Saint Jimmy74
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Do you trust Amazon for these preds?
big spider mites issue - mineral oil during flower?
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hotrodharley
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The beauty of predator mites is they're strictly meat eaters. Once they've eaten every spider mite they die. Just rinse your buds in clean water when you chop and then hang to dry as usual
hotrodharley
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Yes. Buy the one with 3 containers. Release them in waves. And ladybugs don't eat spider mites. Spider mites are hard shell. Ladybugs do aphids in. Soft body insects they suck dry.
PadawanWarrior
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I'd go to Arbico if I was gonna order predators separately. But you can get lots of predators free in good EWC, vermicompost, or compost.
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PJ Diaz
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Yep, I've used Nature's Good Guys many times. Some times I order direct and sometimes via Amazon depending on shipping. With Prime you save on these particular bugs thru Amazon right now.
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Saint Jimmy74
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Cool. I am going to give them a shot. Thanks!
OneMoreRip
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Natures good guys was good for me, from amazon. I got the cal.... something, can’t recal name. thought they were best for spider mites but I’m not very knowledgeable on the topic
PJ Diaz
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Arbico is good, but a bit more expensive, and often you can't get the bugs you want in smaller quantities. As an example, you can buy as few as 2500 Amblyseius swirskii from Nature's Good Guys but you have to buy 25,000 minimum through Arbico, which is way more than most home growers need. Arbico does have one strain of nematodes which NGG's doesn't carry, so I may order that strain from them at some point.
PJ Diaz
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I always tell my wife, so she can be on the lookout for the bug delivery and bring it in right away.
Yeah I'm abit frustrated about this to so I've just been using mineral oil on my veg plants and some of my budding plants only the ones with the start of budding look I ain't got many choices at the moment as I don't have much money to spend but am looking into some ladybugs which I'm going to a nursery to see if they have any to fight back Its my first time having these pestie things but I'm going to let these flowering plants finish then do a big clean up and spray the fuck out of my veg plants and clean the fuck out of those tents too and separate them till I can bring them back into there tent I'm going to be consistent everyday spraying and keeping my humidity high till I know there gone but yeah could take afew months if I'm lucky but by then my veg plants be massive I guess hahaha but I'm going to get rid of them before Christmas hahahaha
HydroKid239
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Spray in dim light, or at night.
Southernontariogrower
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Citric acid is my go to, burns a bit but better than oil and soap mix imo! Any bug spray should work. Bugbgone used to be my go to!
What's the ratios so I've got both lemons and oranges on trees outside how do I make it
HydroKid239
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I don’t make any of the sprays.