Spidermites?

[303]

Anyone's success story appreciated. My indoor room, I used mite rid, sns, fogged the room, neem oil.. Nothing is stopping them! Anyone have success with a product lately? I'm not into home remedy's such as rubbing alcohol and other jargin I've heard lately, only products from grow stores. Thanks in advance!

 

[lxyzeroomer]

i havent had an issue with spider mites but my frends did and they use this product i bought a bottle just in case...... http://www.spidermitekiller.com/ they say its the best they have used.... good luck!

 

[LILBSDAD]

Mighty Wash by NPK or floromite. Floromite you cannot spray with less than 30 days left to harvest. I highly recommend Mighty Wash, there is a thread on the forums somewhere. Search spider mites and I'm sure it will come up. You can use it up until harvest and it does not have any pesticides, it is amazing

 

[Mack Buchanan]

I caught my problem very fast, had a buddy that was going to throw away like 25 plants and a old school guy we talked to said use thisnstuff called Avid. It's the shit nothing compares to it

 

[monkeybb0yy]

Mighty Wash got rid of my mites and ive yet to see them again. sprayed once and followed up 2 weeks later havent seen a mite in 2 months since i first sprayed

 

[Samwell Seed Well]

floramite and forbid 100% use in veg or as a dip, if your in flower einstine oil and good luck

 

[303]

Thanks guys hopefully my local hydro shop has some floramite

 

[d'Artagnan]

Hello 303, I have been growing for 1/2 a year now.

About 2 1/2 months into my first veg I noticed I had spidermites on all of my plants. Now it wasn't a very large infestation (the mites would sometimes go up mid plant, but their numbers were sparse here) I mostly had a problem with the bottom 6 inches of the plants. I started mixing a 1/2 quart spray bottle with water and a drop of dish soap (I used Dawn)

I would take every plant to my desk, prop it up and put a light underneath the plant so I could inspect from above and below and get a better understanding as to where they were really accumulating and reproducing. I would begin by removing (if I thought the plant could do without) the leaves which were really infected at the highest point in first and making my way down to the bottom. I would then take my spray bottle (moving every fan I had as far away and misdirecting the wind) and spray rather vigorously in every spot I noticed eggs and mites, hoping to knock them down and in sense drown them out. I continued to do this to every plant for 3 days.

After this I noticed a very nice change, they were definitely still there; but my effort was proving fruitful. I moved my plants in a rotation away from my fans that would promote the best air flow for the bugs (if they went airborne) to land on my most affected plant. I waited a day for results, sure enough, my most infested plant was still the worse, I even noticed that 2 of the plants closest to the fan were clean.

Now I really wanted them gone, I bought something called "Einstein Oil" I'm not exactly sure who makes it but it is a first pressed, cold neem oil. It's a little less "sludgey" than other neem oils. I bought mine for 20 bucks for a pretty small container, but it goes along way. Anyway! What I did was I filled another 1/2 quart spray bottle with a 90 degree nozzle, and added a teaspoon of the einstein oil and a drop or two of dawn liquid soap. I then proceeded to spray each and every plant once a day for 4 days straight. By day 5 I had ZERO spidermites. I caught them quick though.

Just my story. Good Luck dude

-d'Artagnan

 

[ismokealotofpot]

I had mites bad for a few months nothing worked until i got the hot shot it does not say it kills mites on the package but it does.I used three hot shot no pest strips in the flower room and one in the veg room and killed them all in under a week. no mites.

 

[panhead]

All the people having spidermite infestations are missing the obvious,if you make the enviroment unattractive to them they wont get a foot hold in your grow,i had spidermites once,once & thats it.

Increase air flow over,under,around & thru every last plant until every last leaf flutters & thats all you have to do,no shit its that simple,if the leaves have enough moving air the spidermites cant latch on.

A friend of mine who runs several greenhouses showed me this & its been years since ive had a single mite & ive been in a half dozen grow ops that had them & never transfered them to my grow.

Get those plants moving in the breeze & forget about mites forever.

 

[DrFever]

to rid spidermites once and for all)

 

[303]

to rid spidermites once and for all)

yeah i've tried that, it didn't work. I went up to 3000ppms and fuckers were still crawling. just wilted my plants and wasted a whole 20lb tank

 

[DrFever]

well if you got spidermites you need to dunk them never mind the spraying i mean making a 50 gallon drum of end all or some other kind of pesticide and tip your plant upside down into the drum do it 2 times and your done

 

[bob harris]

Once you have them in flower, especially late flower..it's a bitch. best thing any one can do is start treating them with a rotation of neem, insecticidal soap and pyrthiun (sp) when they are young and continue once a week or so into the third week of flower...prevention, not cure

 

[virulient]

All the people having spidermite infestations are missing the obvious,if you make the enviroment unattractive to them they wont get a foot hold in your grow,i had spidermites once,once & thats it.

Increase air flow over,under,around & thru every last plant until every last leaf flutters & thats all you have to do,no shit its that simple,if the leaves have enough moving air the spidermites cant latch on.

A friend of mine who runs several greenhouses showed me this & its been years since ive had a single mite & ive been in a half dozen grow ops that had them & never transfered them to my grow.

Get those plants moving in the breeze & forget about mites forever.

I had spider mites once, and that's it, too. When I found HotShot NoPest strips. I didn't have to mess with my environment or try to outsmart spider mites. I hung it up next to my intake fan, the lights went out, I went to sleep. When I woke up and my plants woke back up, I went back in there. No mites anywhere. Buncha dead mites chilling on top of my rez. I removed the NoPest strip, put it in a sealed zip-loc bag, and put it away. I still have not seen a single spider mite again, my crop was healthy, and it didn't affect the plant in any shape, form or fashion. Eight dollars and 1 night period is all you need to get rid of spidermites. If you waste time and money with insecticides and neem oil and pyrethrin or any of that garbage, still after reading this, then its your own fault.

 

[Monkeyfloss]

neem oil over several days and killing on sight worked for me. and cleaning alot.

 

[d'Artagnan]

I agree Panhead, increasing my air movement definitely helped.

 

[virulient]

neem oil over several days and killing on sight worked for me. and cleaning alot.

They become immune to it. Waste of time. It'll slow them down, but they will come right back.

 

[Samwell Seed Well]

ill say it agian Einstein oil and 100% cold pressed neem

and floramite dips of clones when young or transplanting

 

[d'Artagnan]

If you are trying to get rid of spider-mites and are a competent human being they should be gone within a week. I disagree with you virulient, I used Neem oil and have had success. That being said I did many other things in succession to rid them..