ASAP Help! Spider Mites!

Fart Vapor · Jun 30, 2020

Yesterday, I soaked a mite infested plant with Captain Jack’s Dead Bug premixed spray. This is what it looked like today:

Today, I soaked again. These bugs are all over the place. I have noticed that two of my plants are not infested because they are being blown in fastest setting of an oscillating fan.

Should I harvest the infested plant? Or wait?

Here is my prize plant:

Should I go ahead and harvest? Trichomes are not gold, but I’m terrified of the spider mites...

70's natureboy · Jun 30, 2020

I would throw anything with webs on it in the trash. I wouldn't smoke it. That 2nd pic looks like an awesome plant. what kind is that?

Fart Vapor · Jun 30, 2020

70's natureboy said:
I would throw anything with webs on it in the trash. I wouldn't smoke it. That 2nd pic looks like an awesome plant. what kind is that?

2 x Dutch Passion Think Different - both are spider mite free unless they are webbing in the core of the buds???
The Dutch Passion AutoMazar is covered in mites... could it be that the Think Different variety is resistant? Or is it because the fan is closer to them and blowing the spider mites?

Will I be able to smoke the web infested spinosad soaked buds on the Automazar? Or should I remove the plant and throw it away?

Bernie420 · Jun 30, 2020

Fart Vapor said:
2 x Dutch Passion Think Different - both are spider mite free unless they are webbing in the core of the buds???
The Dutch Passion AutoMazar is covered in mites... could it be that the Think Different variety is resistant? Or is it because the fan is closer to them and blowing the spider mites?
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Will I be able to smoke the web infested spinosad soaked buds on the Automazar? Or should I remove the plant and throw it away?

I wouldnt throw it away. As in no fucking way i'm throwing this out i'm going to fix my mistake and take care of this..

This what you do. Get a lid something, use a tray, whatever that works that you have, make a thing for the top of the pot. Cut a narrow U in it so it slides over the top of the pot. so the dirt doesnt fall out cover up the U part to the base of the plant so no dirt falls out. Either get somebody to help or make a stand to hold the plant upside down. Stand is better becasue your going to spend 15 minutes on each plant spraying it off with a garden hose in your bathtub. Get a garden hose. Dont use a lot of pressure and wash it down. Be thorough. Be nice. Wipe under every leaf and rinse at the same time.

Before hand you have your lid and everything ready to go be gentile in moving the plant and do a practice run or something to get it upside down in its stand without flipping bugs all over. While the plants are out use bleachy water or something and wipe down the tent.

Or say your outside ...get two saw horses..have a short piece of 2x4 across the sawhorses. Take a plant flip it upside down, set one end of the pot on the 2x4 hold up the other end and slide a second 2x4 under the other side. its just hanging there upside down, spray away, I have a pic in a post somewhere I did this in a bathtub, used the shower ledge and the curtain rod as my sawhorses.

Fart Vapor · Jul 3, 2020

Bernie420 said:
I wouldnt throw it away. As in no fucking way i'm throwing this out i'm going to fix my mistake and take care of this..

This what you do. Get a lid something, use a tray, whatever that works that you have, make a thing for the top of the pot. Cut a narrow U in it so it slides over the top of the pot. so the dirt doesnt fall out cover up the U part to the base of the plant so no dirt falls out. Either get somebody to help or make a stand to hold the plant upside down. Stand is better becasue your going to spend 15 minutes on each plant spraying it off with a garden hose in your bathtub. Get a garden hose. Dont use a lot of pressure and wash it down. Be thorough. Be nice. Wipe under every leaf and rinse at the same time.

Before hand you have your lid and everything ready to go be gentile in moving the plant and do a practice run or something to get it upside down in its stand without flipping bugs all over. While the plants are out use bleachy water or something and wipe down the tent.

Or say your outside ...get two saw horses..have a short piece of 2x4 across the sawhorses. Take a plant flip it upside down, set one end of the pot on the 2x4 hold up the other end and slide a second 2x4 under the other side. its just hanging there upside down, spray away, I have a pic in a post somewhere I did this in a bathtub, used the shower ledge and the curtain rod as my sawhorses.

Wow, I just got your post. I have already killed the mites with Azamax and a Tomato & Vegetable spray of Sulfur/Pyrethrin. I may still wash the plant thoroughly as you suggested to wash all of the nasty mite webs, dead mites, eggs, and pesticides off the plant. Then we will see if she will finish growing. That would be incredible. Please see my grow journal for details of the sprays that I experimented with.

ASAP Help! Spider Mites!

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