f$%k ,f$%k. spider mites

How do the leafs look? No twisting? If you have some white spots that would be normal

they don't look horrible . yea there is some twisting . it could be a lot worse .

For upcoming grows, I can highly recommend you to get yourself a batch of cold presses neem-oil, 1000ml will last you for years to come and it deals with all sorts of pests! (Should come pre-mixed with some sort of emulsifier like washnut extract). You mix 5-10ml per liter water into a spray bottle.


You can use it in two ways:

1st: Spray leaves and stems from above and below (plant should be at least 2 weeks in veg), during the late evening hours, so that during night time, the oil has time to build a protective layer. Don't spray it on early in the light cycle, you might run into burning issues. Repeat this every 2 days for an ongoing infestation. As a preventive measure, applying it weekly suffices.

2nd: For infestations like gnats who bury their eggs into the soil, you can create a mixture and "drench" the first 3-5cm of soil. Then let it dry and check for signs of remaining pests. Repeat until the pest was dealt with. It's IMPORTANT to not fully drench the soil as this could cause issues with the roots, especially if the plant is young and/or otherwise not healthy. Stick to the upper part where they lay eggs.

Smoke em out with weed. Hook joints up to an air pump and cover every square inch of the plants. To the point the leaves and flowers are all covered in a thin layer of resin, so they can't function properly anymore because they get so high.

Floramite rotated with avid , will cleanly dispose of mites use only in veg. I haven’t had mites in awhile(20+ years)

Hutmacher said:

For upcoming grows, I can highly recommend you to get yourself a batch of cold presses neem-oil, 1000ml will last you for years to come and it deals with all sorts of pests! (Should come pre-mixed with some sort of emulsifier like washnut extract). You mix 5-10ml per liter water into a spray bottle.


You can use it in two ways:

1st: Spray leaves and stems from above and below (plant should be at least 2 weeks in veg), during the late evening hours, so that during night time, the oil has time to build a protective layer. Don't spray it on early in the light cycle, you might run into burning issues. Repeat this every 2 days for an ongoing infestation. As a preventive measure, applying it weekly suffices.

2nd: For infestations like gnats who bury their eggs into the soil, you can create a mixture and "drench" the first 3-5cm of soil. Then let it dry and check for signs of remaining pests. Repeat until the pest was dealt with. It's IMPORTANT to not fully drench the soil as this could cause issues with the roots, especially if the plant is young and/or otherwise not healthy. Stick to the upper part where they lay eggs.

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Just NO ,neem oil is a joke, keep the oil off the plant. There are a zillion better options.

Last week i got them on my rose.kickef her outside 2 days later wilderness killed every single one of them
Neem oil kinda works but only because its sticky you have to spray often and i dont want to smoke neem buds....

think i might have the upper hand on the situation , they aren't gone yet but the population is dwindling , shall stay the course with citric acid for now . plants are drinking like crazy and buds are growing .

i am finding it very difficult to not trim a couple of the small pop corn buds off and try it out , it has been awhile since i last caught a good buzz

I went through a spidermite infestation from week 1 of flower, solely by plucking leaves. But you need a strong back for this, what a pain the whole thing.

Apart all the remedies consider changing room and chlorine the sh$t out of all the entrances daily. Thats how i stopped having them and prob got very lucky there was no stream of them in the new room. Good luck

the rock said:

Just NO ,neem oil is a joke, keep the oil off the plant. There are a zillion better options.

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What about it is a Joke?

It's an organic pesticide that's biodegradable and safe for Cannabis when applied correctly.

Does its job, never ran into issues, your opinion seems flawed.

Neem oil in flower makes the buds taste like crap.. Been there done that..

trash everything and start over, spider mite are the one pest that will burrow into the plants tissues and fuck your shit repeatedly if you don't cure it entirely.

The only way to solve it and still salvage your plants is by spraying shit on the plants that no human should consume.

trashing everything is not gonna happen , uh uh . not against trashing the cheap tent after but plants are still growing buds and dont look unhappy .
if i had weed to smoke i may think different i do hate bugs .
i don't so full steam ahead . if i had to estimate and things go as they are to finish , once its all dried up ill end up with about 2 ox of the best stuff and all the trim / popcorn buds to go with it .

iliketoast said:

trashing everything is not gonna happen , uh uh . not against trashing the cheap tent after but plants are still growing buds and dont look unhappy .
if i had weed to smoke i may think different i do hate bugs .
i don't so full steam ahead . if i had to estimate and things go as they are to finish , once its all dried up ill end up with about 2 ox of the best stuff and all the trim / popcorn buds to go with it .

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find what eats them and lock it inside with them

Agreed but spraying your buds with anything but water will alter the taste.

Neem oil is indeed not well suited for urgent treatment during flower where buds are being targeted.

However it is still very helpful in other scenarios and stages of growth.

Friends, is there cannabis strain that immune to spider mites?

iliketoast said:

trashing everything is not gonna happen , uh uh . not against trashing the cheap tent after but plants are still growing buds and dont look unhappy .
if i had weed to smoke i may think different i do hate bugs .
i don't so full steam ahead . if i had to estimate and things go as they are to finish , once its all dried up ill end up with about 2 ox of the best stuff and all the trim / popcorn buds to go with it .

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I'm not saying trash your equipment. Trash the plants and reset (clean everything). You could do a bug bomb after throwing away any plant material, the room the tent is in is probably contaminated with their eggs and living adults. Weed with mites in it will not burn right you will hear bug eggs crackling and the potency/quality is going to be sub par because the plants are fighting an attack at all times.

Part of being a grower is making responsible decisions and not just nuking your plants and room with cancerous toxic poison. IF you can't grow without spraying shit like Eagle20, avid, etc then find a new hobby sorry but that's the cold hard truth.

I know someone who tests pounds he buys on the blackmarket and lots of the weed in Michigan is dangerously loaded with poisons that will literally make people sick and cause cancer.

ancientpush said:

Friends, is there cannabis strain that immune to spider mites?

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There are supposedly mites that are resistant to many of the more common toxic pesticides and treatments. AKA the borg variety, which IMO were either created by growers that keep trying to spray and pray without shutting down and nuking everything properly, or possibly when they sent cannabis to space in the late 70s early 80s to mutate it via cosmic radiation. A mite may have possibly hitched a ride, and also went to space. Turned it into a super spotted spider mite? OK maybe not, but who knows? Virtually every other crop that exists has been modified that way (look it up, serious!), but they don't talk about the cannabis "space" experiments.

The way I see it, you have multiple scenarios.

You may live somewhere where there are already a gazillion run of the mill spider mites nearby in the bush, and they will just keep coming back no matter what. No matter what you do, even with a state of the art sterilized facility, or repeated bombings.

Maybe it hitched a ride on your shoe from some other infested garden, or a walk to the park. In that case, maybe a few spray and pray sessions will rid the problem, and they won't come back. If you get lucky that is, and one didn't crawl into some crevice and go dormant for a few months..

Probably the worst case, is getting a clone that already has the resistant borg strain, where someone let them live for months or years, and never really rid themselves of the problem.

ancientpush said:

Friends, is there cannabis strain that immune to spider mites?

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some certain strains of cannabis that have been sprayed with pesticides are really immune to them

spraying is always a decision of potentially take some of the pesticide remains into your lungs, but has to be done I suppose. I've heard from dem blocks that some mites might actually be scared away by some rugs with animal smell like of a cat or a dog, not sure if that has anything to do with the reality