll keep my eye on them, I've been checking them like 3 times a day. If I do get a bad infestation I cannot control, and end up closing up shop, how long to I stay plant free untill these buggers fuck off for good? Like eventually without food, they will die right? They can't like, eat concrete and live forever of sum shit right?

use a bug bomb thing if you have to

 

[OregonMeds]

Like eventually without food, they will die right? They can't like, eat concrete and live forever of sum shit right?

Wouldn't that be nice. No, without food some of them will just hibernate, and just like your plants when the light cycle changes they will wake back up.

Nasty nasty creatures. It's not about having to wait until you have a bad infestation you can't control, any amount of them is a bad infestation waiting to happen. Just skip a month or two of fighting them and you'll see.

 

[MasterMD22]

Unless you're a miracle worker you'll still have them, you'll always have them unless you go apeshit with some pyrethrum foggers in a series of killing sprees which you can't do during flower at all.

Even with foggers those shits can come back, keep spraying preventatively for quite a while even after that.

Ya I did go nuts with the bottle, the guy at the hydro store said that 20$ bottle should last me a long time, I sprayed my plants with over half the bottle in the first shot, I mean every leave was dripping with pyrethrum. I didn't use the fogger since its indoor I'm kinda worried about the fumes. As soon as I see 1 more spider mite I am going to go ape shit again with the pyrethrum. I'm just over a week into flowering... might have to pass off this bud to 'buddy' instead of smoking it. Anyone have any idea how bad that shit is for your lungs?

 

[MasterMD22]

Wouldn't that be nice. No, without food some of them will just hibernate, and just like your plants when the light cycle changes they will wake back up.

Nasty nasty creatures. It's not about having to wait until you have a bad infestation you can't control, any amount of them is a bad infestation waiting to happen. Just skip a month or two of fighting them and you'll see.

You know the guy who owned this house before me (like 2 years ago) left ropes and stuff so I bet he had an op going on, had mites and somehow those mites have finally managed to find their way to my girls . I went my first 2 harvests clean. Does this happen to everyone? Like are spiders just part of the growing game that we all have to deal with?

 

[madtrapper]

So I'm sure most of you have had to deal with this. I am so bummed out. I have such a good SOG going and now it's all infected, there's only like 1 or 2 mites per leaf but ug, how depressing, as soon as you have everything going well...

So what are my options, I have 3 boxes. One is a clone box full of fresh, untainted clones that I just picked up tonight. I moved all the plants that we in that box into box #2 which is my 2nd veg box. Then I have a flowering box, the plants have been flowering for only a week now.

How do I get rid of them? Cost is not an issue, I spent so much time on these babies getting the perfect strain the way I like it. Please, suggestions.

avid 5 drops/l and 10ml neem oil every 3 days for 9 days then rinse on 10th or 11th
day then apply neem oil on underside of leaf once a week until 3 wks from harvest then quit

 

[JuicyCola420mon]

take your plants outside away from your garden take them out of the pots shake all the soil out of the roots and replace with new soil

also spray the foliage with a soap mix to kill remaining spider mites, and once in a while spray foliage with water to keep them away

 

[OregonMeds]

take your plants outside away from your garden take them out of the pots shake all the soil out of the roots and replace with new soil

also spray the foliage with a soap mix to kill remaining spider mites, and once in a while spray foliage with water to keep them away

Ahem... Cough Cough... Excuse me for a second I can't even begin to imagine where to start with this one.

 

[gangjababy]

Ahem... Cough Cough... Excuse me for a second I can't even begin to imagine where to start with this one.

yup, everything in that statement is wrong

 

[sniffer]

All you need is one Hot Shot Bug Strip
Trust me they work GREAT
and all it is , is the old flea and tick stuff that used to be in the animal collars, , its Safe.
hang in in your flower room at night when the fans are off , in the mornin put it back in a zip lock bag and do over a few nights ,, mites will be gone.

 

[MasterMD22]

All you need is one Hot Shot Bug Strip
Trust me they work GREAT
and all it is , is the old flea and tick stuff that used to be in the animal collars, , its Safe.
hang in in your flower room at night when the fans are off , in the mornin put it back in a zip lock bag and do over a few nights ,, mites will be gone.

So if I can't find that "Shot Bug Strip" I can just buy a few dog tick collers and put one around the base of me plants? Where would I find Shot Bug Strip? Walmarx?

 

[sniffer]

Hot shot no pest strips ,, They sell them at home depot

and i never thought about just using dog and flea collar , that should work the same way.
But Trust me the ' Hot shot no pest strip ' Works Better than anything else i have seen or heard of hands down.

 

[OregonMeds]

I am curious about the bug strip thing but I have to say I have my doubts as to how effective that could possibly be against spider mites. Fungus gnats sure, but mites, really?

I'm open to trying new things, but maybe should I ask one more time...

Mites? Really?

 

[sniffer]

its a vapor ,, its not that sticky suff made to catch flys,
just google hot shot no pest strip , and read up on them.
Worked for me , mites were gone the 2nd night

 

[pickleman]

im in the same boat same battle . i even got an ultasonic sound thingamajig. an i bought a hot shot bug strip for 8 bucks i havnt put in yet it just seems too easy and cheep too work but who knows.heres my current bubblegum/og/spidermite grow

https://www.rollitup.org/indoor-growing/122205-my-6x8-shed-first-time-17.html#post1714217

 

[msdsm39]

I bought the hot shot strip. It doesn't seem to affect the mites but it helps with the gnats . The neem oil has worked well for me. I can keep them from taking over but I haven't been able to eliminate them.

 

[MasterMD22]

hrmmm, well I'll be in that end of town anyways, what department is it in at home depot? It can't hurt to give to put it in. I think I like the neem oil idea, do they sell that at home depot?
Heh, I hope the cashier is a stoner so I get the 'look' that you get when they know what your buying your stuff for... I uh, have a fly problem in the middle of winter...

 

[MasterMD22]

Also, if I'm spraying my flowering plants with neem oil, isn't that stuff a little toxic? Like I wanted to go as organic as possible, but that's obviously isn't a choice anymore, but I'd still like my end bud to be as chemical free as possible. I don't mind tossing the leaves out this time (I usually make them into bud butter) but I really don't want smoke (I vaporize actually, smoke once every 6 months or so) to have anything bad for me in it.

 

[msdsm39]

hmmm... the may have some organic miticide that has neem oil. I bought mine from my greenhouse supply shop online

hrmmm, well I'll be in that end of town anyways, what department is it in at home depot? It can't hurt to give to put it in. I think I like the neem oil idea, do they sell that at home depot?

 

[MasterMD22]

First off I would like to personally thank the 450 people who took the time to read this thread, and most of all everyone who has replied... except that dude who told me to rip them out of the ground... WTF?

Anyways, I just checked again and I can't find a single mite, that's Dr.Doom did the trick, however, I'm wondering if these white dots are chew marks or eggs? This is the best I could do with my camera.

Are these eggs?

 

[pickleman]

they are there believe me they are there